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bttt
Sometimes I wonder while Carville continues with his hyperventilating support for Clintigula...and sometimes I don't.
Perhaps he has blood on his hands as well.
The one death that's REALLY weird is the guy who got into one airplane crash on the way to an interview about Clinton misdeeds, and survived it.
He gets on another plane on the same day, and IT crashes.
Yep. He died.
If memory serves (which lately it has not), it was Clinton's dentist that was on his way to spill the beans to AEB, or something like that.
And wasn't there a doctor's office that burned down to the ground, destroying all crinton's medical records of the nasal kind?
Must've been a coincedence. Must've been.
Typo.
I meant AEP. Is that so? I believe it.
Typo.
I meant AEP. Is that so? I believe it.
'Tis true. Although I'm sure it was another coinkie-dink.
You're a fan of Eddie? I am.
BTTT.
re: guy who got into 2 different plane crashes on the way to out dirt on Clinton
Yeah. It was a dentist or a chiropractor who'd treated a number of the Clintons over the years.
Maybe he knew more about the Clinton's O.D. ? V.D. ?
It's also time for us to hear more about that guy who was accused of having raped Clinton's nice and ended up getting his BALLS CUT OFF and put on display in a jar of formaldehyde on the desk of a local sheriff.
That guy, by the way, was later showed (by testing his semen) to have been INNOCENT of the rape of which he'd been accused.
I learned that very last part just 3 days ago.
Eddie?
Ouch. I hadn't heard anything about this one before.
"5150" was the title of Van Halen's 1986 release. I guess not.
Disregard last transmission.
Sound outlandish, right?
At some point after they'd named him as a suspect, two beefy guys broke into his place, gagged him, and duct taped him up real good.
Sort of a repeat of what happened to Gennifer Flowers' Quapaw Towers neighbor, after he disclosed that he had a videotape of Bubba visiting the place from time to time.
Except, of course, in this case they then took out a scalpel and emasculated him.
The sherriff was later disciplined.
Kinda makes you cross your legs, eh?
SCARY.
I took 5150 from the police code. Which is probably where VH got it from.
I have a picture in response to your last post I REALLY want to put up as an illustration, but I don't want to get kicked off FR.
This was documented on FR, but I cannot find it. Maybe Uncle Bill can help out.
You are correct. It's the LA Police code for a madman on the loose, or something.
>It's also time for us to hear more about that guy
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"I fear for my safety and I fear for every woman that walks the streets. He's a repeat offender and I
think he will do it again," Stevens said outside the state Capitol after a meeting with Huckabee.
Dumond was convicted of kidnapping and raping Stevens, then 17, in 1984. Before his trial in 1985,
two masked men entered his home and castrated him. For a time, Dumond's testicles were displayed
in the office of St. Francis County Sheriff Coolidge Conlee.
At trial, Dumond questioned whether a rape occurred, but said if it did, he didn't do it. He was
sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years. Then Gov. Bill Clinton, who is a distant cousin of the victim,
denied clemency in 1990, saying a federal appeal was pending.
In 1992, Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, acting governor while Clinton campaigned for president,
commuted that sentence to 39/4 years. Dumond has been turned down for parole three times since
1994.
Huckabee announced Friday that he had doubts about Dumond's guilt and he intended to commute
the sentence to time served. Under a 1995 law, Huckabee's decision will not be final until Oct. 21, 30
days after Huckabee announced his intention to commute the sentence.
Dumond is at the Varner Unit of the state Department of Correction and works as a school clerk in
the unit's educational program. His wife, Dusty, of DeWitt, professes his innocence.
"I knew he was innocent. If he hadn't been, I wouldn't have wasted all these years waiting," she said
Friday.
Stevens, who said she found out about Dumond's impending release Friday from a reporter,
appeared to be uncomfortable about the media attention, but determined to confront the issue.
"He said he's going to take careful consideration of both sides. So he did listen to me," she said of
Huckabee while still in the reception area of the governor's office.
