KENOSHA COUNTY — A Kenosha man who received back-to-back life sentences for killing two men in the 1980s has been released from prison on parole, leaving some of the victims' family members shocked and demanding answers about why they weren't notified.

Spriggie Hensley, now in his 60s, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder as a party to a crime for the 1986 deaths of John Ekornaas and Steven Kinney at a Pleasant Prairie gas station. He was sentenced to two life sentences plus 10 years, all to be served consecutively.

"My father and my uncle looked at me and looked me in the eye and said, Honey, you don't have to worry about them. They're never getting out," said Danielle Ekornaas, John's sister.

Ekornaas was just 12 years old when her brother was murdered. She learned of He

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