Episode 287

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<v Speaker 3>Hayden told his friend Bill that Olivia's kind of dating.
<v Speaker 3>Not to be surprised if the teacher comes up missing.
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<v Speaker 1>or Apple. You know, things cost money, so sometimes the
<v Speaker 1>most dangerous thing we can do is follow someone's lead
<v Speaker 1>without thinking about it. It's easy to get caught up
<v Speaker 1>in the movement, swayed by a friend's confidence, especially when
<v Speaker 1>you're young and naive. We all want to belong, We
<v Speaker 1>all want to feel like we're part of something, so
<v Speaker 1>there are times where we might be distracted, preoccupied, with
<v Speaker 1>other things, But sometimes you have to really stop and
<v Speaker 1>ask what the hell am I doing here? What am
<v Speaker 1>I following? And where is this all leading me? Because
<v Speaker 1>not every leader has good intentions, and not every follower
<v Speaker 1>realizes the stakes until it's too late. In the heartland
<v Speaker 1>of Iowa, Fairfield is one of those small towns where
<v Speaker 1>everyone seems to know everyone else and life moves at
<v Speaker 1>a leisurely pace. It's the kind of place where neighbors
<v Speaker 1>wave from their porches Friday night football games are packed,
<v Speaker 1>and teachers like Noema Graber are not just part of
<v Speaker 1>the school but part of the community. People don't think
<v Speaker 1>twice about letting their kids roam freely or leaving doors unlocked.
<v Speaker 1>Fairfield feels safe and predictable. Chautauqua Park lies just on
<v Speaker 1>the outskirts, surrounded by thick woods and quiet trails that
<v Speaker 1>wind through the tall grass and dense trees. The park
<v Speaker 1>is where townspeople often take their morning jogs, children play
<v Speaker 1>by the pavilion, and now Amac Greebor likes to walk
<v Speaker 1>after school. This ritual wasn't just an exercise, though, it
<v Speaker 1>was a means of unwinding after being with students all
<v Speaker 1>day long. But on this fall evening, the park would
<v Speaker 1>prove to be anything but safe. The trails that provided
<v Speaker 1>calm and refuge hid a dark secret. On November two,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty one, she would go for a walk and
<v Speaker 1>never come home. Nine one one calls started to trickle
<v Speaker 1>in as the community say of security was ripped apart,
<v Speaker 1>leaving them to wonder if any place at all was safe.
<v Speaker 1>The first person to notice that Noah mcgreebor was missing
<v Speaker 1>was her husband, actually her ex husband. See the Grabs
<v Speaker 1>were divorced, but they still lived together a lot at
<v Speaker 1>the time.
<v Speaker 4>A person kentish her office.
<v Speaker 2>Hello, my name is Paul Graber. I would like to
<v Speaker 2>report a missing person and I'm curious to know if
<v Speaker 2>there have been any accidents last night.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, who is the missing person?
<v Speaker 2>Her name is Noema Graber grr. She is a teacher
<v Speaker 2>at the high school and I just received a call
<v Speaker 2>from mister Stone, the principal, and she has not appeared
<v Speaker 2>at work today.
<v Speaker 5>Okay.
<v Speaker 6>Where's she missing from?
<v Speaker 2>From two o five West Washington here in town?
<v Speaker 7>Okay?
<v Speaker 8>And what was the last time that she was seeing Well,
<v Speaker 8>my son and I been out of town in Texas
<v Speaker 8>and she knew we were arriving yesterday after being in
<v Speaker 8>I was well for appointments.
<v Speaker 2>We came home, expected her to be here and looked
<v Speaker 2>like she had prepared the starts of a meal for
<v Speaker 2>us in the evening, but no sign, and she'd been
<v Speaker 2>wondering all night. I didn't know whether to call or not.
<v Speaker 2>I thought she would come in. Certainly she would come
<v Speaker 2>in for work today that mister Sun said she is
<v Speaker 2>not there and they have physically checked the room.
<v Speaker 1>Noeima was the last person who would take off for
<v Speaker 1>no reason. I know we say that a lot, but
<v Speaker 1>this just simply wasn't in her character. Noema was a
<v Speaker 1>very thoughtful, deliberate person who kept her schedule and did
<v Speaker 1>not miss school.
<v Speaker 7>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>She did take the automobile, which is it's in nineteen
<v Speaker 2>ninety seven Honda Odyssey.
<v Speaker 9>Okay.
<v Speaker 10>And do you know what the license late is?
<v Speaker 2>No, I can, I can dig it up.
<v Speaker 4>Who is it registered to?
<v Speaker 10>Is it registered to her?
<v Speaker 2>Yes? Yes, it's the dark blue okay.
<v Speaker 10>And have you is her phone off?
<v Speaker 4>Have you tried calling hers?
<v Speaker 2>It's going to voice now it has no cell phone.
<v Speaker 9>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>You can tell by the dispatcher's reaction. That's a weird thing.
<v Speaker 1>To say, I mean, of course it is. It's twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. How do you not have a cell phone.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sitting right next to her. I'm in the home
<v Speaker 2>right now.
<v Speaker 10>And her phone is there.
<v Speaker 2>It's here. She's one that she can only use for
<v Speaker 2>calls on WhatsApp and different things. It doesn't have service,
<v Speaker 2>a regular phone service.
<v Speaker 7>Okay, And what was last?
<v Speaker 9>The last thing?
<v Speaker 4>You actually spoke.
<v Speaker 2>To her on Sunday evening about about eight o'clock from
<v Speaker 2>my brother's home in Dallas, Texas, and she was excited
<v Speaker 2>that we're coming back and said that a lot of
<v Speaker 2>things that happened.
<v Speaker 4>And what does she teach it the high school?
<v Speaker 2>Pardon? Oh, she is a Spanish teacher. She's one.
<v Speaker 1>In case you didn't hear him say it, Noema was
<v Speaker 1>one of two Spanish teachers at Fairfield High School.
<v Speaker 11>County is about eighteen thousand. It's not an exact figure
<v Speaker 11>in that ballpark. It's kind of a you know, it's
<v Speaker 11>it's Iowa. So Iowa's counties are all laid out on
<v Speaker 11>a grid, so all things considered, it's it's it's a
<v Speaker 11>you know, small Midwestern city with a pretty good and
<v Speaker 11>diverse economic base. Certainly one of the more unique towns
<v Speaker 11>in the state of Iowa, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 1>That was District Attorney Chauncey Moulding. Fairfield is where he
<v Speaker 1>was born and raised. It has a cultural side that
<v Speaker 1>feels unexpected for such a small town home of Maharishi
<v Speaker 1>International University. People from all over the world attend school
<v Speaker 1>and live here, making the tiny town exceptionally diverse. This
<v Speaker 1>brings us back around to Noema Graber, who was native
<v Speaker 1>to Mexico. Although she didn't attend Maharishi University, she lived
<v Speaker 1>in Fairfield. That was because she met Paul Graber a
<v Speaker 1>few years after graduating high school. She worked as a
<v Speaker 1>flight attendant and he was in Mexico as an exchange student.
<v Speaker 1>He flew back to the States but never forgot about Noema. Meanwhile,
<v Speaker 1>being a flight attendant wasn't lofty enough for Noema, who
<v Speaker 1>was extraordinarily bright and ambitious. She decided she would be
<v Speaker 1>a commercial airline pilot instead, so she paid her way
<v Speaker 1>through flight school and became one of the first women
<v Speaker 1>in Mexico to be licensed to fly passenger jets. Eleven
<v Speaker 1>years after Paul first met Noema, he was back in
<v Speaker 1>Mexico and looked her up. The couple reconnected, married and
<v Speaker 1>raised a family in Fairfield. Only in her fifties did
<v Speaker 1>no Ama decide she wanted to be a teacher. So,
<v Speaker 1>being the kind of person that just does what she
<v Speaker 1>wants to do, she earned her degree and certificate. For
<v Speaker 1>the next nine years, many Fairfield students would learn no
<v Speaker 1>AMA's native language directly from her.
