FR thought Wayne DuMond was innocent:
DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: SECRET POLICE
SUBSECTION: ALL
Revised 8/10/00
The Associated Press State & Local Wire 10/22/99 Kelly Kissel “….A man castrated while awaiting his rape trial was released from prison Friday after serving 14 years in prison. He returned as a pariah to his hometown of DeWitt. DuMond, 50, was convicted and sent to prison for the September 1984 rape of a high school cheerleader in Forrest City. The girl, then 17, was Ashley Stevens, a distant cousin of President Clinton. ….. While awaiting his 1985 trial, Wayne DuMond was castrated with fishing line at his home, he said by masked men. No one was ever arrested in the attack and Bobby Dumond said Friday “because they never looked.” …….The parole board had recommended clemency partly because genetic evidence uncovered by DuMond’s lawyer showed that semen on Ms. Stevens’ pants did not exhibit a genetic marker DuMond possessed……. According to a lawsuit, St. Francis County Sheriff Coolidge Conlee took DuMond’s testicles after the attack and displayed them in a jar in his office for about two weeks. DuMond sued over the affront and settled his lawsuit for $ 110,000. …..Between the time his 1997 parole and his 1999 parole plans were approved, DuMond’s wife Dusty died from injuries suffered in an Ohio traffic accident. He was allowed out for a day to attend her funeral. With DuMond now out for good, the family hopes to prove his innocence, Bobby Dumond said. “I know he didn’t do it. I hope we can put all this behind us,” he said…..”
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Dumond maintained his innocence but he was paroled and his release and parole was NOT the end of his story. I don’t believe he was innocent and don’t know of anyone who did. Stevens Funeral Home in Forrest City, AR. has buried many of my wife’s relatives.