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May 14, 2019 · Willingham, played by Jack O’Connell, was convicted of murder when his three little girls were killed in a fire in their home. Laura Dern plays Elizabeth Gilbert, who corresponded with Willingham and then found experts to challenge the evidence and tried to re-open the case.
May 17, 2019 · In "Trial by Fire," Dern plays Elizabeth Gilbert, a playwright who tried to stop the execution of a Texas father, Cameron Todd Willlingham. Now Dern and Gilbert share why they hope the movie will help bring about the end of capital punishment.
- What Is Trial by Fire About?
- What Happened on The Night of The Fire?
- What Happened During The Trial?
- How Did Willingham and Gilbert Meet?
Based on a 2009 investigative report by David Grann in The New Yorker, Trial by Fireconcerns Cameron Todd Willingham, a Texan man who was convicted for the murder of his three children by arson at the family home in 1991. He maintained his innocence up until his death by lethal injection in 2004 at the age of 36. In the years after his conviction, ...
On 23 December 1991, a fire destroyed the family home of Willingham in Corsicana, Texas. 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. Cameron escaped the home with minor burns, while his wife and mother to the three girls, Stacy Kuyke...
An 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. 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 diso...
Gilbert had a friend who worked for a organisation that opposed the death penalty and encouraged her to become a penpal. 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.” As their relationship grew, sh...
His latest film is Trial By Fire, a heart-wrenching drama based on the true story of Cameron Todd Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert, played by Jack O'Connell and Laura Dern. Willingham was a Texan, sentenced to death for the murder of his children in a house fire.
May 14, 2019 · Seven years later, an unlikely set of circumstances brings playwright Elizabeth Gilbert (Dern) into Willingham’s life.
Elizabeth Gilbert. Emily Meade. Stacy Willingham. Jade Pettyjohn. Julie Gilbert. Rhoda Griffis. Darlene. Blair Bomar. Sandy. McKinley Belcher III. Ponchai. Catherine Carlen. Abigail. Noah Lomax. Andrew. Whitney Goin. Myrtle. Anthony Reynolds. Fogg. Blake Lewis. Johnny Webb. Jeff Perry. Hurst. Chris Coy. Daniels. Wayne Pére. George Gilbert.
She's a playwright from Houston, Texas, who first began questioning Cameron Todd Willingham's conviction while corresponding with him between 1999 and 2004. You can read a selection of his letters...