<v Speaker 11>She goes missing. People go missing, right, it's not. It's
<v Speaker 11>always created as serious, but it's not always presumed that
<v Speaker 11>the person that the worst has happened, Right, you have
<v Speaker 11>to assume and look. But ninety nine times out of
<v Speaker 11>one hundred, when somebody goes missing, it's you know, they
<v Speaker 11>either don't want to be found from a significant other
<v Speaker 11>they're hiding from, or it's a kid that runs away,
<v Speaker 11>whatever it is. But missus Graver's lifestyle and life pattern
<v Speaker 11>really was a predict and be very She's not somebody
<v Speaker 11>that would just go missing, So her being missing was
<v Speaker 11>taken very seriously. And her you know, she's not somebody
<v Speaker 11>that would just not show up to class. You know,
<v Speaker 11>she's not somebody that would just not come home to
<v Speaker 11>her husband. Her husband happened to be out of town
<v Speaker 11>to day she went missing. So he comes home and
<v Speaker 11>she's just not there.
<v Speaker 1>Almost immediately, residents started calling the dispatch center detailing where
<v Speaker 1>they saw her in the days before and after her disappearance.
<v Speaker 7>Right, my name is Joy Craig, and I just got
<v Speaker 7>an email from the school saying that missus Gregory is missing, Okay,
<v Speaker 7>And I just want to say that I know I
<v Speaker 7>saw her at the library on Monday the first, because
<v Speaker 7>we had a Day of the Dead celebration, okay, And
<v Speaker 7>she was there and that.
<v Speaker 9>Was eight okay, And so that started at five.
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, so I don't it ended at six because he
<v Speaker 7>closed it six and so I know she was there
<v Speaker 7>sometimes during that period, and.
<v Speaker 9>I believe she was there by herself. All right, we
<v Speaker 9>will get that added into our report.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people calling in were parents and students
<v Speaker 1>who had just seen no Ema at school the day
<v Speaker 1>she went missing.
<v Speaker 9>So my son and I were there yesterday at school.
<v Speaker 9>We met with her at a quarter after one. I
<v Speaker 9>think we left about two point thirty, and I just
<v Speaker 9>was seeing posts on Facebook that people were reporting they
<v Speaker 9>didn't know what happened to her in the afternoon, so
<v Speaker 9>I thought it would be useful to let you know.
<v Speaker 1>Calls were coming from everywhere, like a man who thought
<v Speaker 1>he saw no Ema and her van in Middletown the
<v Speaker 1>day after she went missing. And this doctor leaving the
<v Speaker 1>hospital thought she saw Noema's van in the parking lot.
<v Speaker 3>Jeffrey's an Catty law center.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm curious. Are you still looking for information about
<v Speaker 4>the missing teacher or was she found? What information do
<v Speaker 4>you have? Oh, I just saw something unusual when I
<v Speaker 4>was leaving work from the hospital, and I don't know
<v Speaker 4>if it involves her or not. I just saw like
<v Speaker 4>an argument, you know. Two cars pulled into the parking
<v Speaker 4>lot when I was leaving about five forty five on
<v Speaker 4>Tuesday evening, and one looked kind of like her van,
<v Speaker 4>and she got out and she was upset. She was
<v Speaker 4>talking really loudly, and she walked towards the driver's door
<v Speaker 4>of the other cars that looked like kind of like
<v Speaker 4>a sedan or something. Okay, I had more than one
<v Speaker 4>person in it, and I don't know if it was her.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I didn't look real good, but I'm a physician,
<v Speaker 4>and I just got in my car real quick because
<v Speaker 4>I thought maybe there was a fight, and there wasn't
<v Speaker 4>hardly anybody else there, you know, this parking lot was
<v Speaker 4>pretty empty.
<v Speaker 1>The thing is, the cops located no Ema in record time.
<v Speaker 1>Do doo the consistency of her routine. She always took
<v Speaker 1>a walk at Chittauqua Park at the end of the
<v Speaker 1>school day, so that's where they first started looking.
<v Speaker 11>Now un the nust and then we've found the body
<v Speaker 11>at that point. The body was found close to sundown,
<v Speaker 11>but the search pattern located her relatively quickly. She was
<v Speaker 11>in a you know, not a well traveled part of
<v Speaker 11>the park, but she wasn't a public park, you know.
<v Speaker 1>The police formed a grid and officers started looking near
<v Speaker 1>the northeast side, where thick underbrush lined railroad tracks. Keeping
<v Speaker 1>the others in view, one went forward and saw a
<v Speaker 1>red wheelbarrow hidden in the shadows with a blue tarp
<v Speaker 1>strewn over it. Near this was a cluster of rocks
<v Speaker 1>showing faint red drops of what seemed like blood. Careful
<v Speaker 1>not to disturb the evidence, the two continued walking westward
<v Speaker 1>and came to a paved trail deep into the park.
<v Speaker 1>But then, all of a sudden, the officer turned around
<v Speaker 1>and spotted a green sweater and dark shirt lying tangled
<v Speaker 1>in the brush. The sweater marked with The brown stain
<v Speaker 1>was twisted amongst branches, and the shirt had a red
<v Speaker 1>substance with the unmistakable consistency of blood. Then a call
<v Speaker 1>came in from an officer back where the wheelbarrow was seen.
<v Speaker 1>He found what appeared to be a human foot barely
<v Speaker 1>visible beneath the tarp, partially covered by the railroad tie.
<v Speaker 1>As they regrouped at that location, they had to climb
<v Speaker 1>down a steep hill. This is where they uncovered Noema
<v Speaker 1>about one hundred yards east of the trail, under the
<v Speaker 1>tarp and wheelbarrow. She had been violently assaulted. Her pants
<v Speaker 1>were down around her ankles with her underwear, Her top
<v Speaker 1>had slid up or was pulled up, and she was
<v Speaker 1>wearing only a white bra lying somewhat on her side.
<v Speaker 1>The back of her head was noticeably battered and bloody,
<v Speaker 1>with tiny twigs and broken leaves smashed into the hair
<v Speaker 1>strands along with dried, caked blood. As the search pressed on,
<v Speaker 1>other deputies followed new leads streaming in from the dispatch center.
<v Speaker 1>One collar in particular would deliver a revelation that changed everything,
<v Speaker 1>fast tracking the hunt for Noema's killer or killers. This
<v Speaker 1>was the first homicide in Jefferson County in over ten years.
<v Speaker 1>In the early morning hours after NOA. Mcgrabor's body was found,
<v Speaker 1>residents of Fairfield, Iowa were about to face the reality
<v Speaker 1>of her brutal killing. It was the fall of twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty one. In quiet town, known for its peaceful streets
<v Speaker 1>and close knit community, was suddenly shaken by the kind
<v Speaker 1>of tragedy it had rarely, if ever faced. The victim
<v Speaker 1>was one of their very own respected teachers. After a
<v Speaker 1>quickly finding Noema at the local Chautauqua Park, the investigation
<v Speaker 1>shifted into high gear. Local law enforcement, alongside state investigators,
<v Speaker 1>started piecing together the evidence, hoping to make sense of
<v Speaker 1>what happened. Leeds emerged, calls kept coming in, and a
<v Speaker 1>clearer picture of Noema's final hours was starting to take shape.
