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she was beautiful her eyes were just remarkable I was gonna be there for her she was gonna be there for me I didn't let her what it was I thought that maybe she'd been kidnapped no one knew what was happening there's nothing that I could have done or anyone could have done Skylar Rachel Sheila total BFFs they hung out all the time you always thought of them as a team the three of them became inseparable then one ended up missing nobody's heard from her nobody knows where she is something's wrong something's bad wrong where was Skylar someone was hiding something I was I get to the FBI like they're serious Twitter Instagram Facebook you just see things start to get ridiculously out of control tonight we take you inside a secret world that's going to stun you teenagers social media and murder she was like well she'll blackmail me a clique of Mean Girls were they mean enough to kill it was such a shocking and scandalous kind of case this was diabolical evil comes in all shapes and sizes I'm Lester Holt and this is Dateline tonight Andrea Canning with something wicked in the gentle rolling hills of northern West Virginia in a sweet college town in the heart of coal country lifts three teenage girls their photos capture a moment in time they were smart talented lovely everything a parent could hope for in a daughter and so who could have guessed just by looking that some of them carried a dark secret about a friend one day an emergency I have a 16 year old daughter she has not been home hasn't went or I am scared to death these teens played a strange and haunting game would you guys rather suffocate or get shot get shots a game of betrayal that would go way beyond typical teenage drama she's calling out ell me you know why why why and at the center of it all was a girl named Skyler daven Mary nice welcome their only daughter Skylar to the world back in 1996 tell me about the day she was born is that the greatest moment of your life I wouldn't go that far first time you saw her first time I saw her yes I can say that was the greatest moment of my life yeah it was instant love they live in star city a small suburb of Morgantown West Virginia where Dave works at Walmart and Mary at a medical office Skylar was a whirlwind a rambunctious precocious toddler who owned her parents hearts hey Gordon you beautiful baby she was reading way before she was supposed to do math and stuff way before she was supposed to so she's a very intelligent little girl thanks for me when Skyler started nursery school she made her first friend Morgan Lawrence Morgan was drawn right away to Skyler did she kind of light up a room oh yeah she had the giggle and the laugh the girls families became good friends too Morgan's parents Dave and Cheryl say Morgan and Skyler were like sisters what are your memories of Skyler when she when she was this high she giggled all the time it just filled our house she had the biggest eyes you just wanted to hug her they were good girls got good grades Morgan dreamed of becoming a meteorologist Skyler a criminal lawyer they also had a pact that they would always be there for one another and you would both be in each other's wedding parties everyone has us a star to put in their wedding and we had each other as freshmen at Morgan Townes University High School the two girls drifted apart a little with a new school came new friends plus made Daniel hovater says the bubbly Skyler fit in right away friends came first with her she was always about hanging out with friends if she didn't have work or school soon Skyler had two new BFFs Sheila Eddie who the nieces had known for years and Rachel Shoaf a striking redhead with Broadway aspirations it wasn't long before they were calling themselves the three musketeers and in pictures they looked the part they were literally together every second of every day it seemed like they hung out all the time unlike all teenage girls they shared videos and photos with each other and online giving us a glimpse into their world Skylar and Sheila just having fun and of course they occasionally got into trouble but even then it was for typical teenage things David Mary weren't too concerned she's a straight-a student who loves her parents did you sort of chalk it up to okay we're not thrilled but she's a teenager exactly when summer rolled around after her sophomore year Skylar seemed happy she had a job at Wendy's which she loved on Thursday July 5th 2012 she came home after work and got ready for bed she put a roam around her mom gave her a kiss and gave her hug and said I love your mom she turned to me and said I love you dad she went to the room the next day Dave planned to meet Skylar in their apartment at lunchtime he was surprised that she wasn't there a little worried he called Mary I thought she was out with one of her other friends I figured they went swimming or shopping Dave called her friends including Sheila no one had seen her next he went outside and found more cause for worry a small bench was tucked near Skylar's