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That timeline only added to the intrigue. so for months, investigators tried to piece together clues. friends of skyler's rallied together to comfort the family. they hung missing posters. there were hundreds of leads, but nothing panned out. then in january, six months after skyler disappeared, a stunning admission. 16-year-old rachel shope, seen here in this picture from "the examiner" smiling along with her friend skyler, admitted she killed her, but she said she did not do it alone. rachel told investigators she and another classmate who is 16 lured skyler out of her bedroom that night and...

There warning signs? clearly parents watching this kind of thing are going to freak out about this kind of crime, about kids being capable of this. >> sure. let me just again hallmark what really leaps out to me, and there's a stunning lack of empathy for what supposedly was a best friend. there's a callousness there despite the fact that this community is so upset about their missing skyler, these two young women are able to maintain this secret for almost a half a year. so those kinds of behaviors didn't just happen at the time of the homicide. they pre-existed this homicide and i think ther...

>> reporter: and remember those friends who helped and comforted the family? it's almost beyond comprehension but dave neese says one of them was the unnamed alleged killer. >> she was finding out from us every week exactly what the cops knew because they were telling us what they knew, of course we were telling her because we thought she was so upset and missed skyler so much, and to find out she murdered her, it makes me sick. >> reporter: it's not just their behavior that's so troubling. rachel actually left for church camp the day after the murder. her family issued a statement to skyler's...

Did you think had happened? >> she had run away. if she had run away, she would have took her cell phone charger and hair curler and all the other stuff kids take. that's pure hell because you don't know where your baby is, you don't know what has happened. >> reporter: an open window in skyler's bedroom offered a clue. >> here's the one she went out of that evening. she used that black stool over there and put it at the bottom of the window, left the window open about that much when she crawled out. >> reporter: investigators pulled the security camera video from skyler's apartment building a...

That timeline only added to the intrigue. so for months, investigators tried to piece together clues. friends of skyler's rallied together to comfort the family. they hung missing posters. there were hundreds of leads, but nothing panned out. then in january, six months after skyler disappeared, a stunning admission. 16-year-old rachel shope, seen here in this picture from "the examiner" smiling along with her friend skyler, admitted she killed her, but she said she did not do it alone. rachel told investigators she and another classmate who is 16 lured skyler out of her bedroom