KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says he is "heartbroken" over the pain suffered by the families of two women slain in Kansas City more than six years ago.
Authorities say Carol Shields and Sara Andrasek were killed by the same man -- Wayne DuMond, who was released from an Arkansas prison in 1999.
Their mothers say Huckabee, the Republican former governor of Arkansas, is responsible, at least in part, for DuMond's release.
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He acknowledged that he considered commuting DuMond's sentence to time served and that he doubted DuMond's guilt in the 1990s. Now, he says, "given what's happened," he believes DuMond was guilty of rape and regrets DuMond's release.
Despite the parole decision in 1997, DuMond's actual release was delayed for more than two years because of an unusual condition -- DuMond would have to move to another state.
After his release in 1999, DuMond lived briefly in Arkansas before moving to Smithville, Mo., just a few weeks before Carol Shields was murdered.
I think that this story may in fact have a very large role in the decision making when it comes down to this candidate. Unfortunately politics is all about what you have done or have been accused of in the past and most people will look at this as a very negative point.
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