window and the window screen was missing but at this time I called out her cellphone I said yeah you're in trouble you better be calling me right away so I called her cellphone about 10 times I called Mary again again Mary told him to calm down she said Skylar was expected at work at 4:00 I said we're not gonna worry I'll call them about Ted after 4 give her time the clock and everything see if she's there but Mary didn't get a chance to call Wendy's they called us first wanting to know if she coming to work was that a big moment for you yeah a few minutes later there was another big surprise I called from Sheila she said that she had to tell me the truth and I said well what truth she said well we did we snuck out last night Mary's heartfelt Skylar had done that once before gone on a late-night Joyride with Rachel and Sheila that time they'd been caught for being out after the town curfew and now here was a horrid Sheila saying they'd done it again as a where did you go where Skylar and she said that Skylar insisted they drop her off at the end of the street so we wouldn't hear her sneaking back in now that missing screen and bench outside Skylar's window made sense Skylar had put it there to boost her self up so she could get back in but it left them with a terrifying possibility my first instinct was someone abducted her from the end of the street to our house Dave called the police I have a daughter at 16 years old apparently snuck out of her room last night and she hasn't been seen since no friends can come over I can't find her yeah what's her name Tyler Nia the nieces world have fallen apart their only daughter had disappeared into the night and now she'd been gone for nearly 24 hours where was Skylar when we come back the investigation begins and concern for Skylar begins to grow I just had this horrible feeling in my heart that something terrible had happened a grainy piece of videotape is about to give police one giant clue what can they glean from this sheet slowly walk down to a car and sheet on the back seat Star City West Virginia has just 1800 residents only one stoplight Scarl are going missing was a tough pill to swallow for the entire community police officer Jessica Cole Bank caught the Skyler nice case first impression was it could be a runaway there are kids to run away all the time it wasn't long before officer Cole Bank got the video from the security cameras at the nieces building Skylar's friend Sheila Eddy had said Skylar was home around midnight so what was this car doing pulling up around 12:30 a.m. who was in it Dave nice watched horrified as they're on the tape out walked Skylar she slowly walked out to a part that was sitting there waiting on her now she got in the backseat I could tell that and she drove away police couldn't quite make out a license plate or tell the maker model Skylar's mom Mary had a theory she made it home snuck back in the window then a second person or persons had parked behind the building and she snuck out a second time but why who was in the car and where did they go the police didn't issue an Amber Alert since it looked like Skylar left voluntarily once that video came out that she willingly got in this car they're not gonna come out and look for somebody driving around in a car Skylar's friend Sheila came right over she spent a lot of time here telling us that it'll be okay she'll be home and I really miss her I love her I want her back the next day Sheila sat with Mary on Skylar's bed both of them crying did it bring you comfort when Sheila would come by being Skylar's best friend it did me a little bit yeah Nonna Calchas Oliver beehad Mary and Sheila took to the streets together posting flyers for Skylar they would knock on the doors asked have you seen this girl and we have shown a picture to people nobody had seen her Sheila was very very worried about what had happened to Skylar Crissy Swanson is a close family friend of Sheila's and saw Sheila's distress firsthand she was trying so hard to help them find anything so hard to help them figure out what had happened the Star City Police are still looking for a missing 16 year old Dave made a plea for help on local news station WB oh why we love her maybe we will her home by Sunday night Skylar had been gone the whole weekend her family including her aunt Carol was heartsick I just had this horrible feeling in my heart that you know something terrible had happened and and it wasn't like her to run away or disappear like she did Mary uh told me that night she said something's wrong Dave something's bad wrong so your mind had kind of gone to that place already that she may never come home the community held a candlelight vigil Skylar school friends came including Rachael and Sheila they were crying came up and hugged me and Mary just crying her eyes out the only thing Mary could say was what can we do to help these girls how can we help these girls Skylar's family friend Morgan Lawrence was upset too she was away at Camp when she read on Facebook that Skylar was missing did it scare you when you