Two 16-year-old teenagers face trial in an Iowa court in the United States for allegedly using a baseball bat to kill their Spanish teacher.
The facts became known because one of the teenagers boasted about the brutal murder on social networks, opening the investigation that is about to begin his trial process.
The details, outlined in a search warrant revealed Tuesday, are given when both teenagers are still awaiting hearings on whether they should be tried as adults in the case.
Jeremy Goodale and Willard Miller are accused of killing 66-year-old Noheme Graber, a teacher at Fairfield High School, whose battered body was found last November 2 lying in a park a few hours after he was reported missing.
Graber's body was discovered with trauma to his head “under a tarp, in a wheelbarrow and near the rails of a railroad,” previously published court records showed.
But the search warrant revealed on Tuesday showed that investigators focused on the couple when a friend delivered Goodale's Snapchat messages showing that the two were “involved in planning, executing and disposing of evidence” in the appalling murder, described the published search warrant by local means.
Goodale described in the messages how the couple had watched Graber, detailing how they killed her and dumped her body, according to the search warrant.
Graber's car was caught on surveillance footage going in and out of the park on the day the teacher's body was discovered.
No potential motive for the shocking crime has been revealed, as teenage lawyers are struggling to keep documents from the stranger under summary secrecy. Lawyers also tried to prevent the media and the public from covering a hearing on Thursday on whether the case should be moved to the juvenile system, but a judge rejected that request on Tuesday.
Miller's hearing was delayed as her lawyer struggles to suppress evidence she claimed was obtained in violation of her client's constitutional rights.
Goodale's hearing on whether he should be tried as an adult was still scheduled for Thursday, according to the Associated Press.
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