Eisenhauer is charged with first degree murder and abduction of 13-year old Nicole Lovell.
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“He was an excellent student”, James LeMon, principal at the high school in Columbia, Maryland, said in a telephone interview. A student and accomplished athlete from the big-time college that dominates the victim’s town is accused of killing her. Then, another student at the school is accused of helping the murder suspect dispose of the teen’s body. Blacksburg police Lt. Mike Albert, right, listens as Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony Wilson speaks during a news conference Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, in Blacksburg Va. Virginia Tech student, David Eisenhauer, has…
Nicole’s mother, Tammy Weeks, told The Roanoke Times that her daughter hated going to school because other girls bullied her about her weight and the scars left over from her transplant.
Weeks said her daughter had survived a liver transplant, MRSA and lymphoma when she was 5.
Nicole Madison Lovell, a 13-year-old who was abducted and killed for motives that are still under investigation, is being remembered by people who knew her as an “angel”. The girl’s mother said she climbed out of her bedroom window some time between midnight and 7 a.m. on Wednesday, setting off a region-wide search that drew more than 1,000 law enforcement officials and volunteers.
After a frantic four-day search, the girl’s body was found off of a highway in North Carolina, approximately 100 miles from her home.
“It’s a remote area”.
Eisenhauer was arrested Saturday, hours before Nicole’s remains were found in Surry County, North Carolina, a two-hour drive from campus.
Eisenhauer has been charged with first-degree murder and abduction, and Natalie Keepers has been charged with improper disposal of a dead body and accessory after the fact, according to The Sun.
Police initially arrested 18-year-old David E. Eisenhauer, but now the story has gotten even worse. He was charged with murder once the girl’s remains were found.
Logan Fry, a sophomore hospitality major from Roanoke who lives on the same floor as Eisenhauer and also ran track in high school, said Nicole’s death and the arrest of a dorm neighbor was frightening.
“He just was a very pleasant young man, very goal-driven, focused on his academics, and he was also very focused on running”. “The allegations, it was surprising, shocking”.
“I think [parents] need to stop and look and of course, we can’t stop everything”.
They are being held in the Montgomery County jail.
Keepers, 19, went to Hammond High School in Columbia.
Keepers interned at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, led science experiments at her church’s Bible school and hoped to build a future in aerospace or ocean engineering, her online resume said.
LeMon said it was “very difficult” to hear about the charges but did not want to comment further because the allegations are pending. They have preliminary hearings scheduled for March 28 and remain in jail without bond.
Both appeared in a mostly empty courtroom wearing orange jumpsuits, with shackled hands and feet. She told Judge Robert Viar Jr. that she understood the charges against her and had retained counsel, attorney Kris Olin. Both have lawyers; neither one commented.
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In this January 31, 2016 photo, trooper Christopher Grzelak puts on his flippers as he gets ready to dive into the Duck Pond, in Blacksburg, Va. The investigation continued in the death of Nicole Madison Lovell as a state police search and recovery team searched the pond for evidence on the Virginia Tech Campus.