<v Speaker 1>But for detectives, one question loomed largest of all, who
<v Speaker 1>could do this and why. The very person closest to
<v Speaker 1>Noema was her ex husband, who still lived with her
<v Speaker 1>part time. The pair had even discussed getting remarried, something
<v Speaker 1>that would make all three of their children happy, but
<v Speaker 1>especially their youngest since he was disabled. Her ex husband, Paul,
<v Speaker 1>brought out some startling information while Noema was well expected
<v Speaker 1>amongst her peers. She wasn't liked by all the students,
<v Speaker 1>especially the students who didn't work hard for their grades.
<v Speaker 1>He also noted that there was a history of grade
<v Speaker 1>changing at FHS for quote unquote favorite people. He specifically
<v Speaker 1>pointed the finger at Principal Becker. Get this, Paul said,
<v Speaker 1>former Principal Becker wanted his wife fired for not fixing grades,
<v Speaker 1>and the current administration immediately fell into the same mindset,
<v Speaker 1>the mentality that no child should be left behind, no
<v Speaker 1>matter what the circumstances, but especially not if it's their child.
<v Speaker 1>Paul said his wife was even confronted by the current
<v Speaker 1>principal and his wife in order to give their son
<v Speaker 1>a better grade, but no aimas standards would never or
<v Speaker 1>do something like this. It's you know, unethical, remember ethics,
<v Speaker 1>remember that shit. She rebutted that the only way she
<v Speaker 1>would change their son's grade would be if she changed
<v Speaker 1>every student's grade too. Paul reported that former Principal Becker
<v Speaker 1>threatened his wife physically by telling her he hoped he'd
<v Speaker 1>never meet her alone. Becker tried to get her fired
<v Speaker 1>but was unable to only because of a procedural error.
<v Speaker 1>Becker was in the room when the vote was taken.
<v Speaker 1>The current vice principal had the same negative view of
<v Speaker 1>Noema because of her posture on grades. I guess the
<v Speaker 1>idea of them being earned in all didn't sit well.
<v Speaker 1>If you think our legal system is bad, then don't
<v Speaker 1>even bother looking at the educational system. It'll frustrate the
<v Speaker 1>fuck out of you. According to Paul, his wife was
<v Speaker 1>a very old school in the way she thought, you know,
<v Speaker 1>earning things and not just being handed them boomer shit.
<v Speaker 1>Some people don't like boomer shit and they get very,
<v Speaker 1>very angry. Paul said, if a student wanted a grade,
<v Speaker 1>she expected them to put in the work and didn't
<v Speaker 1>believe in just handing them out. He went on to
<v Speaker 1>tell police that at one point their house was egged
<v Speaker 1>and windows were broken by a huge group of students
<v Speaker 1>who also threatened will get you, meaning they were going
<v Speaker 1>to be violent if they didn't get their way. So
<v Speaker 1>who would have thought that being a teacher, at least
<v Speaker 1>one that takes their job seriously would make you a
<v Speaker 1>target by the very administration who's supposed to be watching
<v Speaker 1>over these children. Among the calls flooding in a dispatch
<v Speaker 1>and the DA's office one call stood out and led
<v Speaker 1>investigators in a dark direction.
<v Speaker 3>Hi, Jefferson County in Law Center, Payter says Tracy again, Hi, Hey,
<v Speaker 3>I have a question. I don't know what TD officers
<v Speaker 3>are working or anything, but I was talking with my
<v Speaker 3>daughter and she was talking with me a little more
<v Speaker 3>about the boy that she's kind of seeing being friends
<v Speaker 3>with this kid that I talked to Barker about, and
<v Speaker 3>she gave me a little more info from this friend.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't know if it was something I needed to
<v Speaker 3>bring her in and disclose to an author.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, who do you know who the kid is, Tracy?
<v Speaker 3>The boy she's seeing, his name is Bill or Billan
<v Speaker 3>or something like that. This this Bill, and it has
<v Speaker 3>it's pertaining to this teacher.
<v Speaker 4>But yessing, yes, so Bill.
<v Speaker 3>Apparently, according to Olivia a couple of weeks ago, this
<v Speaker 3>kid I can't say his name, Chasen or Jayden or whatever.
<v Speaker 10>You know A lot of.
<v Speaker 3>Friend I do not, m hm, So I guess Olivia said.
<v Speaker 3>A few days ago this Shyden told his friend Dyll
<v Speaker 3>that Olivia is kind of dating. Not to be surprised
<v Speaker 3>that the teacher comes up missing.
<v Speaker 9>Right right?
<v Speaker 11>Okay?
<v Speaker 3>And so I just didn't know if I needed to
<v Speaker 3>bring her in so she could just tell them what
<v Speaker 3>she had discussed with the boyfriend.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, yep, yep, yep.
<v Speaker 7>And your daughter is Madison or this is Olivia?
<v Speaker 3>Olivia is Olivia? Yeah?
<v Speaker 9>Are they currently still seeing each other? Dyl and Olivia?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>I mean there's they'll talk every night.
<v Speaker 7>Okay, So okay, and.
<v Speaker 4>Night told this Shandon boy is the one that told.
<v Speaker 3>Dil Yes, and Bill told Olivia. Because Bill is concerned.
<v Speaker 7>Sure, let me go ahead and pass on the information
<v Speaker 7>on this tracy.
<v Speaker 1>This mother gave two different time frames for when this
<v Speaker 1>kid had heard the information. That's days and two weeks,
<v Speaker 1>but whether it was days or weeks, this was evidence
<v Speaker 1>that some students still had it out for their Spanish teacher.
<v Speaker 1>One of those students who admitted he didn't like her
<v Speaker 1>and quote wouldn't be surprised if she disappeared was named
<v Speaker 1>Willard Noble Chaydon Miller and simply went by the name Chayden.
<v Speaker 12>What were you getting in Spanish?
<v Speaker 6>I was really great because so I started the year
<v Speaker 6>like any other with open mind ambition.
<v Speaker 12>I want to get the work time.
<v Speaker 13>I'm not only the kids.
<v Speaker 6>I don't see how did people have the same class
<v Speaker 6>on their phoneland, like they know that we're it's not
<v Speaker 6>the hearty honestly, and it makes your life how and
<v Speaker 6>it really just funks over your future. Honestly, this crap
<v Speaker 6>is very old fashioned. Hate technology. Yeah, well makes your life.
<v Speaker 12>Hell.
<v Speaker 6>She sees your phone and she's not that great at English,
<v Speaker 6>so just that as she kind of just stands upon
<v Speaker 6>the class and like talks about stuff and then we'll those words.
<v Speaker 6>I feel like the information has not been covered nearly
<v Speaker 6>enough for us.
<v Speaker 14>There's some kids like us can do it.
<v Speaker 12>She takes favorites.
<v Speaker 15>I don't.
<v Speaker 6>I don't look at speaking Italy because she's really missing.
<v Speaker 12>But I just I.
<v Speaker 6>Wasn't one of her favorites, I think, and she will prioritize.
<v Speaker 12>Her favorites even though they're the ones that are usually
<v Speaker 12>doing the best in class.
<v Speaker 6>And just the way she teaches, it's not like to
<v Speaker 6>pass the class, and it feels very self taught and
<v Speaker 6>you're on your own.
<v Speaker 1>Jayden tried talking to Noema and even talk to the
<v Speaker 1>principle about her. The principal's response was to tell him
<v Speaker 1>that he was aware of the problem because so many
<v Speaker 1>kids through the generations had trouble and tried to get
<v Speaker 1>her fired. The principle took copious notes, and Jayden remarked
<v Speaker 1>that he was a good principle who liked the kids
<v Speaker 1>a lot, and that made the principle happy, but who
<v Speaker 1>had so much hatred towards Noema that they would attack
<v Speaker 1>her and bash her skulling. That's what police wanted to
<v Speaker 1>know and did mention.
<v Speaker 5>We're here, you know, helping out with the investigation, trying
<v Speaker 5>to figure out what happened with missus Graver.
