The Behner Funeral Home and Crematory, located in Fairfield, Iowa, published information about Nohema Graber’s passing. On November 2, 2021, the 66-year-old Spanish instructor from a high school passed away.
The dead was born on November 10th, 1954, in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, to parents Noe Castillo and Maria Concepcion.
In the same month that she was born, Nohema’s life was cut short. The victim was ambushed and killed with a baseball bat at Chautauqua Park on November 2nd, 2021.
Evidence implies that the teacher’s murder was a first-degree murder in the fullest sense; it was not an impulsive killing.
While out for her routine after-school walk, the teacher was attacked. Her flimsy body was concealed by the perpetrators behind a tarp, a wheelbarrow and railway ties.
The murder of Nohema was allegedly committed by two Fairfield High School classmates, both 16 years old.
Nohema had a head injury, according to the first findings of the authorities’ inquiry. The victim was “an angel in her family” and a mother of three.
Teenagers were apprehended after one of their friends revealed information about Nohema’s motivation, preparation, execution, and disappearance.
The material showed that the murder was meticulously planned and carried out in accordance with the plan.
The two teenagers, Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale, admitted to killing their Spanish teacher in the first degree about 1.5 years after the sad murder of Nohema.
According to the prosecution, the adolescents killed Nohema Graber because she had given Miller a subpar grade.
The teen killers entered a guilty plea on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. However, neither of them acknowledges using the baseball bat to strike the teacher; instead, they continue to claim that their co-defendant did.
Miller and Goodale were both 16 years old when the murder occurred. During a hearing in Jefferson County District Court, Willard Miller, now 17 years old, entered a first-degree murder plea.
He confessed to killing his 66-year-old professor Nohema Graber. He further acknowledged that on November 2, 2021, he helped and abetted Jeremy Goodale in attacking Graber and killing him as a result with a baseball bat.
He said that he participated in Nohema’s murder voluntarily; no one coerced him. Miller said that the murder was planned out and that he participated in it knowingly and purposefully.
He claimed that he and Goodale had been waiting for their teacher in Chautauqua Park, next to Fairfield High School, when the courtroom was called to order.
He served as a “lookout” when Goodale attacked Nohema on that particular day. Miller aided Goodale while being aware of his motives.
Scott Brown, an assistant attorney general for Iowa, drew attention to the fact that Miller gave Goodale his complete cooperation in preparing the murder of Nohema.
Authorities fully believe he also hit the elderly woman with the baseball bat, despite his repeated denials. According to Brown, Miller is also accountable for hiding the crime and erasing the evidence.
The maximum punishment for both killers, who were minors when they committed this horrible act, would be life in jail with the possibility of parole.
Goodale was given a 25-year prison sentence since he cooperated with the authorities and provided them with all the information they need. Miller will serve 30 years in jail concurrently.