02-05-2016, 09:31 AM
(02-02-2016, 09:57 PM)sally Wrote: I think the motive was to see what it felt like to kill someone and she walked right into it.
There was a hearing yesterday and some new details were released.
It definitely seems possible that Eisenhauer targeted and lured Nicole by acting like her on-line boyfriend just so he and Keepers could kill someone (rather than killing her because he'd actually had a relationship with her and he was afraid she was gonna tell).
Latest:
Two Virginia Tech students formed a college relationship over their hometown roots — then hatched a plot to kill 13-year-old Nicole Lovell, according to testimony Thursday.
They bought a shovel, selected a secluded location and then planned to lure Lovell from her Blacksburg home with the promise of a date with an older boy, Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt said.
Natalie Marie Keepers apparently had neither met nor spoken to Lovell, but the Tech student told police she helped David Edmond Eisenhauer load the teen’s body into the trunk of his Lexus after he killed her, Pettitt said during a hearing Thursday. A judge denied Keepers’ bond.
Both Keepers, 19, and Eisenhauer, 18, have maintained they were not present when Lovell was killed, according to Pettitt. The prosecutor, however, described preparations the pair allegedly made in the days leading up to Lovell’s disappearance:
Pettitt said they met at the Blacksburg Cookout restaurant on South Main Street to discuss the plan. They later bought a shovel at Walmart, selected a secluded location off Craig Creek Road and drove past Lovell’s apartment to scope things out.
The plan was for Eisenhauer, who had been messaging Lovell, to lure her out of the home late at night under the guise of a date, Pettitt said. He took Lovell to the site he and Keepers selected together and slit the girl’s throat, Pettitt said.
When interviewed by police, Eisenhauer said he had communicated with Lovell in the days before her disappearance. He also said he had visited the teen outside her bedroom window at the Lantern Ridge apartment complex in Blacksburg on the night she went missing, Pettitt said. That was 12:39 a.m. Jan. 27, which was also the last time Lovell connected to one of her various social media sites.
According to Eisenhauer’s account, he gave Lovell a “side hug” outside her home and then returned alone to Keepers’ dorm on Virginia Tech’s campus, Pettitt said.
Keepers and Eisenhauer later stopped at a Walmart to buy cleaning supplies, leaving Lovell’s body in the parking lot, the prosecutor said. The cleaning supplies, along with a Minions blanket Lovell had taken with her from her bedroom, later were found in a suitcase in Keepers’ room, Pettitt said.
Keepers and Eisenhauer both are from the Baltimore area and were friends at Tech. Eisenhauer rushed Keepers to the hospital when she needed an emergency appendectomy in the fall.
Keepers said she was “excited to be a part of something secret and special with Eisenhauer” in regard to Lovell, according to Pettitt.
Full story (with comments from suspects' and victm's family members): http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/blacks...a7462.html
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Everybody who knows Keepers is reportedly very surprised about her involvement in a premeditated murder of a girl the same age as her little sister. Keepers brought up her history of depression and cutting in court. Oh, and Keepers told the court that she's allergic to gluten, but the jail doesn't have a gluten-free menu.