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The infamous murder of Skylar 
Niece is one of the most 

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horrifying true crime cases in 
recent years. 

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And in fact, what helped to 
solve this crime was the 

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killer's own cryptic tweets 
about how they killed her 

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outlaw. 
So today's video is going to be 

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another solved true crime case 
on the murder of Skylar Niece. 

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This is a really talked about 
case within the true crime 

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community. 
You might have heard of it 

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before. 
But before we go ahead with the 

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case, I just want to give my 
usual disclaimer that I mean 

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absolutely no disrespect to 
anyone that I talk about in this

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video. 
This video is for educational 

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purposes and everything that I'm
about to say is just information

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that I have found on the 
Internet and I'm compiling into 

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one video. 
Just a couple of smaller content

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warnings before we get into this
case. 

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Today we're going to be talking 
about themes of drug use and 

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threats of suicide. 
So if any of that is something 

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that you don't want to hear 
about right now, I completely 

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understand. 
Click out of this video now. 

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But all that being said, let's 
get into the case. 

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Today's case takes place in West
Virginia, USA in 2012, where 16 

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year old Skylar niece lived with
her mum Mary and her dad Dave. 

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Skylar Annette niece was born on
February 10th, 1996. 

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She was an only child and she 
was the apple of her parents 

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eye. 
Her mum said that the day that 

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Skylar was born, that was the 
greatest moment of her whole 

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life. 
Skylar was a very, very sweet 

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girl. 
Right from being tiny, tiny. 

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She just had a lovely 
temperament. 

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You know those kids that are 
just angelic. 

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She was just sweet and kind and 
smiley and bubbly. 

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She had a heart of gold. 
She was just so pure and so cute

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and she loved animals. 
She would stop to pet every 

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animal that she passed on the 
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So Skylar and her family lived 
in a small town called Star City

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in West Virginia. 
And this was a small town, so 

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small, in fact, it was one of 
those places that just had a 

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really good like community feel 
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Like kind of everyone knew each 
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And in this particular area of 
Star City, they had what was 

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known as the neighborhood shack,
which was like a more informal 

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version of a town hall where 
they would throw like mini 

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events and activities and stuff.
And there was a lot of stuff 

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going on for the neighborhood 
kids there. 

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They would organize a lot of 
things over the weekends and 

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over school holidays so that the
kids could go to these different

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things while the parents had 
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went to work or whatever. 
They would organize like sports 

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and arts and craft days and you 
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And Skylar went to all of these 
events at the neighborhood shack

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and naturally she made quite a 
few friends there, including an 

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8 year old girl named Sheila 
Eddie, who very quickly became 

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Skylar's best friend. 
Sheila was actually from out of 

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town. 
She lived about 20 miles away, 

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but her family was in quite a 
disadvantaged financial 

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situation. 
They didn't have a lot of money.

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Her parents didn't have a lot of
money to, like, take her places 

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and do different things. 
And a lot of the activities at 

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the neighborhood shack were 
free. 

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So her parents would take her 20
miles to this neighborhood shack

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so that Sheila could have all 
these other, all these, like, 

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experiences with the other kids 
and feel like a normal kid, you 

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know? 
And yeah, that was where Sheila,

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Eddie and Skylar Niece met, and 
the two of them became 

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inseparable. 
They did absolutely everything 

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together. 
They would have moving nights, 

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they would go to the park 
together. 

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They grew up together. 
They became like sisters. 

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But actually these two girls 
were kind of like complete 

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opposites of each other. 
It was like an opposites attract

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kind of situation. 
Sheila was very outgoing. 

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She was kind of like a wild 
child. 

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She was a little bit like 
rebellious, you know, talked 

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back a little bit. 
Whereas Skyler, on the other 

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hand, was like, and I don't mean
this in a bad way, but like a 

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goodie too. 
She was, she was like well 

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behaved. 
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what her parents, parents 
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teachers thought of her. 
But like I said, opposites do 

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attract sometimes. 
And these girls got on like a 

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house on fire. 
And then in 2010, when the girls

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were about 14 years old, Sheila,
Eddie's mother remarried and 

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actually moved so much closer to
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So now these two girls could 
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And actually, that meant that 
they were going to be going to 

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the same high school. 
This was so exciting for them. 

