On February 27, three days before the murders, the Caffeys demanded that Erin break up with Charlie. I heard footsteps going up the stairs and I began to panic. Finally, they turned back toward the Caffey home and parked down the road. That Saturday I got home at midnight, I came in from a 14 hour shift and I was tired. Terry stepped in, however, still believing in the forgiveness his faith taught him, and asked prosecutors to take the death penalty off the table, according to Killer Couples., All four eventually pleaded guilty. Charlie also began attending church at Miracle Faith. The boys play guitar and harmonica in church. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. WARNING: Graphic. I have worked with some good liars, but Erin was one of the best, said Lewis, who has nineteen years experience counseling juvenile offenders. Her story was already beginning to unravel, though, as Charlie was being questioned at the sheriffs office in Emory. We were going to get married.. Before entering the property, Wilkinson warned Caffey that he had to kill her younger brothers so that there would be no witnesses left. Picture: Supplied When the police arrested them all, she claimed to have been drugged and kidnapped. Boys often came to Miracle Faith just to see her, and several of them credited her with bringing them closer to Jesus. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. There was no overhead light, so he pulled a blanket off one of the windows to illuminate his view. They entered through the front door, which Erin had left open. Ive got so many questions, and I dont want to hit her with them all at once, he said. He now travels the country preaching what he has become good at, forgiveness. He had been shot five times: once in the head, twice near his right shoulder, and two more times in the back. Documentary Biography A family suffers multiple tragedy in a deadly home invasion. Charlie might strike his desk or storm out of the classroom when he was provoked, but he usually walked away from a fight. Her father, the man who she tried to have killed, is the only person who still visits her. Johnson, who had recently played a minor role in the Rains High School production of Oklahoma!, seemed to be in high spirits. But Terry and Penny, who separated the two teenagers that day at Miracle Faith, were deeply embarrassed by her behavior. When authorities tracked down Wilkinson and brought him in for questioning, they also found Erin in the trailer where he was staying. She is the most evil woman I have ever met, Morgan said. June 26, 2012— -- Terry Caffey is a survivor of a brutal murder attempt. Erin Caffey with her boyfriend, Charlie Wilkinson. For an instant, he thought he had found a doll. Then, that fall, an incident at the junior high had upset Terry and Penny: A girl who had been showing interest in Erin had kissed her in the hallway. He visits his daughter in prison every few months. A semiautomatic handgun lay on the floor beside him. He was good-looking in an unassuming kind of way, with sandy hair and light-blue eyes, and he nearly always wore Wranglers, black cowboy boots, and an oversized black Western hat. He said that if anybody said anything to anyone, that person would be taken care of. They brought along Waids girlfriend, a bubbly high school senior named Bobbi Johnson, whose silver Dodge Neon they were driving. Killing her parents, Erin told Charlie, was their best option. They all gave similar accounts, with Erin serving as the driving force behind the killings. Then, Erin broke her phone curfew and in February 2008, they put their foot down and told Erin that she needed to break up with Wilkinson. Now that she has pled out and the specter of a capital murder trial is gone, their conversations are no longer restricted, and Terry is free to ask his daughter whatever he wants to know. Waid was a few years older than Charlie, and Charlie and his buddies sometimes drank at his place and stayed the night. They werent beating me, they werent starving me to death. As late as two days before the murders, he gloomily admitted to the same friend that he wished he could just get her pregnant so the Caffeys would have no choice but to accept him. TESTIMONY Terry Caffey: A Crime of Passion By Randy Rudder The 700 Club. When I was at their house, that was what the family was like. Later that night, he told the detective, Waid dropped him and Erin off at the trailer, where they had sex. Erin Caffey's father Terry was shot several times in the attack, but survived. I'm here. Killing them will not bring my family back. He asked that Charlie Wilkinson and Charles Waid receive sentences of life in prison without parole. "I knew that's not what I wanted to do. Gaston, a genial man with a head of white hair, was the Caffeys closest neighbor, and he looked relieved to see the sheriffs deputy at his door. She seemed totally sincere and genuine, and I would have put my license on the line to say that she was telling me the truth. But the teenage Christian ended up masterminding the evil murder of her own family after she was barred by her parents from dating a boy they thought unsuitable. The family labrador guards the property of Terry and Penny Caffey. Director Sally Howell Stars Terry Caffey Anne Hjelle Debi Nicholls See production, box office & company info Patricia Sharpe writes a regular restaurant column, Pats Pick, for Texas Monthly. Her accomplices were her boyfriend Charlie Wilkinson, 18, his pal Charles Waid, 20, and Waids girlfriend Bobbi Johnson, 18. Then she drank some stuff that was offered to her at the trailer, and she could not recall anything afterward. Slowly, though, he began to