Okay - I googled this case. I did not read everything but I have questions. There is no disputing that the mother was not home at the time. Where was this "innocent" father (whom you claim was such a good parent) when the fire started and how did it get so out of control before he knew it was happening? Neighbours say he was crouched down in the grass outside his home watching the fire and calling out for his children to be saved. Calling out to who? Even strangers will run into a burning bldg. if they know a human life is at stake and even strangers will ran into a burning house faster if they know children are in the house or water or wherever. This man was a wife beater and no one is denying that fact. There is no one better at making you believe their innocence than a sociopath which is what they claim he was. This quote from the article I read seems important to me in regard to his guilt or innocence:
The prosecution claimed that Willingham may have been motivated by a desire to rid himself of his unwanted children.
[12] The prosecutor claimed that the fire which killed the children was the third attempt by Willingham to do so after attempting to abort each of two pregnancies by kicking his wife in order to cause miscarriages.
[13] However, in a follow up article by David Grann, it was noted that "...
there is evidence that Willingham hit his wife, even when she was pregnant, but there were no police reports or medical evidence indicating that Willingham had tried to abort or kill his children" and that "Willingham’s wife insisted during the trial and under interrogation that Willingham had not physically abused the children."
[14]
The prosecutor also claimed that Willingham was a serial
wife abuser, both physically and emotionally. Jackson also claimed Willingham had abused animals and was a
sociopath.
[7] However, those not associated with the case paint a different picture of Willingham. His former probation officer, Polly Goodin, said he had never demonstrated bizarre or sociopathic behavior and “He was probably one of my favorite kids,” she said. Even a former judge named Bebe Bridges—who had often stood, as she put it, on the “opposite side” of Willingham in the legal system, and who
had sent him to jail for stealing—said that she could not imagine him killing his children. “He was polite, and he seemed to care,” she said.
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This man was no pillar of society. Sociopaths simply get better and better at covering up their guilt and in appearing to be exactly the person you want them to be. Even female sociopaths will marry and have children simply to give off the impression that all is normal in their lives. They can walk away from anyone in their lives at any given moment with no guilt. They do not understand feelings of guilt but they have the ability to make you (or anyone) believe they are horrified by an event. You have to have lived in the company of a sociopath for a long time to realize how devious they truly are. They are not capable of feelings of guilt. They cry on demand and do all they feel is necessary to be believed so they can go free of any and all crimes they are guilty of.
