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. and i don t know if anyone could have known them that well. there had to be a sign somewhere. there
knew something. investigators were convinced of it. both girls were sticking to the same story. that was about to change. one of them was ready to talk. here s andrea canning with more of something wicked. christmas 2012 came and went for skylar neeses parents. dave and mary. it had been six months since her daughter disappeared. the holidays must have been very hard that year, christmastime. 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 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 16-year-old daughter of mine. i can t control her anymore.
skylar had planned to mark together. you two should be doing everything alongside each other. yeah. they didn t just take away a bride. they took away a bridesmaid. skylar s second parents say they ll miss out too. when morgan walks down the aisle, skylar won t be there. she will be. she ll be watching over her? she will. in june 2013, dave and mary had a memorial service at the site where skylar was killed and they re proud to have helped pass skylar s law, which requires amber alerts even when police suspect a teen has run away. a national version of skylar s law is currently making its way through congress. it s peaceful here now. they come here often, even in the winter, to tend the small garden they ve built for skylar. mary, how do you want skylar to be remembered?
and where did they go? the police didn t issue an amber alert because it looked like skyler left voluntarily. once that video came out that she willingly got in this car, they re not going to come out and look for someone driving in a car. skylar s friend sheila came over. she spent a lot of time telling us, it will be okay. she ll be home. i really miss her. i love her. i want her back. the next day, sheila sat with mary on skylar s bed, both of them crying. did it bring you comfort when sheila would come by, being skylar s best friend? it did me a little bit, yeah. knowing, how could skylar leave her behind? mary and sheila took to the streets together, posting flyers for skylar. they would knock on doors and ask, have you seen this girl? we kept showing the picture to people. nobody had seen her. sheila was very, very worried about what had happened to skylar. chrissy swanson is a close family friend of sheila s and
when they started stabbing her. authorities kept rachel s confession secret even from the neeses while the investigation 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.