Was This Gunman The True Mastermind? - March 1 2025
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Morning Cup of Murder
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🗓️ 1 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
| 0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
| 0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
| 0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
| 0:12.0 | The person pulling the trigger isn't always the one pulling the strings. |
| 0:19.9 | On March 1st, 2008, a family became the center of tragedy, |
| 0:24.8 | one where the gunman was known, but the mastermind remained up for debate. So if you like your |
| 0:30.8 | coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
| 0:37.0 | On March 1st, 2008, at 4.30 in the morning, officer Charles Dickerson at the Rains County Sheriff's |
| 0:44.3 | Office received a call saying that there had been a shooting at the home belonging to the |
| 0:48.4 | Caffee family. The only officer on duty at the time, he rushed to the modest cabin at the end of a one-lane gravel road |
| 0:55.8 | that sat in a rural community of Texas between Sulphur Springs and Tyler. |
| 1:01.5 | Everyone knew the Caffee family. |
| 1:03.4 | But at the time, Charles Dickerson had no clue how this one phone call would affect the entirety of their small community. |
| 1:11.8 | Getting closer to the house, he noticed that the entire thing was engulfed by flames. |
| 1:17.6 | The metal roof had begun to buckle under its own weight, meaning it had been ablaze for quite some time, |
| 1:23.2 | and Officer Dickerson called his dispatcher and asked to mobilize the county's volunteer fire department. |
| 1:29.4 | Meanwhile, he sped down the road to the home of Tommy Gaston, the man who called 911. |
| 1:36.4 | When he opened the door and saw the officer standing there, Tommy looked relieved as he stepped to the side |
| 1:42.2 | and revealed the bloodied body of Terry Caffey |
| 1:45.2 | sprawled across his living room floor. Terry had been shot five times, once in the head, |
| 1:53.3 | twice near his shoulder, and two more times in his back. But though he was completely covered |
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