An Iowa man who stabbed a Farnhamville teenager to death will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Calhoun County Judge Derek Johnson sentenced 22-year-old Nathaniel Bevers-McGivney to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the stabbing death of 17-year-old Michele "Luna" Jackson. Bevers-McGivney was found guilty and convicted of first-degree murder and one count of abuse of a corpse.
“There’s nothing about this case that warrants any kind of leniency in this court,” said Johnson during the sentencing hearing as he called the defendant “pure evil,” reported Court TV.
On Sept. 22, 2024, officers responded to a 911 call after Jackson’s sister, whose family reported her missing, had been searching for the victim, spotted the defendant with Jackson’s scooter. As a result, the sister’s boyfriend pulled a gun on Bevers-McGivney until the police showed up.
According to prosecutors, the defendant had gone to Farnhamville City Park at night, where Jackson was also known to frequent. Though the motive for the killing remains unclear, reports showed Jackson was stabbed with a four-inch knife several times, to the point where the blade got detached when it got stuck in her spinal cord. The defendant continued stabbing her with the base handle of the knife, then slit her throat all the way to her spinal cord. He then moved Jackson’s body and placed her in a bin at a cornfield some distance away from the park at Landus Cooperative in Farnhamville, where the victim’s body was found the next morning.
During a search of Bevers-McGivney’s residence, authorities found a bloody knife handle, hair, and blood spots on the bathroom floor, bathtub, and a towel.
“Not only did you take her life, but you took her family’s, too," Bachman. Our lives now have a giant piece missing, and we will never be whole again. You’ll rot in the memory of your own hate. Alone, unseen, forgotten," said Jackson’s older sister, Shawna Bachman, during the victim impact statement, according to KCCI Des Moines.
Bevers-McGivney was sentenced to an additional consecutive 10 years in prison for the abuse of a corpse charge.
Leave a Reply