The Case of Skylar Neese

they didn't want to be friends with her anymore which is sick you know you don't wanna be friends with somebody leave alone but don't murder him what do you want to say to these two girls right now how's that that's exactly what I wanted to do I want them to go through the pain and agony my daughters went through I want them to have no life because Connor doesn't have one hey you and welcome back my name is Mike and in this video right here we're going to look into the case of Skylar Neese this is gonna be a hard one to make my little jokes about Skylar Neese disappeared from her home in Star City West Virginia on July 6th 2012 there's a lot about social media people keep telling me about in this video and we'll also take a look at her two best friends it's definitely one of those with friends like these kind of situations so let's get into what happened to Skylar Neese [Music] Schuyler niece was born on February 10th 1996 to parents Mary and Dave nice often described as intelligent compassionate stubborn and bubbly Skylar was an only child she grew up and went to elementary school in sheet-like West Virginia when Skylar was in the second grade she met Sheila Eddy Sheila who was five months older was also an only child the two girls immediately became friends they began high school together in 2010 a high school the two mats Rachel Shoaf an aspiring actress and singer like Skylar and Shelia she too was an only child the tree stuck tinier together and began to get into just a little bit of trouble like nothing major drinking alcohol smoking weed skipping school breaking curfew that kind of stuff parents and friends of both Skylar and Rachel claimed that Sheila was a bad influence on the to some of Skylar's friends actually avoided hanging out with her when she was with Sheila whom they described as mean and controlling Rachel's friends said the same thing about Sheila whom they blamed for changes in Rachel's personality and her behavior regardless Skylar had no intention of breaking up her relationship with Sheila a friend she looked up to Rachel's reasons however for staying and hanging out with Sheila were less obvious she was from a relatively affluent family and was more popular than Sheila she didn't really need her to be cool this is just straight out of high school drama it's ridiculous I think Rachel just liked the fact that with Sheila she was able to do things she couldn't do with the friends who shared who shared her her similar religious background she was able to break the rules with Sheila anyway despite you know Sheila being constantly described as the bad one you know she was evil that kind of stuff it was actually Rachel when she entered the scene that's when things took a turn for a while everything seemed to be going fine until their sophomore year Schuyler then was put in an uncomfortable position when during a sleepover in late summer 2011 she watched Sheila and Rachel have drunken sex together the sleepover ended with Skylar and Shelia arguing a rift had begun to form between Skylar and Sheila while Sheila and Rachel were becoming closer Skylar was start had started to become excluded well I told my mom that one I rear-ended often Shelia and Rachel would dress alike leaving Skylar the odd girl out both Sheila and Rachel were sexually active and had boyfriends while Shelia and Rachel viewed Skylar as kind of an immature little tag-along but she also knew a lot of things about Shelia and Rachel that no one else knew she knew their their secrets which will cause a problem Skylar hinted that there's several times on Twitter at one point tweeting I'd tell the whole school all the [ __ ] I have on everyone which is a lot hashtag if I could get away with it as I said Twitter will come up a lot in this story arguments that were often held on Twitter between Skylar and Shelia continued to worsen a tipping point came when in early June 2012 Skylar and Shelia spent an entire one week trip to Myrtle Beach fighting and when they got home Sheila told Rachel that Skylar has to die now Sheila's call for murder didn't come out of the blue fellow students and a teacher even had overheard the girls talking about the best ways to dispose of a body in October 2011 now the fact was that's just a few weeks before they were overheard talking about that a body had been discovered not far from when they from where they lived so it wasn't really thought of that odd at the time but according to one girl who overheard them they were specifically talking about Skylar however when this girl told Skylar hey I just overheard your two best friends talking bad had to dump your body and nobody would find it Skylar was like out there just playing a game no biggie whatever yeah even so she confronted the girls a better conversation but they assured her it was nothing would you guys rather suffocate or get shot get shot shot as weight depends on winter would you rather in the head shot there would be no suffering all eaten by hands or suffocated suffocated drowning or suffocating stuff indicated it's almost the same thing I know but it's not but that wasn't the only warning signed in in spring 2012 worried that Schuyler might blackmail them Rachel allegedly told another student I wouldn't mind if she died as he do rachel also half jokingly blurted out we should kill her during a science class followed by sheila nodding in agreement still the group continued to hang out together and while Schuyler was aware of the state of her friendship with Sheila still her best friend she had no idea what was coming [Music] this was her last tweet [Music] you on Thursday July 5th 2012 Skyler got home from her shift at