Remember when an employee at Collin Street Bakery — the Texas shop known for its fruitcakes — got caught having stolen nearly $17 million from the business in 2013? The movie version isn’t here yet. (Pre-COVID, Will Ferrell was on board. Now, the film’s status is in question.) But while you’re waiting, Discovery+ has rolled out a new documentary special about what happened in Corsicana called Fruitcake Fraud. It landed on the streaming service earlier this month, just in time for the mail-order cake’s big season.
“It’s definitely the strangest case I’ve ever worked,” FBI agent Christine Edson says in the show, which comes out Wednesday. Over the course of 90 minutes, she and others look back on the nearly decade-long embezzlement scheme undertaken by Sandy Jenkins, the bakery’s bookkeeper, to fuel an opulent lifestyle complete with pricey cars, high-end watches and jewelry, a Santa Fe home and luxury travel for him and his wife, Kay.
