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Convicted Iowa murderer granted parole

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October 7th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(DES MOINES, Iowa via KCCI)—A convicted Iowa murderer is now out of prison. KCCI reports online records show Burt Smith has been transferred to a Des Moines facility to serve work release. He had been incarcerated at the Rockwell City prison but was granted parole last month.

Smith, his brother Derek, and two other men were convicted in the murder of Rebecca Hauser in Marshall County in 1994. They were all teenagers at the time.

Three of the four were originally sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole, but they have since been resentenced to have a chance for parole. That came after the state supreme court ruled life sentences without parole for minors were unconstitutional.