especially if she had contacts or glasses. she didn t take that stuff with her. then police got an important new lead in the case. there had been two bank robberies in the nearby town of blacksville. both of them had gone down around the type skylar vanished. i was working with other investigators on those bank robberies. while looking into the robberies, ronnie gaskin of the west virginia state police was called into skylar s case. there had been a tip that skylar had been at a party with the suspected bank robbers when something bad happened. what was the theory? they were just rumors, gossip going around there was this teenage party, that there was a possible overdose, and people there were scared so they hid the body. it seemed unlikely. skylar didn t use heavy drugs. it was just a lot of tracking down rumors. tons and tons of rumors. all leading nowhere. by now skylar had been gone for more than a month.
everything a parent could hope for in a daughter. and so who could have guessed just by looking that some of them carried a dark secret about a friend. 911. do you have an emergency? i have a 16-year-old daughter. she has not been home, hasn t went to work. i m scared to death. these teens played a strange and haunting game. would you rather suffocate or get shot? get shot. a game of betrayal that went way beyond typical teenage drama. she s calling out help me. you know, why, why, why. at the center of it all was a girl named skylar. david and mary neese welcomed their only daughter skylar 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. first time you saw her. first time i saw her, yes, i can say that was the greatest moment of my life.
2013 ronny gaskins got the one critical piece of evidence he needed. confirmation that skylar s blood had been found in sheila s trunk. on top of the video surveillance, the phone records, rachel s statements at that point we felt we had confidence to have probable cause to make the arrest. now authorities told skylar s parents the whole story. their daughter s two best friends had killed her. i think about it every day. i think about the misery my child must have been through. and i m helpless. i can t help her. she s calling out help me, why, why, why. animals got her. they didn t even care. no. they just threw her out like a bag of trash. on may 1st, 2013, in exchange for her cooperation with police, rachel shoaf pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. within minutes, gaskins raced
just for hours, but days, weeks, months. they strapped knives onto their bodies, hid under their clothes. they took a shovel with them to bury skylar s body. anywhere along the way during that period of time, during those minutes, during that hour, however long they were with skylar driving around, they could have thought better of it. but they didn t. the horror of that really is what strikes us in the end. not how those girls look in shackles. young, attractive, unattractive, male, female, it doesn t matter. evil comes in all shapes and sizes. these days around morgantown there s 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 your
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