Boyfriend in family ambush sentenced to life

EMORY, TX Charlie James Wilkinson and Charles Allen Waid were sentenced in Emory on Tuesday to life in prison without parole for the March 2007 killings of Penny Caffey and her two sons in their rural East Texas home.

Authorities say Caffey's teenage daughter, Erin, and the 20-year-old Wilkinson spent weeks planning to kill the girl's family because they were forbidden to date.

The parents were shot while they slept, and the house was torched. Only Caffey's father survived, crawling out of his burning home after being shot five times.

Erin Caffey and 19-year-old Bobbi Johnson, who also pleaded guilty, have also received lengthy prison sentences.

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