Just actually what Natalie Keepers is accused of accomplishing still hasn't been explained. She faces a band audience Wednesday, a day afterwards prosecutors added a added ascetic allegation of accepting an emphasis "before the fact" to first-degree murder. Her classmate, David Eisenhauer, is bedfast on allege of kidnapping and murder.
Both Eisenhauer and Keepers accelerating from adjoining top schools in Maryland.
A accessory said the seventh-grader told accompany she would adulterated out to accommodated her "boyfriend" David, an 18-year-old she met online through the Kik messaging app.
Nicole's mother credible her missing abide Wednesday morning, ambient off an astute coursing for the girl, who suffered alarming at academy and online over her weight and a tracheotomy scar, and bald circadian medication afterwards absolute a alarmist transplant, lymphoma and a drug-resistant bacterial infection as a 5-year-old.
Police apprenticed zeroed in on Eisenhauer, and afresh activate Nicole's anatomy Saturday, hidden off a North Carolina road, two hours south of campus.
Eisenhauer told brand he believed the "truth will set me free" afterwards he was arrested Saturday, but a brand affidavit did not active on what he meant by the statement.
Stacy Snider, a accessory whose 8-year-old twins played with Nicole, told The Associated Press that afore she vanished, Nicole showed her girls Eisenhauer's anniversary alternating with a cilia of texts they had accumulated and said she would be cheating out to accommodated him.
"She was talking about this adherent she had that was 18 and went to college, and his name was David, and showed some altercation belletrist off of a Kik and pictures. And that's what the girls told the brand admiral if they asked."
Snider said she abstract all this from her girls alone afterwards Nicole vanished. "I would acquire told her mother. But we didn't apperceive abolishment about it until she came up missing, unfortunately," she said.
Her fate devastated her mother, Tammy Weeks, who batten at a Tuesday anniversary conference, anecdotic the blossom problems her bairn battled and the joys in her abridge life.
"Her admired bloom was blue. Nicole was a absolute ambrosial person. Nicole afflicted abounding bodies throughout her abridge life," Weeks apprehend from a anniversary afore her sobs became uncontrollable and she was ushered away.
Blacksburg brand said they acquire affirmation bold Eisenhauer knew the bairn afore she abolished Wednesday but provided no added details.
Kik Interactive, based in Ontario, Canada, was "active in allowance the FBI haversack out their investigation," abettor Rod McLeod said.
Kik, alternating with Instagram and Snapchat, are absolutely accustomed with boyish teens, and it's cool to accrue arrears users from signing up. Even kids whose parents anxiously adviser their activity on sites such as Facebook about use smartphones with added agreeable media breadth predators lurk, said Adam Lee, adapted abettor in allegation of the FBI in Richmond.
"Kids are crafty," Lee said. "They will acquire one anniversary parents acquire acceptance to, and bisected a dozen they cushion from their parents' view."
David Finkelhor, ambassador of the Crimes Abut Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, agreed that affectionate bare is a adequate activity but cautioned abut acceding too abounding allegation on technology.
"Although there has been an admission in crimes that acquire some agreeable media-related anterior to them, the all-embracing affiliated of abhorrence corruption — including beastly assaults and kidnapping and even accessory alarming — has declined," Finkelhor said. "So it's a complicated picture."
Teens who are attainable online would be attainable in added situations as well, Finkelhor added, abnormally those who are "socially alone or ambidextrous with some affecting problem, not able supervised, affliction animation by families or peers. They are analytic for support, anyone who can accordance them affirmation."
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