little sister was a murderer. i still to this day have trust issues. skylar s friend morgan lawrence says she thinks about all the milestones she and skylar had planned to mark together. you two should be doing everything alongside each other. yeah. they didn t just 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, skylar won t be there. she will be. she ll be watching over her? she will. in june 2013, dave and mary had a memorial service at the site where skylar 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. a national version of skylar s law is currently making its way through congress. it s peaceful here now. they come here often, even in the winter, to tend the small garden they ve built for
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 and that skylar 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? i think that s something for rachel and sheila to say. they know the answers to that. in january 2014, dave and mary finally got the news they had been hoping for, a plea deal. sheila eddy, how do you plead to the offense of murder in the first degree in the felony charge in count three of the indictment in this case?
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 her arm around her mom, gave her a kiss and hug and said, i love you, mom, turned to me and said, i love you, dad, and she went to the room. the next day, dave planned to meet skylar in their apartment at lunchtime. he was surprised 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 and 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 skyler s window, and the window screen was missing. at this time, i called skyler s cell phone. i said, hey, you re in trouble. you better be calling me right away. so i called her cell phone about ten times. i called mary again. again, mary told him to calm
punctuated with police visits to rachel and sheila. kids say rachel left play rehearsal to meet with the fbi. mary and dave neese desperate to find their daughter thought the police were wasting their time investigating the girls they knew so well. i even went to the police and said will you leave sheila alone, please? you guys are harassing her 24/7. the kid is going through enough. leave her alone. she was like our daughter. investigators were convinced the two girls knew more than they were saying. that fall, ronnie gaskins interviewed each girl repeatedly. how was sheila s demeanor in these meetings you would have with her? calm. collect. would look at you right in your face, right in 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.
the bubbly skylar fit in right away. friends came first for her. she was always about hanging out with friends if she didn t have work or school. soon, skylar had two new bffs, sheila eddy, who the niece family had known, and rachel chauvin, 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. and like 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. let me try to go on your back. and, of course, they occasionally got into trouble, but even then it was for typical teenage things. dave and mary weren t too concerned. she is a straight-a student who loves her parents. did you sort of chock it up to, okay, we re not thrilled but she s a teenager? exactly.