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Texas Teen Planned Family's Murder for a Month: Cops

Posted Mar 4, 08 11:25 AM CST in Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – The 16-year-old Texas girl charged with killing her mother and brothers didn't decide to murder her family on a whim. Erin Caffey and her boyfriend discussed the homicide “for about a month,” according to police reports. Caffey waited outside in a car while the boyfriend and an accomplice allegedly shot Caffey’s parents and shot and stabbed her brothers with a “sword,” reports the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

“It was decided to just walk in there and take care of business,” the accomplice told investigators, saying he’d been promised $2,000. After the predawn murders, the pair set fire to the house to conceal evidence. Caffey’s father survived, crawling to a neighbor’s house despite bullets in his head and chest.

Source Tyler (Texas) Morning Telegraph

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