«Breaking News» Woman, 21, found guilty of helping friend plot the murder of his secret 13-year-old girlfriend

An ex-Virginia Tech student, 21, has been found guilty of being an accessory before the fact of first degree murder for helping her friend plot the murder of his secret 13-year-old girlfriend.

Prosecutors say that Natalie Keepers was closely involved in helping David Eisenhauer, 21, plan the death of Nicole Lovell; going with him to buy a shovel and helping him pick out the location for the murder.

Text messages also showed that the pair discussed the methods to kill Lovell - Eisenhauer's secret 13-year-old online girlfriend. 

Prosecutors say that Natalie Keepers was closely involved in helping David Eisenhauer, 21, plan the death of Nicole Lovell. Keepers is pictured crying as she was found guilty of being an accessory before the fact of first degree murder

Keepers was lead away in handcuffs after being found guilty by a jury of being an accessory before the fact for the 2016 murder of Nicole Lovell in Christiansburg, Va., Thursday

Tim and Sara Keepers, parents of Natalie Keepers, react to their daughter being found guilty 

Lawyers for Keepers, who pleaded not guilty to being an accessory before the fact, argued that she never really believed he planned to kill Lovell, and that she was 'just playing along with his fantasy.'

Attorney Kris Olin said that Keepers had never even met the victim but 'loved being part of the plan, not because it was a plan to murder but because it was a plan to be close to David.' 

Olin told the jury that 'playing along' is not the same as 'shared intent.'

But on Thursday, a jury found Keepers, who spent most of the hearing with her head down, wiping tears from her eyes, guilty.

Keepers, of Laurel, Maryland, and Eisenhauer, of Columbia, Maryland, were both freshmen engineering students at Virginia Tech at the time of the killing. Lovell was a Blacksburg middle school student.

David Eisenhauer is serving a 50-year sentence after pleading no contest to charges of first-degree murder in the death of 13-year-old Nicole Lovell (pictured)

Defense attorney John Robertson, left, with his client Natalie Keepers, argued that Keepers never believed Eisenhauer would go through with the murder

Eisenhauer is now serving a 50-year sentence after pleading no contest to first-degree murder.

The first witnesses to testify included a Blacksburg police detective and an FBI agent who interviewed Keepers.

David Eisenhauer (pictured) admitted to stabbing the teenager 14 times including a lethal wound to her neck

Jurors were shown several video clips from the interviews. In one, Keepers gave a detailed account of how Eisenhauer stabbed Lovell to death in the woods.

'He wanted me there to help,' Keepers said. 'He wanted me to help kill her.'

Keepers said Eisenhauer drove her to Virginia Tech before the killing and she went to her dorm room. She has denied being present for the stabbing.

Keepers, now 21, also told police in the video clips that she and Eisenhauer talked about different ways to kill Lovell.

'He was bouncing so many ideas off my head, I couldn't keep track of them all,' she said. 'He was the one who officially developed the plan.'

Prosecutors say Eisenhauer met Lovell online and communicated with her for months before meeting her at least once in person.

They met again in January 2016, when the college freshman lured Lovell out of her family's apartment with the promise of a 'secret date'.

Tammy Weeks, mother of murder victim Nicole Lovell testifies during Natalie Keepers' trial, Tuesday

That's when he took her to wooded area and subsequently killed her because he feared she would expose their relationship.

Prosecutors have said that Keepers told police Eisenhauer told her he feared Lovell could be pregnant.

Keepers said Eisenhauer told her he might have had sex with Lovell at a party, but couldn't remember because he blacked out and later woke up in a ditch.

Natalie Keepers (pictured) will be sentenced at a later date

Lovell's body was found just over the state line in North Carolina.

A medical examiner had testified that she had 14 stab wounds, including a lethal wound to her neck.

Keepers previously admitted helping to hide the body of Lovell, a Blacksburg middle school student, after the murder on January 27 2016. 

During his June sentencing hearing, Eisenhauer expressed regret over the young girl's slaying.

'I am sorry for the pain my actions have caused for Nicole Lovell and her family,' he said.

Before Eisenhauer's sentence was imposed, Lovell's parents described how their daughter's killing has affected them.

Her father, David Lovell, said he's been diagnosed with severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder since his daughter's death.

'There is nothing that will happen in this courtroom that will fix it,' he said.  

Her sentencing hearing has not yet been set. 

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