started to see those posts definitely how worried were you now it's sick to my stomach all the time right so was officer Cole Bank she was at it non-stop I'd come back to the office in evenings you know watching the video getting facebook records full bank was swamped with tips from people saying they'd seen Skylar from Morgantown to New York and even California each sighting was a dead end at the same time Cobain pulled Skylar's records what she found was ominous Skylar wasn't using her cell phone or her ATM card Cole Bank now had serious doubts that Skylar had run away usually Runaways they take out him sweat them that they want especially if she had contacts and glasses she didn't take that stuff with her and then police got an important new lead in the case there had been two bank robberies in the nearby town of blacksville both of them had gone down around the time Skylar vanished I was working with other investigators on those bank robberies while looking into the robberies Ronny Gaskins of the West Virginia State Police was called in to Skylar's case there had been a tip that somehow Skylar had been at a party with the suspected bank robbers when something bad happened what was the theory they're just rumors you know gossip going around that there was a teenage party there was a possible overdose and people that were scared so they hid the body it seemed unlikely Skylar didn't use heavy drugs it was just a lot of tracking down rumors tons and tons and tons of rumors all leading nowhere by now Skylar had been gone more than a month Gaskins vowed he would find her I don't like to make promises my line of work but my promise I made today was we would never stop you never give up I'm trying to find out what happened Skylar their search for Schuyler had taken them across the United States what they didn't know then was that the truth was right there in Morgantown at University hi coming up Twitter Instagram and Facebook things start to get ridiculously under control whispers in the hallways was someone hiding something police are about to get a break that was an aha moment finally we have something to go on when Dateline continues the first day of school that fall was heartbreaking one of university high school's top students Skylar Neese had disappeared during the summer classmate Shania Amin's starting school without her like that was probably one of the hardest days through the whole thing like Skylar was a good person and she was just gone Skylar's friend Morgan Lawrence was dreading roll call I didn't have any classes with her thank God you didn't want to hear her name called it's not the same it's you know you can't tell the teacher we don't know if she's coming back she in some ways Nev seemed normal Skylar's good friend Sheila Eddie stayed here in this video taken in the classroom he's back in school so is BFF Rachel Shoaf singing for friends in this video the world around me changes Rachel got the lead in the fall play but everyone was worried about Skylar and in school hallways and on social media rumors flew between Twitter and Instagram and Facebook you just see things start to get ridiculously out of control kids saying things from Skylar had overdosed and things that Skylar's in a different country Daniel hovater was in drama with Rachel and knew how close the three girls were he wondered if Rachel and Sheila might be helping cover something up for Skylar there had been rumors going around just Rachel and Sheila know where she's hiding Daniel knew Rachel and Sheila were the last ones to see Skylar he wondered if they were protecting her or maybe protecting someone else either way they had to know something there were probably a good three four five times where I told Rachel if you know anything you need to say what happened or where she's at Daniel wasn't alone writers Dalene Barry and Jeff fuller live in the Morgantown area and have written a book about Skylar's case they've spent hours combing through what kids were saying on social the one thing that stood out to me is that people teens were tweeting sheíll and Rachel had to know something why don't you guys just talk just say something yeah no tell us what you know Rachel and Sheila seen here in a photo taken around that time we're now at the center of a storm but they had supporters like Shania I am completely 100% supported and defended Sheila and Fantasia Willer whenever I'd say of course I get a lot of you know bad comments from her from cable the heat got turned up on the girls when the FBI showed up and started interviewing students I was only interviewed once I guess I was nervous because I was like it's the FBI like they're serious they asked me about Rachel and she left they seemed any different and I was telling him they didn't seem different but they were secluded to themselves more the normal fall rituals like football and homecoming were punctuated with police visits to Rachel and Sheila kids say Rachel left play rehearsal to meet with the FBI I mean they would just talk about alive a lie-detector test today or something