Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale admitted their guilt in April for the 2021 attack on 66-year-old Nohema Graber, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat in a park where she often walked after school.
Prosecutors revealed that the motive behind the attack was the students' anger towards Graber for giving Miller a poor grade.
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Miller, who pleaded guilty as part of an agreement, will be the first to be sentenced. Prosecutors have recommended a prison term ranging from 30 years to life, with the possibility of parole.
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Goodale, who also pleaded guilty, is scheduled to be sentenced in August. Prosecutors have recommended a sentence of 25 years to life, also with the possibility of parole. However, Goodale's lawyers have requested a delay in the hearing.
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The teenagers admitted to killing Graber on November 2, 2021, in Chautauqua Park, located in Fairfield, a small city with a population of 9,400, approximately 100 miles southeast of Des Moines.
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During the trial, Goodale testified that they had planned the murder for approximately two weeks. Both of them confessed to striking the victim and then concealing her body.
Goodale claimed that Miller had initiated the plan, while Miller admitted to assisting but denied physically assaulting Graber.
Although the two were charged as adults, their age exempted them from the mandatory sentence of life without parole for first-degree murder. Miller is currently 17 years old, while Goodale is 18.
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