Teenager who helped beat Spanish teacher to death over co-defendant's failing grade is sentenced

The teenager who helped his classmate beat their Spanish teacher to death over a failing grade was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years in prison. In the hearing out of Jefferson County, Iowa, prosecutors laid out that Jeremy Goodale, 18, confessed that he murdered Nohema Graber, 66, and admitted at the time to having no remorse. There was a two-week period from the time Willard Noble Chaiden Miller, 18, suggested the plot to him, and the time that they ambushed Graber on her routine walk at Chautauqua Park in the city of Fairfield. Miller had wanted to get back at Graber for failing him in Spanish at Fairfield High School. Goodale, who authorities said did pretty well in the class, agreed to help. Investigators found the murder weapon, a baseball bat with flames on it, in Miller’s room. But even after pleading guilty to the murder, the defendants contradicted each other on who did the actual killing. Goodale told the court that he struck Graber after Miller hit her in the back of the head. Miller, however, insisted he simply acted as a lookout while Goodale beat her. As the prosecution pointed out
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