parcel out information. He was totally in love with her and considered her his soul mate, Dion Kipp Jr., a friend of Charlies, later told investigators. Though she was unsure how she had gotten to the trailer, she said, she did remember trying to call her friend Charlie and being unable to reach him. When I leave, it will be when Im ready and when Gods ready for me to leave. Some nights it was pitch-black by the time I got home, and I had to work up the courage to get out of the car. 28 - Apr. Her homeschooling had begun when she was thirteen, after the family had moved to Alba from Celeste, a small town about an hours drive away. Not so much for your sake, but for my own. Webb was raising two sons on her own. She nodded and looked as if she might throw up. In fact, Caffey is the most dangerous woman I have met in my life. They stayed with her for five hours until she was released from the hospital, then offered to accompany her and her grandparents to the intensive care unit at the East Texas Medical Center in Tyler to see Erins father. Erin had invited him over to her house before and considered him to be her boyfriend. At the suggestion of Detective Almon, she was interviewed in the hospitals trauma room by Shanna Sanders, the young, personable chief of police for the Rains Independent School District who was on a first-name basis with most of the high schools students. He led Charlie outside in handcuffs and sat him on the porch; he read the teenager his Miranda rights and told him that he was being taken in for questioning. On the night of March 1st, 2008, in a quiet, rural Texan community, Terry Caffeys wife, Penny, and their two young sons, Bubba and Tyler, were brutally murdered by their 16-year-old daughters boyfriend, Charlie Wilkinson, and his friend Charles Waid. For a man who had been shot five times and climbed out the window of a burning house, he could consider himself lucky; he had a broken nose, two fractured cheekbones, and minor nerve damage in his right arm. Sanders and Booth would later reflect on the fact that Erin had not smelled like smoke, and Sanders regretted that she had turned away to give Erin some privacy when her maternal grandmother, Virginia Daily, had come to tell her that her father had, miraculously, survived the attack. One night not long afterward, Charlie pulled his car over on a country road, knelt on the pavement, and presented Erin with his grandmothers engagement ring. I dont think Im going to make it, Caffey sputtered, straining to catch his breath. I wanted to die where they died. She talked about the idea relentlessly. He feels that God has restored what the enemy had stolen. Pulling the blanket back, he shone his flashlight inside. On it were the words, Youre sovereign; Youre in control.. When I saw the phone records, I realized that it didnt matter if a single one of the other defendants testified against her. You know, I was voted when we went to youth camp Most Fun Loving Person, she said. Terry took five bullets and watched his wife die. I dont think anyone worried about him and Erin at first. The pastors wife, Rebecca McGahee, was deeply troubled by her demeanor later that month, when she sang at her grandfathers funeral. Prosecutors initially sought the death penalty against Wilkinson and Waid, but Terry Caffey stepped in and requested otherwise. I was scared shitless.) Erin had seemed elated after the killings, Johnson explained, and said that she was free. In fact, Johnson said, Erin had wanted to get out of the car to make sure that everyone was dead. This Week In History News, Mar. The answer was as simple and as complex as first love. He lost everything, his whole family, all his worldly possessions, but he did not lose his faith, and God blessed him doubly. The cabin appeared to have been burning for some time; the structure was engulfed in flames, and the metal roof had begun to buckle under its own weight. Wilkinson and Waid are serving life without parole but were spared the death penalty because Terry Caffey asked for it to be taken off the table. Above their driveway hung a polished cedar plank with the inscription: The CaffeysJoshua 24:15. The verse, which Terry had committed to memory, was a reminder that they had chosen a righteous path: If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve . Charlie lived in the country with his father, his stepmother, a stepbrother, a stepsister, and a half-sister. Everyone knew everyone in Emory, so Waid and Johnson were also rounded up almost immediately. How Florence ButtNot Her SonLaunched the H-E-B Empire. Caffey, then 16, organised the brutal slaying of her entire family at their home in Alba, Texas, USA, in the early hours of March 1, 2008. It was like she was seeing the world for the first time. One day at a church fellowship meeting, Miracle Faiths new youth director came upon Erin making out with a teenage boy. I honestly believe she was not the mastermind. That same month, Erin Caffey started talking about killing her parents in front of friends. Caffey broke down in tears at the thought of knowing he will never get the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle on her wedding day or see her have children. ABC's new TV series, "Final Witness," recreates the 2008 tragedy Wednesday at 10 p.m. I was angry at these two young men, the other young lady that drove the getaway car. Bring on the Shiplap? Then, in early February, Penny overheard Erin giggling one night past her phone curfewErin had sneaked her cell phone into her room to call Charlie. As Emig carried them out to the porch, he noticed that they were spattered with blood. 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