Murdered Fairfield High School Spanish teacher Nohema Graber in a profile photo uploaded to her Facebook page in March. | facebook.com/nohema.graber
Murdered Fairfield High School Spanish teacher Nohema Graber in a profile photo uploaded to her Facebook page in March. | facebook.com/nohema.graber
A Summerlin, Nevada man recently expressed his shock that two Fairfield High School students allegedly killed their Spanish teacher earlier this month.
Greg Magnuson, who posts to Twitter under the name "BlueWaveGroup, LLC," called the case "insane."
Greg Magnuson of Summerlin, Nevada, in his Twitter profile image
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"Insane what's going on in America," Magnuson said in his Friday, Nov. 5, Twitter post. "Teens kill a beloved woman; an educator, a leader in the Latino community, friend to many."
Magnuson's Twitter post linked to a Des Moines Register news story published the same day about charges against the two teenagers after local police confirmed human remains discovered last week in Fairfield's Chautauqua Park were those of teacher Nohema Graber. Graber had been reported missing earlier the same day her remains were found.
Fairfield High School students Willard Noble Chaiden Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale, both 16, have been charged with first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide in the first degree, according to a city of Fairfield Facebook post issued Thursday, Nov. 4. The charges followed a preliminary investigation by Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations special agents "into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ms. Graber, which appears to be a homicide," the city's Facebook post said.
Miller and Goodale are charged as adults.
Graber, 66, had been teaching Spanish at Fairfield High School since 2012, according to the Des Moines Register news story.
She was a native of Xalapa in eastern-central Mexico, about 55 miles northwest of Veracruz, and graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 2010, according to information on her Facebook page. She also was secretary at St. Mary's Catholic Church.
Several hundred gathered in a vigil outside the high school the night of Friday, Nov. 5, to light candles, sing and remember Graber, according to a Des Moines Register news story published the following day.