WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:10.279 On the night of March first, two thousand and eight, 2 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:14.880 two men forced their way into a quiet home in Alba, Texas, 3 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:19.359 and by the time their rampage ended, three members of 4 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.719 the Kaffe family, a devoted mother and her two young sons, 5 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:28.280 were dead. The only survivors were sixteen year old Aaron 6 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:34.240 Caffey and her father, Terry Caffey. This is the terrifying 7 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:37.200 story of the Kaffe family massacre. 8 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:42.320 My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked 9 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:50.520 and Grim, a true crime podcasting. The following podcast material 10 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:54.479 intended for a mature audience listener discretion. 11 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:17.920 Shout out to Michelle. Michelle Freeman, you suggested this case 12 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:22.079 over on Patreon so caught my attention. Here we are, 13 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:23.040 we're doing it today. 14 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:24.879 I recognize that name you do. 15 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:27.280 I do. Michelle has been around for a little while 16 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:31.400 and been quite awesome, especially now that we're getting cases here. 17 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:34.079 You're definitely doing your due diligence and helping us out. 18 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:39.760 So thank you so much. Okay, we have coffee in hand. 19 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:41.560 We hope you have a drink in your hand too, 20 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.200 because this is going to be an interesting case and 21 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:44.920 I'm curious what your guys' thoughts are going to be 22 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.159 on this one because there is an open end kind 23 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.959 of at the end of this story. Oh, okay, it's 24 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:54.200 a solved case. 25 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:56.079 Okay, that was gonna be a question I had. 26 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:00.920 It's a solved case. But some people think something else 27 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.920 and some people think something else. And someone claimed something 28 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.920 and someone claimed something else. It's there's two sides to 29 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.639 this coin on which you think it could or could 30 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:08.919 not be. 31 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:11.800 Well, I mean, I'm sure there's many cases that they 32 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.080 say is solved, but it is wrong, right. 33 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:18.280 Yes, potentially, And that's that's what's happening here is the 34 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.039 individual who was one of the individuals who was convicted 35 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:29.199 claims they were not really responsible for it. 36 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.159 Well, ding dang. Wasn't there the one recently where the person, 37 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:36.280 Oh I can't even remember, they claimed like it was 38 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:39.840 a documentary that you would watch where they claimed they 39 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:40.479 didn't do it. 40 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.080 Oh, was it the dad or yeah? There was a 41 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.319 father was yeah name and. 42 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:48.280 He said that he was set up or something. 43 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:50.800 Yeah, I can't remember his name off the top of 44 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.520 my head, but yeah he was. He was he was 45 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:56.159 over from Egypt and he immigrated into North America, had 46 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:57.879 a family, had daughters and then yeah, it was like 47 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.439 kind of really running their life and stuff, and he 48 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:02.879 ended up killing his his two daughters in the backseat 49 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:03.240 of the car. 50 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:04.240 Yeah, and wasn't me. 51 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:05.479 Yeah, it wasn't me. 52 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:06.120 It wasn't me. 53 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.879 It wasn't me. His name was not Shaggy though. But yeah, 54 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:12.319 do you have anything we need to cover today? We've 55 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:14.719 got a lot of snow. I know that's covering us. 56 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:17.199 Yeah, holy shit, is it ever? 57 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.000 And hopefully you guys, if you're living in the US, 58 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.080 hopefully I had a great Thanksgiving. Hopefully you're going to 59 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.680 survive your Black Friday and get all those deals and 60 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:26.680 get the good stuff. 61 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.599 Well we get to like we piggyback on those deals. 62 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:31.080 We do. 63 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:34.000 Yeah, So, like I've already done a little bit, which 64 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.240 there's more I want to do, but I'm like, hold 65 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:37.800 the phone. 66 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.919 Well, the thing is, you need to have some self control, 67 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:42.639 which I am not very good for. So do not 68 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.879 say I'm practice what I preach, not do as I say, 69 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:49.199 not as I do. How's that before I say anything? 70 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:51.840 You need to have self control and try and just 71 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:54.639 like you know, purchase what you need to get rather 72 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.159 than what you want. Of course, throwing once some once 73 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:57.800 once in a while. 