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[Music] thank you every time I seen her she would be texting or Facebooking and she was
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constantly on her phone um Nicole lovely and I'm I've been narrative for the ALS Ice Bucket
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Challenge she's a happy-go-lucky kid she smiled and she sang all the time [Music]
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tonight the search intensifies for a missing teen from Blacksburg take a good look this is Nicole Lovell she's 13 and
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was last seen in the Lantern Ridge area of Blacksburg between midnight and seven
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Wednesday morning her father posted this message to Facebook Nicole honey if you see this if
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you're out there you can come to me I'm not mad at you I'm worried about you police are looking into whether an app
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popular with teens was used to lure the girl that night I was going to knock on the
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wall and tell her to come in and sleep with me like she usually does and I didn't do it
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so with every heart that I have to announce that we've located the remains of 13 year old Nicole Madison Lovell
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[Music] 100ccom in Route 89 West Snowbird curve where was Nicole lovell's body Nicole
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was from what we understand in the trunk of the car and they move her right over
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here got close to the edge and just a very preliminary determination of the cause of death is stabbing
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I went to high school with David Eisenhower everything he did he worked hard at and
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he wanted to be the best at investigators have said the 18 year old College athlete and Engineering student
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knew the little girl and quote used the relationship to his advantage to abductor at 12 39 a.m just past midnight
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Nicole sends her last electronic message to Dr tombstone David Eisenhower's kid account username
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I want to go to jail I didn't do anything wrong the second Virginia Tech student Natalie
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Keepers has also been charged Natalie Keepers was an extremely smart person she was very academically driven
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she had connections to NASA they stop at the Walmart they buy cleaning supplies gloves wipes bleach
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the defendant purchased a garden shovel I'm so sorry I wish I could have stopped
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I trust the courts will do what they feel is just this is really scary I don't think
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anyone ever expected any of our classmates to become a alleged murderer it's no longer a situation where you
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worry about your child meeting a stranger in the park you really need to worry about the stranger your child's
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meeting on the phone that you gave them for Christmas this is the new crime of our time
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[Music] [Music] foreign 48 Hours killer app reported by Peter Van Sant continues in 90 seconds
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[Music] [Music] [Music] every morning I come out here sit with her for an hour it's been a nightmare
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still hope that she would come around the corner when she gets off the bus where she'll come out of her room
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[Music] the nightmare for Nicole lovell's mother Tammy weeks began on the morning of
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January 27 2016. pushed the door open and the nightstand was up against the door
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sometime in the middle of the night the 13 year old had climbed out of her bedroom window taking along her phone
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and her favorite blue cartoon blanket did you call her cell phone oh yeah a bunch of times and what would
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happen it goes straight to voicemail I text messaged her everybody was calling her texting her Tammy called
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police and began scouring the area before long a neighborhood mother gave her some chilly news Nicole had been
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playing with her daughters and said that Nicole was said she was going out on a date
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like millions of teens Nicole spent a lot of her social Time online so Tammy feared she might have left to see
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someone she'd met on the internet you must be a bit panicked at this point yeah the FBI has now joined Regional and
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state law enforcement in the search this afternoon they canvassed her name Nicole's disappearance also sent shock
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waves through her hometown Blacksburg Virginia more than 1200 Searchers are on a
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mission to find the 13 year old [Music] volunteers even brought this infrared drone
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I know she wouldn't go nowhere for that many hours without her medicine Nicole was born with a damaged liver and
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needed a transplant before her first birthday now a teenager she still needed her anti-rejection medication every day
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to survive her illness and surgical treatment had left Nicole with scars on her stomach
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and neck [Music] Tammy says Nicole had emotional scars as well so she was being bullied
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yeah she didn't she hated going to school she would always make me write her a note for Jim because they would
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pick on her about her scar Nicole's social media post revealed a sadly typical teenage story so lonely
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she had Suicidal Thoughts longing for love and convinced nobody cared for her Tammy says Nicole not only had trouble
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fitting in she also had a difficult relationship with her father David Lovell he did prison time on a drug
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charge and he's had other problems with the law she wanted his attention she wanted his love
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I have regrets that I wasn't there I feel you know what did I do wrong why wasn't I there for her more often he'd