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Huckabee and two aides met with Stevens about 45 minutes. She was accompanied by her father,
Walter E. "Stevie" Stevens III; her father's wife, Lisa; her aunt, Edwina McCollum; Prosecuting
Attorney Fletcher Long Jr.; and Democratic state Rep. Pat Flanagin -- all of Forrest City.
Stevie Stevens said he presented Huckabee with "an overview of everything that we think he should consider. The facts, not the fiction that's presented by the other side. Something concrete that has been put down by law by a jury of 12 peers." He said Huckabee said he would study the materials and decide later. "He said that he has not made his mind up and he's going to weigh both sides," said Stevie Stevens, who owns Stevens Funeral Home. He said he promised Huckabee that he would not discuss the conversation or materials presented until after Huckabee decides. Flanagin has championed this case for the Stevens family since the rape occurred. "I'm really glad we had the meeting. I think he was interested in facing the people affected by his proposed decision and willing to listen and learn," Flanagin said. The Stevens case was not Dumond's first brush with the law. Dumond was charged with murder on Aug. 8, 1972. The charges, filed in Lawton, Okla., were dropped after he testified against others involved. On Oct. 19, 1973, Dumond was charged with second-degree assault in Tacoma, Wash. He received a five-year deferred sentence and was required to undergo drug counseling. Three years later, on Sept. 28, 1976, he was charged with raping a DeWitt woman. He contended the woman consented and the charges were dropped with the condition he undergo counseling. Huckabee said Friday that a notice was mailed to the Stevenses notifying them of his intention, but he got no reply. Stevie Stevens said the note arrived in the mail a day after Stevens left town for nine days. He opened the notice just minutes before getting calls from reporters on Friday. "Here again, it was a matter of miscommunication," Stevie Stevens said. Huckabee said he made his decision after a thorough review of the case that began when Dusty Dumond asked him to look into the case a couple of years ago as lieutenant governor. He said he relied on new genetic information that was not available at trial. Dusty Dumond said last week that the couple will move to Houston, Texas, when he is released. She visits her husband every Saturday and they often discuss what they would do when he gets out. "It's all he has dreamed about," Now, we've got a chance to make plans for this Thanksgiving," she said. He wants to spend time with the family to make up for all he's missed. "He's missed out on all the graduations, the holidays, the birthdays," she said. While in prison, Dumond sued Conlee for displaying Dumond's testicles in a jar of formaldehyde on his desk for two weeks. The case was settled for $ 110,000. Conlee died while serving a 20-year prison term for a 1988 conviction on unrelated racketeering, gambling and extortion charges. |
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Huckabee spokesman Rex Nelson confirmed this week that the evidence cited by the governor in
regard to Dumond is the same presented in a 1989 federal court hearing. In a decision released in
1990, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Dumond's appeal for a
new trial.
Nelson said the main factors in Huckabee's deliberations are not Dumond's guilt or innocence but his
1985 castration by two masked men as he awaited trial and the amount of time he has served in
prison. Dumond was initially sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years.
But Huckabee has raised doubts about Dumond's guilt, calling it "very questionable."
The evidence in the 1989 appeal centered around a test performed on a sample of semen found on
the pants leg of Ashley Stevens, the woman Dumond was convicted of raping.
John Wesley Hall Jr., a Little Rock lawyer who represented Dumond in the past, said Tuesday that
the test did not become available until a couple of years after Dumond's 1985 trial. The test, called
immunoglobulin allo-typing, focuses on proteins carried by antibodies throughout the semen and
blood.
During the appeal, Dr. Moses Schanfield, a genetics expert from Atlanta, testified that if the sample
was pure, there was a 99 percent probability that Dumond is not the rapist because the sample did
not contain a genetic marker found in Dumond.
But Schanfield conceded the test might be invalid if the semen had been mixed with other body fluids.
At an appeal hearing in December 1989, Stevens testified that her attacker forced her to have vaginal
sex while he wore a condom and did not ejaculate. Then the attacker forced her to have oral sex, she
said. Stevens testified that she spit on the ground afterward. She said she didn't know how the semen
got onto her clothing.
