Court Investigates Motive for Killing of Teacher Nohema Graber in 2021

In 2021, Spanish teacher Nohema Graber was found beaten to death with a baseball bat. An Iowa court has now established a “poor grade” as the motive for her killing by Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale, who were charged with her murder. Miller’s lawyer now seeks to suppress evidence regarding court documents as their hearing takes place.

In Fairfield, Iowa, 2021, Spanish teacher Nohema Graber discussed Miller’s grade in her class at Fairfield High School before leaving in her van to go to a park, according to CBS News. Miller and his friend Jeremy Goodale were seen with her in her van. They would initially claim that they had no information regarding Graber’s whereabouts after she disappeared and her van was seen at the end of a rural road. They would later state that a group of masked adolescences forced them to help hide Graber’s body after the group killed her, according to The Guardian. Prosecutors now establish Miller’s grade in Graber’s class as the motive for her murder.

Miller’s lawyer now seeks to suppress evidence including a Snapchat conversation, claiming the search of Miller’s house took place illegally, without proper warrant. Miller and Goodale, who were both sixteen years old at the time of the murder, will be tried as adults.