Killer Grades

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at the end of this episode,
because I do have two more good announcements

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that I'm going to give y'all that
may interest you. And in the spirit

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of summer kind of coming to a
close the school you know, the school

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years coming about rather quickly for us
teachers. This episode is going to be

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about a teacher and what happened to
her. So it's gonna start out in

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Iowa. Some craft's been going down
in Iowa. Huh. We have old

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boy murdering the co eds. And
I don't know about you, but maybe

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it's because I'm a Southern girl and
I don't get out much. But I

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didn't think Iowa was as crazy as
I always been lately in the news.

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And this is actually a newer episode, a newer crime. This was in

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twenty twenty one that this took place. So this isn't an old one matter

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of fact, you're gonna hear later
on, it's not even been fully adjudicated

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through the end. It's that new. But it didn't make huge news.

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I didn't see this on art on
television locally, and so it kind of

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interested me because it's about two sixteen
year old boys. Their names were Jeremy

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good Ale and Willard Miller, and
both were your average sixteen year old high

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school kids, all right. So
they were in high school sophomores, and

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they both attended Fairfield High School.
So just a little bit about Fairfield,

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so you'll know, it's a town
of about ninety four hundred people in Jefferson

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County, and it's located about one
hundred miles southeast of Des Moines, So

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it's, you know, I don't
know that it's a huge town by any

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means, but you know, people
know each other and it's it's not really

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a huge, busy type of town. And the boys, from all accounts

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were average students but seemingly carried a
bit of frustration for their Spanish teacher.

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Now I can appreciate this. The
students, these boys, you know,

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they wanted good grades, and while
maintaining an A in any class as were,

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you know, any class worth its
salt at least is tough. These

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boys still had a gripe about their
grades. And as a teacher myself,

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I can say, look, I'm
glad they cared about their grades. Some

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kids don't, so I will give
them that one inch of kudos. But

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the rest of this is going to
go downhill. So you're gonna get the

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grade you earn. I think we
all know that, right. If you're

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listening to this, hopefully you can
agree you're gonna get the grade that you

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earn. You want a better grade? What do you need to do?

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Work harder? So in Spanish class? In other words, Willard estebah grow

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probando la class espanol. How'd I
do? I tried to say Willard was

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failing Spanish class. So if I
said something else, I'm sorry, but

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I tried. Okay, shout out, I tried to speak Spanish. But

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why work harder? Though? When
you can just stamp your feet and get

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mad about it, right, it's
so much easier. It's obviously the teacher's

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fault that Willard did not make an
A in this class. Clearly it was

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not Willard's fault, so rather than
study, the boys would choose another route

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to improve their grade. So who
is this Spanish teacher wreaking havoc on these

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teen boys lives? Y'all need to
know. Her name would be miss Graber.

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So here's a little backstory about her
so you can see what kind of

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tyrant they were dealing with. Her
name was Nohema Graber and she was originally

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born in Mexico. Now she worked
as a flight attendant after graduating from high

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school and being a driven and successful
young woman. She is even touted as

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having become the first female commercial airline
pilot in Mexico. That's cool to me.

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I'm scared of fly and I know
I couldn't fly a plane. What

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a feat, right? This girl
was going places literally and metaphorically. She

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would eventually fall in love with a
man she met there and by the name

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of Paul Graber, and they would
celebrate their marriage soon after, and they

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continue to live in Mexico City,
but eventually they were looking for change and

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they decided to move to Paul's hometown
of Fairfield, Iowa. And they settled

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into life there and in early nineteen
nineties. There two sons were born.

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Time went on, and then they
would also welcome a baby girl a few

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years later. So Ever, the
learner, Nohema, decided, you know

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what, I want to go back
and I want to get me a degree,

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and she settled on getting a degree
in English, and her degree would

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come from Iowa Westland University. And
interestingly enough, she wasn't young per se.