<v Speaker 12>What do you think happened to her?
<v Speaker 14>It's not like she's a very routine persons prayers with.
<v Speaker 14>They liked her to just often leave.
<v Speaker 12>And when you say she's very routine, what do you
<v Speaker 12>what do you What do you know about her that
<v Speaker 12>would indicate that she's very routine.
<v Speaker 6>Well, she's always on time, she's always where she says
<v Speaker 6>she'll be when she says that. I don't have so
<v Speaker 6>much of a personal relationship with her, but I know
<v Speaker 6>people that too.
<v Speaker 12>Do you know of anybody out there that would have.
<v Speaker 5>A serious gripe with with miss Greebor that may want
<v Speaker 5>to hurt her in some way?
<v Speaker 16>I don't know.
<v Speaker 6>There's a lot of kids that fall into the same
<v Speaker 6>boat as me and Spanish classes and they don't like her.
<v Speaker 14>She's of a asshole. Sometimes not like her enough to
<v Speaker 14>hurt her.
<v Speaker 13>I don't know.
<v Speaker 6>I heard about her wisdow being smashed.
<v Speaker 14>I don't know how long than that was. And then
<v Speaker 14>just yesterday my.
<v Speaker 6>Dad he had gone and actually had a meeting with
<v Speaker 6>her because I had been complaining to him about her
<v Speaker 6>and how this Spanish is kind of shitting on my GPA,
<v Speaker 6>and so he was like, Okay, I'm gonna talk to her.
<v Speaker 6>And he just told me yesterday on while driving me
<v Speaker 6>the therapy that he didn't want to tell me anything
<v Speaker 6>because I would still to seeing her. But apparently so,
<v Speaker 6>I don't know that it happened all in the same night.
<v Speaker 6>Her house got aimed and peeped, and I guess the
<v Speaker 6>window was smashed. I guess I had him all at
<v Speaker 6>the same time, and that meeting, missus Graver.
<v Speaker 12>Had asked him about it.
<v Speaker 14>That's how he found out acid because she was suspecting me.
<v Speaker 1>It was clear that a lot of people took issue
<v Speaker 1>with no AMA students, parents and even the principle, well
<v Speaker 1>both principles, to be fair, She had a history of
<v Speaker 1>students vandalizing her house at least once. But while Jayden
<v Speaker 1>felt like his Spanish grade was shitting on the rest
<v Speaker 1>of his GPA, he confronted no Ama directly and wasn't
<v Speaker 1>part of the group that had broken windows.
<v Speaker 12>And so again, we're.
<v Speaker 5>Not here to come down on you if you were
<v Speaker 5>involved in an egging or a teaching But if you
<v Speaker 5>were involved, I don't.
<v Speaker 12>But if you were involved, we want to get.
<v Speaker 5>It out of the table now so we can identify
<v Speaker 5>that and move on from it.
<v Speaker 12>Okay, so were you involved. You were not involved, And
<v Speaker 12>I know I have no idea.
<v Speaker 6>Usually people like something like this happens. You can find
<v Speaker 6>out once against small town people can be boast. You
<v Speaker 6>never know when no word will slip from someone's Mount
<v Speaker 6>Minico spread anything.
<v Speaker 14>And I could ask around me if I don't, but
<v Speaker 14>I bet there'd be very quiet because it was pretty serious.
<v Speaker 14>I mean, smashing things would do. Yes, that's a big charge.
<v Speaker 14>Actually if not, well, if you could be very easily
<v Speaker 14>become breaking an entering rity, no not just if you
<v Speaker 14>snatch the window and if you go inside and.
<v Speaker 12>Start making you know, messes around made it, that could
<v Speaker 12>be an issue. But so for a high school. That's
<v Speaker 12>pretty Yeah, that was so.
<v Speaker 5>Tell me that is there any can you think of
<v Speaker 5>any reason why somebody might say you were involved in that?
<v Speaker 6>Uh?
<v Speaker 14>Because we butt heads in class.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, but like with a little bit more specifically, like
<v Speaker 5>anybody might say, like, hey, listen, I know for a fact.
<v Speaker 12>He was involved.
<v Speaker 14>Not I think he was no other than us arguing
<v Speaker 14>in class. You know, I don't Okay, Yeah, I wasn't.
<v Speaker 12>Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, I won't.
<v Speaker 6>Miss it because because it's so easily go south, I
<v Speaker 6>feel like if mcco pulls up, but it's not, it's
<v Speaker 6>just a hole.
<v Speaker 12>Right.
<v Speaker 1>Jayden may not have been involved in vandalizing no AMA's
<v Speaker 1>house with a group of students, but he did know
<v Speaker 1>something else about another group and their retaliation against her
<v Speaker 1>in the park on the day she went missing. This
<v Speaker 1>is what he says happened.
<v Speaker 5>It was very.
<v Speaker 6>Sketchy, and I am very good with body language, and
<v Speaker 6>I knew that I did not.
<v Speaker 14>Want to be involved, and.
<v Speaker 6>I got out of there as I want to go down,
<v Speaker 6>want to completely disassociate myself from anything.
<v Speaker 12>That would have happened. You wanted to have had.
<v Speaker 6>Time before anything happened, I said, I need to get
<v Speaker 6>out of here. If something goes down, I don't want.
<v Speaker 12>To be involved at all.
<v Speaker 6>And I left, and I didn't assist with anything. I
<v Speaker 6>had no I want to say, no knowledge, but I
<v Speaker 6>something was up.
<v Speaker 12>And who if I'm with you, did? I know it's okay,
<v Speaker 12>and I know there's.
<v Speaker 6>It's just something was kind of I've been in situations
<v Speaker 6>where you know this isn't by languages, ok Okay, don't
<v Speaker 6>short change it now.
<v Speaker 12>I'm not short changing it, Okay.
<v Speaker 6>What I was saying is that I've been in situations
<v Speaker 6>where I may not be involved, but I may be
<v Speaker 6>with the people that did it or whatever it was,
<v Speaker 6>and things go south very very quickly as soon as
<v Speaker 6>officers show up and whatnot.
<v Speaker 4>And I knew that I.
<v Speaker 6>Could feel that this is this could be very easy
<v Speaker 6>to be one of those situations, and so I left.
<v Speaker 12>Okay, tell me about the situation.
<v Speaker 6>I was at Chautauqua with Jeremy and I seen this Grams.
<v Speaker 5>Car pull up and this is yesterday and or sorry
<v Speaker 5>two days ago, Tuesday.
<v Speaker 12>Night, right, and something didn't.
<v Speaker 6>I had had some buy some prior something from the
<v Speaker 6>past few days, and I knew that this is this
<v Speaker 6>is when I'm gonna leave because I don't know what's
<v Speaker 6>gonna go down. And I did, okay, And I don't
<v Speaker 6>know anything past that point other than the next day
<v Speaker 6>I see that she's not abschool.
<v Speaker 1>This is the part where Jeremy Goodale comes in. Jayden
<v Speaker 1>was at Chatauqua Park with his friend Jeremy and Jeremy's
<v Speaker 1>girlfriend Zoe.
<v Speaker 12>We were hanging out.
<v Speaker 6>For a little bit and we were at the shelter
<v Speaker 6>that's you can kind of see the parking lot, you know,
<v Speaker 6>that's far off you can see.
<v Speaker 12>The parking lot. But then Zoe has to leave.
<v Speaker 6>She leaves, and than some I'm shouldn't you right? And
<v Speaker 6>well if I see miss Grayberg, don't.
<v Speaker 5>Go over that?
<v Speaker 12>What was doing right?
<v Speaker 6>I had had I had heard prior things for the
<v Speaker 6>past week about just a lot of people talking about
<v Speaker 6>missus Drayberg, and just I knew something I met that
<v Speaker 6>there were other people at the park.