Mary and Dave nice desperate to find their daughter thought the police were wasting their time investigating the girls they knew so well I went to the police and said will you leave Sheila alone please I said you guys are harassing her 24/7 the kids going through enough right now leave her alone so you defended her oh god yeah she was like our daughter but investigators were convinced the two girls knew more than they were saying was it sort of the belief that look nobody's in trouble we just want to know where she is yeah we just need to know what happened that fall Ronnie Gaskins interviewed each girl repeatedly how was Sheila's demeanor in these meetings you would have with her calm collect just look at you right to face hurt your eyes he says Rachel seemed distracted she would draw on the desk play with the pencil just her nonverbal cues spoke a lot their story never varied they picked Skylar up drove around Morgantown smoked a little pot and dropped her off a few blocks from home it was like a recording with these two in the meantime the officers had begun to collect physical evidence and it didn't match up with the story the girls had been telling surveillance video from a convenience store put the girl's car what heading east as they'd said but heading west toward blacksville and the girls phone records from that night showed Rachel's phone pinging off a cell tower in blacksville that was an aha moment finally we have something to go on that's different from their story now even Skylar's parents joined the chorus of people trying to get the girls to talk I started posting on Facebook things about karma karma will get you you can't hide we were pushing we were pushing the girls to get them to say what happened by late November the pressure seemed to be taking its toll on Rachel in an interview she surprised police by changing her story admitting for the first time that they did drive to blacksville that night and that's where Skylar told them to let her out of the car blacksville where those bank robberies had happened the next day Sheila changed her story to say the same thing that must have been a big red flag for you absolutely school kids say Rachel was increasingly rattled Rachel seemed distressed she seemed like she was very upset over something I mean this was eating in her heart Rachel Shoaf was about to crack coming up very very an emergency at home and an interview with police what exactly it was Rachel Shoaf about to reveal we were speechless it's been a long-running mystery at university hi what happened to Skylar nice she seemed to have slipped out of her bedroom and vanished in the night now her two best friends are under scrutiny Rachel Shoaf and Sheila Eddy one of them is about to come forward with a deadly secret here again Andrea Canning Christmas came and went for Skylar neeses parents Dave and Mary it had been six months since their daughter had disappeared the holidays must have been very tough that year Christmas time win celebrate no we didn't put up any tree we didn't do anything just another day yep around that time Rachel Shoaf in Sheila Eddy stopped attending University hi there few remaining friends told authors Dalene Barry and Jeff fuller that Rachel seemed agitated she was acting out getting into more family altercations at home so the walls were closing in on Rachel she was a 16 year old daughter of mine American controller anymore and then on December 28th Rachel apparently snapped her upset mother called the police did not cease screaming she's running through the neighborhood give me the phone when Rachel was taken to a mental-health facility a few days later corporal Ronnie Gaskins got a big surprise Rachel wanted to meet at her lawyer's office she had something she wanted to say take us inside that attorney's office with Rachel what was her demeanor I remember her pulling up a wastebasket next to her she's afraid she's gonna throw up and then he started asking her the questions that we thought she would answer she ever does was there a party and I remembered she just her face got really red and she just glanced at us and said we stabbed her was there just a hush in the room how did everyone react everybody was silent for a couple minutes we were speechless it wasn't an accident it was a murder not only had Rachel and Sheila killed Skylar they had planned it for months all the while looking and acting like the best of friends Sheila and Skylar do in this video as part of the plan Rachel Sheila settled on the night of July 5th as the ideal time to kill Skylar earlier that day Rachel had obtained the shovel from her father's residence they put it in Sheila's trunk brought the clean clothes cleaning supplies and according to Rachel Sheila had provided the kitchen knives they called Skylar to say they were on their way over Porter to the residence and there is Skylar sneaking out in that grainy surveillance video the car is Sheila's and inside are Skylar's two best friends Skylar gets in the car and they get Robin and they drove for nearly an hour for miles and