I am somewhat confused why so much emphasis seems to be put on DE and NK being college students at Virginia Tech. Why does it matter? How does that change anything or the facts of the case?
Killers and co-conspirators come from all walks of life but it is their violent criminal acts they have done is really what is most important. What they may have been doing at the time before they committed the crime/s.... whether they were a college student, a high school dropout, a doctor or a lawyer or all professions in between is really irrelevant to the murder of Nicole.
Being a college student never means the individuals attending are immune from being bankrupt morally.
Evil walks among us all that is for certain. We here at WS have seen it rear its ugly head way too often.
I was bullied when I was 7 until 11 years old when we finally moved and I no longer attended that school. Growing up I was always petite (still am), and since I came from a home with a very abusive father, I was scared of my shadow back then, and was an easy target for bullies. My bully was a girl my age. So I feel the pain Nicole had to endure. Bullies are the scum of the earth, imo. It isn't normal behavior for any human being to delight in someone else's pain and suffering...they are causing. Bullies have to have a sadistic streak in their makeup. And we see how powerful words can be now that the abuse can continue 24/7 on social media sites. Teens are now pushing the other depressed teen to kill themselves instead of trying to help and support them through their times of great need. What a scary world we live in.
I do believe Nicole's death was very premeditated. I see coldness in both of the defendants. No compassion or empathy. They both emit an air of evilness and coldness. When I see photos of Nicole its heartbreaking because she really looked around 12-13 and you don't see that much nowadays since most 13 year old girls seems to want to look 18 instead.
I believe both of them lured Nicole into believing they were her trusted friends with the intentions all along to kill her.
I also believe that Keepers is much more involved in this and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if she was the mastermind behind the entire plot. The investigation has just begun and I think even more additional charges will be filed against both.
I really don't even see why Nicole was interested in DE. He looks mean and downright scary looking. He isn't the least bit attractive to me either (jmo) but maybe the draw may have been more because he was paying attention to Nicole and she was lonely, sad, and was seeking affirmative attention. And strangely Keepers gives off the same vibe. In her mugshot she looks totally unremorseful, angry, emotionless, hard, and devoid of feelings.
It always has intrigued me how two evil people can find each other out of the millions of people out there. Its like they have a honing device that brings the two evildoers together so they can do heinous crimes like this one as a team.
I think they killed Nicole just because they knew they could. Just for the thrill of it. I think they felt Nicole was beneath them and they thought she had no value.
I read an article last year that stated 1 out of 5 people from the age of 18-25 have a serious personality disorder of some kind. How scary. I think our society now is creating more and more psychopaths than ever before with narcissistic/ sadistic traits. I have seen several interviews concerning teen murderers and the one common denominator I see constantly is, no matter how horrific their murders were, they aren't remorseful one bit nor could care less about the victims.
I believe these two defendants care about no one but themselves and are in the 'ME 'ME' 'ME' ME' group of young people we are reading so much about in the recent years. Imo, they both felt entitled to take Nicole's life. To them she meant nothing. Both of them were cold and ruthless when they lured her away imo. To murder Nicole with a knife shows they wanted her feel pain and great suffering before she died and wanted her to know who was killing her. Its shows a lot of cruelty, imo. And she may not have died right away but she may have been tortured/humiliated before the final stab came.
It still perplexes me why DE wasn't also charged with improper disposal of Nicole's body and only Keepers was. I have seen many DAs over the years who charged a defendant with first degree murder also attach additional charges depending on what law the murder suspect broke. It gives the jury more charges to consider.
These two just didn't decide one day out of the blue to become evil cruel human beings who are capable of murdering a child so there is a backstory on who these two really are... whether their family enabled them or simply chose to ignore the odd behaviors they saw.
IMO
