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Wayne DuMond | |
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| Born | Wayne Eugene DuMond September 10, 1949[1][2] DeWitt, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | August 31, 2005 (aged 55) |
| Conviction(s) | Missouri First degree murder Arkansas Kidnapping Rape |
| Criminal penalty | Missouri Life imprisonment Arkansas Life imprisonment; commuted to 39.5 years imprisonment |
Wayne Eugene DuMond (September 10, 1949 – August 31, 2005) was an American criminal convicted of murder and rape.
DuMond's life sentence for a rape conviction received intense nationwide attention in late 2007, when his parole became an issue for presidential candidate Mike Huckabee during the 2008 presidential campaign. Lois Davidson, mother of DuMond rape/murder victim Carol Sue Shields, appeared in a one-minute video entitled "Lois Davidson tells her story" which was posted on YouTube. The commercial attacked Huckabee's efforts to get DuMond released from prison early.
DuMond was a soldier in the Vietnam War and worked as a handyman and carpenter in communities around DeWitt and Forrest City and in Texas.[3] A decorated military veteran, DuMond told reporters that he "helped slaughter a village of Cambodians".[4] On August 8, 1972, DuMond was charged with murder in Lawton, Oklahoma. He committed the crime with help from two other men.[5]
DuMond used the 17-year-old daughter of one of his accomplices to entice the victim to an isolated location, where DuMond and his accomplices beat him to death with a claw hammer. Prosecutors did not charge DuMond after he agreed to testify against the two others, though he admitted in court that he was among those who attacked the murder victim.
On October 19, 1973, DuMond was charged with molesting a teenage girl in the parking lot of a shopping center in Tacoma, Washington. The second-degree assault charge resulted in a five-year deferred sentence and mandatory drug counseling during the five-year probation.[4][5] On September 28, 1976, DuMond was charged with raping a woman in DeWitt, Arkansas. The charges were dropped before trial with the condition he undergo counseling.[5]
- ^ Arkansas Crime Information Center Arkansas Sex Offender Registry Profile.
- ^ Killer's death short-circuits '01 case; Platte County was preparing second capital trial. Archived 2007-12-07 at the Wayback Machine September 2, 2005, Kansas City Star.
- ^ "DuMond, Wayne Eugene (1949–2005) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
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VV2001was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c Woman: Don't Free DuMond; Victim, Now 29, Asks Huckabee to Reconsider, by Elizabeth Caldwell, September 24, 1996, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.