Wendy's at about 10:00 10:00 p.m. she then went kissed her parents goodnight went up to her room her n midnight Shelia and Rachel either called or texted her asking if she wanted to go for a ride with them Sheila parked her car next to Denise's apartment on Skylar as she usually did had become a habit for her she snuck out of her room placing a small bench beneath the rooms window and she got into the car with the two other girls unbeknownst to Skylar the trunk of Sheila's car contained a shovel fresh clothes towels and bleach the tree girls then drove to Moores Run Road a one lane back road Sheila parked the car on a spot about a mile into the road and they got out they chatted for a while on when Skylar started walking towards the car to pick up a lighter the girls counted to tree and on this pre-arranged signal started stabbing Skylar with knives they had kept hidden beneath their hoodies Skylar tried to run but she was tackled by Rachel Skylar managed to grab her knife and fight back inflicting a cut above Rachel's ankle which she was overpowered by the two girls stabbing her repeatedly the girl was then stood over her watching her die in her dying moments she could only say why Sheila and Rachel had planned to burry Skylar but the ground turned out to be too rocky for their shovels instead they moved the body next to a big tree and covered her with rocks and branches after washing themselves in a creek the girls disposed of their bloody clothes and knives but left Skylar's turned off cell phone next to her body all of this took a few hours and the girls were back home by dawn the next day Skylar's parents left for work early they assumed Skylar was still asleep in beds her father Dave came home around midday so that Skylar can borrow his car for her shift at Wendy's however no one was home on the door to scholars room was locked from the inside Dave then noticed the small bench outside and an open window and realized Skylar had snuck out at some point during the previous night he immediately called Sheila to find out if she had been in contact with Skylar she admitted to having talked to scholar on the phone read midnight which she hadn't seen her soon after Mary Skylar's mother got home and a manager at Wendy's called asking about Skylar with the situation becoming more worrying the nieces called the police then she arrived this time she changed her story admitting the she and Schuyler had in fact gone joyriding the previous night according to her they had picked Schuyler up around 11:00 p.m. and returned her home at the end of the street in less than an hour before midnight Skylar's mother Mary knew something was seriously wrong and she took to Facebook [Music] soon after Sheila and her mother Tara arrived at Skylar's home wanting to help in the search for Skylar they began by knocking on nearby houses have you seen her is she here did you see anything they got nothing then they asked their landlord who had surveillance video and they seen the surveillance footage no one at the time realized the car Skylar was seen getting into was in fact Sheila's car now no one at this point actually suspected Sheila's story so they didn't bother to rewind even further to see if Sheila had in fact picked her up at 11 and dropped her home they didn't bother they just seen Skylar getting into some stranger's her it was Sheila's Karen but for some reason nobody recognized it as Sheila's car they even erroneously described it as an SUV when it's not an SUV it was it's quite strange and when the police officer who had arrived mewed this surveillance footage he said get this she voluntarily just probably ran away with some guy and she'd be back in a few days don't worry about it probably the worst advice you could ever give someone like ever after Skylar went missing Sheila definitely played the victim card kinda so then the detective who's assigned to Skylar's disappearance from the local police department and it was joined by an FBI agent joined by an FBI agent because another person had gone missing in the area weeks previous and they thought it might be linked they interviewed Sheila on July 9th three days after the murder Sheila merely repeated what she had told earlier by picking Skylar up at 11 p.m. and dropping her off less than an hour later Sheila seemed more curious about the investigation than worried about her missing friend and it was the police detective who when interviewing Sheila noticed she had a silver car at linked that to the one in the surveillance footage and the next day the detective called Rachel and Rachel pretended to know nothing about Skylar's disappearance she had left for church camp on July 7 would spent the morning off July 6 boating with her mother on her mother's friend both her mother and her mother's friend noticed the cuts on Rachel's ankle it was agreed that Rachel would show up for a face-to-face interview once she got back from the camp but she never showed when the detective later got a chance to interview Rachel face-to-face she told the exact same story as Sheila that they had dropped Skylar off before midnight and the detective thought that their stories that they told separately were so precise to such a degree they seemed to rehearse nevertheless there was nothing really to go on Skylar was last seen getting voluntarily into a car so they couldn't issue an Amber Alert because they can only issue that for abducted children but it Skylar this seemingly voluntarily Skylar's family and her friends thought this was extremely bizarre Sh not only was she not the type of person to just leave and not tell anybody she had also left her contact lenses her phone charger back in her room she