Terror by Night Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B002SVBU9E | Format: EPUB
Terror by Night Description
In one evening, Terry Caffey lost everything. His wife, Penny, and his sons, Matthew and Tyler, were brutally murdered; his home was burned to the ground, and his 16-year-old daughter, Erin, was in jail, charged with thiree counts of capital murder.
In one year's time, God would restore it all. At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey awoke to find his daughter's former boyfriend standing in the bedroom doorway with a gun. An instant later the teen opened fire, killing Terry's wife and wounding Terry six times. As he slipped toward unconsciousness, Terry heard his son crying upstairs. More gunfire followed. When he regained consciousness, he felt the searing heat of his burning house. Terry knew it was too late to save his family, but even in the midst of the flames, he assigned himself a new mission. He fought to stay awake and escaped the burning house through a bathroom window.
As Terry stumbled and crawled four hundred yards through pitch darkness, he asked God to keep him alive long enough to identify the killer, and then to let him die. God allowed Terry to identify the murderer, but He didn't let Terry die. What happened next is nothing short of miraculous.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 8 hours and 43 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Oasis Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: October 14, 2009
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002SVBU9E
On March 1, 2008, author Terry Caffey's life changed forever.
Caffey and his wife of almost 19 years had set firm rules with their sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, in regards to her romantic relationship with eighteen-year-old Charlie Wilkinson.
She saw only one way to escape her parents rigidity: their death.
And on that fateful night, Penny Caffey would die; along with her two young sons: Matthew, 13 and Tyler, 8. Erin's father Terry would (barely) survive.
Terror By Night is Caffey's first hand account of the events that would change his life in ways he could have never imagined.
From a true crime readers standpoint, it's an interesting case but only about half the book is dedicated to the actual crime.
Terror By Night should be approached with the mindset for which it was intended: inspirational.
Readers are invited into the heart and soul of a man who lost (literally) everything and struggles to understand why while coping with a daughter's betrayal.
If you're looking for strictly the cold, hard facts of the crime, this book probably isn't for you. If, however, you enjoy a story brought forth by survival and hope, then I highly recommend Terror By Night from Terry Caffey.
By Kim Cantrell
HERE BE SPOILERS.
This book was published a bare year after the crime occurred. Here's a brief timeline of events:
2/20/2008 - Author's elderly father dies (of natural causes)
3/1/2008 - Author's wife and two sons are slain, and he is critically injured, and the family home is burned to the ground. At first, the assumption is that the author's teenage daughter also died, but within hours she is located unharmed, subsequently arrested, and charged with involvement in the murders (along with her boyfriend, another young man, and another young woman--all teenagers)
Summer 2008 - Author begins courting a colleague
10/25/2008 - Author marries colleague
December 2008 - Author's daughter and the others involved in the killings enter guilty pleas and are sentenced to varying terms up to LWOP. The daughter herself will be ineligible for parole until the author is 84 years old, assuming he lives that long, and she is 59
Unlike others whom the author says have attacked him online for being in denial about his daughter's role in the deaths of his first wife and sons; for not "doing enough" to get them out of the house that night (he was critically injured, duh!); for courting another woman and remarrying too soon; for forgiving his daughter and the other people involved ... I make no attack. I do, however, wish to note that the author has gone through an absolute wind tunnel of cataclysmic events in a very short period of time, and frankly, doesn't seem to be giving himself much time for the dust to settle. I would be interested in reading a sequel to this book in, say, seven or eight years. Since the book is a Christian testimony, not a true crime account, maybe it's more likely to be forthcoming.
By Vibiana
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