morgan had watched uneasy as the three became inseparable. skylar s cousin kyle adored skylar and said he felt uneasy, too. you would walk through the halls, you don t see one without the other. it was always sheila, skylar, rachel together. by sophomore year, he saw changes in skylar. it seemed like about that time she didn t have that same nice quality to her. she was more sour, i think, toward people. she started almost acting the way sheila acted. must have been hard to see her changing. it s difficult to watch it in general and it s even harder when it s someone as close as someone you called your family. students told the writers that by mid sophomore year the three girls relationship had begun to deteriorate. they ve written about this in their book the savage murder of skylar neese. they were dissing her when
all the while looking and acting like best friends. as sheila and skylar do in this video. as part of the plan, rachel and sheila settled on the night of july 5th as the ideal time to kill skylar. earlier that day, rachel had obtained the shovel from her father s residence, put it in sheila s trunk, brought the clean clothes, cleaning supplies and according to rachel, sheila had provided the kitchen knives. they called skylar to say they were on their way over. pulled up to the residence. and there is skylar, sneaking out in that grainy surveillance video. the car is sheila s and inside are skylar s two best friends. skylar gets in the car and they go driving. and they drove for nearly an hour for miles and miles, dark, winding roads out past blacksville. they get to the scene.
police. she s screaming. she s running through the neighborhood. give me the phone. this is over! this is over. my husband is trying to contain her. please hurry. and rachel was taken to a mental health facility. a few days later, corporal ronnie gaskins got a big surprise. rachel wanted to meet at her lawyer s office. she had something she wanted to say. take us inside that attorney s office with rachel. what was her demeanor? i remember her pulling up the waist basket next to her. she was afraid she was going to throw up and then we started asking her the questions that we thought she would answer. did she overdose at a party? i remember her face got really red. she glanced at us and said, we stabbed her. it wasn t an accident. it was a murder. and not only had rachel and sheila killed skylar. they had planned it for months.
here is andrea canning with more of something wicked. christmas 2012 came and went for skylar neeses parents. it had been six months since their 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. then on december 28th, rachel apparently snapped. her upset mother called the
she could mourn skylar but on twitter and facebook, she and rachel also seemed carefree. as the police continued their investigation, sheila tweeted, i need a mimosa or ten. they were going about their lives even while the police believed the girls were stone-cold killers. locals would whisper in each other s ears and say, how are they still free? coalbart aroma runs a blog calls newsball.com. early on he started following this case and was struck by sheila s tweets. things like ain t no rest for the wicked. and incredibly this apparent reference to the countdown to skylar s murder. we really did go on three. it s unbelievable that she feels she s so invincible to tweet this publicly. and then finally by mid-april 2013 ronny gaskins got the one critical piece of evidence he needed.