However, there was no evidence of child abuse. Prosecutors charged that Willingham set the fire and killed the children in an attempt to cover up the abuse of the children and wife. She was out shopping for Christmas presents at a thrift shop. Stacy Kuykendall, Willingham's then-wife and the mother of his three daughters, was not home at the time of the fire. Willingham himself escaped the home with only minor burns. Killed in the fire were Willingham's three daughters: two-year-old Amber Louise Kuykendall, and one-year-old twins, Karmen Diane Willingham and Kameron Marie Willingham. On December 23, 1991, a fire destroyed the family home of Cameron Todd Willingham in Corsicana, Texas. The case was complicated by allegations that Texas Governor Rick Perry impeded the investigation by replacing three of the nine Forensic Commission members to change the Commission's findings Perry denies the allegations. A 2011 documentary, Incendiary: The Willingham Case, also explored the case. The Corsicana Fire Department disputes the findings, stating that the report overlooked several key points in the record. According to an August 2009 investigative report by an expert hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission, the original claims of arson were doubtful.
This coverage suggested that the arson evidence was misinterpreted. The case was discussed again in a 2009 investigative report in The New Yorker.
Willingham's case and the investigative techniques were criticized by a 2004 Chicago Tribune article. Since Willingham's 2004 execution, significant controversy has arisen over the legitimacy of the guilty verdict and the interpretation of the evidence that was used to convict him of arson and murder. Cameron Todd Willingham (Janu– February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted and executed for the murder of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991.
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