Parents upset over release of daughter's killer

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - The parents of an eastern Indiana woman whose convicted killer was released from prison after serving less than six years of a 20-year sentence want state lawmakers to change Indiana's good time credit for inmates serving sentences for violent crimes.

Don Strasser tells The Star Press he thinks it's crazy that Justin Suits was able to cut his sentence in half by pleading guilty to a reduced charge and then got another four years shaved off his sentenced by earning a college degree behind bars.

Suits was initially charged with murder for strangling his 26-year-old girlfriend Marva Diana Rhea in December 2006, during a domestic dispute in their home in Selma, six miles east of Muncie. But he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.