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left Tammy before Nicole was born the two were never married when you would go to work was there anyone supervising her
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yeah my parents your parent do they live at the house yes so she never went unsupervised no
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but Nicole was leading an unsupervised life online through the social media apps on her smartphone it's like a
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loaded gun good morning Blake County it's your district attorney Pamela Casey Alabama D.A Pamela Casey is on a
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national Crusade warning people about the dangers of social media did you pick up your child's phone and you don't know
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the password that's a problem if you she began speaking out long before Nicole Lovell disappeared in Virginia and her
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online safety videos have been seen by millions across the country I can actually go live on Periscope post
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updates to you guys if I can do that live sitting in my office then your child can do that live
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in their bedroom years ago you had to worry about your kid getting snatched parents don't realize that essentially
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your kid can get snatched their life taken by somebody they meet in their own bedroom
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by late on the day Nicole Lovell vanished her parents Hope was fading with the winter light
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we love you Nicole we miss you we want you home I didn't sleep at all that night I
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waited but it would be three days before Nicole's parents had to face the horrifying news that her body had been
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found your whole world just comes totally down [Music] because she was my everything
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Coley had a passion of four pandas music dancing Nicole touched many people throughout
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her short life shock and sadness were everywhere but investigators had gotten a big break and
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it came from Nicole Lovell herself she'd Left Behind virtual evidence of a real-life murder
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[Music] want to know what's really on your kid's phone our tips for safety are on our
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website at 48hours.com foreign David Lovell says even before her body was found investigators had found a solid lead
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something she had handwritten on her bedroom wall she wrote all her usernames and passwords to all her accounts
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FBI computer forensics experts traced Nicole's account information and quickly established that she'd regularly used
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Kik a popular chat app attractive to teens in part because they can communicate anonymously without their
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parents knowing when you had her phone did you ever click on the Kik App just to see what
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was inside no I just made her delete it uninstall it do you believe she reinstalled it yeah
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so the FBI puts in what they call an emergency disclosure request to kick they want to see Nicole's personal
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account and they make a startling Discovery it turns out that in the last two days of her life she'd been
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messaging with a person who had a chilling username Dr tombstone an IP address provided by Kik
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investigators traced the Dr Tombstone screen name to this young man David Eisenhower 18 of freshman engineering
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student at Virginia Tech I will personally not stop until I reach my Peak Performance track and field
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champion from David Eisenhower seemed the last person in the world capable of killing a 13 year old girl he'd been a
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high school track star former classmate Dorothy Callahan says his brains and Charisma were as strong
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as his strides he was a very celebrated student he always had Straight A's and he was sort of cocky and he was like
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yeah I'm David Eisenhower I was just on the local news I'm a big deal three days
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after Nicole went missing Eisenhower was picked up by police at his dorm and taken in for questioning his roommate
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Jeremy pazdeo walked in on the startling aftermath I went to my room and I saw the door
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open I got turned around by the Virginia State Police and the FBI and what did they say they said don't
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worry it's not about you it's about your roommate that's Dale told 48 Hours That
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Eisenhower's Behavior the night Nicole Lovell vanished was really odd and they put on boots but it wasn't raining that
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hard for boots but you know I just let it go and then he came back at two in the morning and
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did you ever see a knife in the room yes he usually leave it on his desk was it on his desk when the cops showed up no
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they couldn't find it Eisenhower soon admitted to police he talked to Nicole outside her house that
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night he was arrested and charged with abduction Eisenhower's statements LED them to
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another young woman Natalie Keepers she was brought in for questioning too signing a job
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what did not rolled Natalie Keepers know about what happened to Nicole Keepers another Virginia Tech freshman
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and another unlikely Person of Interest Mark Jenkins used to be her boyfriend she wanted to study engineering and be
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like her father who worked for NASA investigators strongly suspected Natalie was involved she too was arrested 18
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year old Eisenhower a Virginia Tech freshman engineering major his friend Natalie Keepers with two people in
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custody police made a grisly Discovery Nicole's nude body was located 90 miles away in North Carolina says Surry County
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Sheriff Graham Atkinson what kind of wounds were on her body she was stabbed and her throat was cut
