mary on skylar s bed, both of them crying. did it bring you comfort when sheila would come by, being skylar s best friend? it did me a little bit, yeah. knowing, how could skylar leave her behind? mary and sheila took to the streets together, posting flyers for skylar. they would knock on doors and ask, have you seen this girl? we kept showing the picture to people. nobody had seen her. sheila was very, very worried
they were dissing her when she was wasn t around and putting her down and that kind of thing so it was kind of a two-faced situation. students say that around this time they started hearing rachel and sheila discuss the best way to kill someone. and rachel s friend fantasia liller recalls a chilling conversation. rachel was ranting to me how much she didn t like skylar one day. she said word for word, i m pretty sure, i wouldn t mind if she died at this point. which makes this cell phone video all the more haunting because it was captured by skylar six months before she was killed. you said it two times. sheila asked skylar and rachel to choose the best way to die. would you rather suffocate or get shot? get shot. shot. depends on where? would you rather in the head. shot. shot. there would be no suffering. drowning or suffocating? suffocating. it s almost the same thing. i know. an incredibly disturbing scene. friends say in the months before sk
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. and they drove for nearly an hour for miles and miles, dark, winding roads out past
classroom is back in school. i don t want my baby to look like him. so is bff rachel shoaf singing for friends in this video. the world around me changes rachel got the lead in the fall play. but everyone was worried about skylar. and in school hallways and on social media, rumors flew. between twitter and instagram and facebook, you just see things start to get ridiculously out of control. kids saying things from skylar had overdosed and things that skylar is in a different country. daniel hoevatter was in drama with rachel and knew how close the three girls were. he wondered if rachel and sheila might be helping cover something up for skylar. there had been rumors going around, rachel and sheila know where she s hiding. daniel knew rachel and sheila were the last ones to see skylar
sheila s attorney michael benninger read a statement from sheila and her family. my client and her family recognize that the neese family is in a constant state of despair, loneliness and sadness as a result of skylar s 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 shoaf s sentencing. rachel has a profound sadness at this loss and a profound sadness for mr. and mrs. neese. therapist patricia bailey was hired by rachel s family. she s been meeting with rachel in prison since the summer of 2013. from the day i met rachel,