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Whenever she got that degree, y'all, she finished it when she was

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in her fifties. This woman continued
to learn. She was a go getter

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and she was educated. Her original
plan was to teach English, but she

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learned through some research that there was
a much higher demand for Spanish teachers,

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and so she would ultimately take a
job as a Spanish teacher. And she

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taught at Ottamwa High School from two
thousand and six to twenty twelve, and

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then she moved to Fairfield High School
for the next nine years. So a

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little bit about this school. It's
not a huge one. It consisted of

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a total of five hundred and twenty
two students. I mean the school I

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teach at has thousands of students,
So I'm comparing it to where I teach

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you know. But during her nine
years at Fairfield High, the Graber marriage

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did suffer and ultimately the two would
split and they finalize their divorce in twenty

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sixteen. But y'all, they are
good people and they even remained close friends

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after their divorce. So this is
not a mean woman. And she was

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a loving woman and she cared about
people. There wasn't any hatred. They

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simply had just grown apart and they
needed a change. So in November of

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twenty twenty one, Miss Graber was
now sixty six years old and she had

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plenty of experience behind her in the
classroom. And if there's anything a professional

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teacher knows, it's that you have
to reach them before you can teach them.

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It's a fact I can give you. Look, I can give you

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a personal example real quick. I
had a boy in my own class last

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year. And we didn't have a
bad relationship. Don't get it twisted.

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We just didn't really have a relationship
at all. He came to class,

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he was quiet, he was respectful, well mannered, and y'all, he

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was a country yee yee. Okay, I'm talking about business in the front,

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party in the back. Curly hair
thousand watts smile, and he wore

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his We call him ship kickers,
but he wore his boots to class.

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And he was just a country fella. And I wanted to up his motivation.

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But again, you can't teach him
until you reach him. You've you've

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got to make a relationship with kids. And I made it my plan to

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try and engage him more. And
I'll never forget his eyes light up when

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I mentioned turkey hunting. Now,
truth be told, I only knew he

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was a turkey hunter because he had
been naps in a few days and his

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buddy in class told me, nah, he ain't sick, Miss jenns,

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he's killing turkeys. And I was
like, oh, okay, so he

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was turkey hunting. So when he
returned to class a few days later,

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we were chit chatting and us and
I had him teach me how a turkey

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call works. And from that day
forward, y'all, he became my pal.

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I looked forward to seeing this kid
every day. He even started telling

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me up front, okay and even
apologizing in advance when he was going to

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be absent for class because he had
he had found the one he needed to

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shoot. Man, look at the
Gobbler on that one, right, And

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I feel like from what I read
about Miss Graber, she was that way.

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She wanted to not only teach the
kids, but she wanted to love

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them and get to know them.
Because once you can solidify a relationship with

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a student, teaching comes easily because
there's a buy in. So, as

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I mentioned before, she remained friends
with her ex husband and even commented to

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him that she was struggling to reach
a kid in her class, and she

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mentioned him by name. So I'm
telling you she was struggling with this guy.

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That student's name was Willard Miller.
Now a little bit about Willard.

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Willard had attended Maharishi School before transferring
to Fairfield High School. And this school,

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based on my research, the Maharishi
is a prep academy in Iowa,

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and the school I went and looked
it up. The school describes itself as

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an innovative preschool through twelfth grade and
it's a day school and boarding school,

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combining college preparatory academics and inner development. So I looked a little further.

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I'm like, inner development, Wow, what does that mean? So their

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website says students will find their inner
peace and gain self knowledge. Okay,

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well, that sounds all like enlightening
and ship, but Willard didn't stay there,

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and spoiler alert, I don't think
they made their impact on him that

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way, per se. I digress, all right, So the circumstances as

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to why he left the school weren't
clear, but either way, he found

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himself at Fairfield High School, which
is more like a public school. Speed

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like, come to school, be
decent, do your work, go home,

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boy, you know what I mean. So Willard was enrolled in Miss

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Graver's Spanish class, and like I
said, she took notice of his dislike

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of her class. They just didn't
mesh well. And y'all that happens.

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Okay, not every personality is going
to get along well. But she even

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mentioned at one point to her brother
in law, Tom Graber that he would

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sit in class and stare at her. But it was not like a zoned

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out boredom stare that you get from
teenagers. She literally called it an evil

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quote unquote malevolent stare. For it
to have alarmed her enough to notice and

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even comment to a family member like
this creeper level. It had to be

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noticeable in my humble fifteen years of
experience I'm going to tell you that kids

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get attitudes all the damn time,
and I promise you I am not bothered

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ninety nine percent of the time for
her to notice this and say it was

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evil. He was catching her attention, so Tom, her brother in law,

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even said that she tried many ways
to reach him and nothing ever worked.

