Two Virginia tech students who were arrested for the murdered 13-year old had plotted the abduction and killing cautiously. Text messages from the victim's phone became the lead to the suspects. Authorities recovered the teenager's body off a state highway in North Carolina, two hours away south of campus.
According to Los Angeles Time, David Eisenhauer, 18 and Natalie Keepers, 19 had planned the murder, stabbing the 13 year old, Nicole Madison Lovell, a grade seven student, described by the Montgomery County Commonwealth's Atty. Mary Pettitt. The lawyers also revealed information that will dismissed Keepers to bail out. However, she did not mention a possible motive that Keepers had done the killing.
The victim, Nicole Madison Lovell was a liver transplant surgery survivor and has overcome being bullied, revealed by her mother.
Prosecutor also said that there are messages on Lovell's phone linking to the two suspects, and that prompted the college freshmen suspect to took a decision together on killing her. Keepers' defense lawyers said, "We understand the allegations are disturbing and serious, but they are just allegations." They also argued that Keepers' mental health could be exposed when put in prison.
Police reported, Eisenhauer is a freshman engineering student and a member of track team at Virginia Tech, abducted and murdered the 13-year-old girl. While the other Tech student, Natalie Keepers was charged for being an accomplice, accused of covering up the victim's body in North Carolina, where she was found, Syracuse reported. Stacy Snyder, Nicole's neighbor said, the victim showed off a text messages from her "boyfriend", referring to David, saying she would sneak out of the house that night in order to meet him.
Eisnehauer denied his involvement on murder after police found out the messages on the victim's phone. While Keepers also said, she was not at the time when Lovell was murdered. When the victim was dead, Keepers helped load her body into Eisenhauer's Lexus, the prosecutor said.
Eisenhauer and Keepers went to high schools five miles apart in Columbia, Md. Excelling in the classroom. He was focused on competing with top college runners while pursuing a career as an engineer. Keepers displayed a packed resume on her LinkedIn profile, including a summer internship with NASA, where she made how-to videos for engineers.
