Posted on 08/31/2005 6:53:08 PM PDT by Borges
FORREST CITY, Ark. - Castrated rapist Wayne DuMond, paroled from an Arkansas prison and later convicted of murder in Missouri, was found dead in his prison cell Wednesday, a day after losing an appeal in the Missouri Supreme Court.
Missouri prison officials said DuMond had been diagnosed two months ago with cancer of the vocal cords and that his death appears to have been natural.
DuMond, 55, was castrated while awaiting trial for the 1984 rape of Ashley Stephens of Forrest City. He was initially sentenced to life in prison. But in 1992 then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker commuted the sentence to 39 1/2 years, making DuMond eligible for parole.
After his release in 1999, DuMond moved to the Kansas City, Mo., suburb of Smithville and was later convicted of killing a woman in her apartment. Tuesday, DuMond lost an appeal in that case.
Shortly after taking office in 1996, Gov. Mike Huckabee said he intended to reduce DuMond's sentence to time served - about 11 years at the time. The governor ended up rejecting DuMond's parole request, which would have freed DuMond without conditions. He signed the decision moments after the Arkansas parole board granted DuMond a parole on condition that another state take him.
DuMond was pronounced dead at 7:03 a.m. by medical staff of a prison infirmary at Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, Mo., said Wanda Seeney, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Corrections.
Prison guards found DuMond unresponsive during a routine inmate count earlier that morning and tried to revive him before taking him to the infirmary, she said. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death. Two months ago, DuMond was diagnosed with cancer of the vocal chords, she said.
"He was being treated for cancer, but it was still a shock because his cancer had not progressed to where they were expecting him to die at any moment," she said.
DuMond's case became notorious in Arkansas when he claimed he was castrated while awaiting trial for a 1984 rape at Forrest City, Ark. No one was ever charged in the assault. Stephens is a distant relative of former President Bill Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas at the time of the rape.
DuMond moved to Missouri after being paroled from Arkansas and shortly afterward was arrested for the Sept. 20, 2000, murder of Carol Sue Shields of Parkville. He was convicted and sentenced to life without parole.
Prosecutor Dan White in Clay County, Mo., said the Appeals Court for the Western District of Missouri upheld Dumond's appeal Tuesday of his first-degree murder conviction.
White said Dumond was also the lead suspect in a murder in Platt County, Mo., but had never been charged in that case.
White added: "I think the world's a better place without Wayne DuMond in it, and I wouldn't want to be him right now."
Wasn't Guy Tucker one of Clinton's cronies?
Boo F'n Hoo.
The girl that was raped is the Granddaughter of the General Dentist in my small hometown in Arkansas. She was a distant relative of Bill Clintons. I don't think that had anything to do with this guys verdict. Her mother was a former Miss Arkansas many moons ago. It was a sad story at the time. The girls mother had breast cancer at the time and died shortly thereafter. This castration thingy was small town justice that is all. Huckelbee screwed up big time. This will haunt him if he runs for President. May goodness the man got paroled and murdered a woman in Missouri. No one ever admittted who did the castration and to this day the secret has held.
The girl that was raped is the Granddaughter of the General Dentist in my small hometown in Arkansas. She was a distant relative of Bill Clintons. I don't think that had anything to do with this guys verdict. Her mother was a former Miss Arkansas many moons ago. It was a sad story at the time. The girls mother had breast cancer at the time and died shortly thereafter. This castration thingy was small town justice that is all. Huckelbee screwed up big time. This will haunt him if he runs for President. May goodness the man got paroled and murdered a woman in Missouri. No one ever admittted who did the castration and to this day the secret has held.
The Village Voice
The Castration of Wayne DuMond
A Pardon That Clinton Didnt Grant
by Ward Harkavy
March 7 - 13, 2001
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0110,harkavy,22841,1.html
Guilty or innocent, DuMond didn't have a chance at justice.
photo: AP/WideWorld
As Wayne DuMond listened last week to billionaire fugitive Marc Rich's explanation that Bill Clinton pardoned him for "humanitarian" reasons, he couldn't help but darkly snicker.
DuMond had been accused of raping a Clinton cousin in 1984 and was hog-tied and castrated before he even went to trial.
He used to be enraged about it, especially when the cracker sheriff, who was a pal of the rape victim's father, scooped up DuMond's balls, put them in a jar, and showed them off.
"They were mine. Those were my testicles," DuMond told a sickened courtroom in 1988. "He didn't have no right to take them and he didn't have no right to show them around and he didn't have no right to flush them down the toilet."
