(WSBT) Danny Rouse confessed to police he strangled and stabbed 16-year-old Stephanie Wagner to death. He was released from a Kansas prison earlier this year for killing a 5-year-old boy while he slept in 1979.

“I can’t experience their personal pain but have an idea what they are going through,” said Allen Learst, the boy’s father. “I made a plea begging them not to let him out of jail.”

According the Kansas Department of Corrections, parole board decisions are confidential, so we'll never know why the board decided to release Rouse after rejecting six parole requests.

Learst wrote letter after letter pleading to the parole board and prosecutor not to let him out. But Rouse was a free man in March; he was transferred here because he has family in Indiana.

“I felt the system had betrayed us and beaten us at the same time,” Learst said.

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius issued a statement calling for a review of that state's parole board.

“Kansans need to know what criteria they use, how they make decisions,” she said. “If there is a way to improve the process, we should do it.

So the question remains how and when the parole process will change. As of right now, 91 murderers from other states are on parole living here in Indiana.