I can't possibly read all of these threads so I ask for corrections on what I post here so I can get up to speed.
DE, 18, was a HS athlete, at VA Tech studying Engineering. Family is well off. Also an athlete at VA Tech. He trolled a teen site for dating and hooked up with NL, a 13 year old at some point. She lied about her age. They had a sexual relationship. NL was telling people (friends - other kids) about DE. He didn't want to get caught and charged with statutory rape.
I want to know if DE, as you say, "trolled a teen site for dating and hooked up with NL" (and then, everything unraveled from there) OR if DE and NK trolled a teen site together, looking for someone to murder. My intuition keeps telling me that NK may have been the mastermind and DE was simply along for the ride.
NK says she was just along for the ride, that DE did the murder, she only helped him get the body in and out of the trunk. She had NL's Minion blanket in her dorm room.
She was present when the murder occurred.
Why would NK want the blanket, to the point of storing it in a suitcase? Why not leave it with the body or dispose of it with the cleaning supplies? Why would she immediately tell law enforcement where to find the blanket? Was she in some way proud that she had it?
To me, it makes no sense that NK would not have been present for the murder, as she originally claimed. If I understood correctly, she admitted to being there immediately before the murder, and then again, immediately after the murder, so the idea of NK not being present for the murder itself, seems like a complicated acrobatic trick. With everything happening at the time, how did NK manage to be there, then not there, and then, there again? DE would have no time to be her chauffeur. So I do believe she must have been present when the murder occurred. My intuition keeps telling me that she is the one who did it.
Do we know of any other children that DE was trolling for? Is NK also a pedophile?
That to me is the 64 thousand dollar question. Was DE someone who trolled for children on the internet? Or was NL targeted for some other reason? Was this crime originally about sexual deviance, and it evolved into murder? Or was it never about anything other than finding someone to murder?
Do we know that DE's inappropriate behavior with NL involved a physical relationship, or could it have all been carried out online?
Is DE actually a pedophile? Is NK?
And does NK have a boyfriend separate from DE? If she does, is he a pedophile? Could this other boyfriend have been the one to have an inappropriate relationship with NL and then NK enlisted DE's help to carry out her long and involved plot for revenge?
If the murder was plotted for weeks in advance, it doesn't seem like a crime of passion. It doesn't even seem as though it was some knee-jerk reaction to DE's fear that he was going to be exposed by NL. Instead, all of the plotting makes the murder seem more like a crime of revenge. But why would DE or NK need revenge against NL, a child? The only thing that makes sense to me is if NK was jealous of NL. But why?
Or maybe DE is a pedophile and he did not want to be exposed by NL. But if that is the case, why in the world would NK go along with all of this plotting for weeks?
To me, it makes more sense that DE got pulled into NK's scheme, because he wanted to be a helpful friend to her.
None of it makes sense though. I'm grasping at straws.
) it's not out of the realm of possibility that there was a 3rd person who participated or helped in some capacity. Just a theory of course!
