directly to dave and mary. i don t know if there s a proper way to make this apology because there are not even words to describe the guilt and remorse that i feel each day for what i ve done. i became scared and caught up in something i did not want to do and never realized the gravity of my actions and how many people i ve hurt. skylar s dad who had once defended the girls didn t mince words. yes, rachel shoaf did cooperate. rachel shoaf also murdered my daughter in cold blood. she can take her apologies and everything else and sit on them because that s 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 had 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. and i don t know if anyone could have known them that well. there had to be a sign somewhere. there had to be a clue. rachel sh
david and mary neese welcomed their only daughter skylar to the world in 1996. tell me about the day she was d born. was 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.th yeah.f it was instant love. they live in star city, a small suburb ever morgantown, west virginia, where dave works at walmart and mary at a medical office.rt skylar was a whirlwind, a rambunctious, precocious toddler who owned her parents hearts. hey, gorgeous. hi, daddy. you re beautiful, baby. she was reading way before she was supposed to, doing maths and stuff way before she was supposed to. she was a very intelligent little girl. a dance for me.ir wee! when skylar started nursery school, she made her first friend, morgan lawrence. morgan was drawn right away to
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. therapist patricia bailey was hired by rachel s family. 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
continued. the fbi told mary and dave only that remains believed to be skylar s had been found. i broke down pretty bad, yeah. we both did. that was a bad day. it was so lonely and so deserted. and it was a horrible thing to know that she had been there and no one knew. one, two, three, go! happy birthday, skylar! in february of 2013, just as they had since she was a little girl i m ready. the neeses 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 felt it was just like a surreal of, i know she s not out there
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. th and in pictures they looked the part. they were literally together every second of every day, it seemed like.nd they hung out all the time.ik and like all teenage girls they shared videos and photos with each other and online. giving us a glimpse into their world.g skylar and sheila just having fun. nd let me try to go on your e 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, we re not thrilled but she s a teenager?t exactly. when summer rolled around after her sophomore year, skylar seemed happy.r she had a job at wendy s which she loved. on thursday july 5th, 2012, she came home after work and got