DuMond walked out of the prison gates on October 22, 1999, married his third wife Terry Sue, whom he'd met in a prison pen pal program, and moved to Smithville, Missouri with her. His second wife Dusty had supported him during his incarceration, but died in a car accident at the start of 1999, before he could be released.

On June 22, 2001, DuMond was arrested for the murder and rape of 39 year old Carol Sue Shields in North Kansas City nine months earlier. He was convicted in June 2003 and sentenced to life in prison. On September 1, 2005, DuMond was found dead in his cell at Crossroads Correctional Center. He had been suffering from laryngeal cancer. At the time of his death, DuMond had also been linked to the rape and murder of a pregnant 23 year old woman named Sara Andrasek in Boone County, which happened ironically one day before his arrest in the Shields murder. Both women had been strangled with a rope.

During Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign, his political opponents pointed out the DuMond case and other instances of his habit of granting clemency to obviously dangerous prisoners, which was compared by some to the debacle surrounding Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election when he granted furlough to a convicted rapist who immediately raped another person. Huckabee was also criticized for granting clemency to Maurice Clemens in 2000, who murdered four police officers in Lakewood, Washington in November 2009. In ten years as governor, he had granted clemency to 1,033 inmates, over twice the figure accumulated by the three Arkansas governors prior to him.