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Writing for the three-judge panel, U.S. Circuit Judge Arlen Beam of Lincoln, Neb., said Dumond
failed to show the sample was pure.
"This so-called scientific evidence has been looked at from top to bottom," Fletcher Long, who prosecuted Dumond, said recently. Stevens and her supporters, who held a demonstration at the state Capitol on Tuesday, criticized Schanfield in a news release, saying protein-based allo-typing "has since been proved unreliable and of no use to the court system." Stevens made her identity public last week to publicize her opposition to Dumond's possible release. Schanfield, who now works in Denver, could not be reached for comment. A woman who answered the telephone at his laboratory said he is too busy with current work to discuss past cases. Fred Hicks, a former director of the FBI's laboratory in Washington who is now assistant director of Alabama's state crime laboratory, said protein-based allo-typing is rarely used anymore -- but not because it has been discredited. "Primarily, the main reason it isn't used is because DNA typing is so much more specific," Hicks said. "It's much more informative." Hall said the last sample was consumed in the testing by Schanfield. In announcing that he was considering releasing Dumond, Huckabee said he had "serious questions as to the legitimacy of his guilt" based on the genetic testing. "He studied that in its entirety," Nelson said Monday. However, Nelson added, "That's only one factor, and it's not even the major factor in this." "His major factor is based on lengths on rape sentences, and based on the fact that this man was castrated," Nelson said. The governor "has said all along that he's not going to make any determination of guilt or innocence." Dumond's lawyers have said his sentence should be no more than 6/4 years based on a comparison of sentences for similar crimes. In 1990, the state Board of Parole and Community Rehabilitation recommended that then-Gov. Bill Clinton commute Dumond's sentence to time served -- a recommendation that Clinton, a distant cousin of Stevens, rejected. Huckabee's predecessor, former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, also reviewed Dumond's case. Tucker concluded that he was guilty. However, Tucker, a former prosecuting attorney, reduced Dumond's sentence to 39/4 years because Dumond's jury was prohibited from considering his castration. |
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Dumond has asked the Post Prison Transfer Board to approve a release plan that would allow him to
move in with his mother in DeWitt.
The panel met Thursday and heard from family members of Dumond's victim.
Dumond was convicted in 1985 of raping Ashley Stevens, and his case gained national attention after
he was castrated, allegedly by masked attackers. Ms. Stevens is a distant relative of President
Clinton. At Thursday's meeting, members of her family told the board they want Dumond to finish his
sentence.
"I don't let the bitterness rule me. Sure it's there but I don't have hatred so that every day I say I want
to punish him," said Gilbert Cornwell, a cousin of Ms. Stevens. "It should be justified if you had it ...
but it could also tear you up."
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The panel also read letters opposing Dumond's release.
One letter from a DeWitt-area resident told the board that Dumond would bring grief to the community. "We are neighbors to Dumond's mother and cannot imagine or explain to you the extreme mental anguish we would experience if a convicted rapist was allowed to live next door to us," the letter said. The board initially granted Dumond parole in 1997 with the stipulation he live out of state. His wife lived in Texas at the time but died Jan. 8 from injuries suffered in a traffic crash. Dumond submitted proposals that he be allowed to relocate to Texas and Florida, but neither state would have him. The board then said it would consider an in-state residency plan if Dumond submitted it. Dumond originally was sentenced to life plus 20 years. In 1992, Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, while acting as governor, reduced the sentence to 39 years. The move made Dumond eligible for parole. Dumond has served 14 years of his commuted sentence and would be due for release in 2004 if a parole plan is not approved. Dumond needed a majority of the seven board members to gain release. |
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Wow. That's freeperdom.
You know, it's a long shot, but it just occured to me that this Ashley Stevens might be some relation to the Stevens family that controls the Worthen Bank?
Ya know, the biggest bond underwriting firm outside of Wall Street, the people that lent Bubba all the election funny money, the people that have such connections with the RIADYs?
Hmmmmm.....