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and then the thoughts turned to who were the animals that could have done something like this to her sometimes
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it's usually the people we least expect D.A Pamela Casey says David Eisenhower may represent a new kind of Predator
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they could be your next door neighbor they can stay behind their phone and hide behind their phone and just like
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your child is doing Casey says criminals often use apps like Kik why because it's where kids hang out
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online in fact kick a Canadian company claims that millions of American teens use their app every month
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with David Eisenhower Behind Bars it wasn't kick but an online gaming site that led investigators to this man's
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door Bryce Dustin I almost felt like he was like a little brother it was on this gaming site that Bryce
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first chatted with Eisenhower and though they never met in person they began a six-year-long internet
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friendship David no kept coming back to me for advice on everything what kind of
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problems would he ask you advice about um girls was a big one Dustin told us he remembers Eisenhower talking about a
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problem he had with one girl in particular a girl Dustin now believes was Nicole foreign
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he told me that he found out she was underage and that she wanted to be with him and that she was going to expose him
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if he wasn't with her he says Eisenhower was worried about being outed in a relationship with an underage girl so we
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offered some big brother kind of advice if she wants to be your girlfriend you know let her but don't be the greatest
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boyfriend you know just like just don't text her just ignore her she'll go away oh
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this family was about to have one of their daughters go away as well in the car of an online predator in Spokane
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Washington this guy wants to kidnap my daughter tonight he's planning to kidnap my
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daughter tonight [Music] her last moments is what flashes through my mind that's my nightmare
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David Lovell wishes he had done better in protecting Nicole if it can happen to my family it can happen to anybody
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I mean flat out anybody it can happen to any family including one here in Spokane Washington about
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2500 miles from Virginia the parents here got a tip that their 15 year old daughter was being targeted by a 30 year
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old man and what's worse the two were planning to run away that very night she was going to leave her iPad
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hop in the car with a man she doesn't really even know [Music] it was June 7 2013 when detective Elise
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Robertson of the Spokane Police Department's Special Victims Unit got the kind of call cops all over the
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country have come to expect a father was saying that his daughter was having a internet relationship with a 30 year old
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man and he had just found out and then that's when everything broke loose [Music]
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until that moment Brandy sarachan and her husband Brandon seem to have the quintessential American Family she
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teaching at a local church he studying for a PhD in Psychology they'd been Hands-On parents raising
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their two sons Joshua and Josiah and two daughters Ariel and Elizabeth they shared a love of God Country Sports
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and each other my parents were pretty strict sometimes too strict said Elizabeth 18
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at the time of our interview I felt like my parents were holding me back from what the average kid gets to experience
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and how much did your parents monitor your life I would say that they thought that they
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were monitoring me they didn't understand that they actually weren't monitoring me they probably had no clue
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about Kik in those dating sites but her parents did become suspicious when Elizabeth
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then 15 suddenly started acting strangely she would be going to bed earlier than normal Elizabeth seemed
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distracted less interested in family activities in church even in France her parents took her smartphone away and
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asked to see her social media accounts she refused and at that point you're like okay yeah something's really wrong
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here they were stunned to learn just how wrong it all started with a phone call from Elizabeth's best friend's mother a
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call that turned their world upside down Elizabeth is dating a 30 year old and he
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plans on coming down and getting her at three o'clock in the morning that very day yeah and we're like what
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Elizabeth was angry and evasive but her parents finally got her passwords and soon discovered the truth she had been
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communicating with a stranger a 30 year old Seattle area man named Jason Jason Richards says when I see you baby I am
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grabbing you pulling you close to me and holding you tightly what does Elizabeth say
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no kiss and Jason says baby I'm going to kiss you deeply this guy's evil she's fooled she's the
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word in initially Elizabeth told Jason she was 18 but later admitted her real age 15. the siroccans were stunned to
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learn that the pair had already met in person and been intimate they were even discussing leaving the country
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the two had used apps including Facebook and Kik this is playing out in some ways
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like your own personal family horror film yeah yeah the horror continued as the siroccans realized that within hours
