Mug shots of David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers, charged in the death of a Virginia teen. (Photo: Courtesy of Blacksburg Police Department)
A second Virginia Tech student was arrested Sunday in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl who disappeared last week. Police said Natalie Marie Keepers, 19, of Laurel, Maryland, helped dispose of the young girl’s body, which police found Saturday in North Carolina.
Virginia Tech confirmed Keepers was a sophomore at the school. She is being held without bond at the Montgomery County jail in Maryland on one felony count of improper disposal of a body and one misdemeanor count of accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony.
The latest arrest came after police in Blacksburg, Virginia, charged Virginia Tech freshman David Eisenhauer, 18, with abducting and murdering Nicole Madison Lovell. Eisenhauer, of Columbia, Maryland, was also being held without bond at the Montgomery jail.
Nicole, who vanished from her home in Blacksburg on Jan. 27 between the hours of midnight Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday, had been missing from her home for four days before her body was found on Saturday in Surrey County, N.C., near the Virginia border.
“Eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct the 13-year-old and then kill her,” police said in a statement.
Authorities from both Maryland and Virginia were involved in the case with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and FBI.
“The entire Virginia Tech community extends its support to (the girl’s) family and friends,” the Virginia Tech Police Department said in a statement. “The university is also reaching out to our campus community and the greater New River Valley community who may be affected by the events that have occurred over the past several days.”
