GUILTY VA - Nicole Lovell, 13, Blacksburg, 27 January 2016 #7 Accused Pleads "No Contest"

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Looks like court has been continuing
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Dominick Mastrangelo
‏@DomMastrangelo1
10m10 minutes ago

After nearly two hours (with some recess) on the witness stand, Czernicki is excused. Next up an officer from the Blacksburg PD who responded to the scene of the crime at that ditch along Craigs Creek Road. He'll likely be the last witness for today.

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[Really?]

The shovel wouldn't have fit into the trunk, so I guess it was in the back seat. But why in the heck would have they brought the shovel back with them? Would have made more sense to get rid of evidence, instead, they held onto blood stained items. So glad they were stupid!

Plus Keepers kept and took items back to her dorm.......

 

[Betty P]

This twitterer is late to posting, but I'll take it:

1:40 p.m.: Detective Mike Czernicki from the Blacksburg Police Department is now giving testimony. He helped during the investigation at the pond at Virginia Tech. He explains he obtained the paint can after it was collected from the bottom of the pond.

The commonwealth switches gears to a few days before. Czernicki was also called to Craig Creek Road. He was looking for an area known as a paintball field, two or three miles outside route 460. He, along with other law enforcement officers saw lots of footprints and tire marks in the snow.

He was called to another location on Craig Creek Road, about a half mile from 460. There were tire tracks, and a red stain on the road. It was determined to be blood through a series of tests.

Czernicki searched Eisenhauer’s car, after getting a search warrant. The car was transported to the Radford Police Department in a temperature controlled bay.

Pictures of inside the car show a GPS device, a bottle of cleaning fluid, and a shovel. In the trunk of the car were paper towels, wet wipes, and a large deposit of blood. Some of those items had blood in them. Detectives took samples from the trunk to test for blood.

There was another stain of blood found on the outside of the car on the front right tire of Eisenhauer’s Lexus. There were also blood stains on the shovel and on the back seat.

Czernicki also showed the shovel, by taking it out of the evidence bag and showing it to the jury.

Eisenhauer’s attorneys begin asking how the evidence is collected, numbered, and stored.

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/472974783.html

Jesus, there was blood all over the place. On the road, on the tire and outside of the car, huge pool inside. That poor girl. Those sick, twisted, evil animals. This just makes me sick. I feel so badly for her parents, family and friends.

 

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Dominick Mastrangelo
‏@DomMastrangelo1
4m4 minutes ago

We are done for the day. Day four of the Eisenhauer murder trial will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday.

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[BUF]

Watch DE on this video when the detective was testifying about what was found in his car. It is towards the end -48. He looks like his goose is cooked.

https://www.facebook.com/TheAnnieAndersen/videos/1660308570692507/

 

[Really?]

It is also sad to think about the blanket Nicole brought.......

 

[kdg411]

There's something a little icy about him. Lacking in emotion, imo.

I saw on a video yesterday and another one today when he entered the courtroom after lunch, that he has walked in with both his fists loosely clenched.

Did anyone else see that? At first I thought he was handcuffed until he was seated, but today I saw he clearly wasn't.

He's tightly wrapped as we used to say

A bit OT however reminded me of Michael Mccarthy during Bella Bond's trial. MOO it shows the difference between innocent and guilty! RIH Bella & Nicole :rose:

 

[watergirl62]

Just caught up. This was a good day in court. Shovel, phone, knife, ponds, cleaning supplies in trunk (wth?), blood stains [emoji20] lots of evidence. Can't wait to hear about DNA, and digital evidence.

[emoji274] Thanks to everyone for posting all the tweets, links, news clips, video links, maps and commentary today! [emoji274]

 

[Betty P]

Update about the last person to testify today, John Singleton of VSP

The last witness called to testify by the commonwealth Wednesday was John Singleton, a special agent with Virginia State Police high-tech crime division.

Singleton testified he recovered data from a Garmin-brand GPS device found in David Eisenhauer’s car and given to him by a Blacksburg police department.

Singleton said he was able to triangulate where the device had been around the time Nicole Lovell went missing.

The court has declared a recess for the day. Day four of the trial will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/m...cle_6c2fd7ae-0b93-11e8-982c-830c7886b498.html

Fortunately DE left that Garmin GPS device in the back floor board of his car so investigators could retrieve and track his movements.

ETA: the GPS device was found in the front corner of the front passenger floorboard area.

 

[Jinkasaurus]

Update about the last person to testify today, John Singleton of VSP


http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/m...cle_6c2fd7ae-0b93-11e8-982c-830c7886b498.html

Fortunately DE left that Garmin GPS device in the back floor board of his car so investigators could retrieve and track his movements.

ETA: the GPS device was found in the front corner of the front passenger floorboard area.

I thought I remembered there being some sort of GPS device in the car. I thought it was an OnStar system but it sounds like it was just his own personal GPS device.

That is beyond stupid!!!!!! Commit a murder while you have your GPS device tracking your every move and forget to toss it!!!

 

[MalloryPike]

Found it:

"Eisenhauer’s attorneys ask if Trooper Grzelak helped found a knife in the pond. Other VSP recovered a knife also in the pond. It was found near the phone discovered. Other troopers thought Grzelak and his dive team had dropped the knife in their search, they had not. It was kept and collected as evidence." -WDBJ7

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/472974783.html

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Thanks for the link! I got something completely different out of that article. Not that the troopers thought the Detective had planted the knife but that it might have been a knife the divers had on them, IMO. I&#8217;d imagine divers carry dive knives to cut through debris or plant life when searching, and that is what they suspected was dropped. I don&#8217;t get the impression at all that the troopers were accusing him of planting evidence.

 

[wyome]

Had to work today, so I'm very pleased to see everyone's posts to keep me informed.

