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

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

[polymuser]

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I'm convinced it's time for public hangings once again. On Saturday afternoons in downtown areas. And stocks for lesser crimes.

[wideawake]

Another positive outcome of the father’s survival is that it will be much harder for the daughter’s defense attorney to go with the usual: “She acted out of rage because she was molested” garbage when her wounded and crippled father will be able to testify in open court that he did no such thing.

[Tex Pete]

“What a bunch of amoral whackjobs. Not wanting to wait two years to date is worth killing for?”

And, obviously, her parents were right about the boy.

[r9etb]

From this site:

Family and perps:

Erin Caffey:

[Deo volente]

I think it’s a typo. I read elsewhere the bail is at $1.5 million for each of them.

[Red Badger]

I saw that. $1500 must be a typo.............

[SolidWood]

charged with three counts of capital murder each... held at Rains County jail on $1,500 bond each.

Yes, something doesn't sound right.

[Red Badger]

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

[Homer1]

Hangings? I think this is a job for a wood chipper

[wideawake]

Serial killer in the 1950s. He and his underage girlfriend got their start after killing her parents and then went on a spree.

The award-winning movie badlands was made about it and Natural Born Killers boorows heavily from that earlier movie.

[demshateGod]

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

[PLMerite]

“How stupid do you have to be to think you can get away with this.”

That’s what I was screaming at the screen. Did they think they weren’t going to be suspects? Did they think they were going to run away and live on the lamb forever?

I was on a Grand Jury once and we indicted a lot of stupid people.

[Homer1]

The grandmother has mixed emotions, probably," he said. "It's her grandchild."

I'd disown her at the very least.

[ClearCase_guy]

Wikipedia:

Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was a spree killer who murdered 11 victims in Nebraska and Wyoming during a road trip with his underage girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. He became a national fascination in the USA, eventually inspiring the films The Sadist, Badlands, Starkweather, Murder in the Heartland and Natural Born Killers. He also inspired the Bruce Springsteen song "Nebraska".

Me:

Badlands starred a young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. 1973 film, I believe.

[PLMerite]

She’s cute, but damn, she’s not *that* cute.

[Non-Sequitur]

She is 16. Does that mean no death penalty?

No, no death penalty. She can still be tried as an adult and get life without parole.

[WildcatClan]

Public hanging is horrible, but I must agree with you here. Any others who are harboring any such plans need to see the end of such actions.

[swain_forkbeard]

Famous case. Fifties, I think. Maybe early sixties. The movie Badlands, starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, and Warren Oates, is about the case.

[PeterFinn]

She deserves the death penalty and I hope she gets it.

[Homer1]

one way or another