she got home from work, said i love you, mom. i love you dad. she went to her room and we never saw her again. skylar s dad realized something was wrong when he found skylar s bed empty. when she first disappeared, what did you think happened? she didn t run away. she would have took her cell phone charger and hair curler and all the other stuff kids take. it s pure hell. you don t know where your baby is. you don t know what happens happened. reporter: an opened window in skylar s bedroom offered a clear. here is the one she went out of that evening. she used that black stool over the there, put it at the bottom of the window, left the window open about that much when she crawled out. investigators pulled the security camera video from skylar s apartment building and saw her jumping into a car parked near her window. that seems to make sense, considering skylar s best friend, a 16-year-old classmate, had told skylar s father that
they then drove her here to this spot in rural pennsylvania, 30 minu minutes away. just as they planned, the two girls attacked her, stabbing skylar to death. rachel told investigators they were going to bury skylar. when they couldn t, they left her body here on the side of the road and covered it in branches. the other girl s name hasn t been made public, since she s charged as a juvenile. but skylar s father says she is the same girl who told him she had picked up his daughter for a joy ride. investigators searched that girl s car after rachel schoeff s confession and found skylar s blood. what was your daughter s friendship like with these two girls? how close were they? inseparable. they were together all the time, especially the one that hasn t been named yet. she had just gotten back from vacation with her a week before this. she had been best friends with her since she was 8 years old. i mean it s sick. remember those friends who helped and comforted the family?
i know it sounds like a cliche. it s really not. this really is every parent s worst nightmare. in july 2012, 6-year-old skylar nise climbed out her window and got into her friend s car. she was never seen again. two of her best friends told police they stabbed skylar to death. randi kaye sat down with her grieving father. reporter: skylar nise was a straight a student, tenth grader in star city, west virginia. she loved spending time with her dog and played the flute in the band. her father says she had dreams of going to law school. she wanted to be a lawyer. and to hear her argue, she could have been a very good lawyer. reporter: but skylar s story took a tragic turn july 6th last year when she disappeared. she got home at 10:00.
it s almost beyond comprehension, but dave neese says one of them was the unnamed alleged killer. she was finding out from us every week exactly what the cops knew. because they were telling us what they knew. of course, we were telling her, bus we thought she was so upset and missed skylar so much. and to find out she murdered her makes my me sick. it s not just their behavior that s so troubling. rachel schoeff actually left for church camp the day after the murder. her family issued a statement to skyl skylar s parents. it reads in part, we are at a loss for words to comfort your pain. we were shocked to learn of our daughter s involvement in sk skylar s death. we know her actions are unforgivable and inexcusable. so why did they do it? why kill skylar? the reason reason rachel has given is simple and sickening. they didn t want to be friends with her anymore, which is sick, you know.
she and another girl, and skylar, had gone joy riding that night. trouble is, that girl said they picked up skylar around 11:30 pm. the video shows her getting into the car much later than that, around 12:30 am. that timeline only added to the intrigue. for months, investigators tried to piece together clues. friends of skylar s rallied together to comfort the family, hung missing posters. there were hundreds of leads, but nothing panned out. then in january, six months after skylar disappeared, a stunning admission. 16-year-old rachel schoeff, smiling along with her friend, skylar, admitted she kill ed he. but she said she did not do it alone. rachel told investigators she and another classmate, who was 16, lured skylar out of her bedroom and into their car.