Iowa Teen Gets Life With Possibility of Parole After 35 Years for Spanish Teacher’s Beating Death

Willard Miller is led into a courtroom in Fairfield, Iowa, on March 29, 2023, for a hearing related to the murder charge he faces in the 2021 death of Fairfield, Iowa, Spanish teacher Nohema Graber. Kyle Ocker/The Ottumwa Courier via AP, Pool

DES MOINES, Iowa—The first of two Iowa teenagers who pleaded guilty to beating their high school Spanish teacher to death with a baseball bat was sentenced Thursday to life with a possibility of parole after 35 years in prison.

A judge sentenced Willard Miller after a sentencing hearing that lasted more than seven hours.