Former Virginia Tech students indicted for death of 13-year-old

On Tuesday, a grand jury returned indictments on 18-year-old David Eisenhauer for one count of first-degree murder, one count of abduction and a direct indictment for transporting or concealing a dead body.

If convicted, Eisenhauer faces life plus 15 years in prison, and Keepers could be sentenced to life plus five years.

Natalie Keepers, also a former VT student, was indicted by the grand jury on charges of being an accessory before the fact and concealment.

Keepers faces up to life plus 5 years in prison for the crimes.

Eisenhauer appeared in Circuit Court and waived his right to a speedy trial.

Trials are set for both Keepers and Eisenhauer in early 2017.

Eisenhauer is scheduled for a motions hearing February 8-9.

Keepers also waived her right to a speedy trial. A grand jury in Christiansburg is expected to hear evidence in the case against David Eisenhauer and Keepers on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. A motions hearing has been set for January 17th-20th.

Eisenhauer was a standout runner in high school, and Keepers had dreams of working for NASA.

A liver-transplant survivor, she was stabbed to death in late January.

This is a story WHSV has been following extensively since this past January.

A grand jury indicted two former Virginia Tech students on Tuesday for first-degree murder in the death of a 13-year-old girl, a prosecutor said. Bryce Dustin of Pulaski, whose phone was seized by police, said Eisenhauer feared the girl would “expose” him and asked if he knew where he could hide a body.

The two engineering students plotted to kill Nicole Lovell, buying cleaning supplies and a shovel at Wal-Mart, then dumped her body off a road in Surry County, N.C., police and prosecutors have said.

Authorities said Lovell and Eisenhauer met online, and a neighbor told the New York Times that Lovell showed her messages on the app Kik and said she was sneaking out that night to meet someone named David.