miles dark winding roads out past blacksville it gets to see the part the car and they found an area where they could sit and talk the scholar leaves to get back to the car and then Rachel said on three according to Gaskins Rachel said she counted one two three and on three the two girls began last when her and Sheila started stabbing scholar from bond got matches Gaskin says Skyler fought hard to defend herself did Rachel indicate what Skyler's last words were her final moments in that meeting she said Skylar just said why that was that's why she said Rachel said the girls covered the body with dirt and branches through their bloody clothes in the trunk and left Skylar there did Rachel express how she felt when the crime was over yeah I just remember her saying that this is something she wanted to get done before she went to church camp how did you feel when she said I had to get this done before church camp why are we dealing with did you ask Rachel why why did you to do this she would not give us any specific details other than they just didn't like her and then when I asked her what do you mean you didn't like her clarify that she said all nothing we just didn't like her after telling police the story Rachel led authorities down that lonely road past blacksville to a spot just across the Pennsylvania border there they eventually found a few scattered human remains and sent them to a lab for testing I just couldn't imagine the pain and suffering and the fear she went through being alone in that place with her two best friends and she knew what was happening when he started stabbing authorities kept Rachel's confession secret even from the nieces while the investigation continued the FBI told Mary and Dave only that remains believed to be Skylar's had been found I've broke down pretty bad yeah nobody did that was a bad day was so lonely and so deserted it was a horrible thing to know that she had been there and no one knew why two three go not in February of 2013 just as they had since she was a little girl I'm ready piglet denise has gathered with friends on Skylar's birthday this time without her they quietly told the Lawrences their awful news did your heart just break for Mary and Dave my heart was slowly breaking the entire time I remember the first thing I thought it was just like a surreal I know she's not you know out there and the cold ronnie Gaskins had a confession from rachel and she led him to a body but it wasn't enough why wouldn't you arrest somebody right away who's confessed to killing someone Hsieh lied to us number of times before so we had to say well who's to say she's lying again so we had to cooperate her statement what's more Gaskins needed Rachel so he didn't arrest her instead he was about to use Rachel to get Sheila coming up grieving or pretending Sheila seemed like she was so upset to lost her best friend she even asked me how could someone do this to Skylar what the truth catch up to Sheila Eddie when Dateline continues corporal Ronnie Gaskins was on a mission to put two girls behind bars it was one of those where you couldn't get there fast enough Rachel Shoaf had just confessed to teaming up with Sheila Eddy to kill their friend Skylar Neese now she was cooperating with police Gaskins and his fellow investigators hatched a plan Rachel would invite Sheila to her house as hidden cameras rolled she would try to get Sheila to incriminate herself we were close by in case something happened Sheila did come over she tweeted this photo of herself and an uncomfortable looking Rachel with the caption finally got to see Rach the police didn't record anything to pin Sheila to the crime the girls did not disclose anything specific they were just very casual a few days later the police went to Sheila's house with a warrant we seized every kitchen knife we could find the FBI seized Sheila's car and they were able to find a presence of DNA in the trunk DNA in Sheila's trunk if it proved to be Skylar's it would be critical to Gaskins case a direct link connecting the girls to Skylar's death they shipped a sample off to the lab and waited meanwhile Gaskins got a positive ID on the human remains found out past blacks it was Skyler the search for Monongalia County teenager Skylar Neese is over at University High School confirmation that Skylar had been found dead was heartbreaking I was devastated it was it was crazy Shania called her friend Sheila as soon as she heard the awful news I was crying and she was crying there was Sheila suspected murderer crying tears for Skylar and she's like who do you think could have done this why would somebody do that to Skylar Sheila also cried with her friend Chrissie Swanson and once Skylar his body was found Sheila seemed like she was so upset to have lost her best friend she couldn't believe that something like this would happen she even asked me how could someone do this to Skylar and Shelia let everybody know how sad she was she tweeted things like worst day of my whole life the pain is real and rest easy Skylar you'll always be my best friend I miss