A Bad Grade, Cause for Murder: The Brutal Murder of Nohema Graber

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Nohema Graber is a beloved Spanish teacher in the small town of Fairfield, Iowa. When she goes missing during her everyday after school walk in the park, the small town is worried. When her body is found in the park, hidden under a tarp, the town of less than 10,000 is shocked. Shock turns to disgust when police arrest two 16-year-old students for the murder after one of them writes on snapchat about the planning, execution, and disposal of evidence.

Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack as they break down the story of Nohema Graber, a beloved teacher who deserved a much better fate and the two 16-year-olds that broke the heart of a small town.

Time Code Highlights.

00:02:54 Nohema Graber goes missing during her regular walk in the park

00:03:06 Body of Nohema Graber found in park under a tarp, Two 16-year-old students arrested

00:05:19 Joseph Scott Morgan talks about first homicide he worked was a brother who beat his brother to death with a baseball bat

00:07:11 discussion about what teachers are faced with every day

00:08:47 Talk about how this case begins with a bad grade

00:10:11 Talk about two students feeling like they were owed something

00:11:44 Discussion of Timeline of events

00:14:24 Talk about two friends decide to murder teacher

00:15:20 Discussion of the plan the perpetrators had and that it wouldn't change the grad

00:16:22 Talk about the type of weapons teens might have access, baseball bat is weapon of opportunity the routine of victim

00:19:40 Discussion of Both perpetrators were tracking victim in park

00:21:10 The perpetrators discuss the plan on snapchat

00:22:23 Discussion of Nohema Graber and people seeing Chaiden Miller arguing with her about his grade

00:24:03 Discussion of Nohema Graber van being driven away from park by two males and how perpetrators hide her body

00:25:11 Joseph Scott Morgan points out how everything used in a crime can be traced

00:26:27 Discussion of perpetrators taking the bloody bat, bloody clothes, back home. Friend shows snapchat messages to law enforcement

00:28:08 Discussion of damage bat can do to a body

00:30:44 Description of the marks the bat will make with contact

00:34:11 Talk about is it possible to determine who swung the bat

00:35:45 Discussion about Jeremy Goodale sentenced to life with possible parole after 25 years, Chaiden Miller sentenced to life with possible parole after 35 years

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0:00.0	Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan. It's a tired mourn statement, the three toughest jobs out there
0:23.8	firefighter police officer and school teacher
0:28.0	in each one of those categories you talk about underpaid, underappreciated, abused, all sorts of things that come along with that territory.
0:40.0	I can't speak to teaching public school, you know, I can speak to, you know, being a college
0:46.7	professor.
0:47.7	It ain't the same thing, trust me.
0:50.0	But I'm married to a public school teacher,
0:52.8	former public school teacher now,
0:54.6	which I'm very happy about,
0:56.3	because I get to be with her all the time.
0:58.3	But I would listen to her
0:59.7	as she would come home in the evenings,
1:02.3	dog-tired, under-appreciated, and anxious for what would happen the next
1:10.1	day at work, and it was like every day was like that. It almost became a running joke for us. You know, what what do you have to overcome today, hunt, in order to get back home to me?
1:26.0	There are times when you think about that,
1:29.5	and you might say it with a bit of levity. But there are times when people that work in public service,
1:37.0	they don't come home. They don't see their babies anymore. They don't see their spouse. They don't see those that they love.
1:47.0	They pour themselves into a job that is thankless, only to be discarded. Today we're going to talk about a woman who poured her heart and soul into teaching public school into teaching individuals, Spanish,
2:11.2	a language which was her first language, a woman that had carved out a life here in the United States,
2:17.0	a woman who met her end on a dark trail in a little town in Iowa.
2:25.0	Her name, Nohima Graber.
2:28.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is body bags.
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