William Allen Cunningham
Let’s talk about stupid people. Everybody knows somebody who’s stupid. I’m not talking about people who can’t recite their multiplication tables, or can’t balance a checkbook. That’s not really stupid, that’s just an person who can’t learn. Hell, I’ve never been able been able to balance a checkbook in my entire life, and I hope no one considers me stupid.
No, the kind of person I’m talking about gets run over by their own car in their own driveway. They suck last year’s gas out of a lawnmower with a shopvac and blow themselves to hell. They commit a murder and lose their driver’s license at the scene. They play golf during thunderstorms and piss on electric fences. Amateur skateboarding videos are chock full of stupid people.
William Allen Cunningham, of Clayton, Georgia, is one of those people, and sadly, it was his two children, Miranda, 18 months, and Billy, 3 years, who nearly paid the ultimate price for his stupidity.
It seems seems Cunningham had come up with a get rich quick scheme that involved his children consuming tainted food. He would then turn around and sue whatever company was responsible for producing the rotten foodstuffs, and it would be just like hitting the lottery at the Cunningham home.
The problem William Cunningham ran into was that the odds of finding a can or package of tainted food were about as high as winning the lottery. Not being an especially patient man, William decided to make a slight adjustment to his plan. After all, it didn’t matter where the contamination came from, did it?
On the afternoon of January 1st, 2006, Cunningham prepared some Campbell’s Roasted Beef Tips with Orzo Pasta soup for his son. He secretly laced the soup with hot pepper, which caused Billy’s mouth and face to swell and burn so much so that the boy had to be taken to a hospital.
Cunningham immediately contacted the Campbell’s Soup company, but apparently he didn’t get the reaction from them he was looking for, because about two weeks later, Cunningham prepared another bowl of soup, this time serving Billy and Miranda Campbell’s SpaghettiOs Sliced Franks. Both children became violently ill and were rushed to the emergency room. Doctors reported the odor of lighter fluid on the two kids, who were treated and released.
Records show that during this whole time, William Cunningham was in contact with the Campbell’s company, both by phone and by mail, trying to work out a settlement with their legal department.
Now, wouldn’t you think after twice poisoning your kids, and managing to stay off the radar of local law enforcement, it might be a good idea to cut your losses and admit this just wasn’t a very good plan.
Well, not our boy William – he never admits defeat, or he’s just too dumb to know any better, because on January 29th, Cunningham poisoned the children a third time. He had added Prozac and amitriptyline, two antidepressants, to a bowl of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup.
This time, though, the little girl became so ill she had to be airlifted to a hospital in Atlanta. Both kids ended up in intensive care, and remained in the hospital for over a week. They may suffer permanent respiratory problems due to the poisonings.
Stupid.
Now THAT got the attention of law enforcement, and Federal Prosecutors as well. He was initially arrested and charged with five counts of Child Cruelty, but the Feds quickly stepped in and indicted him on tampering and fraud charges. He plead guilty to those charges and was sentenced in 2007 to 5 years in Federal prison.
But that’s not all people. Cunningham still had the State charges to face. By now Georgia prosecutors had added two counts of Aggravated assault to the 5 Child Cruelty charges. He went on trial earlier this month, and was convicted on all counts.
The judge showed William Allen Cunningham even less compassion than he showed his two children. She sentenced him to 100 Years in prison. Yep, you read that right, one-zero-zero, one hundred years in prison. No one can accuse the judge of being stupid.
Rhonda Cunningham, the children’s mother, divorced William Cunningham in 2006, soon after the poisoning scheme became known. Miranda and Billy Cunningham are now 4 and 6, respectively. Janet Dockery, who is the children’s grandmother, had this to say after sentencing:
“He (Billy) said, ‘Mawmaw, I think that’s my old daddy.’ I said, no that’s not your old daddy. I played it off to be something else. And he said, ‘Yeah. That’s soup daddy.’ That’s what he calls him. Soup daddy.”
Does William Allen Cunningham Belong In Hell?
- Yes (95%, 390 Votes)
- No (5%, 19 Votes)
Total Voters: 409
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LOL@ ‘Soup daddy.” What a fucking loser!!!! Could have poisoned himself…but no. Why suffer all that discomfort associated with drinking lighter fluid, eating chilli and overdosing when you can get the kiddies to do it for you?
Greedy, dumbass!!!
this is one of those few cases where i think the mom really had no idea what was happening until it was too late. who would really think the father of their kids would do something so disgusting, and all to make money?
i’m wondering how he had to forcefeed the kids… i mean chili and lighter fluid???????????
