Posted on 01/10/2004 7:45:15 AM PST by HAL9000
DuMond sentenced to life without parole for Missouri murder
LIBERTY, Mo. — Wayne DuMond, silent during his twoweek trial in November, denied killing Carol Shields and complained Friday about his attorney before being sentenced to life in prison for the Missouri woman’s September 2000 murder.
The 54-year-old castrated rapist spoke about 30 minutes during the sentencing hearing for his first-degree murder conviction in Shields ’ death.
Afterward, Circuit Judge Larry Harman rejected DuMond’s complaints that Public Defender Anthony Cardarella mishandled his case.
And after listening to testimony from relatives of the 39-year-old victim about how they were affected by Shields’ death, Harman asked DuMond if he had anything else to say. "I did not kill, murder, or in any way hurt Carol Shields," DuMond responded.
DuMond repeated that sentence twice more and then called Harman’s ruling on his inadequate-representation claim "ludicrous, nonsensical, stupid and ignorant." "I wish I’d been able to testify [during the trial]," DuMond said.
Unfazed, the judge continued. "Anything further before I announce sentence?" Harman asked. "That’s it," DuMond said, leaning back in his chair at the defense table.
Harman then imposed a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. The prosecution had waived the death penalty in the case.
After the hearing, Shields ’ mother said she was not surprised by DuMond’s actions. "We didn’t expect any remorse from him, and we didn’t get any," Lois Davidson said. "It was all about him. He was arrogant and hateful."
DuMond was convicted in the 1984 rape of a Forrest City teen who is a distant cousin of former President Clinton, then Arkansas’ governor. While awaiting trial on that charge, DuMond said two men forced their way into his home and castrated him. Arkansas authorities suspect that DuMond castrated himself.
In that case, DuMond was sentenced to serve life plus 20 years in state prison.
In 1992, Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker commuted DuMond’s sentence to 39 years and six months, making DuMond immediately eligible for parole.
In 1997, after Gov. Mike Huckabee announced support for paroling DuMond, the state Post Prison Transfer Board granted the rapist parole, providing he relocate out of state.
Texas and Florida refused to accept him.
Missouri initially rejected him but accepted him after he married a Missouri woman.
Shields was murdered within two months after DuMond relocated to Smithville, a town just north of Kansas City.
Shields of Parkville was suffocated in the northern Kansas City apartment of a friend, and police investigated the crime for nearly a year before DNA evidence found under her fingernails implicated DuMond.
The day Kansas City police found out about the DNA partial match, DuMond was arrested at his Smithville home.
During his six-day trial in early November, more than 50 witnesses testified, and more than 200 items of evidence were admitted.
The jury took three hours to convict him.
At Friday’s sentencing hearing, DuMond wore a blue jail uniform. Given the opportunity to speak about his attorney, he launched into a recitation of mistakes he said were made during his trial.
Among other things, DuMond said his attorney’s decision, with his approval, not to seek a change of venue and sequestration of the jury was a mistake. "To think that the jury saw no media coverage of my trial is ludicrous," DuMond told the judge.
Some of DuMond’s complaints bordered on the trivial. "Mr. Cardarella failed to object when prosecutors maliciously, purposefully referred to my home church not as Beulah Land but as Beulah May," DuMond said.
At times Friday, DuMond glared at Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Daniel White, particularly when complaining about a computer presentation made by prosecutors during closing arguments.
He also complained that Cardarella didn’t object to testimony from a New Orleans laboratory worker who explained mitochondrial DNA tests that linked a hair found near Shields ’ body with DuMond. "All this stuff is things I brought to defense counsel’s attention and expected him to object to or bring to the attention of the jury," DuMond said.
DuMond argued that authorities framed him because of his criminal past and planted evidence at the crime scene. "The point is, I was targeted simply because I had a prior offense," DuMond said. "I wonder which razor they got it off of," he added, referring to the hair that connected him to the murder.
He objected to the prosecution’s use of crime-scene photos of the victim "for no other reason than to inflame the jury." "We already knew we had a dead body," he said. "Why belabor it?"
DuMond also tried to cast suspicion on Shields’ husband, Mark Shields. "Mark Shields didn’t show up for closing arguments," DuMond told the judge. "I wonder why he wasn’t here?"
As DuMond continued, some of Shields’ relatives in the gallery could be heard whispering: "Shut up, already."
After Harman heard DuMond’s complaints, several members of Shields’ family addressed the judge.
Most of their comments were inaudible to people in the gallery, but Shields’ sister Eva Smith could be heard. "My sister’s life was taken early," she told Harman. "She did not get to live out all her dreams. I don’t want this to happen to anybody else. No one else should ever have to go through this."
After the hearing, Shields’ relatives said they were pleased to finally have the ordeal end.
Davidson said she would have preferred to talk directly to DuMond, but she told the judge that DuMond’s actions didn’t just take her daughter away from her. "He killed a mother, a sister, an aunt," Davidson said. "Her death affected a lot of people."
One observer throughout the trial also attended Friday’s sentencing. Janet Williams’ daughter Sara Andrasek was murdered in June 2001, the day before Kansas City police arrested DuMond in the Shields case.
Similarities in the crimes have led authorities in neighboring Platte County to suspect DuMond in Andrasek’s death, but no charges have been filed.
