A uni student, 21, who helped her friend murder his 13-year-old secret girlfriend, has been found guilty of being an accessory before the fact.
US university student Natalie Keepers, 21, has been found guilty of helping her friend David Eisenhauer, also 21, murder his secret 13-year-old girlfriend.
Prosecutors said Keepershelped Eisenhauer buy a shovel and pick out the location for the murder.
David Eisenhauer killed Nicole Lovell with the help of Natalie Keepers (leaft) and Nicole Lovell (right). Photos / Supplied, Blacksburg Police Department
Text messages between the pair showed they discussed ways to kill his girlfriend, Nicole Lovell.
Her lawyers had argued that Keepers never actually believed that Eisenhauer would go through with it.
Kris Olin said that Keepers had never even met the victim but "loved being part of the plan, not because it was a plan to murder but because it was a plan to be close to David."
Eisenhauer is now serving a 50-year sentence after pleading no contest to first-degree murder.
Keepers says she wasn't present when Nicole was murdered.
