UPDATE: Erin Caffey, Charlie James Wilkinson, Charles Allen Waid and Bobbi Gale Johnson
ALL DEFENDANTS ACCEPT PLEA DEALS, RECEIVE SENTENCES RANGING FROM 40 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON
Well, better late than never, but here’s the rundown on the fates of Erin Caffey, Charlie James Wilkinson, Charles Allen Waid and Bobbi Gale Johnson.
Just to refresh your memories, each one of these four geniuses murdered or assisted in the murder of three member of an unsuspecting family, the Caffeys of Alba, Texas. They did this because the oldest daughter, 16-year-old Erin Caffey, was told she could no longer see her 20-year-old boyfriend, none other than Charlie James Wilkinson. With assistance from Charles Allen Waid and Bobbi Gale Johnson, the two lovers decided to get rid of Erin’s family so they could be together forever.
According to the police report:
“Wilkinson stated that Erin Caffey wanted her parents dead because they would not let her see Wilkinson and they even took away her cell phone. The discussion to kill Erin’s parents had been ongoing for about a month.” “Erin, Wilkinson and Waid had several conversations on how to kill her parents.”
When interviewed by police, Charlie kept it simple:
“Erin and I were in love and the only way we could be together was to kill the parents.”
Charlie James Wilkinson and Charles Allen Waid were the “hitters”, while Erin Caffey and Bobbi Gale Johnson waited in the car. Waid had been paid two thousand dollars to help kill Erin’s family.
Wilkinson and Waid entered the home, went straight to the master bedroom and shot at Penny Caffey. Terry Caffey awoke to the gunshots and to recognize Charles Wilkinson standing in the bedroom and heard “Charlie!” being yelled. Terry put his arm up to shield himself and was shot several times. The police report states:
“Wilkinson said he fired a .22-caliber handgun at Mrs. Caffey several times, but did not kill her. He then handed the weapon to Mr. Waid, who fired several more times at Mr. and Mrs. Caffey.”
Erin’s two brothers Matthew, 13, and Tyler, 8, heard the shots. They ran down the stairs from their bedroom loft and found Charles Wilkinson and Charles Waid standing over the bodies of their parents. The boys were witnesses now. 
According to the police report:
“Mr. Wilkinson told them to return to their beds in the loft. The two men followed the children upstairs. Mr. Waid shot 13-year-old Matthew in the head or neck, records show, and both men stabbed 8-year-old Tyler with a sword.”
Waid and Wilkinson used hand held lighters to set fire to bedspreads, food items, laundry and furniture to cover up the crime. The two males ran out to the car. Flames could be seen rising from the house as they sped away. They whooped it up and congratulated each other on a job well done.
What they didn’t know is that Erin’s Father Terry was still alive, and in a feat of super human strength and endurance, dragged himself 300 yards through the woods to the nearest home. He did this despite being shot five time – once in the head, shoulder and chest and twice in the back. His neighbor Terry Gaston found him lying on his porch and called 911.
Terry Caffey was rushed to the hospital where they removed five bullets from his body. When he woke up from the surgery, he would complain that he heard gunshots.
Meanwhile, Terry’s eldest child, his only daughter, was having a round of celebratory sex with the love of her young life, with Carlie Wilkinson in Charles Waid’s trailer. The cops picked up Charlie on Sunday, the day after the murders, but somehow missed Erin. Charlie had two handguns lying next to him. Charles Wilkinson was arrested and taken down to the jail for interrogation. He quickly confessed.
Charles James Wilkinson Arrest Affidavit – WARNING: Not For Children
Charles Waid and Bobbi Gale Johnson were picked up soon afterwards. They also wasted little time confessing.
Only Erin Caffey tried to play the system. A deputy searching through Charlie Waid’s trailer just was surprised to find Erin curled up in the fetal position, hidden under a pile of clothing 
and stuffed animals.
She told the deputy that “I was asleep and awoke to two people yelling at me to get on the floor.” She also told him she remembered “fire but nothing else.” As fast as the cops could say, “Yeah, right.” Erin was also arrested.
Authorities recovered a rifle, and a pistol, two swords and a condom.
Bond for all of them was set at $1.5 million, $500,000 for each charge of capital murder.
Faced with overwhelming evidence of their guilt and the testimony of Terry Caffey, and with the death penalty hanging over their heads, in November of 2008, Charles “Charlie” James Wilkinson and Charles Allan Waid both pled guilty to three counts of Capital Murder. They were sentenced to life in prison without parole.
On January 2, 2009, Bobbi Gale Johnson pled guilty to being an accomplice who did not use a weapon. She received a sentence of 40 years in prison.
At that same hearing, Erin Caffey pled guilty to capital murder. She was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus an additional twenty five years.
Will Erin Caffey ever get out of prison, let’s ask Rains County Attorney Robert Vititow:
“As for Erin Caffey, two life sentences, will she ever parole out? I can’t answer that. And if she did, she would still have another 25 year sentence to serve and so the odds are that she may never get out.”