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And actually, when they did 
start this high school, that was

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when they met another girl and 
their duo became a trio. 

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This New Girl was named Rachel 
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She was the same age as the 
other two, and she fit in really

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well with this group. 
But again, Rachel was very 

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different to the other two. 
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different to each other. 
Rachel was a lot wealthier. 

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She was a lot more privileged. 
I think she went to a private 

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school in the past. 
So again, very different 

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experiences to the other two 
girls. 

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But again, they all got on 
really well. 

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Rachel was more similar to 
Sheila Eddie than she was to 

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Skylar, Nice because Rachel had 
that same like outgoing, kind of

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fiery kind of rebellious energy 
that Skylar didn't have. 

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And this made for a really 
interesting dynamic within this 

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group. 
So Rachel and Sheila, the two 

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outgoing ones, because they were
kind of attention seeky in 

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nature, they would butt heads a 
lot because they wanted to be 

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the leader of the group. 
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Whereas Skylar wasn't so 
interested in that. 

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So she kind of acted more as a 
mediator for the group. 

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No one ever had a problem with 
Skylar. 

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She was kind of like the glue 
that held that trio together for

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a while. 
And as a trio, these three girls

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were quite popular. 
They were well known, they had a

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lot of friends within that 
school. 

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They were really well liked. 
But as the girls got into their 

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freshman year of high school, 
Sheila Eddie started to change. 

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So she'd always been a 
rebellious, wild child, but now 

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it was like in a bad way. 
It wasn't just like a little 

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misbehaving kid. 
Now, she was kind of getting a 

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bit reckless because at the this
age when you're a teenager, 

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that's when really kind of 
almost scary elements start 

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getting involved in your life, 
Partying, alcohol, drugs, older 

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boys, you know, she would go out
and sneak out and meet these 

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boys and things like that. 
Things were getting serious and 

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Skylar couldn't relate. 
She like wasn't interested in 

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all that. 
She wasn't interested in getting

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drunk and going out and doing 
drugs and whatever. 

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Bear in mind they're about 15 
years old at this point, so they

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were getting into this kind of 
young, I would say. 

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And Sheila told her parents 
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She told them about the path 
that Sheila Eddie seemed to be 

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taking and none of them 
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Skylar herself didn't approve, 
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And actually they advised her to
maybe try and distance herself 

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from Sheila Eddie. 
Skylar was a very ambitious girl

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and she had dreams of going on 
to get a really strong career as

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a criminal defence lawyer. 
And as Sheila started kind of 

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misbehaving and taking this 
wrong path, they saw this as a 

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possible hindrance to Skyler's 
life and her her path and her 

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promising future that she was 
going to have. 

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So yeah, Skyler agreed with her 
parents that it probably was 

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time to make some new friends. 
But it wasn't that easy because 

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Sheila Eddie had been her best 
friend since they were what, 

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like 8 years old? 
That friendship meant a lot to 

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Skyler. 
It's not one of those things 

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that you want to drop so easily.
She knew that this friend was 

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not healthy for her, but she 
also didn't want to ditch her 

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completely. 
It was going to be kind of a 

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long term, like, distancing kind
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So, yeah. 
The following year at school, 

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Skyler starts, you know, getting
herself out there, making 

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friends with new girls, 
different people. 

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And I think Sheila and Rachel 
started to notice this, and this

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started to cause a bit of a rift
in the trio. 

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I don't think Sheila and Rachel 
liked that Skylar was doing 

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this. 
I think they were a little bit 

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jealous. 
They saw Skylar's potential. 

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They saw that she was really 
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She was really intelligent. 
She had this promising future. 

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And in retaliation to Skylar 
trying to like distance from 

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them, they started being mean to
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They became a close duo without 
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I mean, Skylar was very much 
still involved, but they wanted 

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her to feel left out. 
They wanted her to feel like the

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odd one out. 
So Sheila and Rachel would plan 

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kind of matching outfits that 
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They would both wear like stripy
jumpers and not tell Skylar 

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about it. 
So she would turn up at school 

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and feel really left out from 
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They started going out without 
her on weekends, having 

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sleepovers without her. 
They would go to lunch without 

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her and stuff like that, not all
the time because they wanted her

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to still want to be friends with
them, but they were just trying 

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to make her life a little bit 
like hell, you know? 

