That’s where things stood when Huckabee took office on July 15, 1996. Last August, Huckabee told me (Byron York) he had his doubts about Dumond’s guilt, and also felt sorry for him over the castration attack. On September 20, just weeks after taking office, Huckabee announced that he intended to set Dumond free, saying that there were “serious questions as to the legitimacy of his guilt.”
Many people believed that Dumond castrated himself to engender exactly the kind of pity he got from the naive and bleeding-heart liberal, Huckabee.
There was never any evidence found that someone else, other than Dumond, committed the act.