MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota man convicted in the 1980 murder of his wife has been granted parole.
A jury convicted David Hoffman of strangling his wife, Carol, then dismembering her body and dumping the remains in Weaver Lake in Maple Grove.
On Tuesday, at his fifth parole hearing, the Department of Corrections granted Hoffman's parole. He's set to be released from prison in two years.
Roger Stebbins, Carol's brother, says the family feels it has been let down by the justice system.
Last week, KARE 11 reported on Phyllis Stebbins and her fight to keep her daughter's killer behind bars.
"Now he's 69," she said of Hoffman. "But that doesn't make a difference how old he is because he gets mad with a temper he'll kill somebody else."
Hoffman was sentenced in 1980 when 17 years was the mandatory minimum life sentence. It is now 30 years.