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And this did make Skylar really 
upset because like I said, she 

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did want to stay friends with 
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She knew it was for the best, 
that she should distance, but at

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the same time, these were still 
her best friends and she was 

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really upset that they were 
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And Skylar actually tweeted 
about this dynamic as it was 

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happening, saying sick of being 
fucking. 

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Thanks a lot friends, love 
hanging out with you all too. 

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But Skyler knew it was for the 
best. 

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And so she tried to keep herself
busy, tried to just push forward

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with her life, keep meeting new 
people, keep putting herself out

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there. 
She even got a part time job at 

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Wendy's. 
She was about 16 years old at 

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this point, so she's really 
starting to like grow up and and

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mature. 
She usually worked late shifts 

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at Wendy's. 
Obviously because she had 

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school, she couldn't work during
the day, so she would work in 

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the afternoons and evenings. 
She would usually finish at 

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about 10:00 PM, and July 5th, 
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She was on one of these late 
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Actually, this was the day after
she wrote that tweet that I just

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read out. 
So yeah, on July 5th, 2012, she 

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went to her late shift at 
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She finished at about 10:00 PM 
and she just came straight home.

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She was exhausted. 
She went to bed early. 

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I think she went in the living 
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little bit before she went to 
bed, but they knew that she was 

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always tired whenever she would 
get back from her shift. 

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So Skylar took herself off up to
bed, and she had the same shift 

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the following. 
So her parents didn't really 

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bother her the next morning. 
They thought just let her rest. 

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So her dad went out to work, and
then he came back later that 

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day. 
And this was around the time 

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that Skylar would be getting 
ready for her next shift. 

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And so he expected to walk in 
and see her, like, running 

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around the house, getting her 
uniform ready, doing her hair, 

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getting ready, but she wasn't. 
So he went up to Skylar's 

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bedroom and just knocked on the 
door and just said hi, you know,

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I'm home. 
And she didn't respond. 

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So he knocked again. 
And again she didn't respond. 

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So now he's a little bit 
worried, thinking, Oh my God, 

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she's still asleep. 
She's going to like miss her 

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shift. 
And so he tried to just go 

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straight in and open the door, 
but it was locked from the 

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inside. 
So her dad, Dave is a bit 

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worried at this point. 
He can't even hear her inside. 

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He can't hear her moving around,
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So he decides to like try and 
pick his way into this room, try

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and pick the lock. 
He went and grabbed a wire coat 

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hanger, came back, fiddled with 
this lock, and eventually got 

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the door open. 
And when he went inside, Skylar 

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wasn't there. 
Her bedroom was locked from the 

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inside, but she wasn't in there.
It didn't make sense. 

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That was until Dave looked over 
at the window and saw that it 

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was open only by about that 
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But it seemed that Skylar had 
snuck out of her bedroom. 

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And actually, what was even more
confusing was that her bed was 

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still made, and her Wendy's 
uniform was literally laid on 

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the end of the bed. 
It seemed like she hadn't even 

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slept there the night before. 
So now her dad's thinking maybe 

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she got home from her shift last
night, took her uniform off, got

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changed, and then snuck out of 
the house and maybe spent the 

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night somewhere else. 
Maybe she'd gone to a party or 

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stayed over at a boy's house or 
something. 

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But now it was midday the next 
day and she still hadn't 

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returned home and she had her 
next shift at Wendy's in like a 

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couple of hours. 
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Like I said, she was kind of a 
goodie, 2 shoes. 

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She would never miss a shift at 
work, ever. 

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So Skylar's dad is panicking by 
now and he calls up his wife, 

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Skylar's mother, Mary. 
And Mary had her own theory and 

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that was obviously she knew that
her parents didn't really like 

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Sheila and Rachel at this point.
They were bad influences on her.

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They told her to stop spending 
as much time with them. 