You used my story idea. :)
i used to be a skater, i have the battle scars to prove it.
good judgement was not in our vocabulary in those days.
Me too DualDenz! Every now and then I think I am ten years younger and get on the skateboard again only to fall flat on my ass. I messed up my tailbone last time. Tony Hawk has my props for sure.
Yep I saw this one on the news pages the other day. This fucker is a prime example of an ass wipe that uses their kid(s) as a meal ticket.
What a sick fucker.
And, the dumbest thing of all – hitting the same company for three different incidents? What? Any one of those incidents would be a bajallion to one chance. Three “incidents” striking the same family, from three DIFFERENT products, from the same manufacturer and with three different substances? The odds are so far off the chart that a super-computer couldn’t process it in 1,000 years. And I am being generous.
Those poor kids. I hope their respiratory problems heal, and they didn’t inherit “Soup Daddy’s” brain cells. Jeez.
I absolutely love it!! 100 years! Child molesters never get that, as they should get the same. I love this judge! You’re right Max, he ain’t stupid!!
Geez…I’ll take a sugar daddy over dumb ol’ soup daddy any day! You can’t tell a Heinz Pickle nothin’!!
Can we clone this judge and have him reside over all cases involving children, you know, just for starters??
Daisy,
I’m with you. Why can’t all judges be as he was in his ruling. Children don’t have a voice, and when it comes to court, the judge is the final voice for them.
Bry
Because of assholes like this WE all have to pay a higher price for what we buy. I am sure that they Campbell’s Soup company spent a bit on investigating the complaint(s) before determining they were bogus.
So if Campbell’s does not get reimbursed, guess who gets stuck with the bill???/ Shareholders and consumers!
Companies do not “have” money, people do (but people hide behind companies). thus companies do not take losses, losses are passed onto people in the form of bad debt, reduced returns, higher prices, reduced quantity or quality or a combination of some or all the above.
So the next time one reaches for any food product, remember a few pennies of the price goes to dealing with assholes like this.
I hope Bubba gives this guy some cream……
Aww Jesus. What the hell is wrong with people? What kind of a weasel does something like this? He deserves a lot more than he is going to likely get. Lets just hope that the kids are never returned to this lunatic and that he is never allowed to be with them unsupervised. At the very minimum.
LMAO@ “Soup Daddy” though. Max, that part about playing golf in thunderstorns and peeing on electric fences was HILARIOUS!
I am just glad this whole thing didnt result in one of the children dying. God only knows what concoction this asshole would have drummed up next. Perhaps minestrone with magic mushrooms? Maybe cream of broccoli with bleach?
What a selfish bastard.
Now, who the fuck could possibly vote no to hell on this asshole? Jeez!!!!!
It was me, I hit the wrong button….. JUST KIDDING!! Idk who doesn’t think that a sore excuse for a father poisoning his kids which could have resulted in DEATH, thinks this asshole should go to heaven…. It is beyone me.
I think there’s a link between stupidity and being from Georgia. My father (a Georgia native) used to cut off Coke, Pepsi, and sometimes Budweiser trucks and slam on his brakes (while me and my brother were in the car) in hopes of an automobile accident that would get him rich. Ahh… childhood memories.
That is pretty damn hardcore.
Geez.
Well, who’d wanna work for a living????
Damn, Marie! That is really fucked up! So glad you are here to comment on this site and your Daddy ain’t rich!
I’d like to know where this judge was educated? That is where all judges should go to learn! Thankfully the kids are physically all right. Hopefully it doesn’t scar them too much mentally.
Soup Daddy…what a choad!
Thank God he did not kill them or he would have received just a 20 year sentence for murder instead of a 100 years sentence for Aggravated Assault & Child Cruelty.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Whooo-whee! This old boy had a plan! Never underestimate the stupidity of rednecks. This Col. Sanders wanna-be placed his children’s lives in jeopardy just to try and make a buck. Soup Daddy. That is so sad on so many different levels.
LOL. My first thaught was that he looks like he belongs on the side of a KFC box….
lol @ KFC box. I imagine him speaking with in a Foghorn Leghorn southern drawl.
“Excuse me BOY!, I say BOY!” – That’s funny Rick.
What do you think of this Buddy:
ROFL!!! That was great.
Bloody laugh!!!
Behold the end result of southern hick-town redneck first cousins who probably married at age 12: Mensa President William Allen Cunningham.
