A Carroll man facing a murder charge in Sioux City has close ties to another murder case, this one in Crawford County. Forty-five-year-old Gary Lynn Dains, Jr. plead not guilty last week to a charge of first-degree murder in the death of 65-year-old Paul Smith last July. Authorities say that Dains had allegedly stolen from Smith in the past, and the two fought when he returned to Smith’s home. Dains told authorities Smith was injured but not dead when he left in his car with around $120 of his cash. But that Dains name is tied to a double homicide in Deloit on March 10, 2014. Dains’ wife, the now 42-year-old Erika Marlys Haberberger-Dains, was one of three suspects in what authorities deemed as a burglary gone wrong. Haberberger-Dains, Jayden Chapman, now 25, and Michael Schenk, now 32, were believed to be on the Deloit farm property to steal scrap iron, when they came upon Carroll County residents and friends, 80-year-old Marvin Huelsing of Maple River and 81-year-old Alice Huisenga of Arcadia. Huelsing was shot while Huisenga died from what the autopsy report labeled “homicidal violence,” and then the trailer they were in on the property was set on fire. Harberberger-Dains was released from prison on Sept. 24, 2018 after serving a little over one-quarter of her 12 year sentence for second-degree burglary and accessory after the fact. She was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson, but shortly after being arrested, Harberberger-Dains plead to the lesser charge in exchange for testimony against the other defendants. Chapman and Schenk remain in prison, serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.
