and haunting game. would you guys rather suffocate or get shot? a game of betrayal that would go way beyond typical teenage drama. she is calling out, help me, why, why. the death at the center of it all was a girl named skyler. dave and mary welcomed their only doctor schuyler to the world in 1996. tell me about the day she was born. was that the greatest moment of your life? i wouldn t go that far. [laughs] first time you saw her. first time i saw her, yes, i can say that was the greatest moment of my life. yeah. it was instant love. they live in star city, a small suburb of morgantown, west virginia, where dave works at walmart and mary at a medical office. 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 math and stuff way before she was
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 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.
down. she said skylar was expected at work at 4:00. i said, we re not going to worry. i ll call them about 4:10, give her time to clock in, everything, see if she s there. but mary didn t get a chance to call wendy s. they called us first wanting to know if she was coming to work. was that a big moment for you? yeah. a few minutes later, there 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 last night. mary s heart fell. skylar had done that once before, gone on a late-night 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.
investigators were convinced of it. both girls were sticking to the same story but that was about to change. one of them was ready to talk. here s aaron rhea canning with more of something wicked. christmas 2012 came and went for skylar neeses parents dave and mary. it had been six months since skylar had disappeared. the holidays must have been very hard that year, christmas time. we didn t celebrate. nah. we didn t put up any tree. we didn t do anything. just another day. yep. around that time, rachel shoaf and sheila eddy stopped attending university high. their few remaining friends told the authors dave and may that rachel seemed agitated. she was acting out, getting into more family altercations at home. so the walls were closing in on rachel? uh-huh. 911, we have an emergency. i have an issue with a
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. 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