Posted on 11/03/2022 6:07:39 AM PDT by billorites
Two Iowa high school students killed their Spanish teacher last year as retaliation for receiving a bad grade, prosecutors said in court documents on Tuesday.
The documents reveal a possible motive in the case for the first time since the teenagers — Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale — were arrested in November 2021. The boys, who were 16 at the time, face murder charges for the death of their 66-year-old teacher Nohema Graber.
According to investigators, Miller had met with Graber on November 2, 2021, to discuss his poor grade in her class. The teacher drove later that day to a park where she was known to take daily walks after school. Witnesses reported seeing her van leaving the park less than an hour after she arrived with two males in the front seat.
The van was left at the end of a rural road and a witness later picked up the two boys as they walked to town on the same road, investigators said.
Graber's body was found at the park the next day underneath a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties. She had been beaten to death with a baseball bat, according to investigators, and one of the teenagers bragged about the incident on social media.
In speaking to police, Miller said he was frustrated over Graber's teaching methods and how his grade in her class was lowering his GPA.
"The poor grade is believed to be the motive behind the murder of Graber which directly connects Miller," court documents filed by Jefferson County Attorney Chauncey Moulding and Assistant Iowa Attorney General Scott Brown stated.
Miller initially denied involvement in his teacher's death but later said he had knowledge of the events but did not participate and that a "roving group of masked kids" were the real killers, who forced him to give them his wheelbarrow to help move her body. He also claimed the alleged masked kids had him drive her van from the park, according to court documents.
A witness provided photos to investigators of a Snapchat conversation with Goodale that reveals "Goodale's admissions that he acted in concert with another person to bring about Graber's death." The witness said Goodale made comments implicating himself and Miller by name.
But Miller's lawyer, Christine Branstad, claims four search warrants were issued illegally in part because "law enforcement failed to provide information to the issuing magistrate to show the informant is reliable or that the information from the informant should be considered reliable."
Branstad is asking the court to invalidate all four search warrants and suppress evidence from Miller's home, comments he made to police and information obtained from his cellphone and Snapchat.
Miller is scheduled for trial on March 20 and Goodale's trial is set for December 5. The teenagers, both 17, will be tried as adults.
SPJNK.
¡Muy malo!
I just want justice for the victims of crime, these two should be swinging from a rope already.
tired of these monsters getting life and then some liberal pardoning them later!
I guess he won’t have to worry about his GPA anymore.
Instead of covid, maybe we should address the mental illness pandemic among our yute.
👍
¡Cuelgalos!
I agree. These two sulky little privileged brats couldn’t get their way for once so the planned and carried out an execution on a perfectly innocent person.
They need death. Maybe the prospect would make them shape up and repent.
But as it is now, I think they’re probably still smirking and slapping themselves on the back because they know they’ll be out again, probably before too long.
It’s very hard for english speakers to learn Spanish, especially because they don’t need it or use it. There should be no foreign language requirements. Instead, everybody in America should be required to speak english.
¡Cuelguen los maricones!
Kind of gay looking men in a few pics.
What’s wrong with learning other lnaguages.
I don’t disagree that everyone in a nation should have an adequate level of ability to speak the native tongue if they are going to stay there, but there’s no harm at all in learning other languages.
Most people in Europe can speak remedial levels of many other languages.
I instantly knew that the word “teenagers” was not a euphemism for “black youths” the second I saw they were worried about their “GPA”. Racist? Maybe, but I’ve been conditioned by the media to believe that “acting white” was a reason for shame among today’s black youth.
This Spanish teacher would still be alive if she had passed out participation trophies.
Yup.
This will go on his permanent record.
Nohema Graber
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