rachel shoaf, would you please stand rachel was sentenced to 3 years in prison. she will be eligible for parol in 2023. prosecutor marsha ashdown says don t be fooled by the girls appearance they planned that crime, no just for hours, but days, weeks, months the horror of that really is what strikes us in the end not how those girls look i shackles young, attractive unattractive, male, female, it doesn t matter evil comes in all shapes and sizes. around morgantown, there lingering damage teenagers who feel they ll never trust anyone again after i heard all that, i didn t really want to become friends with anybody else. it s like finding out you little sister was a murderer i still to this day hav trust issues skylar s friend morga lawrence says she thinks about all the milestones she and
sheila eddy was not about to give in without a fight. there she was in september 2013, a lone blonde teen in a crow of accused men pleading no guilty to the kidnapping and murder of skylar neese this was terrible news for skylar s parents i don t want to go through trial and hear the grisly, gruesome details of all this that would tear me apart with a trial looming, the question on everyone s mind wa why. investigators wanted to know too. and in the halls of university high, they got glimpses of a motive, saw snapshots of a troubled three-way friendship. morgan lawrence saw disturbing dynamic firsthand i was not a huge fan of rachel and sheila. as far back as freshman year, morgan had worried that he friend skylar was heading into a place she might not belong when she became close friend with rachel and sheila morgan especially didn t lik sheila she hung out with the wrong
would try to get sheila to incriminate herself. we were close by in cas something happened sheila did come over. police didn t record anythin to pin sheila to the crime the girls did not disclos anything specific. they were just very casual a few days later, the polic went to sheila s house with warrant. we seized every kitchen knife we could find. the fbi had seized sheila s ca and they were able to find presence of dna in the trunk dna in sheila s trunk if it proved to be skylar s, i would be critical to gaskins case a direct link. connecting the girls t skylar s death they shipped the sample off to the lab and waited meanwhile, gaskins got a positive i.d on the human remains found out past blacksville it was skylar. the search for monengal teenager skylar neese is over. teenager skylar neese is over. at university high school
worry. i ll call them about 10 afte 4:00, give her time to clock in, everything, see if she s there but mary didn t get a chanc to call wendy s. they called us first wantin to know if she was coming to work was that a big moment for you? yeah. a few minutes later, ther was another big surprise a call from sheila she said she had to tell me the truth. i said, well, what truth she said, we snuck out las night. mary s heart fell skylar had done that onc before, gone on a late-night joyride with rachel and sheila that time, they were caught fo being out after the town curfew now here was a worried sheil saying they had done it again. i said, where did you go? where is skylar? she said that skylar insiste they drop her off at the end o the street so we wouldn t hear her sneaking back in now that missing screen and bench outside skylar s windo made sense skylar had put it there to boost herself up so she coul
my client and her famil recognize that the neese famil is in a constant state o despair, loneliness, and sadness as a result of skylar death. sheila was sentenced to lif in prison and is eligible fo parole in 2028 a month later, dave and mary went back to court, this tim 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 and she s been meeting wit rachel in prison since the summer of 2013 from the day i met rachel she has said to me, i deserv to be in here, i did something terribly wrong, i hurt somebody rachel does miss skylar very much so and then she also weep for her because she knows sh cannot undo the past and she cannot undo the past and she will never seecribe the guilt and the remorse