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Police. >> shes screaming. shes 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 lawyers office. she had something she wanted to say. >> take us inside that attorneys office with rachel. what was her demeanor? >> i remember her pulling up the waist basket next to her. she ...

There she was in september 2013, a lone blonde teen in a crowd of accused men pleading not guilty to the kidnapping and murder of skylar neese. this was terrible news for skylars parents. >> i dont want to go through a trial and hear the grisly, gruesome details of all this. that would tear me apart. >> with a trial looming, the question on everyones mind was why. investigators wanted to know, too. and in the halls of university high, they got glimpses of a motive, saw snapshots of a troubled th...

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 others 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 sheilas tweets. things like aint no rest...

David and mary neese welcomed their only daughter skylar to the world in 1996. tell me about the day she was d born. was that the greatest moment of your life? >> i wouldnt 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.th yeah.f it was instant love. >> they live in star city, a small suburb ever morgantown, west virginia, where dave works at walmart and mary at a medical office.rt skylar was a whirlwind, a rambunctious, pr...

Recognize that the neese family is in a constant state of despair, loneliness and sadness as a result of skylars death. >> sheila was sentenced to life in prison and is eligible for parole in 2028. a month later, dave and mary went back to court, this time for rachel shoafs sentencing. >> rachel has a profound sadness at this loss and a profound sadness for mr. and mrs. neese. >> therapist patricia bailey was hired by rachels family. shes been meeting with rachel in prison since the summer of 20...

In the cold. >> ronnie gaskins had a confession from rachel and she had led him to a body. but it wasnt enough. >> why wouldnt you arrest somebody right away who confessed to killing somebody? >> she lied to us a number of times before. whos to say she isnt lying before? we had to corroborate her statement. >> once more, gaskins needed rachel so he didnt arrest her. instead, he was about to use rachel to get sheila. coming up -- >> i was devastated. it was crazy. >> i was crying, she was cryin...

Loves them and she wants them to be successful and have good lives. >> she did not deserve the way her life ended on that cold december morning in deer park, washington. >> im craig melvin. and im natalie morales. and this is "dateline." rales. and this is "dateline. >> and im natalie morales she was beautiful. her eyes were remarkable i was going to be there for her and she was going to be there for me it didnt matter what it was i thought maybe she had been kidnappe no one knew what was happ...

Continued. the fbi told mary and dave only that remains believed to be skylars 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 -- >> im ready. >> -- the neeses gathered with friends on skylars birthday. this time without her. they ...

>> i was devastated. it was crazy. >> shania called her friend sheila as soon as she heard the awful news. >> i was crying and she was crying. >> there was sheila, suspected murderer, crying tears for skylar. >> she was like, who do you think could have done? why would somebody do this with skylar? >> shania also cried with her friend chrissy swanson. >> once the body was found, sheila seemed like she was so upset she had lost her best friend. she couldnt believe something like this could happen...

Something happened. >> sheila did come over. police didnt record anything to pin sheila to the crime. >> the girls did not disclose anything specific. they were just very casual. >> a few days later, the police went to sheilas house with a warrant. >> we seized every kitchen knife we could find. the fbi seized sheilas car and they were able to find presence of dna in the trunk. >> dna in sheilas trunk. if it proved to be skylars, it would be critical to gaskins case. a direct link. connecting th...