'She told people she was talking to him,' Natasha said. 'We didn’t think it was that big of a deal because she didn’t make that much of it.'
'She always talked of running away with him. She used to talk to a lot of older guys. A lot of people told her not to. I told her it’s not safe. I told her she was going to be hurt or kidnapped or something,' she added.
Eisenhauer is charged with abduction and first-degree murder. Another Virginia Tech student, 19-year-old Natalie Keepers, is charged with accessory before and after the fact and with illegally dumping Nicole's body just across the state line in North Carolina.
Natasha says Nicole met Eisenhauer on Facebook and they started talking online. She says she and other friends worried about Nicole's social media interactions.
Police say Nicole and Eisenhauer messaged on the anonymous texting app Kik. While no official motive has been released, sources told the Post that Lovell and Eisenhauer had sexual contact. CNN last week reported, according to sources, that Eisenhauer may have killed Lovell to keep her from revealing the 'inappropriate' relationship.
Lovell's own father has also said he knew about his daughter's online communications with older men.
In an interview with Dr Phil, set to air on Wednesday, David Lovell said that his daughter had been grounded from all social media just before her death.
'You could tell these older guys had fake profiles. Some of the things they said were way too grown up for the picture they had. We found out before Christmas and took her phone away from her,' Mr Lovell said, adding that his daughter later got her phone back.
Mr Lovell also expressed his theory that Keepers was there when his daughter was killed, since she has a scratch on her face.
'I bet she fought like a wildcat. She's my kid,' Mr Lovell told Dr Phil in a segment set to air on Wednesday.
'The Keepers girl, in her mug shot, looks like she has a scar. I'm pretty sure that would have been my daughter trying to fight back. She would not have gone out without a fight.'
In his appearance on Dr Phil, Mr Lovell held a stuffed panda bear for comfort, saying it was a gift a friend gave him as a symbol of his daughter's love for the animal.
Mr Lovell says he's still trying to comprehend losing his daughter.
'How can it go from being my wonderful happy daughter to she was murdered a few days later? I talked to her about a week before she went missing and everything was normal. She was my little baby girl,' he said.
Mr Lovell and Nicole's mother Tammy Weeks are not together. His wife Terri Lovell, Nicole's step-mom, also appeared on Dr Phil.
Eisenhauer's roommate at Virginia Tech also spoke to the Washington Post, on the condition of anonymity.
The roommate says that he was shocked to find investigators searching through their dorm room on January 30, but says certain actions that Eisenhauer made the week Lovell disappeared now stand out to him in retrospect.
When pushed to explain, the roommate simply said Eisenhauer 'was just out late at night and that wasn't usual for him'.
While the roommate says he and Eisenhauer weren't exactly friends, he says their relationship was pretty typical for dorm mates.
'Nothing extraordinary about him, nothing horrible about him,' the roommate said.
The roommate described Eisenhauer as a normal freshman who spent his time between classes, working on homework and twice-daily practices for the cross-country team.
He said Eisenhauer did seem to be a bit of a loner, who didn't have many friends on campus, and was sometimes a difficult person to understand. He says Eisenhauer never mentioned having a girlfriend, or knowing Lovell.
The prosecutor said Eisenhauer initially denied his involvement when police found his messages on Nicole's phone, but eventually, he said he drove to the girl's home, watched her climb out of her window and greeted her with a 'side hug' before they drove off to pick up Keepers.
Keepers is adamant that she was not present at the killing itself, but she went along for the ride, Pettitt said. And once Nicole was dead, Keepers helped load her body into Eisenhauer's Lexus, the prosecutor added.
Nicole's remains were eventually found at a remote spot two hours south of campus.
Pettitt said it was Keepers who revealed the plot after officers tracked her down, but that she first tried to warn Eisenhauer, sending him a one-word text message reading 'Police.'
Nicole's parents, David Lovell and Tammy Weeks, attended the bail hearing but made no comments before leaving for their daughter's private funeral, where several hundred mourners paid their respects.
Friends and neighbors have described her as a lovely if awkward girl, clinging to childhood ways while exploring older behaviors.
Eisenhauer and Keepers went to high schools five miles apart in Columbia, Maryland. Excelling in the classroom and on the track, Eisenhauer was focused on competing with top college runners while pursuing a career as an engineer.
Keepers, for her part, displayed a packed resume on her LinkedIn profile, including a summer internship with NASA, where she made how-to videos for engineers. Her father choked up in court Thursday when he said she had planned to follow his footsteps into aerospace engineering.
Source:DailyMail
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