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And so Mary thought maybe she'd 
snuck out to go and see those 

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girls because she knew that her 
parents wouldn't approve. 

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So Skyler's parents got in touch
with both Sheila's parents and 

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Rachel's parents and asked them 
if they'd seen Skyler, ask the 

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girls if they'd seen Skyler, and
they all said no. 

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She, she wasn't with us. 
She didn't sneak out and spend 

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time with us. 
So no one had seen Skyler since 

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the day before. 
And this was like their only 

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theory as well. 
So now they're really panicking.

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It's not like she was going to 
be with anyone else. 

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She didn't really have many 
other close, close friends that 

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she could have been with, and 
her parents are like trying to 

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call Skyler's phone over and 
over and she's not picking up. 

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Now, at this point, the theory 
was that maybe she was just 

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intentionally ignoring them. 
Because clearly if this theory 

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was right, that maybe she'd gone
to a party or to a boy's house. 

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She was having quite a 
rebellious streak that day. 

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So maybe she's seeing her 
parents calling her phone over 

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and over again and she's 
choosing to ignore it. 

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Maybe she knew she'd been called
because her parents are calling 

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her over and over again and she 
just doesn't want to deal with 

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it. 
So that was what they were 

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thinking right now. 
Her parents were just kind of 

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holding out hope that she would 
return home in the next like 

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hour or so. 
Her shift at Wendy's started at 

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4:00 PM. 
And like I said, she'd never 

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missed a shift before, ever. 
So they were hoping that she was

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going to return home, they were 
going to get an answer, and then

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she'd be able to go to work as 
normal. 

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But then 4:00 PM rolled round, 
her parents got a call from her 

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manager asking where's Skylar? 
Is she OK? 

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Is she going to come into work? 
She hadn't shown up for her 

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shift and she still wasn't 
answering her phone. 

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She still hadn't been in contact
with anyone. 

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So now her parents are thinking 
she must have been with Sheila 

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and Rachel. 
That is the only explanation 

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that they could think of. 
And maybe when they asked the 

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girls the first time, they were 
just lying because they didn't 

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want to be in trouble because 
Skylar had snuck out and clearly

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she'd gotten caught. 
They didn't want to get involved

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in that. 
So now Skylar's parents called 

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once again and they were like, 
look, we kind of know that she 

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was with you. 
And finally Sheila, Eddie 

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cracked and told the truth. 
Skylar had snuck out of her room

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last night to go and meet her 
and Rachel. 

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Sheila told Skylar's parents 
that she and Rachel had driven 

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to Skylar's house the night 
before and picked her up at 

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about 11:00 PM. 
She'd snuck out of her bedroom 

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window to come and go on a drive
with them. 

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I think they were literally just
driving around, just chatting 

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for a few hours. 
They said that they were only 

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out for like 2 hours maximum. 
And so they dropped her off her 

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home about midnight or 1:00 AM, 
and that was the last time they 

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saw her. 
Sheila told Skylar's parents 

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that Skylar had actually 
specifically requested that 

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Sheila drop her off at the end 
of the road, not directly 

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outside of her house, just in 
case the noise or the lights 

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from the car woke her parents 
up. 

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Obviously, she didn't want to 
get caught sneaking back in. 

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So they dropped her off at the 
end of the road that night, and 

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they hadn't seen or heard from 
her since. 

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The girls hadn't seen or heard 
from her. 

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Her parents hadn't. 
Her coworkers hadn't. 

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No one had had contact with 
Skylar Nice, which meant that 

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she's missing and had been for 
about nearly 24 hours at this 

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point. 
So her parents called the 

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police, reported Skylar Nice as 
missing, and then with the help 

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of volunteers and the police 
force, they started searching 

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for her. 
Just like walking the streets, 

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shouting her name. 
One of the first things that 

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police did was grab all of the 
CCTV footage from Skylar Nice's 

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apartment building because 
obviously that was going to show

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where she went and what time she
left and everything. 

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And actually, they were really 
lucky because there was 1 camera

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that pointed specifically at her
bedroom window. 

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So they were going to see her 
sneak out. 

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And they did. 
The camera caught Skyler 

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sneaking out of her room at 
about midnight. 

