had known for years and rachel shoaf, a striking redhead with broadway aspirations. it wasn t long before they were calling themselves the three musketeers. th and in pictures they looked the part. they were literally together every second of every day, it seemed like.nd they hung out all the time.ik and like all teenage girls they shared videos and photos with each other and online. giving us a glimpse into their world.g skylar and sheila just having fun. nd let me try to go on your e back. and of course they occasionally got into trouble, but even then it was for typical teenage things. dave and mary weren t too concerned. she is a straight-a student who loves her parents. did you sort of chock it up to, we re not thrilled but she s a teenager?t exactly. when summer rolled around after her sophomore year, skylar seemed happy.r she had a job at wendy s which she loved. on thursday july 5th, 2012, she came home after work and got
rachel was sentenced to 30 years in prison. she will be eligible for parole in 2023. prosecutor marsha ashdown says don t be fooled by the girls appearance. they planned that crime, not just for hours, but days, weeks, months. 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 little sister was a murderer. i still to this day have trust issues. skylar s friend morgan lawrence says she thinks about all the milestones she and skylar had planned to mark together.
she was wasn t around and putting her down and that kind of thing so it was kind of a two-faced situation. students say that around this time they started hearing rachel and sheila discuss the best way to kill someone. and rachel s friend fantasia liller recalls a chilling conversation. rachel was ranting to me how much she didn t like skylar one day. she said word for word, i m pretty sure, i wouldn t mind if she died at this point. which makes this cell phone video all the more haunting because it was captured by skylar six months before she was killed. you said it two times. sheila asked skylar and rachel to choose the best way to die. would you rather suffocate or get shot? get shot. shot. depends on where? would you rather in the head. shot. shot. there would be no suffering. drowning or suffocating? suffocating. it s almost the same thing. i know. an incredibly disturbing scene. friends say in the months before skylar s death, she and sheila