I'm really curious about DE's parents. On some of the video clips, the room doesn't look "packed". Where are his parents sitting usually?

 

[dyannaON]

That one moment of Nicole leaving. How it changed everything. (Not victim blaming) how I wish the window got stuck. A dog barked, her mom came in. Or the murders couldn’t find her place. Or they ran out of gas. Or one of them chickened out. Why. Why did none of this happen.
Nicole’s case really haunts me. Its just should never have happened. I hope justice prevails.
Thanks everyone for the tweets.



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[Bravo]

Thanks for the link! I got something completely different out of that article. Not that the troopers thought the Detective had planted the knife but that it might have been a knife the divers had on them, IMO. I&#8217;d imagine divers carry dive knives to cut through debris or plant life when searching, and that is what they suspected was dropped. I don&#8217;t get the impression at all that the troopers were accusing him of planting evidence.

My thoughts as well

 

[Inthedetails]

I am curious to know:

-why detectives first made a beeline to that Paintball Field three miles down Craigs Creek Road, then did a U-Turn and ended up at the true death site, only 1/2 mile down Craigs Creek. Was Eisenhauer a well-known paintball guy?
-in the backpack they found a 2nd phone number, which belonged to another cross country runner. Did this runner get an 'invite', and then smartly bail out?
-Who is person from South Carolina that is being called by the defense? Is this the witness that matched the "VGX-4849" license plate to the Craigs Creek paintball site instead of the actual murder scene? I am thinking Keepers stole his car.

Your thoughts.

Where is this info coming from? Could you provide a link - none of this is ringing a bell for me and I need to catch up with this. Link please! Tia.

 

[Betty P]

I am curious to know:

-why detectives first made a beeline to that Paintball Field three miles down Craigs Creek Road, then did a U-Turn and ended up at the true death site, only 1/2 mile down Craigs Creek. Was Eisenhauer a well-known paintball guy?
-in the backpack they found a 2nd phone number, which belonged to another cross country runner. Did this runner get an 'invite', and then smartly bail out?
-Who is person from South Carolina that is being called by the defense? Is this the witness that matched the "VGX-4849" license plate to the Craigs Creek paintball site instead of the actual murder scene? I am thinking Keepers stole his car.

Your thoughts.

I wondered the same thing about the two locations on Craig's Creek Rd.

Nicole went missing on 27 Jan. LE went to talk to DE on 30 Jan. They took his car, got the SW, found the Garmin GPS tracker and quickly started downloading info on his movements. At that time they were probably holding out hope that Nicole was still alive. In the rush to interpret the data, they sent the officer to the paintball field (possibly because it was on CC Road and college kids went there). While he was heading out there, the VPS officer got a better look at the data and sent him to the second location on CC Road.

As for the allegations about the witness from SC, I've not heard that about the license plate. Do you have a link?

ETA: Here's a link to an article from today where they discuss Czerniki being called to 2 different locations on CC Road

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/472974783.html

IIRC, that was also mentioned in news articles back in 2016

 

[Doghairrules]

yes, it is the one on the bottom left, the VTXC course has a loop that runs around the small pond for Mile 2

excellent map!

Is that area as open as it seems in this picture?

 

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BBM

I am curious to know:

-why detectives first made a beeline to that Paintball Field three miles down Craigs Creek Road, then did a U-Turn and ended up at the true death site, only 1/2 mile down Craigs Creek. Was Eisenhauer a well-known paintball guy?
-in the backpack they found a 2nd phone number, which belonged to another cross country runner. Did this runner get an 'invite', and then smartly bail out?
-Who is person from South Carolina that is being called by the defense? Is this the witness that matched the "VGX-4849" license plate to the Craigs Creek paintball site instead of the actual murder scene? I am thinking Keepers stole his car.

Your thoughts.

- Maybe Nicole's phone pinged in that area. Phone pings are not exact.

- Why would you think that? Maybe it's just someone he planned to invite to go on a run or tutor or any study together.

- I doubt the SC person say a license plate. Were did you find the bolded information? I don't remember hearing it. Regardlesss, I have no clue who this guy is but my thoughts run more along the lines of someone that Nicole corresponded with via kik, for example.

We'll find out most, if not all, of the answers to your questions soon enough, I believe.

 

[wyome]

Eisenhauer refuses to drink out of water bottle, thinks cops are 'tricking' him:

"Eisenhauer talked multiple times about not giving investigators DNA evidence because he was suspicious they were trying to take it from him, including from a bottle of water they offered him. He later drank from the bottle of water, but did not put the bottle to his lips, instead held the bottle up and poured water into his mouth."

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/472974783.html

I also have my own video from the November 6th, 2015 Hokie Open 6K, of Eisenhauer standing on the sidelines drinking a bottle of water and not not touching the mouth of it. We suspected he was a simple germophobe.

Can you link the video you took from the 11/15 Hokie Open?

 

[Inthedetails]

I wondered the same thing about the two locations on Craig's Creek Rd.

Nicole went missing on 27 Jan. LE went to talk to DE on 30 Jan. They took his car, got the SW, found the Garmin GPS tracker and quickly started downloading info on his movements. At that time they were probably holding out hope that Nicole was still alive. In the rush to interpret the data, they sent the officer to the paintball field (possibly because it was on CC Road and college kids went there). While he was heading out there, the VPS officer got a better look at the data and sent him to the second location on CC Road.

As for the allegations about the witness from SC, I've not heard that about the license plate. Do you have a link?

ETA: Here's a link to an article from today where they discuss Czerniki being called to 2 different locations on CC Road

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/472974783.html

IIRC, that was also mentioned in news articles back in 2016

Thank you for the link! Going to catch up with reading now.