Student charged in Iowa teacher's murder admitted he helped conceal her death, police say
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A 16-year-old high school student charged in the murder of a Spanish teacher at his school admitted to authorities that he was present at the park where she was killed at the time of her death and helped cover up the crime, according to court documents filed Thursday in an Iowa district court. William Noble Chaiden Miller is one of two students charged in the death of Nohema Graber, who was reported missing several hours before her body was discovered in an Iowa park.
Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale have both been charged with murder in the first degree, the documents said. They will be charged as adults, the Jefferson County Attorney's Office said in a statement on Thursday.
Graber's body was found under a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties in Chautauqua Park in Fairfield, Iowa, on Tuesday, according to court documents. She appeared to have "suffered inflicted trauma to the head."
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
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