This is yet another Clinton saga of genitalia that fell into the wrong hands.
The rape victim's daddy, mortician Walter E. "Stevie" Stevens, was part of a Democratic machine that ruled the Arkansas Delta and nurtured Clinton's career.
Wayne DuMond, guilty or innocent, didn't have a chance at justice.
As Clinton was abandoning Arkansas for national politics, he stymied DuMond's release from prison, ignoring the judgment of his own parole board in June 1990 that DuMond's continued incarceration was a "miscarriage of justice."
It's the word humanitarian that makes Wayne DuMond, now in his early fifties, chuckle a little. He knows it's all politics.
"In the eleventh hourthe eleventh hour and 59th minute," DuMond told the Voice in an interview last week, "Clinton capitalized by gaining monetarily from exercising the duties of his office in a perverted kind of way."
Clinton argues that years ago prosecutor Rudy Giuliani unfairly hounded Marc Rich. Has Clinton forgotten about the torment that his old Arkansas ally, Sheriff Coolidge Conlee, perpetrated on Wayne DuMond?
Or, for that matter, what Clinton himself did?
As Clinton was vying for the presidency, he sat on the parole board's DuMond clemency recommendation. Insisting that he wanted to wait until the appeals process was complete (the opposite tack he took in the Rich case), Clinton met with Stevie Stevens and powerful state representative Pat Flanagin (whose sister used to shoot craps with Conlee in the sheriff's office) and convinced the board to reconsider its recommendation.
In late 1991, on the campaign trail, Clinton began to be pestered about the DuMond case. Recusing himself, in April Clinton turned over the matter to his lieutenant governor, Jim Guy Tucker. Unlike Clinton, Tucker read every word of DuMond's voluminous file, a DuMond lawyer told the Voice. Tucker promptly reduced DuMond's sentence, making him eligible for parole. Seven years later Republican governor Mike Huckabee signed DuMond's release papers.
Releasing Wayne DuMond earlier would have been a tough call, but many people were willing to show the decorated Vietnam veteran mercy, despite his admitted bad pastbooze, drugs, mayhem. DuMond has told the tale of how he helped slaughter a village of Cambodians. Later, stationed in Oklahoma, he was charged with participating in the claw-hammer murder of a fellow soldier. Turning state's evidence, he insisted that he merely stood by and watched. In Tacoma, Washington, he accosted a teenage girl, an incident that led to five years of probation.
"Yeah," DuMond conceded in his Voice interview, "but what's that got to do with anything? That had nothing to do with the alleged case against me in Forrest City."
He'll be mourned for . . . moments.
this story was all over free republic back when clinton was president. It joined the numerous stories of arkinsides around clinton. the above story was mentioned in alamo girl chronicles
http://www.alamo-girl.com/0359.htm
LOL, reminds me of the Lamb Fries scene with Chevy Chase in the "Funny Farm" movie.
Good riddance.
I may be wrong, but I don't think they were close. Seems I remember some friction there, but I can't recall what it was.
Dumond dead by his own habd or with the assistance of others, Good.
Wayne DuMond castrated himself. But the part about the sheriff keeping his testicles in a jar on his desk is true.
Good riddance to an evil rapist and murderer.
Thanks for the comments, but I'd never heard that version.
Thanks Hal9000.
Did you note the part about the sheriff releasing two men from jail, telling them to slice Dumond?
My faulty memory had the sheriff going into Dumond's cell to do the deed himself. In actuality it seems he directed the deed to be accomplished by jail inmates he released.
You may have something else to offer up here, but it appears Dumond didn't do this to himself, and that the sheriff did by proxy.
This was quite a sordid tale wasn't it. Even his trial judge felt compelled to resign and work on his behalf. His wife stood by him until she died.
Then he get got pardoned and very likely committed some despicable crimes afterward.
Was he innocent of the rape? If so, what turned him? Was it prison?
I do appreciate the link.
The biggest failure in this matter was the media. They failed to report DuMond's extensive criminal background. Then Steve Dunleavy started his campaign to convince people that this was a Clinton scandal, when Clinton had nothing to do with it. Dunleavy wrote that DuMond had no criminal record, which is false. A lot of people fell for it - including myself - for a while. After DuMond was released, he moved to Missouri and killed two women. As far as I know, Dunleavy never reported on those crimes.
Well, nuts...
"Wayne DuMond"
Was his middle name "Wayne," too?
bump?
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