Investigators Say Family Opposition to Boyfriend May Be Behind Brutal Texas Murders:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
ALBA, Texas — Investigators say a bloody attack on a rural East Texas family's home may have resulted from family opposition to a daughter's boyfriend.
Rains County Sheriff department confirmed Sunday a 16-year-old girl is one of four suspects being held for the violent murders of her mother and two brothers.
The girl, whose name is being withheld due to her age, is the girlfriend of one of the suspects, investigators revealed. Neighbors told MyFOXDFW.com that the girl's parents, Terry and Penny Caffey, were trying to break up the couple.
"I knew that Terry and Penny didn't like him and were going to make her split up with him," the unidentified neighbor told the station.
The teen was found by police early Sunday hiding at the home of one of the suspects, although it was not clear from the police account which of them she was dating or where she has been hiding.
The four suspects, which include the unidentified teen, 19-year-old Charlie James Wilkinson, 18-year-old Bobbi Gale Johnson and Charles Allen Wade, 20, went before the Justice of the Peace and were formally charged Sunday morning with three counts of capital murder each, police said. All remained in Rains County Jail with bonds set at $1.5 million.
Mrs. Caffey, 37, was killed along with her two sons, Tyler Caffey, 8, and Mathew Caffey 13, according to police. All had been shot and stabbed multiple times. Terry Caffey was in critical but stable condition Sunday in East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the head.
Despite his wound, the father was able to crawl about 300 yards to a neighbor's house to seek help. Meanwhile, flames consumed the Caffeys' home with the bodies of Mrs. Caffey and their two sons inside.
The sheriff said authorities could not determine whether gunshots or the fire caused the deaths of Penny, 39, Tyler, 8, and Mathew, 13, saying, "The bodies have been so badly burned."
So this is what it's come to. Teens killing their parents in brutal fashion just so they could date some kid. If the parents did allow the relationship it probably wouldn't have even lasted through the summer. Now she's going to have the rest of her life to think about it. Be grateful that you're not 18 considering this is Texas.
One point for each murder which is 3, one for the attempted murder on the father, and one point for doing all this killing over a boy, which brings us to 5 points. Welcome to first/last place Texas.
