Piers Morgan just named the most dangerous person he’s ever interviewed, and her age when she did it makes it so much worse

Piers Morgan has named the most dangerous person he encountered across his 35-year career: Erin Caffey, who was only 16 when she orchestrated the murder of her own family. The broadcaster disclosed the details during a conversation with Lorraine Kelly and later in an interview with GQ Magazine, as reported by UNILAD.

Morgan is known for his direct interview style and for sitting across from some of the most controversial figures in public life. In the mid to late 2010s, he shifted his focus to true crime, hosting series including Killer Women, Confessions of a Serial Killer, and Psychopath with Piers Morgan.

It was while filming Killer Women that he came face to face with the person he would later describe as “probably the most dangerous person” he had ever encountered. That person was Erin Caffey.

Caffey was 16 and waiting outside while her family was killed inside

In 2008, at just 16 years old, Caffey persuaded her boyfriend Charlie Wilkinson, then 18, and his friend Charles Waid, then 20, to murder her entire family at their home in Alba, Texas. The plot was reportedly hatched after her parents forbade her from seeing Wilkinson.

On the night of March 1, 2008, Caffey waited outside with a friend acting as the getaway driver while Wilkinson and Waid went inside armed with machetes and guns. They killed her mother, Penny, shot her father, Terry, multiple times, and killed her brothers Matthew, 13, and Tyler, 8, with Tyler fatally stabbed using a samurai sword, amid shocking footage of unprovoked violence continuing to surface in unrelated cases elsewhere.

Terry somehow survived despite being shot multiple times, dragging himself out before the house was set on fire. When police arrested Wilkinson, Waid, and their associates, all confirmed the plan had been Caffey’s idea from the start.

Speaking on Lorraine, Morgan said: “As I sat there, looking at her, I just thought, ‘My God, you’re probably the most dangerous person I’ve ever been this close to in my life.'” He added he had no explanation after an hour of interviewing her for why she did it.

When Morgan interviewed Caffey in prison, she told him: “When I look back on it now, this was all just stupid. I mean, for what? They weren’t beating me, they weren’t starving me to death. I had it made.”

Caffey and Wilkinson both received 40-year minimum sentences, avoiding the death penalty at the request of her father, who said he wanted them to “find remorse” and described his daughter as vulnerable. A legal outcome shaped in part by a victim’s mercy is unusual in cases of this nature, not unlike other unexpected courtroom decisions involving victims influencing sentencing. Terry said: “I do forgive her. I have to forgive her.”