they quietly told the lawrences their awful news. did your heart just break for mary and dave? my heart was slowly breaking the entire time. i remember the first thing i felt it was just like a surreal of, i know she s not out there in the cold. ronnie gaskins had a confession from rachel and she had led him to a body. but it wasn t enough. why wouldn t you arrest somebody right away who confessed to killing somebody? she lied to us a number of times before. so we had so day, who is to say she isn t lying again? so we had to corroborate her statement. once more, gaskins needed rachel so he didn t arrest her. instead, he was about to use rachel to get sheila. coming up. i was devastated. i was crying. she was grieving. grieving or pretending? sheila seemed like she was so upset to have lost her best friend. she even asked me how could
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 have 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? when dateline continues.
who was in the car? and where did they go? the police didn t issue an amber alert because it looked like skyler left voluntarily. once the video came out that she willingly got in this car, they re not going to come out and look for someone driving in a car. skylar s friend sheila came over. she spent a lot of time telling us, it will be okay. she ll be home. i really miss her. i love her. i want her back. the next day, sheila sat with 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 about what had happened to skylar. chrissy swanson is a close family friend of sheila s and saw sheila s distress
confirmation that skylar had been found dead was heartbreaking. 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 this? why would somebody do that to skylar? shania also cried with her friend chrissy swanson. once skylar s body was found, sheila seemed like she was so upset she had lost her best friend. she couldn t believe something like this could happen. she even asked me, how could someone do this to skylar? and sheila let everybody know how sad she was. she tweeted things like, worst day of my whole life. the pain is real. and rest easy, skylar. you ll always be my best friend. i miss you more than you could ever know. 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 continu
and said will you leave sheila alone, please? you guys are harassing her 24/7. the kid is going through enough. leave her alone. she was like our daughter. investigators were convinced the two girls knew more than they were saying. that fall, ronnie gaskins interviewed each girl repeatedly. how was sheila s demeanor in these meetings you would have with her? calm. collect. would look at you right in your face, right in your eyes. he says rachel seemed distracted. she would draw on the desk, play with the pencil. just her nonverbal cues spoke a lot. their story never varied. they picked skylar up, drove around morgantown, smoked a little pot, and dropped her off a few blocks from home. it was like a recording with these two. in the meantime, the officers had begun to collect physical evidence, and it didn t match up with the story the girls had been telling. surveillance video from a convenience store put the girls car not heading east as they had said, but heading west to