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There was a bench just outside 
her bedroom window that she, 

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like, climbed out onto her. 
She pulled the window back down.

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She left herself a little gap in
the bottom so that she'd be able

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to get back in. 
And then she walked down the 

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street and towards a car that 
she presumably got in. 

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It was Sheila and Rachel's car. 
Now, this CCTV footage, while it

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seems like it should be a good 
piece of evidence for this case,

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this specific clip of Skylar 
leaving the house actually 

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hindered this investigation so 
much because this showed that 

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Skylar niece left her house that
night of her own free will. 

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She chose to sneak out. 
She walked to this car, got in 

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voluntarily. 
She wasn't dragged in. 

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She wasn't abducted. 
She left her house because she 

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wanted to, and this meant that 
police couldn't actually issue 

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an Amber Alert for her. 
If you're unfamiliar with Amber 

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Alerts, it's a system over in 
the States for when a child goes

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missing and they're in danger. 
It's basically a broadcast that 

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is sent out to every news 
station, every radio station. 

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People in the area even get a 
text on their phones. 

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Everyone gets a text with all 
the information of this child, 

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where they were last seen, a 
description, all that kind of 

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stuff. 
And it's to basically help the 

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news get out to as many people 
as possible to have the best 

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chances of saving that child 
that's in danger. 

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But the criteria to be able to 
send out an Amber Alert, at 

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least back then, was that the 
child has to be deemed to be in 

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danger. 
And Skylar niece wasn't because 

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she left her House of her own 
free will. 

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She didn't seem to be in danger.
She wasn't abducted. 

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She wasn't dragged into that 
car. 

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Like I said, she got in 
voluntarily, and police even had

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her friends admitting that it 
was them driving the car. 

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She'd gotten into a car with her
own friends. 

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She didn't seem to be in danger 
from the evidence that they had 

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anyway. 
So an Amber Alert was never 

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issued for Skylar Nice. 
Which meant that most people in 

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that area didn't even know that 
there was a missing child, which

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meant that not everyone was on 
the lookout. 

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And this investigation just 
didn't have the manpower that it

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needed in the beginning, the 
manpower that it would have had 

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had this Amber Alert gone out. 
And police did actually try and 

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appeal this. 
Like the police working on this 

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case wanted an umbrella sent 
out. 

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They tried to appeal it with 
whoever they go to higher up 

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somewhere, and it was rejected 
so many times. 

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How disgusting is that? 
Like, who is making that 

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decision? 
Who gets this appeal that there 

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is a missing child that's not 
been seen for like over 24 

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hours, going on 48 hours as this
case was going on? 

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And they're thinking, no, that's
not important enough for an 

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umbrella. 
Who makes that decision? 

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That is awful. 
But it happened multiple times. 

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This appeal was rejected and 
rejected and rejected, and an 

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Amber Alert was never sent out. 
So it was just whatever 

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investigation, whatever manpower
that small police force in Star 

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City could pull together. 
So Skyler's friends and family 

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kind of had to just take matters
into their own hands. 

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They formed their own search 
parties. 

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They printed their own missing 
persons posters. 

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Everyone was out on the streets 
giving these things out, talking

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to people about Skylar, telling 
them to be on the lookout for 

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her. 
Loads of people from Skylar's 

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school turned up to help as 
well, including Sheila Eddie, 

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who was one of the last people 
to see her. 

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Rachel Schuff was actually away 
at like church camp over the 

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summer, so she wasn't as 
involved in the searches, but 

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Sheila was very much involved. 
She was coming out every single 

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day in this search to help, to 
try and find her best friend. 

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And Sheila was very, very shaken
by this whole thing. 

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She was like crying every day in
these searches. 

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She was constantly asking the 
niece family for like updates 

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and things like that. 
She would call Skylar's father 

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nearly every day, asking them 
how they were doing, offering 

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her help, asking is there 
anything I can do to help you 

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and make this easier? 
In fact, there was one day kind 

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of early on in the investigation
where Sheila Eddie went round to

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the niece household and just 
asked Skylar's parents if she 

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could go up to Skylar's bedroom 
and just sit in there for a 

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minute just to feel like she was
like. 