74 00:03:58.000 --> 00:03:59.719 It is a good time though, to do like Christmas 75 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.560 shop ready to get like some good deals and for 76 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:03.520 gifts and stuff. 77 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.280 So definitely it's just really easy to, you know, buy 78 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:09.919 unnecessary things this time of year, which I definitely have 79 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:11.800 a habit of doing. I'm not gonna lie. 80 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:15.439 I did buy a Canucks jersey. You did, so that's 81 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:16.199 pretty exciting. 82 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.759 Well, I mean, it wasn't a Black Friday deal, but 83 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:20.839 I bought a mini hockey stick and then to go 84 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:22.920 with it, I had to have a mini hockey goalie stick. 85 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:25.519 That was not a Black Friday sale in the last. 86 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:26.920 No, but it was an impulse by that I did 87 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:27.519 not need to do. 88 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:31.800 And Ben like make sure you don't go overboard in here. 89 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:34.319 Yeah. So I'm well, that's what I'm saying. I'm not 90 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:35.519 the best at it myself. 91 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.240 I don't even know where those are going to go 92 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.279 in our home, but figure that out. 93 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.240 They're gonna go in my hand playing mini hockey with 94 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:45.600 the dogs in the hallway of our tiny home. 95 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:48.079 Oh boy, yep. 96 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:52.560 Anyways, we digress. Let's get into this case, shall we h. 97 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.279 So this is a story of the Kaffe family masker. 98 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:58.279 As I mentioned, at the beginning now the Kaffee family. 99 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.759 They were well known and beloved reve residents of Alba, Texas. 100 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.519 And now this is a rural town with a population 101 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:08.279 of just over five hundreds. It's a little tiny town 102 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.240 and it's nestled in the woods of East Texas, about 103 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.040 forty five minutes northwest of Tyler. The Caffes lived on 104 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.279 a serene stretch of land surrounded by tall trees in 105 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.319 thick brush. At the heart of their property stood a 106 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:26.639 modest log cabin accessible by a single gravel driveway. Penny 107 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.480 Caffe was the mother of the family. She was dedicating 108 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:33.800 herself to homeschooling her three children, Aaron, the oldest, Matthew 109 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:38.319 effectually known as Bubba, and the youngest Tyler. Penny was 110 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:42.279 an active member of the Miracle Faith Baptist Church, where 111 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:46.240 she played piano during Sunday services. Her husband, Terry, worked 112 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.399 as a home health aid and served as a lay preacher, 113 00:05:49.439 --> 00:05:52.959 which is a preacher who's not officially ordained, so it's 114 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.680 basically playing that role, but he's not officially ordained as one. 115 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.079 So the family's oldest child, Aaron, was known for her 116 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:03.040 striking blonde hair, an exceptional singing voice, which often brought 117 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.480 church congregations to tears. At sixteen years old, Aaron performed 118 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:11.079 gospel solos on Sundays, captivating the audience with her raw 119 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.040 emotion as she sang. In fact, it wasn't uncommon for 120 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:17.279 her to actually pause mid performance that went from singing 121 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:20.160 to collect herself because she's like overcome with like the 122 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.839 lyrics and the emotion of the song and everything, so 123 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.399 she'd like pause during her performance, collect herself and then 124 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.759 keep going, oh wow, like super passionate, very much so. 125 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.360 And outside of church and schoolwork, Erin worked at a 126 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:35.800 local sonic drive in. She was actually known for like 127 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:37.920 going out in like roller skating, orders up to like 128 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:40.639 cars and stuff which nice didn't happen like all that 129 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:42.560 often and everything, but she was one that did go 130 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.000 do it now. Aaron's brothers, Matthew and Tyler, were quiet 131 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.879 but polite boys. Matthew was in seventh grade and Tyler 132 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:53.160 was in the fourth. They were inseparable and adored by 133 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:56.959 their parents. Among the three siblings, Erin was the most outgoing, 134 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.480 though she remained very deeply influenced by her family's faith 135 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.560 centered lifestyle. So she's quite outgoing, but you know still 136 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:07.959 that that church girl. You know, faith was, if you 137 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.600 haven't guessed by now, the cornerstone of the Caffe household. 