Soldier’s wife charged in deadly fire

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Soldier’s wife charged in deadly fire
By Kristin M. Hall - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Nov 18, 2008 18:21:37 EST

A soldier’s wife has been charged with setting a fire at Fort Campbell home that killed her two young children.

Billi Jo Smallwood, 35, also faces a federal charge of attempting to destroy a residential facility for members of the U.S. Army that caused the death of two minors, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

The May 2007 fire at Campbell killed 9-year-old Sam Fagan and 2-year-old Rebekah Smallwood, and injured her husband, Army Spc. Wayne Smallwood. The Smallwoods’ toddler daughter, Nevaeh, was not injured.

Billi Smallwood, of Brunswick, Ga., who is in federal custody, could face execution or life in prison if convicted. She does not have an attorney, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney said.

The fire broke out in a two-story housing unit where six families lived in a housing development called Lee Village that dates to the 1940s and was in the process of being torn down. About 10,000 family members live in housing on the sprawling base that straddles the Tennessee-Kentucky state line, according to the most recent Fort Campbell fiscal report.


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