<v Speaker 12>Posted up I don't know on the trail or what.
<v Speaker 6>But and I had seen from teenagers when they were
<v Speaker 6>coming like in the distance going down and it was sketchy.
<v Speaker 6>And I see her, and I think something might go down.
<v Speaker 6>I need to disassociate myself cause I am.
<v Speaker 12>I'm staying on the right track. I need to.
<v Speaker 14>Keep clean record.
<v Speaker 6>I'm getting all my trades in, I'm getting as much
<v Speaker 6>college credit in. I'm not trying to fuck this up
<v Speaker 6>by getting becoming a suspect because of me being by
<v Speaker 6>some thing that just happened in being a teenager.
<v Speaker 5>And so I left.
<v Speaker 1>And that's what every parent hopes their kid will do. Right,
<v Speaker 1>leave the scene when shit starts getting shady. But what
<v Speaker 1>about his friend Jeremy. Well, unbeknownst to him, Jeremy has
<v Speaker 1>already been implicated in one of many phone calls reporting
<v Speaker 1>sightings of Noema from Wisconsin no less, But Jeremy does
<v Speaker 1>not disassociate himself like his friend Jayden does.
<v Speaker 10>Hi, I'm calling regarding maybe some information about a missing
<v Speaker 10>woman Noma Graber.
<v Speaker 9>Okay, what's your name?
<v Speaker 10>My name is Sean Allen.
<v Speaker 9>Say El Alien, Yes it is Okay, what information do
<v Speaker 9>you have?
<v Speaker 10>Okay, So I've got a fort I live in Wisconsin.
<v Speaker 10>I've got a fourteen year old who has been playing
<v Speaker 10>Xbox with a young man named Jeremy. That's a lesbian
<v Speaker 10>good Gooddale g O O d A l E. My
<v Speaker 10>son and my son's friend from California have been in
<v Speaker 10>an Xbox Snapchat relationship with this person for a couple
<v Speaker 10>of years. My son comes to me tonight, it just distressed,
<v Speaker 10>just distressed, crying, and he's got to tell me something important,
<v Speaker 10>and he proceeds to tell me. He tells me that
<v Speaker 10>this Jeremy person had shared with my son and my
<v Speaker 10>son's California friend that he killed somebody and there was
<v Speaker 10>a group of people and he described some things in
<v Speaker 10>detail to do with a bat and a car in
<v Speaker 10>It freaked my son out. He kind of blew it off.
<v Speaker 10>But then they received this ktvo missing person's thing, and
<v Speaker 10>now it's got my son just really really really freaked out.
<v Speaker 1>So you know how Snapchat's really big because the messages
<v Speaker 1>and pictures are immediately deleted with the correct settings. Two warnings.
<v Speaker 1>First of all, the receiver can still screenshot it naud duh.
<v Speaker 1>And of course the cops can always get their hands
<v Speaker 1>on records through a subpoena. Oh I'm sorry. Did you
<v Speaker 1>think it was end to end encryptid? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Right?
<v Speaker 10>And then, like I said, last night, Ben and Jack
<v Speaker 10>received a snap which I think has been self deleted
<v Speaker 10>or gone at this point. But this Jeremy allegedly told
<v Speaker 10>this tale about what he had done. And then then
<v Speaker 10>my son thinks Jeremy may be using drugs.
<v Speaker 4>And when did Jeremy sail this?
<v Speaker 10>Then what time yesterday did Jeremy get a hold of you?
<v Speaker 10>Ten o'clock last night Central time?
<v Speaker 1>This bag the question. Since Jeremy admitted he killed someone,
<v Speaker 1>did he say when he did this?
<v Speaker 10>So Ben's thinking between after school and ten o'clock?
<v Speaker 4>Okay, Sean, how do you say your first name?
<v Speaker 2>B A?
<v Speaker 10>And yeah, okay, picture where Oh it sounds like Ben
<v Speaker 10>and Jack, my son and my son's friend were a
<v Speaker 10>little freaked out and we're trying to be sleuths and
<v Speaker 10>track where this guy was on Snapchat and took some
<v Speaker 10>screenshots and stuff.
<v Speaker 8>So did it show that he's at Fairfield?
<v Speaker 10>It shows that Jeremy is in Fairfield.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently Jeremy thought that since Snapchat is anonymous and can
<v Speaker 1>be set to delete immediately, it was okay to confess
<v Speaker 1>to murder to someone in a different state. Not only
<v Speaker 1>did Jeremy confess, but he also gave details like a
<v Speaker 1>complete fucking moron, you know, zoomers the future leaders of society.
<v Speaker 10>Ben was recalling that Jeremy said there was a group
<v Speaker 10>of friends that then. Did they say they hid the car,
<v Speaker 10>did something with the body? Did any of that? I think,
<v Speaker 10>I don't know. He showed me a picture of that
<v Speaker 10>him packing a bleach into a backpack from the hed
<v Speaker 10>the body, and he said. Ben says Jeremy sent him
<v Speaker 10>to pictures of what appeared to be a bloodied shirt
<v Speaker 10>and bleachs going into a backpack.
<v Speaker 1>Imagine you're a parent and your kid lays this on you,
<v Speaker 1>would you believe them?
<v Speaker 10>Part of me was thinking, Okay, this is got to
<v Speaker 10>be bullshit. But then you know, we found the kid
<v Speaker 10>on Facebook. Ben knows that he plays tennis. That name
<v Speaker 10>is on the tennis roster at the high school in Fairfield. Again,
<v Speaker 10>somebody weird could have all figured that out and made
<v Speaker 10>it up. But right, but whatever, there's some of those
<v Speaker 10>things were lining up. I don't know when this, I
<v Speaker 10>don't know when this missing person's thing came out. It
<v Speaker 10>looks like it looks like today.
<v Speaker 1>The missing person's alert hit the state of Wisconsin just
<v Speaker 1>two days after the group of teens allegedly killed no Ema.
<v Speaker 1>This dad called in because his son received a snap
<v Speaker 1>from a gamer friend Jeremy, who lived in Iowa. Jeremy
<v Speaker 1>implicated a whole group of teens and police were interviewing Chayden,
<v Speaker 1>who initially claimed no involvement. But Chayden's story was changing, and.
<v Speaker 5>I get why you came in here, and you spent
<v Speaker 5>the first forty five minutes avoiding certain things because they're very,
<v Speaker 5>very uncomfortable to talk with.
<v Speaker 12>Okay, But even in this new version of.
<v Speaker 5>It that you're telling me, where you were out there
<v Speaker 5>and you actually saw this graver pull up, you saw
<v Speaker 5>her pull up, and then you decided.
<v Speaker 12>Oh, I don't want to be a part of this.
<v Speaker 12>That doesn't I don't buy that for a second. Not
<v Speaker 12>for a second. She pulled up, and I knew, here's why.
<v Speaker 12>Can I tell you why that doesn't shake out?
<v Speaker 5>Because for forty five minutes you were in you're saying,
<v Speaker 5>no Chicagua.
<v Speaker 12>Barely any Jeremy nowhere about my house.
<v Speaker 5>Then all of a sudden, that confronts you with the effect
<v Speaker 5>of something that you already knew was true, and then
<v Speaker 5>your story angels, but not enough.
<v Speaker 1>Jaden's story was a slow rollout, like putting your big
<v Speaker 1>toe in a lake to see how cold it is,
<v Speaker 1>and if you can handle it, then putting your whole
<v Speaker 1>foot in and then your leg so you realize you're
<v Speaker 1>freezing and you should get the hell out of this lake. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>the story kept changing, one little bit at a time.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, like I shouldn't have a lot of people working
<v Speaker 5>on this. I can tell in your eyes that you
<v Speaker 5>have regrets, okay, but it lies in the falsehoods and
<v Speaker 5>have truth. Don't show a person who's remorseful about what
<v Speaker 5>they did.