you more than you could ever know but social media revealed two sides to Sheila she could mourn Skylar but on Twitter and Facebook she and Rachel also seemed carefree as the police continue their investigation Sheila posed in photos at the prom Rachel tweeted I need a mimosa or ten they were going about their lives even while the police believed the girls were stone-cold killers the locals would whisper in each other's ears and say are they still free cool Bartiromo runs a blog called news ball calm early on he started following this case and was struck by Sheila's tweets things like ain't no rest for the wicked and incredibly this apparent reference to that countdown to Skylar's murder we really did go on three but it's unbelievable that she feels she's so invincible to to tweet this publicly Sheila Eddie seemed to be daring police to just put her in handcuffs so she would come to be interviewed and then leave she would just say I'm leaving and then finally by mid April of last year Ronnie Gaskins got the one critical piece of evidence he needed confirmation that Skylar's blood had been found in Sheila's trunk on top of the video surveillance the phone records Rachele statement at that point we felt confident we had the probable cause to make the arrest now authorities told Skylar's parents the whole story their daughters two best friends had killed her I think about it every day I think about the misery one child must have been through and I'm helpless I can't help her she's calling out ell me you know why why why animals got her they didn't even care they just threw out like a bag of trash on May 1st 2013 in exchange for her cooperation with police Rachel Shoaf pleaded guilty to second-degree murder within minutes Gaskins raced across Morgantown his heart pounding obviously we were wrong lights and siren cuz he had a murder warrant to serve Sheila was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the parking lot of the local Cracker Barrel restaurant where she and her mom were having lunch Sheila was crying she kept asking her mother is everything gonna be okay and her mother I don't know Sheila Gaskins had promised Skylar's parents he wouldn't quit until the case was solved it felt good for once that she was coming with us the question of who had been answered but people were haunted by an unanswered question Skylar's last word why coming up I became caught up in something I did not want to do the accused killers head to court and the motive for murder they planned that crime for days weeks months what could that be Shelagh Eddie was not about to give in without a fight there she was last September a lone blonde teen in a crowd of accused men pleading not guilty to the kidnapping and murder of Skylar Neese this was terrible news for Skylar's parents I don't want to go through a trial here the grisly gruesome details of all this that would tear me apart with a trial looming the question on everyone's mind was why investigators wanted to know to and in the halls of university high they got glimpses of a motive saw snapshots of a troubled three-way friendship Morgan Lawrence saw a disturbing dynamic firsthand I was not a huge fan of Red John Sheila as far back his freshman year Morgan had worried that her friend Skylar was heading into a place she might not belong and she became close friends with Rachel and Sheila Morgan especially didn't like Sheila she hung out with the wrong crowd she had lots of friends that were 20-some years old that's just a little strange Morgan says she'd watched uneasy as the three girls became inseparable Skylar's cousin Kyle adored Skylar and says he felt uneasy too you'd walk through the halls you'll see one without the other it's always Sheila Skylar Rachel always together my sophomore year he saw changes in Skylar and it seemed like about that time she didn't have that same nice quality to her she was more sour I think toward people she started almost acting the way that she'll acted must been hard to see her changing it's difficult to watch it in general and it's even harder when I read someone as closest someone that you called your family students told writers Jeff fuller and Aileen berry that by mid sophomore year the three girls relationship had begun to deteriorate they've written about this in their book the savage murder of Skylar Neese Sheila Rachel were dissing Skylar when she wasn't around and putting her down and that kind of thing so it was kind of two phases situation yeah I could definitely tell that they were kind of pushing together away or at least trying to it's clear from these photos whatever was happening three was a crowd students say that around this time they started hearing Rachel and Sheila discuss the best way to kill someone and Rachel's friend Fantasia Lilly recalls a chilling conversation Rachel was ranting to me how much she didn't like Skylar one day well she sent word for it I'm pretty sure was I wouldn't mind if she died at this point yeah which makes this cell phone video all the more hauntings because it was captured by Skylar