http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/us/virginia-tech-girl-killed-keepers-bail-denied/index.html
The details coming out about this case are so horrible. That poor child.
this is so disastrous… how can they just kill a kid???
ugh
I don’t think it can get more bizarre. It was already pretty much at the top.
It is way beyond horrible and terribly sad.
That said, I don’t like the term"VA Tech" murder case. Even though 2 students at that school were involved, to me it doesn’t reflect on the school itself.
I agree @FallGirl.
I don’t think we know enough at this point. Is there any evidence linking the two college students to the murder? News reports have not cited anything, other than “investigators believe.”
If the guy were a fraternity member, it would be the “Fraternity Murder Case.”
I agree, it has nothing to do with VT, even if the two suspects are guilty. What a horrible thing! The poor mother, having pulled her daughter through at least 3 life-threatening illnesses, on her own it appears, only to have this happen.
Leopold & Loeb, once more.
Rope should be seen as a cautionary tail, not a how-to-guide.
It is very strange. Both suspects are from Maryland, lived 5 miles from each other. I wonder if they somehow knew each other before coming to Virginia Tech. I also agree this has nothing to do with Virginia Tech .
As an article I read says, if Eisenhauer or Keepers had a dark side , they kept it hidden. People that knew them in Maryland seem pretty shocked.
It has as much to do with VT as any other crime committed by students. The two are being held in the local jail, and the body was brought back to VA from NC, so it really is a local issue involving students. For all we know the murder could have occurred on-campus. As mentioned above, if the guy had been greek, it would be called “fraternity member” and no one, including me, would have blinked.
Full Disclosure - I am a Hokie, and disgusted by the whole thing.
At first, I thought Leopold & Loeb too…but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Local news makes it “sound” as if the male student had had some sort of sexual contact with the victim. She had pictures of him on her cell phone. She told neighborhood kids she had a boyfriend named David who was 18 and a college student and showed them a photo of him. Another neighbor said she had seen his car—though at that point she didn’t know it was his car----parked in the neighborhood several times.
Theory seems to be that Nicole was starting to tell people about their sexual contact. David seems to have been worried about statutory rape charges. http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/us/virginia-tech-students-nicole-lovell-killing/
http://www.ksla.com/story/31136782/va-tech-murder-suspects-left-few-clues-to-possible-motives
I absolutely think it reflects on VT. And does anyone else wish colleges should require a mental health screening of all students in the same manner they require a physical at many schools for newly enrolling students?
As a parent who has gone through one child with internet addiction and “secret” internet friends, this is terrifying. My heart goes out to all the families involved in this tragedy.
Neither of my kids had to have a physical for college. Do you really think it would be practical for a large school like Tech to screen every student for mental health issues? And given the histories of theses two students, it sounds likely they would have passed the screening anyway.
The fact that he was arrested even before her body was found makes me conclude that there was enough on her phone or computer to implicate him - maybe not yet for murder but for statuary rape. This girl was in 7th grade. Were the charges upgraded?
^^^^ “Colleges should require a mental health screening?”
You just created a monster. To screen for what? And how? And who decides what mental health issue is or isn’t admissible? Is depression OK? ADHD? Internet addiction? Who pays? Should admission staff also have psychiatry degrees? Do you create a secondary admissions committee?
Yes, that’s a slippery slope. Are you going to not admit someone to your college then because they admit to having anxiety or depression?
I wonder if having to submit to a mental health screen for college admission would result in some teens not seeking help when it was needed. That could be tragic, too.