138 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.519 Wednesdays were reserved for Bible study and Sundays were dedicated 139 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.040 to church for Terry and Penny. Their shared beliefs had 140 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.959 been a foundation for their relationship since meeting at their 141 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.639 revival service in Garland, Texas, when Penny was just twenty 142 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:29.680 one and Terry was twenty four. So that faith was 143 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:31.680 really what kind of brought them together and is keeping 144 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.639 them together right. But what appeared to be a family 145 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:37.759 bound by faith and love was about to be, unfortunately 146 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.519 torn apart in one of the most devastating ways imaginable. 147 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.160 On the early morning of March first, two thousand and eight, 148 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.560 Charles Dickerson, the only police officer on duty in the 149 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.800 small town of Alba, Texas, received an urgent call from 150 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.240 the Rains County Sheriff's office. It was just after four 151 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:59.720 thirty am when a call came through from a neighbor, Tommy. 152 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.199 Now Tommy was reporting a shooting and a house fire 153 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:08.160 at the Kaffe residence next door. Tommy reported that a 154 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:11.199 man had been shot multiple times and managed to make 155 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:14.000 his way over to his house for help, and that 156 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:18.959 man was forty one year old Terry Caffey. Oh shit, yeah, 157 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.079 he crawled over to the neighbor's place. 158 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:21.639 Wow. 159 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.759 Yeah. The dispatcher confirmed that Terry was conscious and breathing, 160 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.240 but bleeding heavily with multiple gunshot wounds. Officer Dickerson immediately 161 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.720 responded and was approaching the property when they saw a 162 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:38.559 glowing orange light coming into view, which got brighter as 163 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.279 he neared it, which was, of course, the house fully 164 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:45.279 engulfed in flames. He quickly radioed for Volunteer fire department 165 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.519 and they were dispatched to the property as well. Officer 166 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:51.159 Dickerson found Terry Caffey lying on the living room floor 167 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:53.960 of Tommy's home when he arrived, and he's gravely injured. 168 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:56.639 His clothes were soaked in blood as he had been 169 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.039 shot a total of five times, including once in the head, 170 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.799 twice near the right shoulder, and two more times in 171 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:03.759 his back. 172 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.519 And he still managed to make his way to the neighbors. Hey. 173 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:12.039 Correct. His clothes were a shirt, pajama pants, and one 174 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.919 wet sock Terry had. I mean, of course he soaked. 175 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.799 The one sock was like soaked in blood. Specifically, so 176 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:23.559 Terry had crawled approximately five hundred yards from his burning 177 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:29.080 home to safety at the neighbor's place, despite his critical injuries. Yosh, 178 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.519 this is a very rural area. His neighbor isn't just 179 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.480 next door, his neighbor is five hundred yards away. 180 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:36.840 Well. I was actually wondering that because, like you said, 181 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:38.960 it was such a small town, and was assuming that 182 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:40.799 the houses weren't super close together. 183 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:44.639 They definitely weren't. Whoa, So as he crawled this distance 184 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.000 from house to house along the way, he had actually 185 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.559 fallen into a creek and nearly drowned before he managed 186 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:53.679 to pull himself out of the creek and continue heading 187 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:54.679 to the neighbors as well. 188 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.919 Oh okay, that is some strength. 189 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:02.200 A no shit. So I do want to say this 190 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:06.080 right now, Terry is one hundred percent our badass of 191 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:08.720 the day, not only for that, but for other reasons 192 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:11.960 that we will discuss later. So, Terry was rushed to 193 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:14.919 the hospital and when he was able to, he told 194 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.759 police everything he remembered. Now, as I said at the 195 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.240 very beginning, Terry did survive. In the intro, I said 196 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.200 that Terry did survive this encounter, and in the early 197 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:26.480 hours of March first, two thousand and eight, he and 198 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:31.440 his wife were attacked, and he begins to tell the 199 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.879 police exactly what happened. So he and Penny were laying 200 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.960 in their bedroom when the sound of gunfire began. The 201 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:43.360 lights were out. You know they are their sound asleep. 