Fire
The fire occurred at the Willingham home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991. Killed in the fire were Willingham's three daughters: two-year-old Amber Louise Kuykendall and one-year-old twins Karmon Diane Willingham and Kameron Marie Willingham. Willingham himself escaped the home with only minor burns. Stacy Kuykendall, Willingham's then-wife and the mother of his three daughters, was not home at the time of the fire, as she was out shopping. Prosecutors charged that Willingham set the fire and killed the children in an attempt to cover up abuse of the girls. However, there was no evidence of child abuse, and Willingham's wife, Stacy, told prosecutors that he had never abused the children. "Our kids were spoiled rotten," she said, insisting he would never harm their children.
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