FARMINGTON, MO. — Shoplifters at Country Mart tend to favor cold medicines and packaged meats. They used to steal cigarettes, too, until tobacco was moved behind the counter. But the doughnuts were never a target for thieves....Then one man's sweet tooth got the better of him. He stole a doughnut...(and) because Masters has a prior record, (and because he assaulted the co-worker who caught him in the act) he could get a sentence of 30 years to life...One detail may never emerge: the kind of doughnut Masters stole...Even Masters, sitting in jail with only time to think, said he could not remember. It is a detail that seems lost to history...Masters never got a chance to enjoy that fateful doughnut. He said he threw it to the ground when he fled.
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