202 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:47.200 It's four am, right, and Terry recalled the terrifying realization 203 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:50.320 that someone was standing over them shooting at them. When 204 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.200 he heard the gunshots beginning, they screamed, and in the 205 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.799 disorienting chaos, he heard the distinct sound of a gun 206 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:01.279 being reloaded, and in that moment he thought he was 207 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.879 going to die for sure. The noise and the flashes 208 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:09.080 of gunfire engulfed the entire room and was soon also 209 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:14.799 filled with an overpowering, overpowering scent of gunpowder. Windows were shattering, 210 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.840 and then there was later an intense heat that began 211 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.120 to fill the house as it was set on fire. 212 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:23.679 At this point, Terry had been shot from the attackers 213 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:28.200 and was desperately trying to reach his children upstairs. He 214 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.000 also had to understand that he needed to get out 215 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.799 of a blazing house as well, which he soon knew 216 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:36.840 he had to. He attempted to navigate the thick smoke 217 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:39.279 in the flames, but was forced back into the bedroom. 218 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:41.559 When he tried to make his way across the bed, 219 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.759 that's when he found his wife, Penny, lying lifeless on 220 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:45.559 the other side. 221 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:47.240 Oh my gosh. 222 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:49.720 Terry had no other choice but to make an escape 223 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:52.320 and save himself, so he made his way out of 224 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.639 the house through the bathroom window and over to his neighbors. 225 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.200 Terry was also able to give authorities a very important 226 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:04.240 piece of information. He knew who one of the attackers was. Okay, 227 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:09.799 it was Charlie Wilkinson. Now this is a This is 228 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.200 the boyfriend of his sixteen year old daughter. 229 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.519 Oh gosh, Okay. 230 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.679 It was Charlie who had shot and killed the family. 231 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.559 Terry explained that he and Penny had recently confronted Aaron 232 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.919 about their relationship with Charlie, and they told her the 233 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.240 relationship needs to end, which for reasons we'll get into. 234 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:34.039 One of the responding officers, Kurt Fisher, recognized Charlie's name. 235 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:36.399 I mean, after all, this is a very small town, right. 236 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.039 So Officer Fisher's sons were friends with him, and he 237 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.360 knew this, and he noted that on his way to 238 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:45.399 the crime scene, he'd actually seen Charlie's vehicle outside a 239 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.600 trailer belonging to another young individual by the name of 240 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:55.639 Matthew Wade, which was one of Charlie's accomplice accomplices, sorry, acquaintances, 241 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.360 not accomplices, one of Charlie's acquaintances. So it's a friend 242 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.600 and he's parked over there. Officer noted that on the way. 243 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.320 By, right, Okay, that's yeah, that's observant. 244 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:07.240 So he knew right away where Charlie's vehicle was, and 245 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:11.159 he knew Charlie's now involved in this, so they dispatch 246 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.480 officers to go over there right away. He acted on 247 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.159 that lead, and yeah, they headed over to that trailer. 248 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.080 Well, clearly Charlie wasn't expecting anyone to or the dad 249 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.320 or anyone to survive this or else he would have 250 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.840 like masked himself, you'd think, exactly. 251 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:31.320 Now, is there anything you've noticed from this story just yet? 252 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:36.679 Well, I do have like a small inclining of something. 253 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:38.399 Is that a word inclination? 254 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.519 I don't know, yeah, that, but I don't know if 255 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:46.600 i'll say it yet. I feel like we've covered stuff 256 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.960 like this before, where it's like now I'm kind of 257 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.320 wondering if maybe the daughter is potentially like involved with 258 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:53.919 this as well. 259 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:57.879 Okay, so that's your question. Have you noticed anything specific 260 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:00.399 about said daughter yet? 261 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:07.720 Noticed anything? Well, she's also survived, as from your intro, 262 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:12.159 and I'm wondering if she's wasn't even in the house 263 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:13.399 maybe well in the attack. 264 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:15.840 So far, I've described the father, the mother, and the 265 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:17.720 two brothers, but I have not touched on her. 266 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.720 Oh you did talk about the two brothers in the. 267 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:25.559 Attack, well briefly because the dad, Terry, went upstairs to 268 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:27.799 try and get to him. Oh okay, yeah, but he 269 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:30.360 was unable to and had to backtrack scape the house. 