Works for me…
The photographs are, from top to bottom:
1. Erin Caffey
2. Charlie James Wilkinson
3. Charles Allen Waid
4. Bobbi Gale Johnson
5. The Caffey family dog, still guarding the charred remains of his masters’ home.
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I have nothing but the utmost contempt for children willing to sacrifice their families to achieve some selfish goal.
Teenagers and young adults are awful at committing crimes like this one, too. They always get caught right off the bat… they don’t realize beforehand that they’re just stupid kids and can’t possibly get away with it.
What the hell happened to just running away together? You don’t get multiple life sentences for that! The cops don’t look for kids who take off to another city or state anywhere near as hard as they look for kids who commit murder and arson.
I agree. Don’t kids run away any more? I’m still stuck with mine and they’re in their late teens and twenties. Remember the days when kids couldn’t wait to turn eighteen and get the hell out of the house?
Those days are over folks.
lmao! I was thinking the same thing TBS. My 20 year old daughter lives with me – she just quit her job last week to “get her head together”. I told her she’s got a month to get another one or she’ll be getting her head together in a homeless shelter.
….. BAHAHAHAHA! Way to rock the Dad Face, Max!
This is awful!! When I was 16 and my parents told me I couldnt see a boy.. I would just sneak outta the house and see him anyway. Not plan to kill my whole family!! These teenagers got issues and are a waste of skin and bones……… to just shoot her parents and her brother….. oh and then just stab the youngest brother like its no big deaaaalll…. wtf????? Hell is sure gonna be extra hot for them….
Unbelievable. What people are capable of. To bring into the world the person who will take you out. Imagine being the father and living to find you whole family wiped out by your only daughter. Tragic. The understatement of the year. Damn. That sucks. Oh and F you all the losers that committed this awful crime. If there is no God and nothing happens after you die. If there is no hell, then there is no justice. Keeping these folks alive and sucking on the gov’t’s teat for 40 years. A cost that ultimately those good people in Texas will bear as taxpayers. What a waste of 8 lives.
This world is amazing in so many ways. People amaze me. The things that people do to each other. And we are intelligent beings?
Eddy, your first three sentences say what I was thinking and just could not put into words. Thanks
Very well said Eddy, and what a way to think about it. Jeez. That poor Father too. This story truly is tragic. How could that poor man ever bounce back from something like this?
I heard of this case. Disturbing.
I really don’t know what to think…what the hell can you say about this? That little bitch should have gotten the needle, as well as the three stooges that were with her! I live in the Lone Star State and I am shocked they did not receive the death penalty.WTF I just have no words,those poor hard working people….man oh man..there is nothing anyone could say to me to make me understand the thought process of these scum.
Gee, and she wondered why her parents didn’t think they were a good match. I hope she grows up enough to feel the pain of what she has done.
Some people just need killin’
This is absolutely sickening. Our kids are under attack. Our elderly are under attack. And even our parents are under attack. It is a sad time for our society as we hear more and more about kids killing their parents. And so often they are the “good parents” while POS ones live their lives of dysfunction and don’t even visit their evil spawns in jail.
pfft shoot the bastards, they’re the pieces of shit that rot on our planet.
“Erin and I were in love and the only way we could be together was to kill the parents.”
Or, you know. Wait two years. Or elope. Nah, killing the parents was best.
Or failing that, they could pull a classic Shakespearean move and kill themselves so they can be together in the afterlife. Star-crossed lovers and all… it’s so romantical!
Erin’s father forgave her, and told her he loves her no matter what. He now gives talks at schools about not hanging out with the wrong crowd.
That’s what any good father would do. Erin and her posse are still pig shit for what they did for her family.
Sorry TO her family not FOR her family. Leave me alone, it’s late and I’m tired. :)
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This is just an FYI for anyone who is interested:
Erin’s father, Terry Caffey, was featured in a recent episode (season 4, episode 30) of The Biography Channel’s show “I Survived . . .”
And his book “Terror by Night” was released earlier this fall.
His website http://terrycaffey.com/
oh by the way,did i ever mention im a lesbian in a dudes body,u could say im a LICKALOTTAPUSS,lol.
What these young adults did was unquestionably unthinkable.
This is definitely a different America than what I grew up in.
It’s not just the “bad” parents that have this happen anymore,
it’s the parents that care and want their children to have good
values. I don’t condemnn Mr. Caffey at all for not wanting the
death penilty. I have not “walked a mile in his shoes” and pray
I never will. I believe that the best place for these people to be is where they are. Not to be able to go where you want and do what you want to do must be like hell. (going to the beach and laying
in the sun, the mountains and walk in the snow or in a field of flowers, taking a walk in the city and shopping for what you want, walking down a country road and kicking the leaves, walking in the woods with the arms of the trees overhead and seeing deer etc) I pray that they now have a chance to see and feel what they have done and not be able to do; and to meet Jesus who forgives us all our sins. We all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.
I know that we’re paying for this, but there are a lot more
things that our tax dollars go to that I believe shouldn’t be used.
A lot more.