Judge Robert Viar Jr. scheduled hearings for March 28 in the cases against David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers, who are both freshman engineering students at Virginia Tech.
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Nicole Madison Lovell was just 13 when she was lured into a relationship and then killed by Virginia Tech student David Eisenhauer. How their lives intersected in tragedy remains a mystery.
At the time of Nicole Lovell’s initial disappearance, the girl had purposefully sought to leave the family home, having climbed out of her window, whilst putting a dresser in front of her bedroom door.
Map locates Surry County, North Carolina, where a missing Virginia teen’s body was found.
Two Virginia Tech students have been arrested in relation to the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Blacksburg resident Nicole M. Lovell.
Nicole’s mother said she was heartbroken that he girl who had endured such hardship would end up being preyed upon by the suspect. She didn’t give other comments or discuss the focus of the news conference.
If convicted, Eisenhauer could face 20 years to life in prison on the murder charge and Keepers up to five years on the charges of transporting and concealing a body.
Her disappearance sparked a massive police search which authorities say, led them to eisenhauer.
Investigators in Blacksburg are not yet talking about exactly how Nicole Lovell, 13, and David Eisenhauer, 18, met but according to her mother, the two met online. Police have not said how Keepers got involved.
“My understanding is she was way off down in the woods there”, the sheriff said of the victim’s remains.
“The serious charges against Eisenhauer came as a shock to James LeMon, principal of Wilde Lake High School, where Eisenhauer graduated in 2015 before enrolling at Virginia Tech to study engineering and run for the Hokies track team”.
Her favorite color was blue, she loved her family and she had some trouble with bullying at school.
Weeks said her daughter had survived a liver transplant, MRSA and lymphoma when she was 5.
“God got her through all that, and she fought through all that, and he took her life”, she told The Washington Post.
“It got so bad I wouldn’t send her”, Weeks said, but the bullying continued on social media.
Some of the girl’s friends learned of her death Saturday night at a candlelight vigil held near her home, reported CNN affiliate WFXR.
A school official says additional counselors were brought in to Blacksburg Middle School to help students grieving over the death of their classmate.
Lovell’s family pleaded for the public’s help in finding her because she needed daily prescription medication for a liver transplant and didn’t have the medicine with her, police said.
On the Virginia Tech campus, state police divers searched a pond but authorities would not say what they were looking for. Even kids whose parents closely monitor their activity on sites such as Facebook often use smartphones with other social media where predators lurk, said Adam Lee, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Richmond.
“She’s always been so upbeat and chipper”, Pangburn said.
Business Insider has reached out to lawyers for Eisenhauer and Keepers.
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The following day, Keepers, a fellow Virginia Tech student, was arrested and charged as well.
