rachel also seemed carefree. as the police continued their investigation, sheila posed in photos at the prom. 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. 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. confirmation that skylar s blood had been found in sheila s trunk.
she tweeted this picture of herself and an uncomfortable 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 sheila s house with a warrant. we seized every kitchen knife we could find. the fbi seized sheila s car and they were able to find presence of dna in the trunk. dna in sheila s trunk. if it proved to be skylar s, it would be critical to gaskins case. a direct link. they shipped the sample off to the lab and waited. meanwhile, gaskins got a positive i.d. on the human remains found out past blacksville. it was skylar. the search for monnin gala teenager skylar neese is over. at university high school, confirmation that skylar had been found dead was heartbreaking. i was devastated. it was crazy.
he like held my hand for a while. and then we got to meet him after, which was like. another surprise. yeah. we love verizon even more now. i ll never forget that day. ever. (vo) the network more people rely on, gives you more. like thousands of tickets to concerts, festivals and private shows. and one of our best phones when you buy another. that s verizon. corporal ronnie gaskins was on a mission to put two girls behind bars. it was one of those where you couldn t get there fast enough. rachel shoaf had just confessed to teaming up with sheila eddy to kill their friend skylar neese. now she was cooperating with police. gaskins and his fellow investigators hatched a plan. rachel would invite sheila to her house. as hidden cameras rolled, she would try to get sheila to incriminate herself. we were close by in case something happened. sheila did come over.
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.
on top of the video surveillance, the phone records, rachel s statements at that point we felt we had confidence to have probable cause to make the arrest. now authorities told skylar s parents the whole story. their daughter s two best friends had killed her. i think about it every day. i think about the misery my child must have been through. and i m helpless. i can t help her. she s calling out help me, why, why, why. animals got her. they didn t even care. no. they just threw her out like a bag of trash. on may 1st, 2013, in exchange for her cooperation with police, rachel shoaf pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. within minutes, gaskins raced across morgantown, his heart pounding. obviously we were going lights and sirens because we had a murder warrant to serve. sheila was arrested and charged with first-degree murder