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Jason would be driving the 280 miles from Seattle to Spokane to pick up their daughter they locked Elizabeth in a room
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with no phone or internet access and called police this guy wants to kidnap my daughter tonight he's planning to
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kidnap my daughter tonight were your hands kind of tied what do you do at that moment you have a 15 year old girl
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who's your only Witness who's denying everything detective Robertson says that without hard
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evidence of an actual crime police had to stay on the sidelines so there's nothing they can do for you there's
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absolutely nothing they can do for me when you hear that you feel totally helpless and it's like okay well what
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are you gonna do now what they did was hatch their own plan to turn the tables on the man who was about to lure their
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daughter away this is my daughter and nobody's gonna mess with her and nobody's going to get her and I'm going
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to do what it takes Jason had already messaged from the car I needed to communicate with him to get
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him to our house gritting her teeth Brandi went online impersonating her own daughter for seven
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hours I sat there and listened to him oh baby I can't wait to see you I can't wait to get you in my
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arms lay in the same bed together wake up in the morning and for seven hours I communicated back oh
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baby I love you too I can't wait in the pit of your stomach that must it made me sick
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Jason is getting ever closer to your house ever closer to your daughter my wife was up there and she was on the
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iPad she's communicating with him yes posing as your daughter exactly yes well Brandi kept the conversation with Jason
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going in the alley behind the siroccan's house Brandon and his friends had set up a
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sting operation like something out of an action movie I am over here with my car
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and my friend Phil we're getting updates from my wife on the phone my friend Damon is on this side of the
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street so the idea is like a pincer right you're gonna you're gonna trap it's like a bear trap that's gonna close
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Brandon's friend Phil brought his 12 gauge shotgun he'd been trained in Special Forces and had no idea how Jason
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would react are you ready to use this if I have to yes [Music] foreign [Music] this drive right here
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it was 3 A.M in Spokane Washington but could just as easily been High Noon he comes all the way in here and about as
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Brennan syrochin and his team Laden wait headlights appeared at one end of the alley a 30 year old man's sexual road
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trip to take a 15 year old girl from her family was about to come to a shocking end
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he pulls in at this time we go ahead and we call Damon down here and Damon it just books it and I'm pulling in here
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Jason pulls in right there Brendan's friend Phil quickly approached the vehicle shotgun raised I said driver put
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your hands on the steering wheel do not move or I will shoot you a couple of times he moved his hands and I said what
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part of do not move do you not understand if Jason makes some sort of move are you prepared to pull that
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trigger if he exited the car abruptly I would have shot him they called the police who arrived
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minutes later and arrested Jason in his SUV they found cell phones and a pair of
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hunting knives he was caught but it wasn't over [Music] 90 minutes later Jason comes face to
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face with Spokane detective Elise Robertson Jason tell me a little bit about something I worked for a royal cup
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coffee detective Robertson learned Jason was actually Jason Richards a 30 year old divorced coffee distributor from the
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Seattle area like David Eisenhower and Natalie Keepers in the level case Jason Richard
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seemed nice and successful on the surface who is this guy Jason is the guy next door he tried to turn his crime
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into a love story pretty much fell for her very quickly we said I love you uh pretty quickly about a week and a half
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into really talking with each other at first Richards insisted he had no idea Elizabeth was only 15 until a policeman
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told him at the time of his arrest he told told me that she wasn't 18. okay I responded come again
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and like she's now she's 18. he was lying the whole time he was lying the whole time over and over over lie lie
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lie lie lie to see if her instincts were right would you give me a permission to
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look at your account detective Robertson asked to see Richard's Facebook page there were literally hundreds of
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exchanges between him and Elizabeth and I start looking at it and I realized oh he knew he knew before he ever came over
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here she was 15. you want to tell me the truth now well I looked right at him and
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I said so you're going to tell me the truth now I fell in love with her and I didn't know what to do she told you that
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she was 15 and still in school eventually right this is our first meeting spot Elizabeth told her parents she was going
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jogging but instead came to this parking lot when you actually saw him face to face what did you think holy crap like I
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think it became a reality to me that it's not just somebody that I'm talking to over the Internet Elizabeth says
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Jason took her to a hotel got down on one knee and proposed marriage and then they got in bed