270 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.200 Okay, So like one could assume that he was also 271 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.360 trying to go to her room as well. 272 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:36.440 I kind of did. 273 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.240 But yeah, I'm kind of wondering if she wasn't even 274 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.080 there or was or was a part of all this. 275 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.879 So well, we're about to get into all that because yeah, 276 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.559 that is a very glaring thing question that's looming over 277 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:53.600 this case. Was she involved? So we're going to talk 278 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.519 about where she was, was she in the house and 279 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:00.639 all that right here? Okay, So police arrived this trailer 280 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.200 where Charlie's vehicles parked, armed with search warrants and they 281 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.559 made their way into the home. They were dirty clothes, 282 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.720 beer cans, and a mess everywhere. It was not the 283 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.960 most well kept place. Officers made their way to the bedroom, 284 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.919 where they found the owner, Matthew Wade, and his girlfriend 285 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.360 sleeping in the bedroom. In another room, they found Charlie 286 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:21.440 laying awake on a mattress, dressed in jeans. Beside him 287 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:24.399 on the floor was a semi automatic handgun, the type 288 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.120 of weapon consistent with the attacks the Kaffee house, a 289 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:31.600 twenty two caliber. Police, of course, immediately arrested Charlie, informing 290 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:34.120 him that the kaffe family had been murdered and asking 291 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:38.600 if he had any involvement. Charlie initially denied everything, claiming 292 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:41.960 he had been drinking heavily and he passed out that night. However, 293 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.759 when officers searched for his clothing, they discovered a critical 294 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:48.240 piece of evidence. His cowboy boots were splattered in blood. 295 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.360 Well, yeah, I would imagine that there would be some 296 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:51.399 blood on his clothes. 297 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:54.000 Yeah. Now, In the living room, they also found a 298 00:15:54.039 --> 00:16:00.639 camouflage purse containing Aaron's driver's license. The bedroom where Charlie 299 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:04.720 had been found was even more revealing. Now Initially, blankets 300 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:06.440 blocked out the light in the room, and it was 301 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:11.000 extremely dark and kind of claustrophobic, almost so, when one 302 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.600 officer tore down a blanket covering the window, the room 303 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.720 lit up and revealed quite the scene. There were shell 304 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:20.679 casings scattered across the carpet, a case of ammunition lay nearby, 305 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:24.120 but most damning of all beneath a pile of blankets 306 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:28.080 on the floor. The officer saw some blonde hair poking 307 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:33.399 out when they pulled back the blankets. Sitting there, curled 308 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:35.759 up in the fetal position with her back against the wall, 309 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:40.159 was Aaron Caffey. She appeared confused and disoriented, saying that 310 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.799 she didn't know where she was, and she was immediately 311 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:47.039 brought into police custody. Now as we already touched on 312 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.200 to the outside world, Aaron Caffey was a sweet and 313 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:54.679 charismatic girl. She had a magnetic charm that drew attention 314 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.080 from many people, but particularly from the boys as well. 315 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:01.600 She was petite, bubble, and to top it all off, 316 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.839 she enjoyed the spotlight. While she thrived on this attention, 317 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:08.279 those close to her often described her as shelter in naive. 318 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.440 The Kaffe family had always been cautious about their children's 319 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.400 exposure to the world. When Aarin was thirteen, for example, 320 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:19.759 a significant event changed the family's trajectory. When attending public school, 321 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:22.720 Aaron had encountered an encounter with a student who expressed 322 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.359 some romantic interest with her and kissed her in the hallway. 323 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.119 This incident greatly upset the parents, and it prompted them 324 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:31.839 to pull Erin and her brothers from public school entirely, 325 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:35.240 which from there Penny took on the responsibility of homeschooling them, 326 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:42.400 utilizing the strict Bible based curriculum. So Erin was quite outgoing, 327 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.880 quite bubbly, but she was also quite withdrawn and now 328 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:50.160 she finds herself in this situation. So while Erin's parents 329 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.079 worked hard to protect her, this sheltered environment also left 330 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:57.240 her inexperienced in navigating relationships in the outside world. When 331 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:59.599 she turned sixteen in July two thousand and seven, she 332 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:02.240 gained a sense of newfound freedom with their driver's license 333 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.480 and used the Chevy pickup truck to get to and 334 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.599 from her house or events in school, of course work 335 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:12.359 as well. That summer, she met Charlie Wilkinson, an eighteen 336 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.519 year old with who was a little rough around the edges. 