There seems to be a lot of confusion on the Dumond/Huckabee/Clinton story. Here is what the wingnuts were reading about it in 1996:
(Mods please note this story appears to be in the Public Domain, which is why I'm giving the full version here.)
http://beyond-the-illusion.com/files/New-Files/960930/cltniman.txt HOW GOV. CLINTON DENIED AN INNOCENT MAN HIS FREEDOM
By Steve Dunleavy
New York Post
Saturday, June 2, 1996
The bombshell Whitewater convictions that may be President Clinton's darkest
hour gave a middle-aged Arkansas housewife her brightest moment.
"Now that the Clinton people are going to jail, maybe my husband will go
free," Mary Lou Dumond told me.
Her husband, Wayne Dumond, 49, has just spent his 11th year in an Arkansas
jail. Many say Dumond is the victim of one of the most bone-crunching and
infuriating examples of Clinton-era justice the country has ever seen. And
now, because Clinton's alleged bagman, Gov. Jimmy Guy Tucker, is going to
jail, Dumond is set to see freedom.
"The new governor, Mike Huckabee, has assured me Wayne will be a free man,"
Mrs. Dumond said Thursday. "He is not one of the Clinton crowd. He is a
very fair man. He has always been disturbed about the way the Clinton
people never wanted my husband free," she added.
And there was a very good reason for the Clinton people not wanting her
husband to go free.
THE CHARGES
The story of Wayne Dumond is not for the innocent eyes of the young -- but
every adult of voting age should read closely.
These are the cold facts as an Arkansas court saw it:
* A 17-year-old girl says she was kidnapped and raped on Sept. 11, 1984,
in Forrest City, Ark.
* Dumond, father of six, Vietnam veteran, churchgoer, was convicted in
August 1985 of the rape. He was sentenced to life plus 20 years.
* An appeal by Dumond, under Gov. Clinton, got a response of "No merit."
What the public did not see, while Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas,
were the following very unpretty facts -- which Clinton, despite countless
personal appeals, ignored:
* The victim identified two other men as her rapist but they had ironclad
alibis and were set free.
* She failed to pick Dumond as her rapist when presented with a lineup.
* A genetic expert stated unequivocally that sperm found on the girl's
jeans could not "in a million years" belong to Dumond.
* The father of the girl is a millionaire and one of Clinton's biggest
contributors.
But guess what? The girl is Bill Clinton's cousin. And her mother worked
as part of Clinton's inner circle when he was governor.
The worst was yet to come.
THE HORROR
On March 7, 1985, while Dumond was awaiting trial, two masked men with guns
and knives burst into his house. They hog-tied him. They raped him. And
then, with surgical scalpels, they castrated him. The two monsters acted on
the orders of local Sheriff Coolidge Conlee.
The sheriff retrieved Dumond's testicles from Dumond's blood-spattered house.
The sheriff then placed the body parts in a jar that he displayed on his desk
with the admonition: "That's what happens to people who fool around in my
county."
The sheriff actually took that jar to "a good-ol'-boys wedding."
That is a fact.
No reaction whatsoever from Gov. Clinton.
The sheriff would later be nabbed by the FBI for unrelated extortion and
drug-dealing and sentenced to 160 years in jail, where he died of natural
causes.
Dumond's attackers were never picked up even though one of them confessed to
a state cop.
All this and Dumond still rotted away in prison. And Clinton, both as
governor and president, ignored facts that surrounded the case of the rape
of his cousin.
"Bitter? Hell yes, I was at first," Dumond told me from prison at Varner in
Arkansas. "But now, I think, I hope, things will change around. With Jimmy
Guy Tucker gone as governor, one of Clinton's men, and Mr. Clinton running
for cover, maybe the new man will have another look."
"But, strange as it may seem, it hasn't been all that bad these days. I have
got a very good education in here. I think I am becoming a computer nut. I
just miss my family, my kids."
"That girl? Well it's pretty ridiculous. Sad, but ridiculous. She told the
police that a man in a new red pickup truck, with no tailgate, drove to her
house, burst in, forced her into her car, drove in her car to some woods,
tied her up, committed a pretty terrible act, drove her back in her car and
took off in her car and dumped it nearby.
"Well I drove a very old dirty brown pickup truck with a tailgate. Now, if I
took her car, what happened to the pickup I drove to her house in? She
changed her story, how many times? I mean, many times.
