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Trial Set for Suspect in Va. Tech Student's Death

A woman charged with killing a Virginia Tech student will go to trial next February.

Twenty-three-year-old Jessica Ewing is charged with first-degree murder and transporting, secreting or altering a body.

Media outlets report that Ewing waived her right to a speedy trial during a hearing Monday in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The former Virginia Tech student's trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 17, 2015.

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According to cell phone records obtained by Collegiate Times, Ewing called numerous people, saying she had "done something terrible." She called her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Keifer Kyle Brown, to help her.

Brown is accused of helping Ewing move Shrestha's body into her black Mercedes Benz, which was found on a rural Blacksburg road.

Brown -- who graduated from Virginia Tech last year -- was charged with accessory after the fact.

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