Second Virginia Tech Student Charged in Death of 13-Year-Old Girl

Police in Virginia say they have arrested 19-year-old Natalie Keepers from Maryland in connection to the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Ncile Lovell, who went missing from her Blacksburg, Va. home last Tuesday.

Police said Keepers helped David E. Eisenhauer, also a Virginia Tech student, dispose of Nicole’s body.

Police have said they have evidence showing Eisenhauer and Lovell knew each other before she disappeared. Virginia Tech President Tim Sands wrote an open letter on Saturday, January 30: “Speaking on behalf of our community, let me say that our hearts go out to Nicole’s family and friends”.

Rather than starting the school day with first period, Drake said, the day will begin in “teams”. Virginia Tech issued a statement confirming the arrest of Natalie Marie Keepers, a sophomore at the school.

State police divers have been searching a pond on campus, but authorities would not say what they were looking for.

Nicole’s mother, Tammy Weeks, said in an interview Sunday that police came to her house about 2 p.m. Saturday to tell her that her daughter’s body had been found. “I’m shocked”, said Weeks, 43, a cashier at a local department store.

A comment posted on the site under the name of David Lovell said he was the girl’s father.

Blacksburg, Virginia, police said late Saturday that Nicole Madison Lovell’s body was found in Surrey County, North Carolina. Her family said a nightstand had been pushed against her door and her window was open.

Police have arrested two promising Virginia Tech students in connection with her death. The teens are both being held at the Montgomery County Jail without bond.

Police have so far only said that Eisenhauer and Nicole “were acquainted” prior to her disappearance, and that he “used this relationship to his to abduct the 13-year-old and then kill her”. The Roanoke Times reports Lovell’s remains were found near USA 89.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, FBI Charlotte, N.C., Field Office, and the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office are collaborating with the Blacksburg police in the investigation, according to the Washington Post. “This has been an extremely fast-paced investigation in just the past 12 hours”, stated Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony Wilson.

Eisenhauer’s arrest is in relation to the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of a Town of Blacksburg teenager. “She was an angel here on Earth, and she’s an angel now”, Draper said Sunday.