left the bench outside her room window she left the room window open as if she was coming back you know the school year then started about a month later and they were still no closer to finding out anything event Schuyler Mary nice understandably was pretty darn and happy about this she contacted the State Police and they took on the case warrants were issued to seize the means of electronic communication from Sheila and Rachel the state police also reviewed D surveillance tapes several times before finally figuring out Sheila has never seen picking Skylar up at 11 p.m. we're gonna start with her father Dave nice thank you sir for being here our hearts go out to you we know these past two months must have been horrific tell us about what your daughter did right before she disappeared how did she get out of your home and what did she do according to you with her friends well she came home from work like he said that evening and she got home and walked in the door she went over her mother hugged and kissed her mother came over to me kiss me excuse me with her bedroom and that's the last we've seen of her now Sheila had tried to insert herself into the investigation from the get-go she kept on trying to get on to the nieces good side she would she would cry and appear upset and bleeding distraught over Skylar and wherever she was she would distribute missing posters and everything you know preparing to be the biggest victim of all she began to ask the mises about the investigation and when the police told the nieces don't tell Sheila about where we are in this investigation we think you know she might know more than she's telling us we have reason to be suspicious she then she wouldn't start getting other people to ask that investigation she wanted to like remain one step ahead at all times and back at school rumors about Shelia and Rachel yes worlds and swirled rumors like maybe Skylar had overdosed Sheila and Rachel had left her to die now at this time like this Sheila was referring to the FBI and state police as her best buds and they were all hunky-dory trying to find Skylar together Rachel on the other hand was starting to crack like an egg Rachel was just trying to get away from it it wasn't having any of it didn't even want to know anything didn't even visit Skylar's parents she just wanted to to shut down almost and not hear anything close her ears per your head and Rachel really started to fall apart and the authorities noticed they helped push Rachel into changing her story after they pointed out the surveillance footage does not match up and that they had their cell phone records so they were able to kind of track where they were they where to a limited degree so rachel changed her story she said that the tree of them went out for a ride and that Skylar just ran off into the woods and that Sheila and Rachel they weren't able to find her and that was her story then and Sheila then changed her story to matched Rachel story but only after she heard Rachel I changed her story on December 16th and still no idea of what happened to Skylar Mary posted a long message to her Facebook account the post detailed the various steps that have been taken so far by the law enforcement and the community in order to find Skylar Mary also implicitly called Shelia and Rachel out for a line and even mentioned the possibility that Skylar might have been murdered and here are some of the many many tweets that Rachel and Skylar got [Music] the entire community suspected them Rachel later got in a fight with her parents she locked herself in a room she tried to kill herself and she had to be hospitalized in a psychiatric unit On January 3rd police interviewed Rachel again and after only a few short questions Rachel said we stabbed her Rachel told them what had happened that they had picked Skylar up after midnight driven her to a remote back road stopped her to death unburied her body when the police asked why she Sheila had donuts she could only come up with we just didn't like her anymore it was agreed that Rachel would take the police to the location of the body immediately the investigators Rachel herself and her attorney arrived at the location where Rachel said they had killed Skylar it was so snowy that Rachel couldn't pinpoint the exact spot where they had buried her the investigators would have to wait for the snow to melt the investigators now knew what happened to Skylar but with her body still buried in the snow they had no evidence beyond Rachael's words knowing Sheila would be anxious to meet her buddy they put Rachel's room under electronic surveillance and had her set up a meeting with Sheila unfortunately rachel was able to extract anything incriminating and if Sheila on that occasion two weeks later on January 16th the investigators returned to the spot this time with a k-9 unit the snow had mostly melted one of the dogs handler was picking up a GPS tracker that had fallen off the dog he noticed skeletal remains under a pile of branches six months after Skylar had disappeared she was finally fed during the following months Rachel was allowed to roam free while the investigators were gathering evidence not only against her but particularly against Sheila who they felt would never admit to the crime and Sheila knew they were after her she who was then given a search warrant seized every knife in her house and also her car she also knew by this time the Skylar's body had been found on March 13th the body had been verified as being Skylar neeses and this information was released to the public scholars post-mortem revealed she had been stabbed 50 times still nothing else really about these circumstances of her death