"She was with this guy driving through town and suddenly, out of nowhere,
months after, she saw me driving my old pickup truck. She told the guy out
of nowhere: `That's the man that did it.'
"She said I had raped her. When it came to the lineup. She couldn't
identify me. Suddenly she disappears into a room with her father and a cop
who showed her a picture of me. She came out and immediately identified me."
THE CONVICTION
This outrageous identifying scam was exposed by a local cop who witnessed it
all. Deputy Sheriff Henry Leary had the guts to go against his own and told
the world of the scenario. Dumond was still convicted.
"Oh, yeah," Dumond said, "she identified two other guys who were the rapists.
They had an ironclad alibi. Then it came to me."
Dumond was still convicted. Gov. Clinton remained silent. But of course at
that time nobody knew that the girl was Clinton's cousin. The governor
didn't mention it.
After 4-1/2 years, with his freedom gone, his manhood gone, a five-person
parole board recommended that Dumond go free for time served.
John R. Steer, managing editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, records the
following reaction from then-Gov. Clinton: "Clinton had a romping, stomping
fit. The victim was a distant cousin and St. Francis County took place] had a lot of votes and he deeply resented being under pressure
to free Dumond."
Clinton refused to sign a release. And Dumond rotted.
Dumond has since been before the parole board twice.
"They ask me: `Do you have any remorse? Well, I tell them straight. How
can I have remorse for something I didn't do? No sir, I will stay here until
I die before I say I am sorry for something I haven't done."
The day of the castration is not something that should be dealt with in
detail.
"My two boys, Michael and Joey, found me there after coming home from school.
They cut me loose and got help.," he said. "Sure I remember it, but do you
really want to know the details?"
Dumond's life was miraculously saved after he lost three-quarters of his
blood. As he lay near death, Sheriff Coolidge Conlee displayed Dumond's
testicles in a jar.
Still no reaction from Gov. Clinton.
THE HOPE
The Dumonds later won a lawsuit "of outrage." They cleared $20,000 from the
settlement with the county.
This money came in handy, because someone burned down the Dumond house when
they were in hiding from vigilantes. No insurance was paid on the home.
Can this story get worse?
"Sometimes," said Mrs. Dumond, "I just want to give up. But now, who knows?
The new governor has personally assured me that Wayne's case will be the
first thing on his desk after he clears up everything with this Whitewater
thing."
Dwayne Harris, a spokesman for Huckabee, the Republican lieutenant governor
who will succeed Democrat Tucker, told me Friday that Huckabee "has voiced a
very special intention to thoroughly review the case of Wayne Dumond."
"I hope so," Dr. Moses Schanfield told me Friday. "This case was a
disgrace." Schanfield heads the Analytic Genetic Testing Center in Denver.
He was one of the experts dispatched to Bosnia to examine and identify graves
after the civil war. He did an independent Allotyping test of sperm on the
alleged victim's jeans that supposedly came from Dumond.
"No way, zip, nada. Didn't happen. No way Dumond was the donor of that
sperm," Schanfield said. "The girl's scenario of the so-called crime
couldn't have happened. I don't believe anything she said."
WHY IT HAPPENED
Fred Odam, a retired Arkansas State Police captain told me: "This was and
still is a very bad day for justice."
Odam witnessed Sheriff Conlee retrieving Dumond's testicles and later
investigated the sheriff for the FBI. "I have been working to get that boy
Dumond free for a long time. In all my time this is the one case where I
know a man is not guilty."
What was the crazed motive behind this disgusting affair? Why Dumond?
Gene Wirges, a feisty, 67-year-old publisher of a local weekly who is
writing a book on this mess, told me:
"Well, a Clinton kin had to be revenged. The sheriff was on a hot seat and
young Wayne had been talking to a church group about how cars were suddenly
disappearing.
"It turned out to be true. The sheriff along with his drugs and turning the
sheriff's department into a casino was heading up a car-theft ring," he said.
"When this girl said she was raped, the sheriff wanted to help out the
Clinton clan. He would do anything for the girl's father and mother.
"The truth, the terrible truth is, that one of the guys she first identified
as the rapist but who had an ironclad alibi had been going out with the girl.
"But the new governor has indicated to me on several occasions that he was
more than disturbed about Wayne's case and the way Clinton and his boys
handled this terrible thing.
"You know, this is Arkansas. Right up until now this has been Clinton
territory. Maybe not any more."
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