obviously, we were going lights and sirens because we had a murder warrant to serve. sheila was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the parking lot of the local cracker barrel restaurant where she and her mom were having lunch. sheila was crying. she kept asking her mother, is everything going to be okay? and her mother said, i don t know, sheila. gaskins had promised skylar s parents he wouldn t quit until the case was solved. it felt good for once that she was coming with us. the question of who had been answered. but people were haunted by an unanswered question, skylar s last word. why? . the girls had their day in court. but what will they say? coming up i became caught up in something that i did not want to do. the accused killers head to court and the motive for murder? they planned that crime for days, weeks, months. what could that be?
but social media revealed two sides to sheila. she could mourn skylar but on twitter and facebook, she and rachel also seemed carefree. as the police continued their investigation, rachel tweeted, i need a mimosa or ten they were going about their lives even while the police believed the girls were stone-cold killers. how are they running free? 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
it was a murder. and not only had rachel and sheila killed skylar. they had planned it for months. 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.
you doing blank like that is why i will never completely trust you. later that night, skylar is seen here on that surveillance tape driving away from home for the last time. what were they fighting about? there s a possible answer. hallway whispers that rachel and sheila had developed a sexual relationship and that skylar knew and threatened to out them. did they kill her to keep their secret? it s as close to a motive as anyone can come up with. do you think we ll ever know why this happened? i think that s something for rachel and sheila to say. they know the answers to that. in january 2014, dave and mary finally got the news they had been hoping for, a plea deal. sheila eddy, how do you plead to the offense of murder in the first degree, the felony charge in count three of the indictment in this case? guilty. sheila s attorney michael benninger read a statement from sheila and her family.
that s just a little strange. morgan says she watched uneasy as the three became inseparable. skylar s cousin kyle adored skylar and said he felt uneasy too. 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 midsophomore year the three girls relationship had begun to deteriorate.