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.
therapist patricia bailey was hired by rachel s family and she s been meeting with rachel in prison since the summer of 2013. 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 she cannot undo the past and she will never see her again. in court, rachel apologized directly to dave and mary. i don t know if there s a proper way to make this apology
guilty. sheila s attorney michael benninger read a statement from sheila and her family. my client and her family recognize that the neese 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 2028. a month later, dave and mary went back to court, this time for rachel shoaf s sentencing. rachel has a profound sadness at this loss and a profound sadness for mr. and mrs. neese.
it s almost the same thing. i know. i know, but. 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
joyride with rachel and sheila. that time, they were caught for being out after the town curfew. now here was a worried sheila saying they had done it again. i said, where did you go? where is skylar? 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 herself 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 that s 16 years old. apparently, she snuck out of her room last night and she hasn t been seen since. none of her friends can gotten ahold of her. i can t find her. what s her name? skylar neese. their world had fallen apart. their only daughter had been disappeared into the night and now she had been gone nearly 24