<v Speaker 15>We were walking down the path of the road and
<v Speaker 15>there were other people. Okay, I'm telling you this was
<v Speaker 15>not a one person thing. There were five, six, seven maybe.
<v Speaker 6>Okay, And so I'm walking down and then we get
<v Speaker 6>to there's another.
<v Speaker 12>Trail that heads off.
<v Speaker 6>And then a few minutes later I looked down and
<v Speaker 6>I kind of see who There are multiple people.
<v Speaker 12>Around, and they were moving moving what a body okay, and.
<v Speaker 6>I freaked out. I had a panic attack and I ran.
<v Speaker 1>But as the officer pointed out already, he wasn't buying it,
<v Speaker 1>not for a second. And if Jayden didn't want to
<v Speaker 1>immerse himself in the deep waters of truth, he was
<v Speaker 1>going to get a shove.
<v Speaker 12>We're right back to where we started you understand change,
<v Speaker 12>you understand how that doesn't shake out.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, And as I told you, we have other people
<v Speaker 5>putting you a lot deeper involved in this than what
<v Speaker 5>you're explaining.
<v Speaker 12>Okay. Basically, what we're trying to figure out is whether you're.
<v Speaker 5>The ring leader or you're just along for the ride,
<v Speaker 5>because there's a big difference.
<v Speaker 12>Plan anything.
<v Speaker 14>No one put in any plans.
<v Speaker 12>And she looking right now. I can tell you how
<v Speaker 12>I regret about what happened. Okay. We can't change the past.
<v Speaker 12>And it's a bitter pill to swallow.
<v Speaker 1>With all the interviews being conducted and all the surveillance
<v Speaker 1>footage reviewed, there was one person who could either get
<v Speaker 1>Chayden off the hook or completely drown him. The kid
<v Speaker 1>that sent the snapchat, Jeremy Goodale.
<v Speaker 5>I'm glad you're here because we certainly have a lot
<v Speaker 5>of things that.
<v Speaker 12>We kind of need to hash out and whatnot.
<v Speaker 5>I've got some questions that I'd certainly like to discuss
<v Speaker 5>with Jeremy if possible, but because he's a minor.
<v Speaker 12>We need to go through you. Okay.
<v Speaker 5>I'm sure at the conclusion of any questions that I have,
<v Speaker 5>I'm sure he'll ask some questions for me, but ultimately
<v Speaker 5>that's completely up to the two of you whether you
<v Speaker 5>want to speak any further with me and hear what
<v Speaker 5>I have to say.
<v Speaker 12>I like him, was that this is an investigation of
<v Speaker 12>this Grover been found.
<v Speaker 5>So at this point and I'll be up front eyes
<v Speaker 5>with you, at this point, human remains have been located. Okay,
<v Speaker 5>those human remains have not been positively identified as Missus Graver,
<v Speaker 5>but due to a lot of different circumstances, we feel
<v Speaker 5>there's a murder investigation.
<v Speaker 1>Jaden eventually accepted public defense, but Jeremy and his dad
<v Speaker 1>hired a lawyer right away and didn't speak. It didn't
<v Speaker 1>really matter though, who spoke and who didn't. The cops
<v Speaker 1>had Jeremy and snapchat admitting the murder and showing a
<v Speaker 1>bloody shirt. They had footage of Jeremy pushing a wheelbarrow
<v Speaker 1>past the school to Chataqua Park that night. They had
<v Speaker 1>the kids at school saying Jayden told them I caught
<v Speaker 1>a body with a baseball bat. With all this evidence
<v Speaker 1>and more, there was enough probable cause for search warrants.
<v Speaker 1>They uncovered the bat, the murder weapon, the footage at
<v Speaker 1>the park during the hours of Noema's murder and concealment
<v Speaker 1>showed no other teens in the park. It was down
<v Speaker 1>to Jeremy and Chayden. All the evidence was pointing to
<v Speaker 1>Jeremy as the lead killer, but what didn't make sense
<v Speaker 1>was the motive. Jeremy had already taken and passed Noema
<v Speaker 1>Graber's Spanish class. He had literally no skin in the game.
<v Speaker 1>It was Chayden who was planning a trip to Spain
<v Speaker 1>that depended on whether or not he passed or failed.
<v Speaker 1>It was also Chayden and his dad who went to
<v Speaker 1>discuss this grade within hours of Noema's murder. According to
<v Speaker 1>her husband, Noeima warned him about this meeting with Chaydon
<v Speaker 1>and his parents. She said it wasn't pleasant and she
<v Speaker 1>felt like Chaydon legitimately hated her. She would even turn
<v Speaker 1>from the whiteboard to face the class, and every time
<v Speaker 1>she felt like Chayden's angry stare was burning into her core.
<v Speaker 1>Both teens were arrested and eleven months later, Jeremy offered
<v Speaker 1>to give a complete and accurate account of what happened
<v Speaker 1>in exchange for leniency.
<v Speaker 17>But do you recall the first time ever having a
<v Speaker 17>conversation with chadon about miss Graver, and not necessarily about
<v Speaker 17>what happened, but just a conversation with him about, you know,
<v Speaker 17>some frustrations or a general awareness of her.
<v Speaker 18>Probably would have been about a month and a half
<v Speaker 18>before November second, he would have brought up He brought
<v Speaker 18>up some frustrations to me talking about how he was
<v Speaker 18>having a hard time he didn't feel like she was
<v Speaker 18>being very adequate understanding.
<v Speaker 12>So probably early in the school year.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so hypothetically, of course, exactly how do you approach
<v Speaker 1>another person, especially at school and ask for help been
<v Speaker 1>killing a teacher?
<v Speaker 12>It was just like any other day.
<v Speaker 18>I was eating lunch in the cafeteria with John and
<v Speaker 18>Shaden and a few.
<v Speaker 19>Other people that we said with, and when I got
<v Speaker 19>up to bust my lunch trays, he kind of pulled
<v Speaker 19>me aside and said, would you help me if I
<v Speaker 19>killed missus Graver?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I guess it's just like that.
<v Speaker 12>What was your response.
<v Speaker 18>I had paused for a moment and looked at him,
<v Speaker 18>and then I said sure pretty much.
<v Speaker 17>I said yes, okay, And I mean, that's not a
<v Speaker 17>request that a friend asked every day, And so what
<v Speaker 17>was your immediate reaction that, Like, Hey, he's my best friend,
<v Speaker 17>he needs something, I'm here to help, or what kind
<v Speaker 17>of thoughts were going through your mind before you say.
<v Speaker 12>Like, yeah, sure, I mean.
<v Speaker 18>Originally was just trying to yeah. As soon as he
<v Speaker 18>said that, I was like, holy shit, I mean, I
<v Speaker 18>guess I'll help you. I'm just trying to be a
<v Speaker 18>good friend.
<v Speaker 1>Just trying to be a good friend. That's what goes
<v Speaker 1>through the minds of underdeveloped, idiotic brains. Remember that I.
<v Speaker 12>Would have been feeling pretty nervous at the time.
<v Speaker 18>I mean, at this point, I was pretty convinced that
<v Speaker 18>he was going to go through with it, and I
<v Speaker 18>had already agreed, and I just didn't want to seem
<v Speaker 18>like a coward or a whissp by backing out at
<v Speaker 18>the last moment.
<v Speaker 1>Well, Jeremy was committed enough to his friendship with Jayden
<v Speaker 1>to be complicit in murder. It seems the friendship may
<v Speaker 1>not have been reciprocated. It sure felt like Chayden tried
<v Speaker 1>to pin everything on first a group of kids and
<v Speaker 1>second Jeremy sou speciously. He asked Jeremy to go to
<v Speaker 1>get a wheelbarrow from Chaden's house. Later that night, when
<v Speaker 1>they moved the body. Was he trying to set them up?
