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Officials: Triple Murder Was Planned For Weeks (Texas teenagers kill family)
Tyler Morning Telegraph ^ | March 4, 2008 | Lauren Grover

Posted on 03/04/2008 12:47:30 PM PST by Deo volente

EMORY - If 16-year-old Erin Caffey wanted to be free of her family, she seems to have received her wish.

In the small hours of Saturday morning, her boyfriend, Charlie James Wilkinson, 19, and his friend, Charles Allen Waid, 20, allegedly found Erin's parents sleeping in their bed and shot her mother, 38-year-old Penny Caffey to death and maimed her father, Terry Caffey, 41, who had forbidden Erin to date Wilkinson the night before, according to a sheriff's office report of interviews with the two young men released Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at tylerpaper.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: crime; massmurder; murder; teens; texas
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To: Homer1
Hangings? I think this is a job for a wood chipper

If you want to give them the third degree, there's an easier and less messy way. Flex-tie their hands, dig a common six-foot grave, drop them in and fill the grave. They would end up in the ground anyway. This just skips the intervening steps.

41 posted on 03/04/2008 1:17:12 PM PST by Zhang Fei
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To: swain_forkbeard
I was suprised to learn that Caril Ann Fugate is still alive at age 64 and was paroled at the age of 33.

How many people in America have been an accomplice in the murders of 11 people, were convicted and have spent over 30 years on the outside?

42 posted on 03/04/2008 1:19:49 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: r9etb

I read The “Dreamin Demon” blog!


43 posted on 03/04/2008 1:19:55 PM PST by meanie monster
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To: PLMerite
She’s cute, but damn, she’s not *that* cute.

I suspect that part of what we're seeing is:

a. Two guys who are weapons-grade stupid, and also drunk and drugged; and

b. One girl (Bobbi Johnson) who was also weapons-grade stupid, and "in love"; and

c. One girl (Erin Caffey) who was "in love" and who was stricly controlled by her boyfriend.

44 posted on 03/04/2008 1:22:20 PM PST by r9etb
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To: wideawake

She was a minor when the people were killed and never pulled a trigger, right? Starkweather himself didn’t live so long.


45 posted on 03/04/2008 1:24:08 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Deo volente

This Wilkinson guy is 19 and still in high school? Paper said he and the 16-year-old daughter would sneak off at school and that she had been home-schooled until recently.

Sounds like she went from being sheltered like a lamb right into the arms of wolves.


46 posted on 03/04/2008 1:26:49 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: Deo volente

I guess she chose her gods. She didn’t choose wisely.


47 posted on 03/04/2008 1:27:24 PM PST by Gingersnap
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To: Redlocks II
I don't know about today's culture causing such heinous crimes. Remember Truman Capote book about the murdered family in Kansas,1959?

After reading the book I had trouble sleeping for weeks. Evil has existed since Cain and Abel.

48 posted on 03/04/2008 1:29:35 PM PST by BARLF
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To: r9etb

I think you are right on target. Erin Caffey was likely strictly controlled to the point of abuse by her “lover”. Parents likely saw how he treated her. Sick nonetheless.


49 posted on 03/04/2008 1:30:34 PM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: WildcatClan

Public hanging is an excellent deterrent. It should be used more liberally.


50 posted on 03/04/2008 1:32:36 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: swain_forkbeard
She was a minor when the people were killed and never pulled a trigger, right?

She was a minor, but Starkweather - who fully admitted to killing at least 8 of their 11 victims accused her of killing three.

Ultimately, his statements are more believable since the account he gave guaranteed him the electric chair, while Fugate was highly motivated to pin everything on him and portray ehrself as a hostage.

She definitely lied at her trial when she claimed that she thought her family was still alive up to the time she was caught, even though she and Starkweather had lived in the tiny house where her parents' and sister's bodies were for six days.

She was supposed to serve life, but in the 70s hippy-dippy jurisprudence prevailed.

51 posted on 03/04/2008 1:32:38 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake; All

After the murders, the girl and her boyfriend had SEX and SLEPT...


52 posted on 03/04/2008 1:33:53 PM PST by wolfcreek (Powers that be will lie like Clintons and spend like drunken McCains to push their Globalist agenda.)
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To: BARLF

Well I can’t comment on those days because I wasn’t around then ;-), but I think the “anything goes” culture of today feeds the already disturbed.


53 posted on 03/04/2008 1:34:27 PM PST by Redlocks II
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To: Deo volente

Dang! Some guys will do ANYTHING for sex, even with something that looks like that! None of them look like the brightest bulbs in the boxes either.

The modern teenage girls mantra...”You don’t know me, you don’t know how I feel, I can love a man who loves me!”...sadly, I’ve heard this from my own daughter, who married someone I didn’t approve of..........at 21 though.

Prayers for the family......


54 posted on 03/04/2008 1:35:03 PM PST by shredderman (Living in a Blue State, with a Blue Wife, But I'm Red to the bone.....)
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To: r9etb
One girl (Erin Caffey) who was "in love" and who was stricly controlled by her boyfriend.

Ah the Karla (Karla Faye Tucker/Karla Homolka) Defense.

No sale.

55 posted on 03/04/2008 1:35:03 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: polymuser
On Saturday afternoons in downtown areas. And stocks for lesser crimes.

Wait'll after March Madness. Get a better crowd.

56 posted on 03/04/2008 1:35:32 PM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

I saw here blog. She was obsessed with her creepy boyfriend.


57 posted on 03/04/2008 1:36:09 PM PST by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: wideawake

The horror the two boys must have felt especially the 8 year old. I have an 8 year old, I would take great joy in torturing these two before I slow bled them, God help me.

A quick death is too good for these minions. This is one case I would be willing to be the executioner.

They need to go to prison and be gang raped for several years for being child killers, then given the needle.


58 posted on 03/04/2008 1:36:15 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

In Texas you can petition for emancipation if you are at least 16 if you are living away from your parents, 17 if you still live with them.

She could of just run away. Must be more to the story.


59 posted on 03/04/2008 1:39:14 PM PST by wolfcreek (Powers that be will lie like Clintons and spend like drunken McCains to push their Globalist agenda.)
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To: BARLF
Remember Truman Capote book about the murdered family in Kansas,1959?

Yes, In Cold Blood. A masterpiece, IMHO.

I've also heard that this event marked, for all practical purposes, the end of innocense in rural America (IE: people routinely leaving doors unlocked, etc).

60 posted on 03/04/2008 1:41:43 PM PST by Marathoner
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