dynamic firsthand. i was not a huge fan of rachel and sheila. as far back as freshman year, morgan had worried that her friend skylar was heading into a place she might not belong when 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 had watched uneasy as the three became inseparable. skylar s cousin kyle adored skylar and said he felt uneasy, too. you would walk through the halls and always see them always together. by sophomore year, he saw changes in skylar. 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 sheila acted. must have been hard to see her changing. it s difficult to watch it in general and it s even harder
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 in the cold. ronnie gaskins had a confession from rachel and she had led him to a body. but it wasn t enough. why wouldn t you arrest somebody right away who confessed to killing somebody? she lied to us a number of times before. who s to say she isn t lying again? we had to corroborate her statement. once more, gaskins needed rachel so he didn t arrest her. instead, he was about to use rachel to get sheila.
i want to tell her all about her mom. it s one of those where i just i want to show her your mother really did love you. maybe some day she ll know about that uncontainable woman who, while she stayed, brought joy, marie. she was beautiful. her eyes were remarkable. i was going to be there for her and she was going to be there for me. it didn t matter what it was. i thought maybe she had been kidnapped. no one knew what was happening. there was nothing i or anyone could have done. skylar, rachel, sheila. total bffs. they hung out all the time.
had provided the kitchen knives. they called skylar to say they were on their way over. pulled up 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 go driving. and they drove for nearly an hour for miles and miles, dark, winding roads out past blacksville. they get to the scene. they parked the car. and they found an area where they could sit and talk. skylar leaves to go 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. that s when her and sheila started stabbing skylar from behind.
gaskins said skylar fought hard to defend herself. did rachel indicate what skylar s last words were, her final moments in that meeting? she said skylar just said why? that s all she said. rachel said the girls covered the body with dirt and branches, threw their bloody clothes in the trunk and left skylar there. did rachel express how she felt when the crime was over? 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? what are we dealing with? did you ask rachel why? why did you two do this? she would not give us any specific details other than they just didn t like her. then when i asked her, what do you mean you didn t like her? clarify that. she said, oh, nothing. we just didn t like her. after telling police the