Dr. Phil to Interview Father of Slain Virginia Teen

The father of Nicole Lovell will appear on national TV two weeks after his 13-year-old daughter was killed.

David Lovell will be featured on the Dr. Phil show on Wednesday, Feb. 10.

His daughter Nicole Madison Lovell disappeared from her mother’s apartment in Blacksburg, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, and her remains were found Saturday, Jan. 30, in North Carolina.

The two charged in Nicole Lovell’s murder are Virginia Tech students who hailed from Howard County high schools.

The preliminary cause of death appears to be stabbing.

Officials suspect Nicole Lovell had an inappropriate relationship with one of those charged, an 18-year-old Columbia man, who allegedly killed the girl to keep her from revealing the nature of their connection, according to CNN.

Still, authorities have not formally released a motive.

“I would like to get locked up in the same cell with him. I’m pretty sure I could get answers out of him,” David Lovell said on Dr. Phil. “He took my little girl.”

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David Lovell told the talk show host that upon learning his daughter had been talking to men online earlier in the winter, he and her mother seized her phone.

“You could tell these older guys had fake profiles. Some of the things they said were way too grown up for the picture they had,” David Lovell told Dr. Phil, according to a preview released by the show. “We found out before Christmas and took her phone away from her.”

A friend of Nicole Lovell attributed the teen’s online activities as a way to cope with bullying at school.

”She was looking for someone who would give her attention and give her some compassion,” Nicole Lovell’s 13-year-old classmate told The Washington Post, noting kids bullied her because of a scar on her throat from a tracheotomy.

Nicole Lovell described her alleged killer, 18-year-old David Eisenhauer, as her boyfriend after the two met on Facebook, according to the newspaper.

While social media may have introduced them, it also reportedly helped law enforcement close in on the suspects.

The day before Nicole Lovell died—on Tuesday, Jan. 26—she went sledding with a pair of twins in her neighborhood and showed them a picture of “David,” the mother of the 8-year-olds told the Associated Press.

Nicole Lovell allegedly told the twins she would be sneaking out to see ”David” that night and shared with the 8-year-olds messages they exchanged on the app Kik, which reportedly helped lead police to Eisenhauer.

A 19-year-old Laurel woman, Natalie Keepers, is accused of being an accessory before and after the murder. She texted Eisenhauer “police” when law enforcement showed up at her boyfriend’s house, CNN reported.

Nicole’s father, her stepmother Terri Lovell and 14-year-old stepbrother Levi will be on Dr. Phil.

Dr. Phil airs at 3 p.m. weekdays on WJZ. The episode with David Lovell will be broadcast at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10.