Word: dotson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They were one of the most improbable pairs of guests ever to appear on television's Today show. There sat Gary Dotson, 28, and Cathleen Crowell Webb, 23, stiffly, elbow to elbow, on a couch facing Interviewer Jane Pauley. His sentence had just been commuted after he served nearly six years in prison for raping Webb; she had tearfully recanted the rape charge in March, after becoming a born-again Christian. They were telling Pauley about their dramatic face-to-face meeting the night before, at which Webb said she could not "apologize enough" to Dotson...
...Dotson Rader, who is seen embracing Williams on the back cover of Cry of the Heart, was a close companion in the playwright's declining years. Unlike Spoto, he evokes the winsome qualities of Williams' naughtiness and ructions, the merriment as well as the anguish of that time. Rader's reminiscences are if anything raunchier and more explicit than Williams' own, and without footnotes or explanation of sources, some of his anecdotes about the peccadilloes of the famous seem too bad to be true. Beguiling as gossip, Rader's book has none of the inclusiveness or gravamen of Spoto...
RELEASED. Gary Dotson, 28, convict serving a 25- to 50-year sentence for a 1977 rape; on $100,000 bond while Illinois authorities consider his plight; from the state penitentiary at Joliet. The trial judge had freed Dotson on bail five weeks ago, then decided that the recantation of his supposed victim, Cathleen Crowell Webb, was not sufficiently believable and returned him to prison after a week. Said Dotson after he left prison: "I feel like a pinball...
Judge Samuels, who presided at the original trial in 1979, found Webb's new testimony less credible than that of a seemingly terrified 16-year-old girl who had told a brutal tale of kidnaping, assault and rape. Also troubling were parts of Dotson's testimony last week. While a friend testified that he had spent the evening of the attack with Dotson and two others, Dotson said that he had spent much of the time sleeping in the back seat of a car while his companions were stopping at parties. He might have been separated from the group...
...Dotson's conviction is not overturned, he must wait until 1988 before he is eligible for parole. Warren Lupel, his attorney, said that he will appeal the decision and ask Governor James Thompson to grant clemency. In the wake of the ruling, scores of sympathizers have called or wired the Governor's office. Said Lupel: "The battle isn't lost...