Nicole Madison Lovell: 13-Year-Old Teen Killed By Virginia Tech Students

David E. Eisenhauer is accused of killing 13-year-old Nicole Madison Lovell of Blacksburg, Virginia.

Police have arrested 18-year-old David Eisenhauer, a freshman at Virginia Tech, on charges of felony abduction and first-degree murder.

Two teenagers have appeared in court charged with the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl. The clerk’s office said Eisenhauer had retained court-appointed attorney Chris Tuck. Cameras, not allowed inside, would have captured Keepers in her orange jumpsuit and shackles telling the judge – barely above a whisper – she understood the charges against her and hired her own attorney. Her next court date is March 28. But officials have not commented further on any possible motive.

Nicole disappeared early Wednesday. He said investigators received tips.

Weeks said Nicole had survived lymphoma and liver transplant when she was 5.

Earlier in the investigation, police had stressed urgency in the search for Nicole, saying that she “requires prescription medication daily for a previous liver transplant and is without the medication”.

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.

“God got her through all that, and she fought through all that, and he took her life”.

She loved pandas and pop music, and wanted to be on “American Idol” when she got older, her mother said.

“She was an awesome little girl”.

Both are being held without privilege of bond in the Montgomery County Jail. Police say Keepers helped Eisenhauer dispose of the girl’s body.

“Eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct the 13-year-old and then kill her. Keepers helped Eisenhauer dispose of Nicole’s body”, Blacksburg police said in a statement.

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. “That’s the problem we face these days is that there’s really nowhere a child can be fully protected if they have a device that connects to the internet and their parents don’t know what they’re doing on that device”, he said.

Lovell’s body was found Saturday about 100 miles from her home.

The girl had been missing since last week.

The family found a dresser pushed against her bedroom door. A lawyer for Eisenhauer declined to comment, and an attorney for Keepers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“We’re all just in utter shock”, Joe Keating, who ran on the cross-country team with Eisenhauer at Wilde Lake High in Howard County, Maryland, told The Washington Post. The Sun said Eisenhauer had moved to Columbia from Yakima, Washington, for his junior year and quickly became a star on the East Coast. “There’s no reason why I can not be as good as other people are”, Eisenhauer told WMAR at the time.

AP/Blacksburg Police Department Virginia Tech students David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers have been charged for Nicole Lovell’s disappearance and death.

Hammond High School Principal Marcia Leonard says Natalie Keepers was involved with the theater program, literary magazine and had a passion for engineering.