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Josh Hauser was just 10 years old when his mother, Rebecca, was brutally murdered by four 15-year-old runaways on the side of a Marshall County road outside of

"This is something that I'll have to live with, and my family will live with for the remainder of their lives," said Rebecca Hauser's son, Josh. "I hope that this remains in all those four boys' minds for the remainder of their life."

DES MOINES — KCCI News has reported that Derek Smith, one of four men convicted for his role in the murder of Rebecca Hauser on the side of a rural Marshall C

A Missouri man who, along with his twin brother and two accomplices, kidnapped a Union woman and brutally beat and murdered her on the side of a Marshall County

One of the brothers serving life sentences in a 1994 murder will be able to leave prison.

Derek Smith and Burt Smith were 15 years old when they murdered Hauser in rural Marshall County.

Jayson Speaks, a convicted murderer of Rebecca Hauser, began work release on Wednesday. Speaks was transferred from the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City – where he was held for 26 years and proven to be eligible for minimum security – to the Nelson Center in Cedar Rapids. During his first two weeks at the Nelson Center, he will be quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, Speaks will begin searching for a job. His parole officer was not available for comment. Spea...