Oh, Secretary, that’s an unjust and unfair generalisation about inbred hicks…inbred hicks care MORE for their children because they are both their fathers AND their brothers, yes?
stupid ass.
let’s all be thankful that this asshat was too dumb to get it right. unlike the rest of the shitboxes we shame here.
This loser looks really familiar, has he been on tv or some reality show in the past?
Normally I say no to going to hell for being stupid, but when your own stupidity almost kills someone? Namely your own kids? Yeah…no love for you…die in a fire
LOL @ “no love for you.. die in a fire”.. lol.. my brother says stuff like that all the time.. Not to me.. but.. you get what I mean.. lol
I dont know if he’s an inbred hick.. I try not to generalize when it comes to what area a person is from.. but, I strongly believe that some people are so greedy they just don’t care who they hurt, and that being a greedy rotten bastard, and being and evil genius do not necessarily go hand in hand.. case in point..
He deserved 100 years in prison.. I have no doubt in my mind he would have gone on to do other things.. When people like this get away with one thing, they go on to other things.. This site is full of people like that.. I hope they make him work while he’s in prison and continue to support the children he made, and pay off any medical expenses they’ve had or may have in the future associated with what he did to them..
I think this guy is just so stupid… I don’t believe that he deserves the Hell, because… is so stupid!!! He doesn’t go with my profile of Hell deservers (intelligent, evil, with a sad story and a interesting motivation to kill, people who could be good but… it simply didn’t go well). This guy is stupidly simple, a dumb-ass that deserves… nothing. He deserves… to eat poisoned food for the rest of his life!!! XD Nothing more, nothing less. U_U
You just can’t believe how a father could think so little of his children that he was willing to risk their lives for the sake of a bit of dosh. Thank god he was found out before a fourth attempt at poisoning, or we could have been reading about their deaths.
100 years, brilliant!
I wonder if that judge fancies moving over here to England and teaching our idiot judges a thing or two about proper sentencing?
This guy is even stupider than Donald Rumsfeld, and that’s really saying something. I’m glad that “Soup Dad of the Year” is gonna rot in prison, but, I think that in terms of feeding him, he should only be allowed to rummage through the dumpsters behind the prison cookhouse. In this, he’ll gain valuable insights about tainted food.
At a Wal-mart/Kmart a mother brought out a ladder, and asked her son to climb it. When she climbed the ladder she pushed him off the ladder and he got hurt. She tried to sue because she claimed her child fell off the ladder. He broke his arm and hit hid head. Cameras showed her pushing the child off the ladder and she got charged.
Then another couple, they heard that if your baby is born disabled the government gives you money for it. They set up so the pregnant mother gets a badly hurt and the baby is born disabled. Luckily the baby was fine and the parents of the pregnant woman contacted CPS about the concerns her abusive boyfriend and they took the child right after it was born.
A third mother, was told her daughter could not stand in a shopping cart at Wal-mart by an employee. She told them to mind their own business. Another customer saw her ask her daughter to stand on the edge of the cart. When she did she tilted the cart towards the child’s weight until the child and cart fell. She kept asking for a manager until another customer threatened to call the police saying she saw the mother purposely injure her child on cell phone.
A fourth mother asked her son to run in a soap spill, despite the warnings by employees and caution signs. She told them not to tell her child what to do. She kept making him run until he fell.
Unfortunately, there are many sick parents that do these type of things. They hope to get money out of it.
In one case someone told the parent off, saying if you want money this much why not set up yourself for getting hurt. The money they get is supposed to be for medical bills for the children, instead they spend it on themselves. They do not realise they can kill their children in the process, or have their children paralized for life. Or they do and are willing to take that risk, even hope their child is hurt that bad so they get more money.
Then a fifth mother, she did not want money. She had an eight year old son. She divorced his father. The child did nothing wrong, but one day she took him, asked him to remove his shirt and beat him with a belt. Then she left marks on him, went to the police and claimed her ex husband abused him and she found him like that when he got home. Later the boy told the truth. The mother admitted she did this not because her son misbehaved but because she wanted to get her ex in trouble.
I would rather die than hurt my son.
That guy should be forced to eat a bowl of soup containing a load of hot pepper, lighter fuel and a nice dose of Prozac. And then, if he survives, be fed this special soup every day he spends in prison.
What a disgusting prick! Ugly motherfucker, too. I can’t believe he tried to poison those poor children. Some people need a license to have children. I hope these children are in custody of some people with some sense. I would rather be tortured in a Russian gulag than hurt my children. That is a promise.
Burn in hell William Allen Cunningham, fucker!