; )
"Clinton niece"
I wonder?? Could it have been Clinton, himself, and the mutilation of the other man was just a "cover". Clinton seems to be good at that.
>"Ashley Stevens might be some relation to the Stevens family that controls the Worthen Bank?"
You are thinking of the Stephens family. Ashley Stevens' father does have some pull of his own, however.
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"There's no way she could have misunderstood," Ken Cooper, executive director of Prisoners of
Christ, said Friday about Dusty DuMond, Wayne DuMond's wife. "But in her state of mind, anything
is possible."
Cooper said his assistant, Dan Palmer, notified Dusty DuMond by telephone last week of the
rejection. "I regret we didn't notify her in writing. That would have been the proper way," Cooper
said.
For the second-straight year, Wayne DuMond, 48, formerly of Forrest City, has had a parole plan
rejected. Last year, Texas authorities, fearing massive publicity, rejected DuMond's parole plan
despite job guarantees and a place to live in Spring, Texas, a Houston suburb.
DuMond was sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison in 1985 for kidnapping and raping Ashley
Stevens of Forrest City, then a 17-year-old high school cheerleader. She is a distant cousin of
President Clinton.
While he awaited trial, masked men broke into DuMond's home and castrated him. Sheriff Coolidge
Conlee kept DuMond's severed testicles in a jar in his office.
In 1992, while Gov. Bill Clinton was out of the state, Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker commuted DuMond's
sentence to 39 1/2 years, which made him eligible for parole. Last year, the parole board approved his
parole, subject to DuMond finding a state that would accept him.
Cooper said the DuMonds presented his organization with a package of materials that included a
brochure and a videotape that tried to convince them that DuMond was innocent.
"That was a red flag for us," Cooper said. "But we really didn't get that far. There was no formal
application, only telephone calls."
"We would have been very reluctant to accept a known sex offender," he said. "We really have to be
very careful who we bring into a neighborhood where there are children."
Cooper said the 23 former prisoners live at the halfway house and 99 percent of them are from
Florida. "It's very rare we accept anybody from out of state," he said.
| He said he was unaware of the notoriety surrounding the DuMond case in Arkansas. "We made the
decision before we knew there were political implications involved," he said.
Dusty DuMond, who lives in Little Rock, insisted Friday that Prisoners of Christ had agreed to accept her husband, but were frightened of the publicity. "They didn't want the publicity and the bad focus," Dusty DuMond said. "We were afraid it would be slammed once it got out, but there was no way to keep it secret." "Ashley Stevens' father has got a lot of pull," she said. "We just have to live with it." Ashley Stevens couldn't be reached for comment Friday. But she told The Associated Press on Thursday that she will continue to oppose any plan to release Wayne DuMond. Walter "Stevie" Stevens, Ashley Stevens' father, said Friday, "It seems kind of funny to me that she [Dusty DuMond] knew about this and continued to put up this ruse. ... They lied to the parole board." "I think he should be kept in jail," Stevens said. "We continue to stand behind the system. There is no doubt in our minds that this man perpetrated this crime. Everybody you talk to in prison is innocent." Wayne DuMond told reporters Thursday that he did not rape Stevens in 1984 and would not apologize to her or her family to gain his freedom. JoEllyn Rackleff, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Corrections, said she learned of DuMond's plans to come to Florida from a story in Friday's Tampa Tribune. Rackleff said department officials did not have prior knowledge of DuMond's parole plan. Procedure calls for the Arkansas Interstate Compact Committee to prepare the application and submit it to Florida. Florida authorities would, in turn, investigate the application and make a decision. "Yesterday was the first time I saw the name" of the group, board Chairman Leroy Brownlee said. "Our position is the same as it has always been," he said. "He can continue to submit plans and we will forward them on. We are going to wait the process out until we get it officially [from Florida] through the compact committee." Under the law, Brownlee said there is no limit on the number of parole plans DuMond can submit. "Some inmates even submit multiple plans," he said. "Once we give a guy a parole, we give him every opportunity to submit plans," Brownlee said. "I can't see us rescinding his parole unless he commits some violations." Department of Correction spokesman Dina Tyler said DuMond, who is assigned to the bus refurbishing plant at the Tucker Unit, has had only one rule violation since he was assigned there in 1985. "There has been no official rejection," Tyler said. "The application won't even have reached the [Florida] Interstate Compact Committee until next week. He could still come up with another site in Florida." DuMond has six more years to serve before he can be released. Brownlee said DuMond's calculated release date is September 2004, based on Tucker's commutation of his sentence in 1979 to 391/2 years. |
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There was an added element of surprise. The commission identified the complainant as Walter E.
