The defendants, Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale, were arrested and charged with the murder of their teacher, Nohama Graber, 66, in the small town of Fairfield on Nov. 2, 2021. Miller met with Graber at Fairfield High School to discuss his poor grade in her class the afternoon of her murder, investigators have found .
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Later that day, the teacher drove her van to a park where she was known to take daily walks after school, authorities said. A day later, Graber’s badly beaten body was found hidden under a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties in the park. Investigators believe Miller and Goodale, who were 16 at the time, beat her to death with a baseball bat — and later bragged about it on social media. Miller told police he was frustrated with the way Graber taught Spanish and was angry that the low grade she gave him was lowering his overall grade.