A second Virginia Tech student has been arrested and charged in relation to the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl whose remains were found on the side of a North Carolina road Saturday.
Police in Virginia on Sunday announced the arrest of 19-year-old engineering sophomore Natalie Keepers, who faces a felony charge of improper disposal of a body and a misdemeanor charge of accessory after the fact.
Keepers' arrest comes one day after Nicole Madison Lovell's remains were recovered along Route 89, near the North Carolina border, ending a desperate four-day search.
Nicole was reported missing from her Blacksburg, Virginia home Wednesday morning, when her mother told police she thought Nicole may have climbed out of her bedroom window sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., ABC 13 News reported. The teen had received a liver transplant and required daily medication, which only intensified the search for her, police said. Photos of Nicole noted that she had received a tracheotomy.