337 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.079 You know. Charlie was an outdoorsy country kind of kid. 338 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.880 He wore wrangler jeans and cowboy boots and head sandy 339 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:24.359 blonde hair, light blue eyes. His online MySpace user name 340 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:25.279 was even Hillbilly. 341 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.680 Okay, he really embraced the role. 342 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:32.119 He definitely did. Charlie exuded a confidence that attracted attention, 343 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:36.160 but beneath his comic sterior, unfortunately, was a temper that 344 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.640 could be provoked with little efforts. Now, Charlie had recently 345 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:45.079 turned returned from boot camp at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where 346 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.000 he trained with the Texas National Guard, his future plans 347 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.400 including joining the active duty after graduation. And at home, 348 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.200 he lived with his father, stepmother, and three siblings. His 349 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:56.519 father worked at a paper mill outside of Dallas, where 350 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.880 his mother, who had moved to Del Rio after their divorce, 351 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.279 was largely absent from his life. Visits with her were rare, 352 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.680 occurring only once or twice a year. Despite the family dynamics, though, 353 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:10.079 Charlie had carved out a life filled with activities he loved, 354 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:13.680 concluding hunting and fishing. Although he had no record of 355 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:17.799 criminal behavior or serious disciplinary issues, Charlie's quick temper was 356 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:22.119 well known. He was impulsive, but he did generally avoid confrontation. 357 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:23.920 You know, he's got a temper, but he's not going 358 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:25.880 to be one to just like start swinging or be 359 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:30.960 physically abusive or anything. Okay, So now Aarin and Charlie 360 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.640 the two cross paths at the local Sonic drive in 361 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:37.000 where Aaron worked roller skating orders out to customers, and 362 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:39.519 not long after Halloween of two thousand and seven, Charlie 363 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:44.400 finally asked Aaron to be his girlfriend, which began, of course, 364 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:48.240 a whirlwind of romance that quickly consumed both the teenagers. 365 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:53.559 By all accounts, Charlie fell hard for Aarin, and the 366 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.519 intensity of the relationship was apparent from the start. While 367 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:00.599 Aaron's parents initially tolerated their relationship, they soon grew easy 368 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:04.200 about the speed at which things were progressing, which is understandable, 369 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:06.839 you know for teenagers and stuff, especially for someone you know, 370 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:08.880 in a little bit of a religious household, having that 371 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.200 faith foundation, right, you tend to want to, you know, 372 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.640 save yourself for marriage and you know that sort of thing, right, 373 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.680 and finding you know, your teenage kid is now kind 374 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:23.400 of running them up. I guess not really, but you know, 375 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:25.599 she's going out with this kind of rougher around the 376 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:26.960 edge kind of kid. 377 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.559 It's and I'm assuming like he isn't religious. 378 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:32.720 Yeah, yeah, he was, Oh he was. Okay, No, we 379 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:35.400 were talking like in the Texas area here, so it's 380 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:38.000 you know, there's there's a lot of well I think 381 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:40.240 Texas is technically considered in that Bible belt, if I'm 382 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.400 not mistaken, there's a lot of people who are of 383 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:43.359 faith in the area. 384 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:45.279 Okay, and he was as. 385 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:49.960 Well, though maybe it's a differing amount of faith, who knows. 386 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:52.799 But he certainly attended church too, because they had some 387 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:54.799 some church stuff going on and things as well. 388 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:58.000 Okay. I thought maybe that was the problem, but okay. 389 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:02.400 No, it was more like they just had certain expectations 390 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:06.200 for their daughter and they didn't see Charlie as a 391 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:08.920 good influence towards those expectations, I guess. 392 00:21:09.079 --> 00:21:12.079 Okay, yeah, Well, I mean I feel a lot of 393 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:16.200 times with parents like you just would the expectations you 394 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:19.400 may have of your kid or whatever, and the spouse 395 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:21.680 will never meet those, right because you think that your 396 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:24.039 kid is like the most amazing thing in the whole world, 397 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:27.440 which rightfully so, but like no one will meet those. 398 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:31.559 Exactly, that's for sure. Now the Kafes, they play strict 399 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:35.559 rules on Aaron and her relationship, only allowing them to 400 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:39.200 actually spend time together under supervision and ensuring Charlie left 401 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:42.400