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She even reached out to his parents
and met with them, and that

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didn't work. And she mentioned at
one point she was literally baffled because she

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had never been completely unable to reach
a student on some level before. It

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was like he was just simply mean
and she just couldn't get to him.

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And it turns out, y'all,
her intuition was spot on. So previously,

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before she taught Willard, she taught
another boy, but he did good

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in her class. His name was
Jeremy good Ale. He wasn't even on

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her radar as having beef with her. I mean, hell, she had

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already taught him. He hadn't been
an issue. He passed the class,

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he was fine, and he had
even moved on to other classes. She

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no longer taught him. He was
not even a thought to her at this

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point of this case taking place,
well as fate would have it. Jeremy

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and Willard became friends at school,
and Willard started vocalizing that he was really

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angry about failing Miss Graber's class and
then was really voicing his disdain for her,

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and these discussions that they would have
quickly would turn deadly and with disastrous

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consequences. On the afternoon of November
second, twenty twenty one, Willard asked

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to meet with Miss Graber at Fairfield
High School because he wanted to discuss his

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grade, and being the teacher that
she was, even though the bell had

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rang and her day was over,
she stayed behind and she said, yes,

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I'll talk to you Willard about your
grade. And his main complaint was

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that her class was lowering his GPA, her class was messing up his high

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school transcript. And after their discussion, we don't know exactly what was said,

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but they had their discussion about the
grade. If I'm guessing, she

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probably said, hey, man,
won't you study more? If you need

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help, I can help you.
We can work this out, but buddy,

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you got to put forth the effort. And after their discussion, the

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two would go their separate ways.
But unbeknownst to Miss Graver, she had

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been marked as living prey. What
she wasn't aware of that day or the

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week's prior was that she was being
watched. She was being stalked by two

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predators who had a plan. How
often are people stalked prior to their murder?

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Do you all want to know that? Because I wanted to know that,

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right, So, good question.
I'm glad you asked, because I

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have a study here, and this
study suggests that stalking behavior has been identified

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in nine out of ten murders studied
by criminologists as part of a research examining

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a link between those two crimes.
Specifically, that's a lot. I'm sorry,

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what okay, never my unbooment I
have it? I didn't think I

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had something. I'm sorry, I'm
boom. We're never recording again after it's

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gonna be We're gonna be here before, still recording this episode because we're two.

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Add No, we're gonna handle this. Yes, all right. The

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six month study by the University of
Gloucestershire, it's a study from England.

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Okay, They found stalking was present
in ninety four percent of the three hundred

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and fifty eight cases of criminal homicides
that they looked at. And surveillance activity

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including covert watching, was recorded sixty
three percent of the time. So sure,

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this is a single study, but
the findings are over three hundred and

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fifty eight cases, and I find
that to be a lot of cases.

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So stalking is there. You know
what I'm saying this is it's just young

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kids doing it's crazy. So this
case included this talking. Even creepier is

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that the stalking was done to learn
miss Graver's daily habits. Now, call

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me crazy, but I think you
could have applied much less study time to

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Spanish than the amount of stalking time
that they actually invested, and he probably

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could have just passed the class.
Okay, but you know, study time

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would also have less prison time than
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Maybe we should start new hashtag,
you know, like hashtag study don't

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stalk. I don't know, but
either way, the boys chose to stalk

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rather than to study. They learned
her daily habits and would put that knowledge

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to use. Now, I don't
want to take away from the time Willard

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did spend on the computer concerning his
Spanish class. Okay, because he did

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get on the computer and he was
found to have done research on something to

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the effect of, quote unquote,
what happens to a student's grade if the

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teacher goes missing or dies? Really? Wow, talk about a frigging dumbass.

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What a coincidence? Right, Surely
he did not look that up right

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before something was about to go down, right, Yeah, well he did.