were announced on Sheila tweeted this on that day [Music] about a month later Sheila then tweeted this on May 1st Rachel surrendered herself to the authorities and she had her day her first day in courts where she pled guilty to the murder of Skylar Neese she agreed to testify against Sheila and on each trial in exchange the prosecution agreed to recommend 20 years for second-degree murder Sheila was then arrested at Cracker Barrel while dining with her mother on September 4th Sheila pled not guilty to the charges of murder kidnapping and conspiracy then Sheila's pre-trial hearing on January 24th 2014 Sheila started sobbing as soon as she sat down before the trial had even begun often she'd cling to her attorney for support she then changed her plea and pled guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for her guilty plea the prosecution agreed to a sentence of 15 years to life with the possibility of parole after 15 years Sheila Eddy how do you plead to the offense of murder in the first degree of the felony charged in count 3 of the indictment in this case guilty the record will reflect the defendant has entered a plea of guilty to the offense of murder in the first degree the felony charged in count 3 of the indictment in this case may be seated it's the chair please miss Eddie have you heard what the prosecutor said the state's evidence would be yes sir is that substantially correct is that what happened yes Saturday is Eddie are you entering a plea of guilty to the offense of murder in the first degree the felony charged in count three of this indictment because you are in fact guilty of this offense yes sir my name is David nice mom's not her father I'm here today with my wife Mary the person said before he's tired so called friend took her away from us without any remorse or feelings you can look at you the eyes of those who are responsible but you could never hear what they heard is they were taking her life you see the faces of killing but you can't these counters face you can never understand a few that she was dead as he took the magnet into her life is that any way to please stand feel addy for your conviction of the offense of murder in the first degree upon your plea of guilty it is the sentence of the court that you be imprisoned in the West Virginia State Penitentiary for the rest of your natural life consistent with the requirements of the Constitution of the United States that sentence is technically with mercy which makes you eligible for parole after you have served 15 years [Music] after the trial Dave nice Scout his father swore that he'd be at every parole hearing to make sure Sheila never walks free Dave I also have a question for you I know nothing will ever replace losing your daughter but does this bring any sort of sense of closure start - like I said before there is no closure at all I don't think I mean who knows how my mom works right now but um if you can figure out let me know look the only way that could be closure if they both were imprisoned I know they're both in jail right now one up in sevens when I'm hasn't after the other one gets sentence then we can start worrying about all that but right now I don't think I'll ever be closed my little girl was so deep and close Rachel sentencing hearing began on February 2nd she accepted the sentence 30 years for second-degree murder with the possibility of parole after 10 and still to this day we do not know why they did this and that is a question we would like to answer too because what in the world would be so bad that you would have to kill Skylar and to put her through what you did you didn't think about that when we were doing it so why would we need to think about what how do you feel now you stood there for over a year comforting being with us telling us you'd be nothing when the police and everybody was coming close then you decided to come to us you need to think about everything you put us your family and everyone else through was not being able to have the pleasures and other kids could have no grandchildren two marriages no prom the graduation how do you think that would make us feel both are currently serving their sentences lacking Correctional Center in 2014 Skylar's parents sued the girls on their mothers for damages over Skylar's death they were arguing that the parents by neglecting to supervise their daughters are partially responsible for what happened to Skylar now that doesn't really seem right I mean Sheila and Rachel's parents are no more responsible for what happened to Skylar then Skylar's parents are for not watching her enough and therefore she was able to escape hit her room the night she died now that case never went to court Skylar's parents accepted an offer from their legal teams they settled for five million dollars however it's unlikely they will ever see that money one of the most disturbing things about this case is had a receiving Lea no motive other than they didn't like her anymore which is just terrifying and extremely disturbing it is an extremely sad and tragic case of what happened to Skylar in each case of teenage jealousy anger resentment I don't know but it is straight out of like a high school drama pretty sure is actually a movie or TV shows of high school things that are based on this and that's the story of Skylar and he's pretty disturbing let me know what you think about it down below and finally thank you so so much for watching if you'd like to see some more videos please subscribe if you'd like to that'd be awesome and I will see you as always real soon in the next video thanks again Mike you

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Published: Tue Aug 20 2019