six months before she was killed two times Sheila asked Skylar and Rachel to choose the best way to die would you guys brother suffocate or get shot get shot shot as way depends on where would you rather in the head shot there'd be no suffering ball drowning or suffocating stephannie Kade it's almost the same thing I know an incredibly disturbing scene friends say in the months before Skylar's death she and Sheila fought constantly late on July 5th Skylar tweeted this you doing blank like that is why I will never completely trust you later that night Skylar is seen here on that surveillance tape driving away from home for the last time what were they fighting about there's a possible answer hallway whispers that Rachel and Sheila had developed a sexual relationship that's Schuyler knew and threatened to out them did they kill her to keep their secret it's as close to a motive as anyone can come up with do you think we'll ever know why this happened they got something for Rachel and Sheila they say they know the answers to that last January Dave and Mary finally got the news they've been hoping for a plea deal Sheila Eddy how do you plead to the offense of murder in the first degree the felony charged in count three of the indictment in this case guilty Sheila's attorney Michael Ben inker read a statement from Sheila and her family my client and her family recognized that the nice family is in a constant state of despair loneliness and sadness as a result of Skylar's death Sheila was sentenced to life in prison and is eligible for parole in 15 years and just last week Dave and Mary went back to court this time for Rachel Shoaf sentencing rachel has a profound sadness at this loss and a profound sadness for mr. and mrs. nice therapist Patricia Bailey was hired by Rachel's family and has been meeting with Rachel in prison since last summer from the day I met Rachel she has said to me I deserve to be in here I did something terribly wrong I hurt somebody Rachel does miss Skylar very much so and then she also weeps for her because she knows that she cannot undo the past and that you will never see her again in court Rachel apologized directly to David Mary I don't know if there's a proper way to make this apology because they're not even words to describe the guilt and remorse but I feel each day for what I've done I became scared and caught up in something that I did not want to do I never realized the gravity of my actions and how many people I've hurt Skyler's dad who had once defended the girls didn't mince words yes pre-shoot did operate the Rachel Shoaf also had murdered my daughter in cold blood she can take her apologies and everything else sit on them because that's about what they're worth to me and my wife she has done nothing but make our lives a living hell since day one Dave and Mary wished they'd known more about what was going on in Skylar's life in the months before she died what is your biggest regret if you have one not knowing the girls better know and I don't know if anyone could have known him that well there had to be a sign somewhere there had to be a clue Rachel Shoaf would you please stand Rachel was sentenced to 30 years in prison she will be eligible for parole in ten years prosecutor Marcia Ashdown says don't be fooled by the girl's appearance are they cold calculated killers despite the baby faces they certainly were on July 5th and 6 2012 they planned that crime not just for hours but days weeks months the horror of that really is what strikes us in the end not how those girls look in shackles young whole attractive unattractive male female doesn't matter evil comes in all shapes and sizes these days around Morgantown there's lingering damage teenagers who feel they'll never trust anyone again after I had heard all that I didn't really want to become friends with anybody else it's like finding out your little sister was a murderer I still to this day have trust issues Skyler's friend Morgan Lawrence says she thinks about all the milestones she and Schuyler had planned to mark together you two should be doing everything alongside each other yeah they didn't just you know take away a bride they took away a bridesmaid Skylar's second parents say they'll miss out too when Morgan walks down the aisle yes Skylar won't be there she will be she'll be watching over Chico last June dave and mary had a memorial service at the site where skyler was killed and they're proud to have helped pass Skylar's law which requires Amber Alerts even when police suspect a teen has run away it's peaceful here now they come here often even in the winter to tend the small garden they've built for Skyler Mary how do you want Skylar to be remembered the happy loving little girl that she was and smile the smile delay of a room that's all for this edition of Dateline join us tomorrow for the first Dateline Saturday night mystery at 8:00 7:00 central we'll also see you Sunday night at 7 6 central I'm Lester Holt for all of us at NBC News good night you you

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