Piers Morgan names the worst person he’s ever interviewed in 35-year career

Known for courting controversy, Piers Morgan has also turned his attention to true crime over the years, interviewing “probably the most dangerous person” he’s ever encountered

06:00, 30 Mar 2026Updated 07:04, 30 Mar 2026

Piers Morgan once shed light on the worst person he’d ever interviewed
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Piers Morgan once shed light on the worst person he’d ever interviewed over the course of his 35-year career. Known for his outspoken nature and willingness to court controversy, the broadcaster, who marks his 61st birthday today (March 30), has interviewed many famous faces from Kanye West to Andrew Tate over his lengthy career.

In the mid to late 2010s, Piers turned his attention to crime, presenting shows such as Killer Women, Confessions of a Serial Killer and Psychopath with Piers Morgan, in which he ventures behind bars to meet convicted killers.

It was on the first of these shows that he met “probably the most dangerous person” he had encountered up to that point – a former church pianist, whose actions in 2008 resulted in the deaths of her mother and brothers, as well as the attempted murder of her father.

Erin Caffey was only 16 when she convinced her boyfriend, Charlie Wilkinson, and his friend, Charles Waid, to murder her entire family, apparently because she was told she wasn’t allowed to see her boyfriend.

Erin Caffey was only 16 when she convinced her boyfriend and his friend to murder her family
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In conversation with Lorraine Kelly on her titular chat show back in 2016, Lorraine claimed she looked “innocent” and like “butter wouldn’t melt”, before Piers described the chilling crime.

He said: “She basically masterminds the annihilation of her family. You know, she sends in the boyfriend with his mate while she waits outside with the mate’s girlfriend and they go in with machetes and guns.

“They kill the mother, they riddle the father with bullets, they go and kill the two younger brothers, and there was no warning, no suggestion of anything coming.

“And, you know, 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’. And I have no explanation after an hour of interviewing her for why you did this.”

On the night of the murders, Wilkinson and Waid made their way into the Caffey home in Emory, Texas, where they opened fire and stabbed her mother, Penny, and brothers, Matthew, 13, and Tyler, 8, with a samurai sword.

Despite being shot multiple times, her father, Terry, managed to drag himself out of the house before it was set on fire. When police arrested Wilkinson, Waid, Johnson, and another friend, Bobbi Johnson, they claimed that the plan had been Caffey’s idea.

The Caffey family in 2008(Image: ITV)

Speaking to Piers, she said: “I was shocked, angry and hurt, this was the guy [Wilkinson] I was supposed to spend the rest of my life with and he loved me. We were going to get married.

“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.”

She and Johnson were both ultimately sentenced to a term of at least 40 years, avoiding the death penalty due to the request of her father, who wanted them to “find remorse” and described his daughter as “vulnerable”

He said: “I honestly believe she was not the mastermind. This was a vulnerable 16-year-old girl with a controlling, psychopathic guy. I do forgive her. I have to forgive her.”

Additionally, Piers named Robert Blake as one of the worst interviews he’s ever done. Speaking to GQ Magazine in 2020, he shared: “I think Robert Blake, who was an actor who’d been accused of killing his wife many years ago, a kind of comeback interview, and he completely lost it with me, ripped off his jacket, ripped off his earpiece and began hurling abuse at me and began calling me Charlie Potatoes for some unfathomable reason.

“It was so bad, the security guys who weren’t sure if he was armed – it was CNN in Los Angeles – came onto the studio floor and were all standing there with guns and I was like, ‘We’re going to have a scene out here’, so that was pretty crazy.”