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where are we right now right now we're on Virginia Tech's campus you're listening to wvt FM 90.7 blackburg I'm
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Claire rney I'm the news director at wuvt Virginia Tech's completely student run radio station the night after uh
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Nicole level disappeared we actually got an email sent out across campus from Virginia Tech police that said that a
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13-year-old girl who's a resident of blackburg went missing and the news of the kidnapp in um and eventual murder
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came out a few days later tonight we are learning new chilling details about the
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death of Nicole LEL a few days after The Disappearance they reported that they had someone in custody based on evidence
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and at that point campus was Ablaze because they knew that it was a freshman they knew that it would cause another
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Scandal because he was a Virginia Tech student 18-year-old Eisenhower a Virginia Tech freshman engineering major
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how aware were you uh of the 2007 uh Virginia Tech shootings and did that come to mind in this like oh no not
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again I did not personally have any connection really to the 2007 incident but it's very much part of our cultural
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history any of this makes sense to you at all I think the the worst part is that everyone
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involved was so young any idea why a college freshman athlete would have been reaching out to a 13-year-old girl I
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can't think of too many reasons there are still a lot of lot of unanswered questions about why he specifically
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targeted um a 13-year-old I think for potential criminals and potential murders and
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potential pedophiles these apps are certainly an advantage but I think that there are ways that we could improve it
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and as technology improves I think there are ways that we may be able to monitor
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it better so that we may be able to keep children safe if they don't know exactly
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quite yet how to navigate through to be um very safe regarding who they speak to
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and who it is that they're speaking to behind the um behind the screen