Love Hurts
The True Story of a Teen Romance, a Vicious Plot, and a Family Murdered
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3.5 • 13 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Alba, Texas. In 2008, Terry Caffey, a home health care aide and aspiring preacher, was asleep in his bedroom when he woke up to a barrage of bullets. His wife, Penny, was killed instantly. With blood pouring from five bullet wounds, among other serious injuries, Terry tried—but failed—to save his two youngest children before crawling out of his burning house. Meanwhile, Terry's sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was missing…
Once Erin was found by local authorities, she claimed she had been kidnapped—but could not remember the details. It wasn't until Terry was fully conscious that he could explain what had really happened: He'd been shot, point-blank, by two young men. One of them he did not know; the other was Charlie James Wilkinson. Charlie was Erin's nineteen-year-old boyfriend, forbidden from entering the Caffey home. Until Erin helped Charlie come up with a plan to do away with her disapproving parents once and for all…
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After Erin Caffey's fundamentalist parents banned Charlie Wilkinson from dating her, Wilkinson and friend Charles Allen Waid broke into the Caffeys' home, killed Erin's mother and two brothers, and left her father Terry for dead in a burning house. But Terry lived to tell the tale and identify Wilkinson as an assailant. What followed, however, was worse than what he'd already endured, as it soon became clear that daughter Erin was hardly a victim or pawn in the terrible acts, but instead a brutal mastermind who had persuaded the reluctant Wilkinson to murder her entire family. The killings disturbed the small East Texas community, and families were shaken again when Terry Caffey pleaded for mercy for the killers. Greenberg's comprehensive account digs deeply into the motives and personalities involved in this case. All of the teenagers here are distinct personalities, and their normalcy is chilling; none have a history of abuse or mistreatment. Readers will be haunted by Greenberg's eminently readable true crime tale.
