Va. Tech Students Plotted 13-Year-Old-Girl’s Stabbing Death

Va. Tech Students Plotted 13-Year-Old-Girl’s Stabbing Death
Virginia Tech students Natalie Keepers and David Eisenhauer in booking photos. Blacksburg Police Department via AP
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Two Virginia Tech students carefully planned the kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl, buying cleaning supplies and a shovel at separate Wal-Mart stores, and then hiding her body in the trunk of a Lexus, a prosecutor alleged on Thursday.

Montgomery County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt described how authorities believe David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers plotted the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell, a seventh-grader who used social media as an escape from bullying at school after surviving a liver transplant and other health scares that left her with a disfiguring scar.