Officials: Triple Murder Was Planned For Weeks (Texas teenagers kill family)

Tyler Morning Telegraph ^ | March 4, 2008 | Lauren Grover

[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.

[Resolute Conservative]

No, watching them dangle and choke to death is what they need to see, unless you use the drop method.

[Resolute Conservative]

I have talked to one “person” today locally that said the parents were probably too strict and you cannot micro-manage kids. I said my parents did and so do I. Also argued that homeschooling is at fault here since daughter was not prepared for the real world.

[Mila]

"What/who is Starkweather?............."

Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather

From Wikipedia on Caril Ann Fugate

"Fugate lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, and in 1956 she started dating Charles Starkweather. He was five years her senior, a dropout, and a truck unloader at the Western Newspaper Union warehouse.

On January 21, 1958, Fugate later claimed to have come home to find that Starkweather had shot Marion Bartlett, her stepfather, and her mother Velda to death. Fugate made lunch while Starkweather choked and stabbed her baby half-sister Betty Jean to death. (Starkweather, on the other hand, claimed that she had been in the home during all three murders.)

During the next seven days, the pair lived in the house with the bodies and turned away all visitors, which made Fugate's relatives suspicious. Starkweather and Fugate then fled, driving across Nebraska on a spree of robberies and murders that claimed seven more lives before they were arrested.

Fugate's downfall was admitting to holding a .410 shotgun on a young high school couple in a car while robbing them of $4.00. The couple were shot and killed later that evening. The girl was found partially naked, and she was brutally stabbed multiple times in the abdomen after being shot.

Starkweather and Fugate accused each other of the girl's murder. Starkweather admitted to killing the boy."

[r9etb]

Is it just me, or did this girl fall in with a bunch of dirt bags? Or what we used to call “the wrong crowd”? I look at these pictures and and something does not add up. They do not look like her “type” if you know what I (and most likely her mom) am saying.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.... The more interesting questions (to me) are "why" and "how," which is what I was trying to ponder in #72.

[bk1000]

“I’m convinced it’s time for public hangings once again. On Saturday afternoons in downtown areas.”

Just like in Iran. Wouldn’t that be great?!

[polymuser]

Just like in Iran. Wouldn’t that be great?!

Like we did in America until 1936.

[Aaron0617]

The myspace of Johnson who sat in the car with the daughter as the two men killed her family is still active (for now) If anyone is curious ~
http://www.myspace.com/gale89

[Twinkie]

I know for myself, just the typical teenage aggravation I caused my parents is enough to make me cry from this vantage point. I sometimes think kids today have it too easy and get too much too soon, take everything for granted. Parents make mistakes in raising kids, but they sure shouldn’t have to die for it.

[LucyJo]

My child rearing years are well behind me. I know that I made mistakes as a parent. Just as you said...it’s a given that parents will make mistakes in raising kids. I’m thankful that it was a relatively easy experience for me at the time - compared to some - and that all turned out well.

I wouldn’t want to have to fight the forces of evil warring against God fearing parents for their children’s respect and affection these days. It seems to be coming from every direction.

OTOH, we often see innocent little children being subjected to the worst kind of evil at the hands of their godless parents.

Sad to say, I don’t see the hope of it getting any better any time soon at the rate we’re going in this country...too much calling evil good, and good evil.

[ApplegateRanch]

Don’t send your kids to public school, don’t let your kids date and have boyfriends/ girlfriends, and you’ll live longer.

Use Heinlein's "bung method":

When hit teen-dom, lock them in a barrel, and feed them through the bung hole. When they reach adulthood, make the decision whether to let them out, or to drive in the bung.

Looks like this guy opted to drive in the bung. (That is the round white thingy on the side of the barrel.)

[Patriotic1]

Sad - her hero was God.