Murdered Northfield Teen's Father: 'Like Lightning Out of a Clear Blue Sky'

Dan Kasper, the father of the 19-year-old Northfield High School graduate found murdered Tuesday in her boyfriend's Tempe, Ariz., apartment, described his daughter's death as "like lightning out of the clear blue sky."

Rebecca Kasper had started dating Luis Soltero, 22, in the fall and brought him home to Northfield for Christmas.

"I got a good chance to know him and we didn't see anything that would indicate something like this would happen," Dan Kasper told CBS affiliate KPHO. "He was quiet, laid back and easy going, seemed like a good kid."

Kasper's body was found on Tuesday, her face beaten beyond recognition with a dumbell, after Soltero brought her driver's license in to police and told them to go to his apartment.

"My girlfriend is there and she is dead, and I am not going to tell you anything more without an attorney," he told police.

Rebecca Kasper had lived in Arizona until her family moved to Northfield in 2005 and insisted on heading back south toward the sun for college. A marketing major at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Kasper was set to graduate a year early.

"I feel like this should be somebody else's story," her father told KPHO.

Kasper was described as cheerful and ambitious, a lover of cats.

"She was probably on her way to something great, and it just shattered like that," Mason Popp, a classmate of Kasper's, told the TV station.

"She was going places for sure, if she was here," said Stephania Ochs, another business student.