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Closer to Skylar. 
And her parents, of course, 

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said, yeah, go on, go up. 
And Sheila went and sat on 

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Skylar's bed and just broke down
in tears. 

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She was just sobbing in Skylar's
room. 

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Skylar's mother Mary came in, 
and the two of them had like a 

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real close mom. 
And they were talking about 

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Skylar. 
They were hugging. 

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They were crying together. 
Everyone was so connected in 

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their grief at this point in 
time. 

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And I say grief because they 
didn't know what had happened to

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Skylar, so they didn't know how 
to feel, but they knew that they

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were missing her and they knew 
that they were scared for her. 

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Everyone was so scared, and they
were supporting each other in 

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this. 
So as all of this was going on 

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with like the family and 
Skylar's friends, police were of

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course trying so many different 
tactics to try and locate 

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Skylar. 
They kept calling her phone and 

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it was actually ringing through,
which meant it was still 

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switched on, which is a good 
sign. 

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That means it should be easy to 
locate. 

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So police got in touch with 
Apple. 

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Since Skylar had an iPhone, they
got in touch with Apple and they

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asked if they could like locate 
it, send them the location, but 

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Apple refused. 
And again, this was a similar 

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situation to the Amber Alert 
because Skylar was actually 

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officially deemed a runaway 
because she snuck out and left 

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voluntarily. 
Apple couldn't give over that 

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information because she wasn't 
kidnapped, she wasn't abducted, 

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she wasn't deemed to be in 
danger. 

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So it's confidential Apple 
wouldn't give over the location 

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of Skylar niece's phone. 
The FBI even got involved. 

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The FBI contacted Apple 
themselves and they were like, 

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look, this is a serious thing. 
Like I know you've got your 

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policies, but come on, like give
us the location of this phone. 

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And still Apple wouldn't even 
answer to the FBI. 

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There was no way in hell they 
were given over that location. 

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And for some reason there was 
nothing else police could do. 

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I don't I don't know. 
I thought they had like other 

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tactics of how they could like 
locate her phone. 

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But anyway, they could actually 
never look at her phone. 

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They had no other way of doing 
it. 

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But one thing they were able to 
look look at was her phone 

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records. 
I think they'd gotten in touch 

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with like her network provider, 
and they found that Skyler's 

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phone had been completely 
inactive since she went missing 

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00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,760
the night before. 
Not only that, but her bank had 

452
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,480
been completely inactive. 
She wasn't calling anyone, 

453
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,760
texting anyone. 
She wasn't spending any money. 

454
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,440
She wasn't buying food or 
anything. 

455
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,840
It wasn't like she'd run away 
and she was trying to live by 

456
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,440
herself. 
It's never a good sign when bank

457
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,280
accounts and phone records are 
completely inactive because 

458
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,520
there's no sign that that person
is alive right now. 

459
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,960
This was a really, really 
frustrating case because 

460
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,720
everyone just knew that Skyler 
hadn't run away. 

461
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,600
She wasn't that kind of girl. 
As I've kept saying, she was 

462
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,600
kind of a goody 2 shoes. 
She was so well behaved. 

463
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,880
This was so out of her 
character. 

464
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,760
Everyone knew that something 
must have happened to her at 

465
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,560
some point. 
But because of that evidence, 

466
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:12,160
because of that CCTV footage of 
her leaving voluntarily, there 

467
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,960
was nothing that could be done. 
It was a huge, huge hindrance, a

468
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,960
huge block from police being 
able to investigate this whole 

469
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,160
situation to the fullest extent.
And because of that, this 

470
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,240
investigation continued on for 
months, months and months and 

471
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,760
months. 
And no one had seen or heard 

472
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:34,400
from Skylar Nice in so long at 
this point that everyone was 

473
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,840
starting to lose hope. 
And deep down, once it gets 

474
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,440
months into a missing persons 
investigation, deep down, 

475
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,480
everyone just kind of knew that 
this wasn't going to be a happy 

476
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,480
ending. 
And by then, life kind of has to

477
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,680
go back to normal or as normal 
as it can get. 

478
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,840
Obviously, that's harder for 
Skyler's closer family. 