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in the following weeks he came to town again thank you on those visits did you have sex with
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him each time uh yeah we did for you Jason is what he's a sexual predator well completely just my life
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my life was destroyed this hits you right now like a like a punch across the face right it's
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just absolutely unbelievable Richards pleaded guilty to child rape and communication with a minor for immoral
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purposes his lawyer argued Richards has autism which can be a mitigating factor for several crimes in Washington State
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he got a light sentence three years the Casey says far too many internet predators are turning to apps like Kik
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and their alleged crimes are making headlines across the U.S a lot of stuff's happening without
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parents knowing I don't think people would let a you know a 50 year old felon into their
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house to hang out with their daughter but that's exactly what they're doing online sometimes they don't know
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Jason Richards served his sentence and was released in 2017 with restrictions including a restraining order to keep
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him away from Elizabeth the siroccans say they wish the judge had given him as much as life in prison
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it's hard knowing he only got three years for everything the pain that he caused me
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it's a way more deserving in three years and it's a danger in Virginia Nicole lovell's mother says
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there is no punishment severe enough for David Eisenhower and Natalie Keepers I want both of them to suffer
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and she says they aren't the only ones who should have to answer for her daughter's murder
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she blames kick too they need to kick down it's just disgusting is reported to be a billion dollar
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Company please welcome to the stage Ted Livingston from kick we caught up with his CEO at a Tech Conference in Brooklyn
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that's him right there still Livingston Peter Van Sant how are you I'm good how are you CBS News so I
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want to ask a quick question sure what personal responsibility do you have to make sure that children are safe who use
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the kick app yeah I think of a huge responsibility I'm sure you're familiar with Nicole Lovell a 13 year old girl in
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Virginia what would you say to Nicole's parents like when we heard about that case like
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that hit the office and hit me super hard like many social media companies kick posts an online guide for parents
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and in a statement told 48 Hours the company cooperates with law enforcement Ted Livingston claims his app is as safe
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as the competition I think it's no different than Facebook or Snapchat and or Instagram you know you have bad
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people going as a parent I disagree I can check my child's Facebook account and Twitter account I friend them but
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with Kik I can yeah I think that's no different than Instagram you have a private mode you can have private
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messaging all that exists there that's true but Kix design is attracting millions of teens in part because many
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believe it's parent proof the best app to keep their social lives secret kids are going to use a messenger if we were
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to shut down kick tomorrow there will be 10 right behind it yeah and she's like hey do you want to
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message me on some app called Kick and I was like sure kick isn't on trial but two once promising college students
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would soon be in the murder of Nicole Lovell [Music] it was Nicole lovel's digital footprint
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that led police to Virginia Tech freshman David Eisenhower when they brought him in for questioning he said
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he'd recently encountered the young girl on an anonymous chat app and they moved
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over to kickoff Eisenhower said he met Nicole in person just once the night she died that he
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went to meet her quickly saw how young she was and left her alive [Music] [Music]
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But Nicole's Kick account told another story altogether that they had been on Kick for months they had met in person
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at least once before and most likely been intimate with reason to worry Eisenhower
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volunteered he just purchased a new snow shovel and offered up his friend would it helps to mention I had someone
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else with me when I bought the shovel for snow purposes her name is uh Natalie keepers
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and so police rounded up that second Virginia Tech student Natalie Keepers they recorded her telling a stunning
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tale beginning the day before the murder on Monday Julia that okay he has to get her into
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the car somehow keeper said Eisenhower feared Nicole was about to expose their relationship and
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ask for help brainstorming ways to kill her on Tuesday that's when the official plan started coming together
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they bought the shovel went out to dinner and then Eisenhower dropped keepers at her dorm
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he had a pre-arranged date with Nicole then Keepers told the officers Eisenhower picked Nicole up drove her
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into the woods and stabbed her to death the next day he and Keepers went back to
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Walmart for cleaning supplies and disposed of the body together operation and she thought it was a fine time
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armed with this news officers raced to find Nicole's body Eisenhower and Keepers were arrested
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for Nicole's family a long wait was just beginning is there any doubt who is responsible
