Two Iowa teenagers pleaded guilty to murder after they attacked the 66-year-old teacher with a baseball bat in a park after a dispute over a bad grade in 2021.
, and prosecutors recommended he receive life in prison with eligibility for parole after 30 years.
Both were charged as adults because of the seriousness of the crime, but they weren’t subject to a mandatory sentence of life without parole because they were 16. Willard is now 17 and Goodale is 18, the Associated Press reported. Graber later drove her van to a park where she was known to take walks after work, authorities say. Witnesses saw her van leaving the park less than an hour later with two males in the front seat, the Associated Press reported.
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