Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The ex-Virginia Tech student who is on trial for killing a 13-year-old teen pleaded not guilty to all three charges: murder, abduction and concealing a body.
David Edmond Eisenhauer entered his plea just before jury selection began on Monday in the case of the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell in Blacksburg, Va.
Judge Robert Turk, who is presiding over the case, denied the defense's motion to suppress statements Eisenhauer made when he was first questioned by police -- allowing for prosecutors to present the statements in court.
Prosecutors say Lovell, who suffered from multiple health issues including lymphoma, climbed out of her window to meet the then 18-year-old college student after they met and communicated through an app. The middle schooler was found dead three days later.
Eisenhauer, now 20, admitted to meeting up with Lovell, but denied killing her. Eisenhauer's friend, Natalie Keepers, said he killed Lovell to prevent the inappropriate relationship from being revealed.
Keepers is also being charged with being an accessory before the fact to first-degree murder and with concealing a body.
The two were in Virginia Tech's engineering program when they allegedly planned to kill Lovell on Jan. 27, 2016.
According to Keepers, she helped him plan the murder and that Eisenhauer told her that after he met Nicole at Lantern Ridge, he took her to a wooded area in Montgomery County and stabbed her to death.
Lovell's mother discovered her daughter was missing when she noticed her bedroom door was barricaded and the window was open.
