Posted on 11/12/2003 4:14:33 PM PST by ThreeYearLurker
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) - A paroled Arkansas rapist was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday for suffocating a woman in her lover's apartment three years ago.
Wayne DuMond, 54, will receive a life sentence without parole for the slaying of Carol Sue Shields, a 39-year-old married mother. Her body had been left bound and nude on a bed in the apartment of a man with whom she had been having an affair.
DuMond was arrested in June 2001, several months after Shields' death, when material under the woman's fingernails was matched to his DNA, which was in a national database.
DuMond was paroled in Arkansas after serving 13 years of a sentence for the 1984 rape of a teenager. DuMond was awaiting trial in that case when someone castrated him in 1985 in his Arkansas home.
DuMond later married a Missouri woman who had visited him in prison and in August 2000 moved to a home about 10 miles from the apartment where Shields was killed two months later.
Until DuMond's arrest on the DNA match, three other men had been considered suspects in Shields' death: her husband; her boyfriend and the man's roommate.
DuMond's attorney, Anthony Cardarella, called the DNA evidence unreliable and insignificant and repeatedly suggested during the trial that Mark Shields knew of his wife's affair and had a shaky alibi.
The judge set a hearing on post-trial motions for Jan. 9, and DuMond may be sentenced then. Life without parole is the only possible sentence
You mean they finally nailed Clinton for Vince Foster's death?
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