<v Speaker 1>This was da Chauncey Moulding's response.
<v Speaker 11>Well, you're asking a question that we on on our
<v Speaker 11>team have asked a few times, and I think I
<v Speaker 11>think it was. I haven't watched the proper innyview with
<v Speaker 11>Jeremy in a very long time, but there was a
<v Speaker 11>real big part of my thought process that wondered why
<v Speaker 11>Chadon couldn't bring the wheelbarrow himself and was it possible
<v Speaker 11>that he was setting Jeremy up to be the ball
<v Speaker 11>And I don't have enough information one way or the other,
<v Speaker 11>but you know, it doesn't make sense to me if
<v Speaker 11>we're both sneaking out of our house at midnight for it.
<v Speaker 11>Ask if you and I live in the same town
<v Speaker 11>or were going to meet at the same place at midnight,
<v Speaker 11>I wouldn't ask you to come to my house and
<v Speaker 11>grab something. I would bring it myself.
<v Speaker 1>This isn't to say that Jeremy wasn't completely in on
<v Speaker 1>the plan. He was, and nobody forced him to tattle
<v Speaker 1>to his gamer friend through snapchat either. Remember the picture
<v Speaker 1>was sent showing Jeremy's face, with the caption saying that
<v Speaker 1>this was the last face his Spanish teacher would see.
<v Speaker 1>It didn't feel like there was a lot of remorse.
<v Speaker 17>That to me shows somebody that's not ashamed of what
<v Speaker 17>he's doing. Is what I'm getting that, and so there
<v Speaker 17>had to be some pride. I would think that was
<v Speaker 17>between the two of you, that you're working together on
<v Speaker 17>this and executing the way that you went into.
<v Speaker 12>Is that fair?
<v Speaker 18>There would have been some bravado, sure, right, project myself as.
<v Speaker 12>Some cold hearted killering, right?
<v Speaker 17>Okay, okay, Now when was thet's talk about In terms
<v Speaker 17>of the planning. You agree to help him out, You
<v Speaker 17>agree that, hey, there's a four eight weekend coming up.
<v Speaker 17>What are your different options here? Explain what you mean options?
<v Speaker 12>What are the.
<v Speaker 17>Different options for a plan like we could shooter her,
<v Speaker 17>we could use baseball bats and we could stab, or
<v Speaker 17>we could do all these different things. What's being discussed
<v Speaker 17>between you two?
<v Speaker 18>I really just left the planning up to him.
<v Speaker 1>Detectives were able to back up Jeremy's story after finding
<v Speaker 1>a murder list created by Chaden that detailed every implement
<v Speaker 1>they would need down to garbage bags. Then, under a
<v Speaker 1>column entitled procedure were the damning words of a young killer.
<v Speaker 1>It's done, Move off the trail, empty compartments, load cargo,
<v Speaker 1>blanket cargo, deactivate compartment contents, leave the bag by exit
<v Speaker 1>and transport safely. Stun switch glove, deactivate the article to bag.
<v Speaker 1>Finalize the win, secure victory, load into the storage spot.
<v Speaker 1>Don't forget to close the door on the ground and
<v Speaker 1>switch gloves. Move the sticks, wipe down tools, dispose of articles,
<v Speaker 1>and grab bag by exit.
<v Speaker 2>Done.
<v Speaker 1>Just going to say this once if you're the type
<v Speaker 1>of person that has the limited intellectual capacity to where
<v Speaker 1>you have to write things down otherwise they might slip
<v Speaker 1>your mind. And one of those things is a list
<v Speaker 1>of items you'll need for murder and how to actually murder,
<v Speaker 1>and you have to actually write out the word done
<v Speaker 1>at the end of it. You know, I hate to
<v Speaker 1>say this, but you might not have what it takes
<v Speaker 1>for murder. In Fairfield, Iowa, a place with small town
<v Speaker 1>routines and traditions, students at Fairfield High School were used
<v Speaker 1>to getting a pass in some classes, like Spanish, at
<v Speaker 1>least some students were, and it seemed the school's administration
<v Speaker 1>condoned the lenient grades given out to some no student
<v Speaker 1>left behind, you know, all that bullshit, But Noaai mcgrabor's
<v Speaker 1>traditional style and strict grading left some students frustrated and resentful,
<v Speaker 1>particularly those who think they're entitled to whatever grades they
<v Speaker 1>want again, particularly a student by the name of Chaden Miller.
<v Speaker 1>Chayden and Jeremy were two ordinary high school boys. Both
<v Speaker 1>were you know, somewhat intelligent, I guess, and neither had
<v Speaker 1>a criminal record. But Chayden was ambitious and calculating. He
<v Speaker 1>led the way by repeatedly venting his frustrations about his
<v Speaker 1>Spanish grade and how this was going to fuck up
<v Speaker 1>his future.
<v Speaker 12>I guess.
<v Speaker 1>Murder wouldn't do that, though, right, moron right. Jeremy, his
<v Speaker 1>loyal friend who'd known him since preschool, was impulsive and
<v Speaker 1>easily influenced, so he quickly fell in line with his
<v Speaker 1>friend's ideas. If you can't lead, follow, that's what they
<v Speaker 1>say anyway. On November two, twenty twenty one, the extent
<v Speaker 1>of Chayden's hatred became horrifyingly real when search teams found
<v Speaker 1>Noah mac Greebor's body concealed under a tarp and wheelbarrow
<v Speaker 1>in a heavily wooded area of to Taquate Park. On
<v Speaker 1>that day, two ordinary students with hopeful futures became hardened killers.
<v Speaker 11>When Chaden and Jeremy were brought in and it was
<v Speaker 11>determined that we had probably cause to charge first degree
<v Speaker 11>murder for both Chaden and Jeremy. The most difficult part
<v Speaker 11>in the initial stages for me personally was just having
<v Speaker 11>to sit down with Jeremy's family and Jayden's family and
<v Speaker 11>explain to them, Look, I'm sorry that you the one
<v Speaker 11>have to tell you this, but both your sons are
<v Speaker 11>in custody, and both of them have charges for killing
<v Speaker 11>missus Graber, and they will not be on a such thing.
<v Speaker 1>Noam mcgreeber would all so not becoming home. She may
<v Speaker 1>have been an old school teacher, but she was still
<v Speaker 1>loved by many students and certainly loved by her family.
<v Speaker 11>She gave up that life to move here and keep
<v Speaker 11>Spanish who she was married to, Paul, who her husband,
<v Speaker 11>who unfortunately all died a week before of Jad, so
<v Speaker 11>he was very very good. The whole Graver family is
<v Speaker 11>some of the most sweet and just open hearted people
<v Speaker 11>were never dealt with as victims, and they're very to
<v Speaker 11>be completely friends with you. Far more forgiving of these
<v Speaker 11>two boys than I ever would be. So she was
<v Speaker 11>a well regarded teacher. I think that she made a
<v Speaker 11>pretty big impact on the case that she taught. She
<v Speaker 11>was strict, but she was fair and she was very kind,
<v Speaker 11>and I think that she really kind of left an
<v Speaker 11>impact on the kids that she taught because there is
<v Speaker 11>there is still like a memorial for her, and the
<v Speaker 11>kids put something together every year, an annual walk for
<v Speaker 11>missus Graeber at the park where she was killed.