"Stevie" Stevens III of Forrest City. In 1996, Huckabee announced that he was considering
freeing prisoner Wayne DuMond, convicted of kidnapping and raping Stevens' daughter, Ashley, in
1984.
Stevens said Friday in a telephone interview that he sent a letter to the commission about the gift but
didn't think the letter would lead to an investigation.
"All I did was write one little old letter," he said. "I just based it on what I read in the paper. I never
asked for an investigation.
"[The commission] wrote me back and asked me for corroborating evidence. I told them I didn't have
any evidence and that I only knew what I read in the paper," he said.
Stevens said he harbors "no malice and no ill will towards the governor." He also was surprised, he
said, that his letter resulted in the commission's investigation.
He said he doesn't remember why he sent the letter to the commission. But he said he thought a $70,000 donation "was a lot of money." And he said he thought other people would file ethics
complaints against Huckabee with the commission.
"I didn't know I was stirring up a wasp's nest," Stevens said. Stevens' complaint involved a contribution from Charles "Boe" Adams of Leachville, who paid for
about $ 70,000 worth of furniture for use at the state-owned Governor's Mansion.
The complaint was filed about the same time as a lawsuit against Huckabee in circuit court in Little
Rock by several Democrats over the same gift, as well as over how Huckabee allowed a $
60,000-a-year taxpayer-financed mansion allowance to be used. The lawsuit is pending.
Huckabee said Friday that Stevens' complaint was the last ethics complaint pending against him. The
commission dismissed several complaints against the governor in December 1998.
"Dealing with frivolous complaints can be time-consuming, but the Ethics Commission acted
responsibly," Huckabee said. "After a thorough investigation by the Ethics Commission staff, it was
evident the complaint was totally without basis.
"Whether we're Democrats, Republicans or independents, I think all reasonable Arkansans can agree
that the best way to deal with politics is at the ballot box," Huckabee said. "We need to let the Ethics
Commission do the work it was intended to do rather than trying to use ethics complaints to generate
headlines and for other political purposes."
In the lawsuit the Democrats contend that the furniture may be an illegal salary supplement because
Huckabee claimed it as a gift to him. Huckabee had said publicly last October that he could take the
furnishings with him when he left the mansion. The governor's lawyers argued that no political favors
were expected in return, so the gift was not improper.
| More recently, Adams has said he gave the furnishings to the state, not to Huckabee, and, therefore,
Huckabee has changed positions, saying the gift was to the state, not to him.
