Natalie Keepers and David Eisenhauer, Virginia Tech students, allegedly planned the crime to abduct and kill Nicole Lovell in late January at the Cook Out, a fast-food chain restaurant, in Blacksburg, Virginia, authorities said Thursday, Feb. 4.

The details were spilled in the courtroom where Keepers filed for a petition for bail.

Mary Pettitt, a commonwealth prosecutor, detailed everything Natalie Keepers told the FBI investigators during the interrogations.

"I was excited to be part of something secretive and special," Keepers told the investigators according to Pettitt.

Pettitt also said that Keepers told the investigators that before they did the crime, she and Eisenhauer went to talk about the details first and created a plan on how they could kill Lovell over dinner. That is when Eisenhauer informed Keepers that the plan would start by tempting Nicole to go out of her home. Then lure her to come with him in a remote location "on the guise of a date" and, using a knife, he will cut her throat.

After constructing the plan, they left the restaurant and executed it, Pettitt said.

According to ABC News, Keepers bought a shovel in Walmart with Eisenhauer before they committed the crime and cleaning supplies after with Lovell's lifeless body still in the trunk of the car.

When asked by the police, Eisenhauer confirmed that he and Lovell had communication days before she disappeared. Pettitt also said that according to him, he has visited Lovell outside of her apartment by 12:39 a.m. Jan 27 in Blacksburg, the same time she last logged on to her social media accounts and went missing.

As reported by CNN, the investigators believe that Eisenhauer was in an inappropriate relationship with Lovell. And because the girl has recent plans of exposing it, Eisenhauer with Keepers decided to pursue the crime to stop her from doing so.

"She was talking about this boyfriend she had that was 18 and went to college, and his name was David, and showed some text messages off of a Kik and pictures," Stacy Snider, mother of the twins who played with Nicole, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Kik Interactive, a social media platform which is particularly popular with teenagers, is now helping to solve the crime. Rod McLeod, the spokesperson of the company, said that Kik is now "active in helping the FBI carry out their investigation."

Tim Keepers, Natalie's father, said that he had heard things about Eisenhauer before but has cleared that he knows nothing about the crime.

"It is still very confusing to me," he told the media. "We are just very, very sad."