Erin Caffey

Erin Caffey sought retaliation when her parents told her she couldn't see her lover any longer by ordering their horrible murder in the dead of night.

Wilkinson and Waid were initially targeted for the death penalty by the prosecution, but Terry Caffey intervened and asked for a different outcome. The identical account was given to police by Wilkinson and Waid: the murders were all her idea. Erin Caffey and Waid’s date awaited outside in the car. But Caffey insisted to her grandparents that she was innocent of her family’s death. Erin Caffey began discussing killing her parents in front of friends in the same month. He had to crawl for an hour to get to the house of his nearest neighbor, where the police were summoned. Authorities located Wilkinson right away, and they took him in to be questioned. The guitar and harmonica were played by Erin Caffey’s brothers, Tyler, age eight, and Matthew, age thirteen. The Caffeys’ devotion to music was complemented by their active involvement in their neighborhood church. Erin Caffey, 16, and her father Terry Caffey, who was shot many times before the two invaders set the house on fire, were the only survivors. Terry Caffey noted that he had doubts about Wilkinson from the beginning, therefore the connection didn’t bode well with her parents. Wilkinson was forthright about his intention to marry her and even handed her a promise ring that had once belonged to his grandmother.