On his 1996 statement of financial interest, Huckabee reported receiving a gift of "furnishings for the Mansion" from Georg Andersen of Conway, an interior designer. The report did not identify that the money came from Adams. But in December, after Adams' role came to light, Huckabee amended his statement of financial interest to include Adams' name. Tom Mars of Fayetteville, a lawyer representing Huckabee, said on Oct. 24, 1998, that the furniture was a gift to the mansion, not Huckabee. The next day, Huckabee said the gift was to him and his family, not the mansion. That same day, Mars said he erred when he said the gift was to the mansion. In December, Huckabee appointed Mars as director of the Arkansas State Police. This month, Huckabee's attorney, Kevin Crass of Little Rock, issued a statement on behalf of Huckabee acknowledging Adams' position that the gift was to the state and saying that Huckabee, therefore, took that position, as well. Graham Sloan, staff attorney for the commission, said the commission "conducted a thorough investigation" of the gift. "Based on our investigation, it was clear the donors intended that the gifts were for the state of Arkansas and not to the Huckabees personally." Because it found the gift was not to Huckabee, the commission did not consider whether the matter was properly reported on the governor's disclosure forms, Sloan said. A letter that contains the commission's final order dismissing the case will be sent to Huckabee and Stevens next week. The commission's records of the investigation will become public 30 days after the release of the final order, Sloan said. In the lawsuit filed against Huckabee, Pulaski County Chancellor Collins Kilgore threw out the furniture complaint portion of the case on Dec. 22, finding there is no evidence state law was violated. Kilgore left intact a complaint that Huckabee allegedly misused the $ 60,000 annual mansion allowance by spending money on personal items. Huckabee denies the charge. On Jan. 29, the plaintiffs -- Arthur Kerns and Don Venhaus of Little Rock and Peggy Tucker of Jonesboro -- refiled the furniture complaint. They contended that Adams meant for the donation to be to the state, not the Huckabees. They based their argument on Adams' deposition, in which he said he made the donation to the state. DuMond originally was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for rape and kidnapping. Former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker in 1992 commuted the sentence to 391/2 years. Tucker was lieutenant governor at the time, but was in charge while then-Gov. Bill Clinton was out of state running for president. In September 1996, Huckabee angered Stevens and his family when he announced he was thinking about freeing DuMond. When the parole board approved DuMond's parole plan in January 1997, Huckabee denied a clemency request that would have let him go free immediately. The Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board approved parole for DuMond in 1997 on the condition that DuMond find a place outside Arkansas that would take him. Efforts to locate in Texas and Florida fell through. At its December meeting, the commission decided on a 5-0 vote that it lacked jurisdiction to decide complaints that accused Huckabee of misusing the $ 60,000-a-year Governor's Mansion allowance. Complaints were filed by the Arkansas Democratic Party, and Jack Rorex and Nancy Rorex, both of Bigelow. Also at the December meeting, the commission dismissed on a 4-1 vote a complaint alleging Huckabee failed to report as gift an airplane ticket for his daughter, Sarah, to go to Las Vegas in 1997, when Huckabee went there to attend a National Governors' Association meeting. That complaint was filed by Marsha Fair. No other information about Fair is available from the commission. |
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"The board initially granted Dumond parole in 1997 with the stipulation he live out of state. His wife lived in Texas at the time but died Jan. 8 from injuries suffered in a traffic crash. Dumond submitted proposals that he be allowed to relocate to Texas and Florida, but neither state would have him."
What a tRAVESTY! Mrs. Dumond should be added to the DSL Two Degrees of Xlinton. Was there ever any investigation of her "death?"
And who was governor of Texas and Florida when he was being blocked from his duelly authorized parole? Bush one and Bush Two, no? It is proof that "Bush" is Just Antother Word for Xlinton Lite.
"The board initially granted Dumond parole in 1997 with the stipulation he live out of state. His wife lived in Texas at the time but died Jan. 8 from injuries suffered in a traffic crash. Dumond submitted proposals that he be allowed to relocate to Texas and Florida, but neither state would have him."
What a tRAVESTY! Mrs. Dumond should be added to the DSL Two Degrees of Xlinton. Was there ever any investigation of her "death?"
And who was governor of Texas and Florida when he was being blocked from his duelly authorized parole? Bush one and Bush Two, no? It is proof that "Bush" is Just Antother Word for Xlinton Lite.
Just for the record, here's another one. If you have a sound card you might enjoy the background music, and I know you'll love the picture.
Regards, Lenny
Here's some more names who were killed or nearly killed under mysterious circumstances:
FReecerly Yours,
lenny - The music was so fitting. As was the pose.
Many thanks!!
To everyone else, be sure to check out the link above!
JFK Jr? I haven't seen this possibility explored. Any info to add?
