A Gowrie man has been sentenced to life in prison today (Friday) after being found guilty for the murder of a Farnhamville teen last year. At the sentencing hearing, 22-year-old Nathaniel Bevers-McGivney was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a guilty verdict by a district court judge in a bench on July 9. Bevers-McGivney is charged with a class A felony, first-degree murder and a class C felony, Abuse of corpse- hide or bury for the premeditated death of 17-year-old Michele “Luna” Jackson on Sept. 22, 2024. Bevers-McGivney used a knife to cut Jackson’s throat to the spinal cord, repeatedly stabbed causing five-fatal injuries and then moved the body to conceal the crime. Bevers-McGivney also ordered to serve a indeterminate prison term not to exceed ten years to run consecutively for the class C felony charge and to pay victim restitution in the amount of $150,000. Bevers-McGivney was immediately turned over after the sentencing into the custody of the Iowa Departments of Corrections to begin his sentencing.
