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
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Man convicted in brutal 1994 Marshall County murder granted work release
MARSHALL COUNTY, Iowa (KCCI) One of the men convicted in the brutal 1994 killing of Marshall County mother Rebecca Hauser has been granted work release, according to the Iowa Department of Corrections.
Agency spokesperson Cord Overton confirmed that on Wednesday, Jayson Speaks, 41, was transferred from the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City to the Nelson Center in Cedar Rapids for work release.
Speaks was one of four 15-year-olds from Missouri charged with first-degree murder in the killing. All three were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but a Supreme Court ruling meant they were resentenced to life with the possibility for parole in 2016.
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.
Speaks and twin brothers Burt and Derek Smith were all 15 years old when they shot and stabbed Hauser to death on a county road one mile east of Liscomb on Oct. 4, 1994.