<v Speaker 1>Chayden was in fact the leader, planner, and mastermind behind
<v Speaker 1>the killing of Noah mcgreebor. Though Chayden's parents were separated,
<v Speaker 1>he lived with his mother and his father lived around
<v Speaker 1>the corner. Provided with a doting mom and a sharp mind,
<v Speaker 1>he couldn't bear the idea of anything or anyone standing
<v Speaker 1>in the way of his plans. After all, they were
<v Speaker 1>his plans and the children are our future, or so
<v Speaker 1>I'm told. Noa mcgreebor, his Spanish teacher, had become an obstacle,
<v Speaker 1>and Chayden didn't like obstacles. Jayden's dream was to join
<v Speaker 1>an exchange program in Spain, a plan that he feared
<v Speaker 1>is failing. Spanish great aid would ruin. Ironically, his victim's
<v Speaker 1>story started with a similar dream. No Aima first met
<v Speaker 1>her husband Paul in Mexico when he was an exchange student.
<v Speaker 1>Little did she know that by refusing to give in
<v Speaker 1>to the demands of this young man Chayden, his family
<v Speaker 1>and the school administration, she would lose her life to
<v Speaker 1>his ambition. Well, he pled guilty and was given life
<v Speaker 1>and the possibility of parole in thirty five years. His
<v Speaker 1>statement that the sentencing hearing was anything but ambitious, I.
<v Speaker 12>Like to say this opportunity to its possibly for the
<v Speaker 12>morel India murder.
<v Speaker 5>I would like to appall use for my action as
<v Speaker 5>first and foremost through the family.
<v Speaker 2>I'm a serting sorrier for the distress that I.
<v Speaker 12>Caused you, the devastation.
<v Speaker 1>Sorry, some of Noema's family didn't quite believe in Chaden's sincerity.
<v Speaker 20>To this day is going to make that he feels
<v Speaker 20>no genuine worse. No doubt he's sorry for himself. I'm
<v Speaker 20>sorry he's here, sorry for what's coming, perhaps sorry for
<v Speaker 20>his family, But I don't believe he feels genuine remorse
<v Speaker 20>or slaughtering in the way of Braver. I believe willerd
<v Speaker 20>Chade Miller should be sentenced to life in prison, the
<v Speaker 20>primate that he actually served no less than thirty five
<v Speaker 20>years before becoming eligible to be considered for the possibility
<v Speaker 20>of them.
<v Speaker 1>Sadly, Jeremy's dad died of cancer after becoming weakened from
<v Speaker 1>the stress of this whole ordeal. His only son committed
<v Speaker 1>an act that would stain his life and he would
<v Speaker 1>never see his son as a freeman again. The funeral
<v Speaker 1>was held the day before Chayden's sentencing, making it all
<v Speaker 1>that much sadder. Jeremy good Ale was Jayden's opposite in
<v Speaker 1>many ways. Whereas Chayden had friends, he was socially awkward.
<v Speaker 1>Jeremy was the more popular of the two, but somehow
<v Speaker 1>played the role of follower to Chayden's lead. He was
<v Speaker 1>easily influenced and quite vulnerable. The only boy with four
<v Speaker 1>older sisters, you might think there was plenty of estrogen
<v Speaker 1>in the household, but his parents separated when he was
<v Speaker 1>just ten, and his mother moved to a different state
<v Speaker 1>with her boyfriend. This was Jeremy's dad at the sentencing
<v Speaker 1>hearing right before he died.
<v Speaker 6>You know he was.
<v Speaker 16>He wasn't, I'm kind of.
<v Speaker 1>What he said through his tears was that Jeremy's mom
<v Speaker 1>kind of abandoned him. From then forward, their relationship was
<v Speaker 1>strained and eventually stopped altogether. Jeremy's dad did the best
<v Speaker 1>he could to keep the family farm going, but he
<v Speaker 1>had to sell it when Jeremy was twelve. Then twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty came along, and Jeremy's dad attributes the school closings
<v Speaker 1>and isolation as playing a role in Jeremy's deteriorating mental health.
<v Speaker 13>And how was Jeremy performing with his school work when
<v Speaker 13>everything was online?
<v Speaker 21>Not very well.
<v Speaker 16>You know, I was a single parent at that time.
<v Speaker 16>I had to go to work, I had to provide
<v Speaker 16>for the family, and I was to leave a fourteen
<v Speaker 16>year old kid at home by himself. He had to
<v Speaker 16>be online.
<v Speaker 21>Because that's how we're getting the studies. It wasn't under
<v Speaker 21>his answer, he could imagine he was not doing this work.
<v Speaker 21>He was no matter what I seem to do. Since
<v Speaker 21>he had access to the internet, you know, I couldn't
<v Speaker 21>keep him from playing video games and that's pretty much
<v Speaker 21>what he did all day.
<v Speaker 1>His dad went on to say that he sought out
<v Speaker 1>three different mental health therapists for his son, but weirdly,
<v Speaker 1>he never got to have a single session with any
<v Speaker 1>of them. Two of them died suddenly before the first appointment,
<v Speaker 1>and one lost his license just before the first session.
<v Speaker 12>Weird.
<v Speaker 1>After the lockdowns and loneliness of twenty twenty, Jeremy came
<v Speaker 1>to school hungry for a connection and his need to belong.
<v Speaker 1>He was easily influenced by Chaden. Maybe Jeremy didn't realize
<v Speaker 1>how far things would go. In his mind, it was
<v Speaker 1>too late to back out of the dark plan for
<v Speaker 1>fear of coming off to his friend as weak. But
<v Speaker 1>unlike Chaydon, Jeremy was plagued by remorse after fully realizing
<v Speaker 1>the horror of what he'd been a part of. Caught
<v Speaker 1>between his own sense of guilt and his loyalty to Chayden,
<v Speaker 1>you became tangled in a scheme that was never truly his.
<v Speaker 13>I want to say I'm grateful for this chance to
<v Speaker 13>speak my peace. I offer my sincerest apologies to the
<v Speaker 13>Graper family, but I know my words will never be enough.
<v Speaker 13>I've had time to think on what to say, and
<v Speaker 13>I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry. What I've taken can never
<v Speaker 13>be replaced. Every day I wish I could go back
<v Speaker 13>and stop myself, prevent this loss and this pain that
<v Speaker 13>I've copsed everyone, everyone in the community and outside of it,
<v Speaker 13>those closest to me, and those closest to the Graper
<v Speaker 13>family as well as the Graper family. I didn't know
<v Speaker 13>how taking the script this life would affect you. I
<v Speaker 13>can't comprehend losing a loved one in such an awful way.
<v Speaker 13>I'm sorry I didn't stop this from happening in the
<v Speaker 13>first place.
<v Speaker 1>Jeremy went on to finish with a sincere and poignant apology.
<v Speaker 1>He was given life with the possibility of parole after
<v Speaker 1>twenty five years. Jeremy's need for connection made him vulnerable
<v Speaker 1>to Chaden's control. Chayden had the charisma to lead, but
<v Speaker 1>didn't seem to have a conscience behind it. Jeremy was
<v Speaker 1>isolated after years without his mom, a dad who worked
<v Speaker 1>long hours, and the loneliness of the pandemic, so he
<v Speaker 1>followed Chayden, likely because he craved the excitement and didn't
<v Speaker 1>want to lose the friendship. The problem with following the
<v Speaker 1>wrong person is that it can lead you to places
<v Speaker 1>that you never wanted to go. The search for connection, approval,
<v Speaker 1>or even just something to believe in, can cloud our judgment.
<v Speaker 1>We are, after all, emotional animals, reactive and not all
<v Speaker 1>that disciplined. Sometimes it takes us a while to learn
<v Speaker 1>a very important life. Sometimes it takes us a little maturity,
<v Speaker 1>And that lesson is that with the wrong leader, the
<v Speaker 1>price of following might just be more than you're prepared
<v Speaker 1>to pay. All right, we did our part. Now it's
<v Speaker 1>time for you to do yours. Go tell a friend
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