As deputies led DuMond from the courtroom Friday, he cursed at White, who has overseen the case for three years.
Asked what DuMond said to him, White said, "He congratulated me on the fine job the great state of Missouri did in prosecuting this case."
The prosecutor said DuMond’s behavior at the hearing proved what he believed all along. White said the public finally got a true picture of the rapist-turned-murderer. "The real Wayne DuMond stood up today," he said.
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CLINTON'S BIGGEST CRIME
By STEVE DUNLEAVY
IT WON'T be hard to find Bill Clinton in New York today - just follow the traffic jams that his visits always produce. But don't look for his conscience. For the past 14 years, you wouldn't have been able to find it with AWAC radar and search parties. I am not talking about the scandals of lying to judges and juries, or low-jinks in high places, or Whitewater or Travelgate or Filegate. It has to do with a man called WAYNE DUMOND, over whose case I have agonized for more than a decade. Dumond, now 52, was given conditional parole yesterday in Arkansas after having being sentenced to 50 years in jail for the rape of Clinton's cousin. That rape never happened.
Is that just me saying so? No way. Some others who say so are: *The judge who sentenced Dumond under court guidelines to 50 years. In fact, the judge later quit the bench to become Dumond's lawyer to prove his innocence. *Dr. Moses Schanfield, who headed the Genetic Testing Center in Denver and did sperm tests on the so-called victim's jeans.
No way, zip, nada. No way Dumond was the donor of that sperm. It couldn't have happened in a million years. Schanfield was one of the experts sent to Bosnia to identify mystery graves. *Fred Odam, was a retired Arkansas state police captain. He immersed himself in the case. He told me: "In all my time, this is the one case when I know a man is not guilty."
*Veteran journalist Gene Wirges, 72, who now publishes the "Common Sense American" and has battled this travesty from Day One: "Very few people thought Wayne was guilty, but a lot thought the Clinton kin and clan had to have revenge ... against anyone - and Bill went along with the program."
Despite the fact the Clinton cousin - whom I will not name, although The Associated Press has - failed to identify Dumond in two lineups, he was convicted. Despite the fact that she identified two other suspects, one an ex-boyfriend, Dumond was convicted Dumond will finally get out after nearly 14 years. Before Dumond turned himself in for his 50-year sentence, while awaiting surrender, something terrible happened. Two masked men burst into his house with a scalpel and surgical gloves and castrated him. You heard it right. The former Vietnam veteran and father of six was found hog-tied from a rafter by two of his schoolboy sons. Miraculously, he survived. A Clinton crony, Sheriff Coolidge Conlee, who also was a friend of the father of the Clinton cousin, had let the two animals out of jail to rob Dumond of his manhood. Sheriff Coolidge Conlee would die in jail after the feds nailed him for 60 years on a RICO charge. As Dumond was clinging to life in jail, the sheriff displayed his severed testicles in a jar on his desk. "I saw him pick them up and I saw the display," state police Capt. Odam has told me. As Dumond's testicles were on display on the sheriff's desk, something else happened. Dumond's house was torched to the ground. The father of the so-called rape victim was one of Clinton's biggest donors in his race for the Arkansas Governor's Mansion. When Dumond finally gets released next month, his wife, Dusty, will not be able to greet him. She died two years ago - after years of pleading with Clinton to review the case while he was governor.
The man who, as president, would later grant clemency to FALN terrorists turned a deaf ear to her pleas. Whenever a reporter would ask Gov. Clinton about the case, he'd invariably respond: "I don't comment on those things."
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Sounds like Clinton knew a bit about executive privilege a long time ago. I have in the past spoken to Wayne Dumond for hours in his cell, and, apart from never seeing his wife when he gets his freedom, he says: "No, I'm not bitter. I've learned a lot. I think I've become one of those computer nuts while in jail. "We will be able to find Clinton today in New York. But who can find his conscience?
This guy must be off his nut(s)!
But who knows, if BillyJeff is in the story.
That is what DuMond claims, and I was willing to believe it at first, but when the full extent of DuMond's violent criminal history was reported, his credibility was totally destroyed.
I am convinced that DuMond raped Ashlee Stevens, then castrated himself in order to make himself appear to be the victim. Many other people who earlier were willing to give DuMond the benefit of the doubt have also concluded that he is, in fact, guilty of the crimes he was charged with. He has been duly convicted by juries in Arkansas and Missouri.
When it was reported that DuMond was eligible for parole, I stated my opposition to his release on this forum. If he had been kept in prison, two women in Missouri would be alive today.
I understand that a lot of people are still under the impression that DuMond was framed, so we will just have to disagree on that point. But we can agree that it was wrong for Sheriff Coolidge Conlee to keep DuMond's testicles displayed in a jar on his desk.
Alright, they pulled the thread I posted per my request, so let’s discuss this further in here.
What do you think really happened? Your comments here sound quite different from what you said in my thread.
I don’t even know were to begin. This thing is a huge mess. I can’t even finish a coherent paragraph about it because of the history of the topic on this forum.
I think we should steer clear of it on the public forum for the sake of the forum and many long-time members.
If you have more specific questions, I’ll do better answering them on FR mail.
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