I'm the one that posted this article in the first place, so here's as good a place as any for a quick vanity to y'all: I'm leaving tomorrow morning for England and Germany and won't be back until January. It is highly unlikely that I will have access to a computer, so if you don't hear from me I want you all to know that I still love you, but simply cannot respond.
I can feel the FR withdrawls beginning already (I knew I shouldn't have tried quitting smoking in the same week). In any case, wish me luck, and I'll see you all again in 2000!
Regards,
Serb5150 (a.k.a. "The Stupendous Crapola")
See above
ditto
bttt
You can't go now! We need your insight into the next machinations against Serbia. On the other hand, are you by any chance one of those infamous Serb paramilitaries about to infiltrate into 2 NATO countries? Hmmm..
I knew I shouldn't have tried quitting smoking in the same week
Best time to quit is when you're out of your routine. Good luck!
I'm leaving tomorrow morning for England
And quitting smoking too?
You might have a hard time with a craving for sweets --and it'll be doubly tempting there since English biscuits and jams are so good (and, the only things worth eating in England too).
I pray that you have a safe journey and stay, friend.We will make every effort to keep up with the situation in Serbia. Dovidjenja, Serb5150.
Have a great time, Serb. And bring back some hard evidence of NATO losses during the 79 day bombing campaign. Americans need to know that good pilots died in this criminal fiasco of Clinton's and they deserve a military funeral that honors them, not some one day mention of having died during a "training flight". Americans also need to know that this war, while devastating to Yugoslavia, was also not cost free from an American standpoint. Only when this truth is told will they question, and hopefully object to, the next "humanitarian" war.
As George from Brooklyn Park would say, Peace and Love.
I like the one where the guy's head is severed and it's ruled natural causes.
James Milam Milam had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated. The state Medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, initially ruled death due to natural causes.
There was something about a dog swallowing the head and coughing it back up somewhere else in the 2nd explanation by Malak.
How was the sheriff disciplined?
He was found to have been managing a car-theft operation and a fence for other stolen goods and was sentenced to something like 50 years in jail, where he soon subsequently died.
Actually, I'd be very interested in the circumstances under which he met his end; i.e. - if it was Jim McDougalish...
van halen.... now that's really cool... gotta turn on my cd now!
Wayne DuMond was released on 10/22 to his step-mother. I can't get into much discussion about this (lack of time), but I can tell you that I have talked at length with a number of people connected to his case, including two of several investigators. They have done extensive research into Wayne's case and have concluded that he never committed this crime. And that there were serious aberrations that occurred throughout the judicial process in which Wayne was convicted and sentenced.
One of the researchers, Gene Wirges, was a newspaper editor who is a little *too* biased in his views, in my opinion. But he nevertheless has compiled a large amount of impressive data from original sources regarding Wayne's innocence.
The other researcher I spoke with is Jack Hill who was an investigative reporter for TV station KAIT in Jonesboro. He did a series of exposes on the sheriff who orchestrated the conviction and imprisonment of Wayne DuMond. I have video tapes of Hill's work and the resulting exposes that appeared on ABC "20/20", "The Reporters" (Fox), "Inside Edition" and "Current Affair" that further detailed facts demonstrating Wayne's innocence.
A newspaper article posted here mentions Wayne's "long criminal history" which comes to five years from 1972 when he returned from Viet Nam with a drug and alcohol problem to 1976 when he began to turn his life around. At any rate, those five years can't be used to determine Wayne's guilt or innocence in an accusation eight years later. (Wayne is now 50.)
If you would like to see more about Wayne DuMond's story, please go to www.kroytech.com and click on his link. If anyone wants to help him get back on his feet, please email me and I'll tell you what his needs are.
Thanks!
ke
Thanks for the information. Here's an AP story on DuMond's release:
Here are some pages with one of DuMond's case files & DNA expert's report, courtesy of the Northwest Arkansas Times:
Wayne DuMond and Revealing Case Files
Dr. Schanfield's Expert DNA Testimony & Report
And to my page containing links to additional articles and latest info:
Oops-- These links and DuMond threads really belong in another section. Will post all future info over here:
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