Skylar Neese ( pictured right) snuck out of her Star City, W.Va., home after midnight with her two besties’ on
July 6, 2012 and she never returned.
Six months
after her disappearance, one of Neese's best friends from high school, Rachel
Shoaf confessed to authorities that she had stabbed 16 –year-old Neese to death
with their other friend, Sheila Eddy, and then led police to Neese's remains in
a wooded area over the Pennsylvania state line.
On Jan. 24,
2014, Eddy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for her role in Skylar's death
and was sentenced to life in prison. Shoaf was sentenced to 30 years the
following month. Both were charged as adults.
They suddenly turned from best friends to killers because they 'didn't like her'
Prior to
Shoaf's confession, Neese's parents and the police had frantically searched for
answers in her disappearance. Up until that point, Shoaf and Eddy, the last
people to see Neese alive, had denied knowing what had happened to their
friend.
The three
high school sophomores had been inseparable, but in the days leading up to her
death, Neese's Twitter account showed that something had gone awry. On July 4,
2012, two days before she was murdered, Neese tweeted "it really doesn't
take much to p*** me off" and "sick of being at f****** home.
Thanks
"friends," love hanging out with you all too." The day before
she was killed, Neese tweeted, "you doing s*** like that is why I can
NEVER completely trust you."
Neese's last
tweet, sent out hours before she snuck out of her bedroom window after midnight
on July 6, 2012, was a retweet from a friend who had posted, "All I do is
hope."
Before the
truth about Neese's disappearance was revealed, Sheila Eddy remained active on
social media, tweeting regularly about her thoughts and day-to-day activities
as authorities searched for her "missing" friend. In hindsight of
Neese's murder, several of the posts from Eddy seem disturbing.
Eddy's first
tweet on July 7, 2012, the day after she and Shoaf killed Neese, was message to
a friend wishing her a happy birthday.
happpy
birthdayy @young_muffintop!
- shelia
eddy (@_sheliiaa) July 7, 2012
In the
months that followed, Eddy regularly tweeted about watching TV, school, hating
homework and other typical teenage things. She even tweeted about her and
Shoaf's close friendship:
no one on
this earth can handle me and rachel if you think you can you're wrong
- shelia
eddy (@_sheliiaa) November 5, 2012
Then, on
January 3, 2013, Shoaf confessed to stabbing Neese to death with Eddy and told
authorities where they had left her body. Meanwhile, Eddy kept up appearances
that everything was normal, tweeting about watching her favorite TV shows:
staying home
on tuesday is the best cause law and order svu is on all day
- shelia
eddy (@_sheliiaa) January 8, 2013
On the
morning of March 13, 2013, the U.S. Attorney's Office publically announced the
human remains found in the wooded area in Brave, Pennsylvania, belonged to
Skylar Neese. Eddy, still keeping up appearances, pretended to be devastated
over the news that her friend had been found dead, tweeting "Rest easy
Skylar, you'll ALWAYS be my best friend," with a photo montage of her and
Neese together, and "worst day of my whole life."
rest easy
skylar, you'll ALWAYS be my bestfriend. i miss you more than you could ever
know. pic.twitter.com/g6UaDf9Vfb
- shelia
eddy (@_sheliiaa) March 13, 2013
worst day of
my whole life
- shelia
eddy (@_sheliiaa) March 13, 2013
During her
confession in January 2013, Shoaf had told authorities she and Eddy had planned
Neese's murder while in science class together. The plan was to pick Neese up
from her house at night and drive to a remote area to smoke marijuana together.
Once they were in the woods, Shoaf said the plan was to count to three, then
stab Neese to death.
On March 30,
2013, about a month before she was arrested for Neese's murder, Eddy tweeted
"we really did go on three."
we really
did go on three
- shelia
eddy (@_sheliiaa) April 1, 2013
The
following day, she tweeted:
they say you
remember the past better than it really was
- shelia
eddy (@_sheliiaa) April 1, 2013
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