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So there's that. So remember that
meeting that Willard had with miss Greber

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after class. That was a total
ploy. They already knew where she was

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going to be going next. See, Miss Graber would go for a walk

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after school every day at the Shattuqua
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and the boys capitalized on this knowledge. According to the arrest warrants, before

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four pm on November second, twenty
twenty one, Miss Graber left Fairfield High

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School in the afternoon and was traveling
towards that Shattuqua Park. And this park

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is located just east of Meteapolis.
And the park is a nice day park

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used that is sprawled over at ten
acres and it's a peaceful place. It's

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got a variety of different tree species
and some of them are really really old,

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and they adorned the property, so
it's like a historic property. And

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you know. Simply put, it's
a nice relaxing place to walk, and

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it's relatively safe unless you're being stalked. So around four or forty two,

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missus Graeber's car is seen leaving the
Shadouqwall Park, so this would mean that

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you know, her walk lasted about
forty five minutes. Strangely, though,

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missus Graeber never made it home,
so when asking around, a witness did

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report to police seeing a male pushing
a wheelbarrow towards the park at midnight on

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November second. Rather odd What is
a teenager doing with a wheelbarrow right at

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midnight in a park? So,
as I'm sure you figured out by now,

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something sinister had happened to her.
Luckily, though, there are people

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in this world with a conscience,
and also luckily, teenagers are rather stupid

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and they're all knowing this. It
never fails that teens seem to think that

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the relationships they make in high school
will somehow be made of bonds that can

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never be broken. Right, Bro, we're gonna talk about this, but

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you can never share, right,
And maybe that is true in some circumstances,

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but not this one. See,
it turns out that the two boys

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felt it appropriate to basically brag on
Snapchat what they had done. Can you

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freaking imagine Snapchat? That's your downfall? Because of course those chats disappear after

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they're opened, right everyone knows that, Yeah, sure, right, unless

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you actually read the fine print when
you sign up fellas Oops, right,

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nothing one Snapchat is ever erased,
even though you can't see it anymore.

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It's in the cloud, it's stored
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people are too stupid to realize this, and as such, the next day,

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on November third, a friend of
good Ale and Willard went to the

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police and showed the police the Snapchat
messages between them. So what did the

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chat say? Exactly? Well,
according to police, they messaged each other

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about following miss Graver, how they
killed her, what they did with her

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body, where they put it,
as well as the fact that they had

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parked her vehicle, and then how
they disposed and concealed of the evidence.

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What idiots. I mean. I'm
not trying to say get away with murder,

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but damn you that dumb being that
miss Graver was missing in the students

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basically laid out a roadmap for police
on their well planned attack. All the

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police had to do was just follow
their leads, follow the snaps. So

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later on November third of twenty twenty
one, officers just went and searched the

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park and ultimately, guess what they
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So what had they done to her
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Well, I guess what everyone would
do. They bashed her head in

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with a baseball bat during a sneak
attack, and they beat the shit out

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of her head until she was dead. A sixty six year old woman was

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attacked from behind and they beat her
brains out. Then, in a show

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of total disregard, they took her
body and they discarded it like trash.

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She was found under a tarp,
and just as the eyewitness had mentioned during

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their canvassing earlier of the area,
a wheelbarrow was found on top of her,

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so they had used it to move
her, dumped her, rolled her

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up, and left her there.
After that, on November fourth, twenty

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twenty one, two days after miss
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to execute a search warrant for the
boys homes. Now, remember in the

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snapchat they literally said what they were
doing so. Specifically, found in good

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Ale's home, they recovered clothing,
strands of hair, which would make sense

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when you beat someone's brains out,
bath towels, and not one, but

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two baseball bats. Even better,
those pesky witnesses just kept coming forward.

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Witnesses saw her and leaving the park
less than an hour after it arrived.

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And guess who they said was in
it? Two males in the front seat

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driving it. Bro you not only
couldn't pass Spanish, you're an idiot when

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it comes to crime. The van
was left at the end of a rural

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road, just like they stated in
snapchat, and after getting a phone call

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from good Ale, another witness stated
that he picked up good Allen Miller as

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they walked to town on that very
same road. Like this is not even

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it's not even good. And I'm
not trying to say a crime should be

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good, but I mean, damn
like, could you have been any dumber?

