The
following was taken from the September 21, 1999
edition of the New York Post. Sadly, it turns
out to not be his biggest crime. See the books
page.
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 long 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, 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." When pressed
by other politicians, his response was: "The
case [for a retrial or clemency] has no merit."
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?
A TRAVESTY OF
JUSTICE - THE STORY OF WAYNE DUMOND
New York Post
June 1996 Steve Dunleavy
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 finally go free,"
Mary Lou Dumond told me in Little Rock. Her
husband, Wayne Dumond, 49, has just spent his
11th year in an Arkansas jail.
Many say that Dumond is the victim of one of the
most bone-crunching and infuriating examples of
Clinton-clan 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:
A genetic expert stated unequivocally that sperm
found on the girl's jeans COULD NOT "IN A
MILLION YEARS" belong to Dumond.
The victim identified two other men as her
rapist but they had ironclad alibis and were set
free.
She failed to pick out Dumond as her rapist when
presented with a lineup.
But now the clincher: 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. Now get this, the two monsters
ACTED ON ORDERS OF LOCAL SHERIFF COOLIDGE CONLEE!
The sheriff retrieved Dumond's testicles from
Dumond's blood splattered 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 country." The sheriff actually took that
jar to "a good-ol'-boys wedding." That is a
fact.
No reaction whatsoever from Gov. Clinton.
Now hold on to your seat for this. The sheriff,
who didn't tolerate any "fooling around" in his
country-- would later be nabbed by the FBI for
extortion and drug-dealing and sentenced to 160
years in jail, where he died of natural causes.
Dumand'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 gotten a very good
education in here. I think I am becoming a
computer nut. I just miss my family, so much.
"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 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. [Well we know one thing, she
sure had to be related to Clinton - changing
one's story must run in the family] 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
The 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 told me, "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 the time
nobody knew that the girl was Clinton's cousin.
The Governor didn't mention it.
After 4.5 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 [where this all took
place] had a lot of votes and he deeply resented
the 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 in a family
newspaper. "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 Dumond's later won a lawsuit "of outrage."
They cleared just $20,000 from the settlement.
This money came in handy however, because
someone burned down the Dumond house when the
couple 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
from 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
there. He did an independent Allotyping test of
sperm of the alleged victim's jeans, which
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 didn'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
when I know a man is not guilty."
What was the crazed motive behind this
disgusting affair? Why Dumond? Gene Wirges, a
fiesty 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. When this girl
said she was raped, the sheriff wanted to help
out the Clinton clan [ so that they might look
the other way with respect to his illegal
doings]. 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 anymore."
