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

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
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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.