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I mean, the case is simply
like just ridiculous. Its almost ridiculous

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how this case went. But you're
willing to murder a teacher for a bad

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grade? Seriously, is that where
we are? Is that where we are

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right now? And the fact that
good Ale, if you remember, had

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passed her class. He had no
dog in the fight. This is beyond

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insane. You had passed the class, you had moved on. What in

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the world is going on that a
teen would agree with another angry teen over

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his grade that you're willing to throw
your life away to beat that teacher who

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treated you well and you passed the
class. I cannot even The boys would

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both ultimately be arrested and charged with
her murder. Now, during questioning,

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it was obvious this wasn't a who
done it. Miller Willard he told law

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enforcement that he provided a willbarrow from
his residence. Well, that lines up,

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and then Goodell just admitted that Miss
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I mean, this is I know
sometimes on these podcasts it's like you

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want this really intriguing story. I
mean, this is just like black and

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white, just crazy. But are
you curious how often teen's murder? I

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just thought that might be kind of
interesting to tell you. So here's a

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quick stat for you that I pulled
from the Uniform crime report. Charged under

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the age of eighteen, this is
going to be murder and non negligent manslaughter.

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There were a total and I believe
that this stat is from twenty twenty

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one. Don't quote me on that
it's within the last few years. There

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were a total of eight thousand,
nine hundred and fifty seven teens under the

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age of eighteen charged with murder and
non negligent manslaughter. Eight thousand, almost

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nine thousand teenagers in one year.
Now, who'll be killing if you want

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to know? White kids three thousand, nine hundred and fifty three arrested,

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African American kids four thousand, seven
hundred and seventy eight kids arrested, Alaskan

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Natives, one hundred and five Asians, ninety four Pacific's twenty seven black and

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white kids. They're the ones that
are being arrested the most for murder and

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non negligent manslaughter under the age of
eighteen. Jesus so this case would eventually

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head to trial and something odd about
it. This irritated me. Okay Willard's

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parents maintained that they were completely unaware
of his arrest at first, and they

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knew nothing about his connection to the
murder, and that they maintained that until

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it just became captain obvious that their
son was the guy. It also became

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very obvious that there was some major
coddling happening to this team. I almost,

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in a sense understand why he would
even think he could get away with

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it and do this, and why
would even cross his mind, y'all.

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Willard's mom told the media that she
didn't give her permission to interview Willard,

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and the police did it anyway,
Stamps foot Heller. The police don't need

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your permission to question your child,
ma'am. In a murderer, he has

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the right to an advocate for him, right if he's a miner while he's

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being questioned. But permission isn't something
needed, booboo. If that was the

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case, the parents wouldn't Every parent
would just say no if their kids were

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suspected in a case that required questioning. I mean, give me a damn

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break, lady. Maybe mom needs
to enroll in that Enlightenment school herself,

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you know, and wake the fuck
up. So Jeremy Goodell and Willard Miller

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are now currently both eighteen, and
they did both ultimately admit to participating in

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the brutal beating of Nohema Graver.
Now this is where that teen friendship that

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was rock solid took a hard left
because they both now maintained something different happened.

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Shocker right. Willard maintains that he
just acted as a lookout and it

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was good old good Al who carried
out the killing. Sure, buddy,

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your coward ass can't even pass,
you know, past Spanish one. Cool,

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but another kid's gonna go do the
beating. Well that's interesting. Why

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were there two bats? You're just
the lookout. Give me a break.

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So they both played guilty, But
unfortunately for them, maybe they should have

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spent less time planning murder and more
time in like a law studies class,

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because they both ended up being tried
as adults. Why, Kelly, their

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kids, They're only sixteen. You
want to know why? Well, while

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they were both sixteen at the time
of the killing. In Iowa law,

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anyone sixteen or older who is charged
with a forcible felony aka murder is automatically

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waived directly to adult court. Loopsie, they kind of missed that, huh.

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And so this means that they're subject
to the same criminal procedures and penalties

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as adults. Now look the entitlement
and stop with murdering over a bad grade

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either. Amazingly, you're not gonna
leave this Amazingly, both teens attorneys made

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an argument to the courts that the
hearings should be kept private from the public.

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Why I mean, first of all, they didn't keep it private.