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for the death of your daughter [Music] it took two years but in February of 2018 Eisenhower went on trial for her
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murder prosecutors describe Nicole's Final hours as she waited for her secret date
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she gives her mom a kiss and she tells her she's going to bed Cole pushes her dresser in front of the
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door she climbs out of the window into the snowy night and into Eisenhower's waiting car
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Nicole's mother described the horror of finding her daughter gone when was the next time that you saw a cold
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inner coffin [Music] security footage showed Eisenhower and Keepers buying the shovel
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photos revealed blood stains and the Bloody shovel found in Eisenhower's car that is a receipt and a Walmart employee
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read a list of items they purchased before discarding Nicole's body top job basic bleach cleaner Great Value
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disinfecting wipes and two pairs of cleaning gloves Eisenhower's lawyer said Natalie Keepers
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killed Nicole and he set a bloody handprint on the shovel proves it the palm prints that paid that Bloody
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paw print on the show was not David Eisenhower it was rolled out as being David Eisenhower
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it was not of the keepers but on the fourth day of testimony came a bombshell announcement
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no contest facing a mountain of incriminating evidence Eisenhower suddenly changed his
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plea from not guilty to no contest prosecutors read one of his last kick messages with Nicole into the court
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record from the defendant but I can't stress enough that you don't tell anyone about me because they will find a way to
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hurt you from the cold level who will hurt me whose day why are you scaring me please stand
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the judge accepted his revised plea and ruled Eisenhower guilty But Nicole's family still had one more
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ordeal to sit through in September 2018 Natalie Keepers went on trial as an accessory to murder
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she had already pleaded guilty to helping Eisenhower conceal Nicole's body prosecutors told new jurors the same
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story that David Eisenhower killed Nicole Lovell but he had help from Natalie keepers
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over several weeks they planned out the murder they considered shooting her poisoning her
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making it look like it was a suicide prosecutors played audio recordings of Keepers describing Eisenhower's messages
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to her on Kick the [ __ ] um kill her keeper said she knew it was wrong I've got no emotions
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he thought of me as a sociopathic training I guess Keepers attorney called a neuropsychologist who examined Keepers
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and diagnosed her with seven mental disorders including borderline personality disorder and a disorder like
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schizophrenia these people may look odd their sense of reality is off their ability to relate to others is off their
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interpersonal skills are off the doctor said Keepers mental state could have made her interview with the officers
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unreliable such a person would be highly easily influenced and gullible and would be easily LED and Keepers
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lawyers say she was playing along with Eisenhower to keep his friendship and had no idea he would really kill Nicole
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you will hear her actually describe that she thought it was a fantasy something that wasn't real
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I thought he was joking I didn't think David could actually kill her but the prosecutors disputed that notion and red
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Keepers kick messages to Eisenhower after the murder telling him he deserved a good night's sleep
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she's proud she's proud of what she and David Eisenhower did it's almost like congratulating someone
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for getting through five finals in a week you deserve it get some sleep the jury took just over one hour to
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reach a verdicted it Natalie Marie Keepers guilty of being an accessory before the fact Natalie
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Keepers was sentenced to 40 years in prison and David Eisenhower was sentenced to 50 years in prison neither
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is eligible for parole they both apologized to Nicole's family nothing can ever undo what has been done
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and for that I am deeply sincerely and forever sorry even with guilty verdicts the question of why may never be
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answered the shell-shock community of Blacksburg still doesn't understand how two
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intelligent college kids with their lives in front of them would take the life of a 13 year old
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girl I wish you would have done it to me instead of her [Music] laughs I would trade places with her in a
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heartbeat [Music] because he deserved and nothing's the same Nicole lovell's death is a dark reminder of how social
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media have profoundly changed Society for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge I hope everybody learns from this
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hold their kids tight because it can happen to you today our children have a host of new
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ways to live and new ways to die as well [Music] foreign I was the first female district judge to
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be on a criminal bench in Travis County the decisions I make every day someone's
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not going to leave happy [Music] I did my head with my arm and my hand I can remember thinking I'm going to die
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in front of my own son she sent a lot of people to prison we didn't know who did
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this and it just shows you that you'd never know who it's going to be next CBS News original reporting
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