![]() “She may never know what a change she brought into my life,” he wrote in his diary. Willingham became increasingly reliant upon Gilbert to investigate his case and for emotional support. “I don’t think he did it,” she told Gilbert. ![]() Aside from his parents who visited him once a month, Willingham told Gilbert: “I really have no-one outside my parents to remind me that I am a human being, not the animal the state professes I am.”Īs their relationship grew, she began to investigate his case further, meeting with law enforcement officials, witnesses, Willingham’s parents and his now ex-wife and mother to their children, Stacy. Gilbert had a friend who worked for a organisation that opposed the death penalty and encouraged her to become a penpal. Grigson was later expelled from the American Psychiatric Association for unethical conduct. Psychiatrist James Grigson, who was known as “Dr Death” for his involvement as an expert witness in murder trials across the state of Texas in which he recommended the death penalty, claimed Willingham’s criminal history made him “an extremely severe sociopath” and was uncurable. The pair consistently denied that Webb was offered a sentence reduction in return for his testimony against Willingham, although The New York Times reported in 2014 that investigators had found a handwritten note in Webb’s files suggesting exactly that. While prosecutor John Jackson noted that Webb was considered an unreliable witness, he later supported an early release from prison for him. Webb later told The New Yorker reporter whose investigation the film is based upon that it might have been a mistake and that he had been taking many medications for bipolar disorder. Willingham gave authorities permission to search the house, saying: “I know we might not ever know all the answers, but I’d just like to know why my babies were taken from me.” What happened during the trial? Johnny Webb in 2014 (Photo: Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Īn incarcerated informant named Johnny Webb testified against Willingham at the trial and claimed that he had set the fire to hide the injury or death of one of the girls. “Our kids were spoiled rotten,” she said. While Stacy admitted that Willingham had harmed her before, she insisted he would never harm the children and no evidence was found of abuse. Prosecutors alleged that Willingham set the fire and killed the children intentionally in an attempt to cover up his abuse of the girls. ![]() Cameron escaped the home with minor burns, while his wife and mother to the three girls, Stacy Kuykendall, was out shopping for Christmas presents. Killed in the fire were the Willingham’s three daughters: two-year-old Amber Louise Kuykendall and one-year-old twins Karmen Diane and Kameron Marie Willingham. On 23 December 1991, a fire destroyed the family home of Willingham in Corsicana, Texas. What happened on the night of the fire? Actor Jack O’Connell plays Cameron Willingham in ‘Trial by Fire’ (Photo: Pablo Cuadra/Getty Images)
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