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They snapped about it. Was it
because miss poor grab was subject to such

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brutality, you know? Was it
because Miss Graber was dumped like a piece

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of trash and they wanted to spare
her family the unnecessary details? No,

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of course not. The entitlement here
was that their defense lawyers argued the hearing

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should be kept private to quote unquote
preserve their clients reputations. What are you

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kidding me? Your reputations kind of
shot the hell, don't you think anyway?

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The judge was like, nah,
I'm good fam, it's staying open

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to the public. Sorry, boys, everyone's gonna know what you did.

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Goodell, who you know, was
Miller's classmate and did the crime with him.

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He pled guilty in the murder,
but he then took a deal and

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was prepared to testify against Miller.
And under this plea deal, prosecutors would

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call for a twenty five year mandatory
minimum. And just real quick, a

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mandatory minimum means they're not getting out
before that date. When it was all

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said and done, though the judge
his name was Honorable Seawan Showers. He

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ultimately ordered Miller to serve life in
prison with a minimum term of thirty five

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years before parole. So, Jesse, you understand that doesn't mean that he's

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gonna get parolled out early necessarily.
It just means that after he serves a

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mandatory thirty five years, it becomes
an option that he could go up for

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parole. Willard Miller received his sentence
on July fifth, and Jeremy Goodall will

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receive his sentence at a separate hearing
that is at the time of this recording

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plan for August twenty third, twenty
twenty three. So stay tuned if you're

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watching the news, because you'll get
to see what he is sentence to.

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This whole case ultimately is just ridiculous. You know, teachers don't get paid

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enough as it is to put up
with the crap that we put up with,

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and then we have to deal with
being murdered over a bad grade.

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I mean, that's just adding insult
to injury. Miss Graber was a nice

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lady. She was working, y'all, she was doing her part. She

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was a teacher. I even found
a video where she had been touted by

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students on Teacher of the Year nominations. She was loved and her death was

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an absolute loss to that community.
Miss Graber was quoted by the Southeast Iowa

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Union newspaper just days before her death
for an article about the Day of the

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Dead holiday, and Graber said she
and her family celebrated the holiday for its

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religious meaning, but she also added, We're all gonna die. It's just

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our way of laughing at death.
Kind of ironic, idn't that she would

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die just a few days later.
So I'm going to stand on this,

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and I'm gonna stand firmly on this. Teachers are nice people. We do

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get tired of the bs. I
mean, hell, students are now killing

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us. Hello. Things have gotten
a little different, And it's stories like

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this that make me want to be
mean. But I like to think that

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I'm only mean to people who deserve
it. Kind of like a vigilant bitch,

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a bitch of lante if you will, all right, So I told

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y'all there, we're gonna be a
couple of announcements the end. So just

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hang with me for just one second. If you don't mind, please go

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vote for me and my podcast.
Remember the Podcast Awards are coming up,

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and if you don't vote, you
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and I want to win. I'm
competitive. I'm competitive, all right.

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So you just go to Podcast Awards
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All you needs an email, takes
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and then make sure after you vote, you will receive an email that says

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verify your email, verify it.
All you gotta do is click a button.

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That's it, y'all. Five minutes
and it can make a difference.

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The categories you can vote for my
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that in. And I'm also in
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People's Choice Awards, so I'd be
so honored, thank you so much.

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But another thing, y'all, I
got my pods to say too. Please

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in the history category, Bloody Angola, y'all. My boys are in that.

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Okay, that's that's Woodie and Gem
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I'm a total fan of them,
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category. And then Coffee and Crime. They're in the Best Female category and

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they've been super kind to my show. If you want to give them a

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vote too, hey why not?
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to me, Thank you so much. If you want to become a patron

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again, you can always go to
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become a patron as one of the
tabs. Lastly, but certainly not least,

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I have two more book giveaways by
Jodi Ploche himself. He assigned one

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of them, and then one of
them is an audiobook. There will be

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specific posts on Facebook that say share
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ask you to share, and make
sure you share it public. If you

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don't have it public, in the
setting when you share it, your name

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doesn't show up, so it would
say, hey, there was you know,

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one hundred and fifty shares, but
it might only show seven people because

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if you share it privately, it
doesn't show up on my end. So

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please make sure that it's public.
And I appreciate everything that you do for

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this show. I'm working hard for
you. The live is going to be

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so badass. And until next time, thank y'all so much. Have a

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great week.