Students beat their teacher to death with a baseball bat – They were proud on social media

Two 16-year-old boys from Iowa used one bat of baseball to kill her teacher His wife and then one of the perpetrators boasted about the violent murder on social media, as revealed by new court documents.

The details, which are outlined in an investigative warrant unveiled on Tuesday, come as the two teens are still awaiting hearings on whether they should be tried as adults in the case.

Jeremy Goodale and Willard Miller are charged with murder of Fairfield High School teacher Noheme Graber, 66, whose battered body was found dumped in a park Nov. 2 hours after she was reported missing.

They had hidden the teacher’s body under a tarpaulin – Snapchat betrayed them

Graber’s body was found with a head injury “under a tarpaulin, a pram and rail bars,” according to court records previously released.

But a search warrant released Tuesday showed investigators focused on the couple when a friend handed over Goodale Snapchat messages showing the two “involved in plotting, executing and providing evidence” in the gruesome murder, according to a recent report. research warrant.

Goodale described in the messages how the couple had tracked Graber and described how she was killed and the body dumped. Graber’s car was videotaped as she walked in and out of the park the day the teacher’s body was discovered.

The motive for the shocking crime has not been revealed, as the teenagers’ lawyers are struggling to keep many documents of the strange case away from the public. Lawyers also tried to prevent the media and the public from covering Thursday’s hearing on whether the case should be transferred to the juvenile system, but a judge rejected the request on Tuesday.