479
00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:59,200
But you know, her friends, 
Sheila and Rachel, they have to 

480
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,320
go back to school. 
They have to continue with their

481
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,560
in like their education. 
They can't just put their life 

482
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,560
on hold until they have answers.
And everyone at that school said

483
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,720
that Sheila Eddie and Rachel 
Schuff were not the same girls 

484
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,400
that they they were before 
Skylar went missing. 

485
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,080
They were a lot more reserved, a
lot more quiet. 

486
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,840
They just, they weren't their 
usual selves, but they were 

487
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,440
still normal teenage girls at 
the end of the day. 

488
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,600
They did the same things that 
all the other teenage girls did,

489
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,680
and that included social media. 
They used social media kind of 

490
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,720
as a coping mechanism to deal 
with this whole ordeal. 

491
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,040
Sheila Eddie used social media 
more so than Rachel. 

492
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,880
They were both very much on 
Twitter, very much on Facebook. 

493
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,560
Sheila Eddie was posting every 
single day, multiple times a 

494
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,800
day. 
Not necessarily about Skylar, 

495
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,520
although quite a lot of her 
posts were about Skylar. 

496
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,640
She would post about how much 
she missed her. 

497
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,160
Some of the things she wrote 
were even addressed to Skylar as

498
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,760
if she was talking to her. 
Like I said, she would use it as

499
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,200
a coping mechanism to like feel 
like she was close to Skylar 

500
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,400
again. 
She would beg her to come back. 

501
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,600
Like Skylar, if you're reading 
this, come home. 

502
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,160
No one's mad at you. 
And Skylar's father Dave even 

503
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,520
commented on a couple of Sheila 
Eddie's posts saying like, don't

504
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,480
worry, we we will find her, she 
will come home. 

505
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,120
And I actually have one of 
Sheila Eddie's Facebook statuses

506
00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:18,480
here. 
I'm going to condense it a 

507
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,800
little bit because a lot of the 
ones that she wrote were like 

508
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,520
big full on paragraphs. 
So I'm going to read a few 

509
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,240
quotes from this one. 
Skyler, sorry I haven't posted 

510
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,280
in a while. 
School has been taking up all my

511
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,600
time. 
I miss you so much in school. 

512
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,520
Me and Rachel miss you so much, 
especially at lunch. 

513
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,800
We sit at the lunch table alone,
come back so we don't look like 

514
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,760
learners anymore, lol. 
School is so hard without you. 

515
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,960
Actually, everything is hard 
without you. 

516
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,560
I seriously think about you 24/7
and miss talking to you on the 

517
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,800
phone day and night. 
I don't know why you haven't 

518
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,160
come home yet, but if you're 
scared that people will be mad 

519
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,200
at you, they won't be. 
We just want you home safely. 

520
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,760
I miss you so so so much more 
than you could ever imagine. 

521
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,360
And you will always, always, 
always be my best friend. 

522
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,840
Remember that. 
So throughout this 

523
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,320
investigation, Sheila, Eddie and
Rachel Schuff were regularly 

524
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,560
interviewed by the police 
because they were the last 

525
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,880
people to see Skylar. 
So they were their best bet of 

526
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,480
getting like, a new lead, I 
guess. 

527
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,680
And their stories completely 
matched. 

528
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,720
They stayed consistent every 
single time they were asked. 

529
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,880
The facts never wavered. 
I mean, the girls were a little 

530
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,440
bit anxious. 
Police did notice, but they just

531
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,480
kind of put it down to them 
being young girls in the 

532
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,920
presence of serious authority. 
They would fidget in their 

533
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,160
chairs and kind of play with 
their hair, avoid eye contact. 

534
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:35,680
But like I said, they were 16 
years old. 

535
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,360
They were being regularly 
questioned by policemen about 

536
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:40,880
the disappearance of their best 
friend. 

537
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,040
It's natural that they would be 
quite nervous and anxious in 

538
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,280
that situation. 
So police didn't think too much 

539
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,640
of it. 
That was until Sheila Eddie made

540
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,560
quite an interesting comment in 
one of her interviews. 

541
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,120
Completely unprovoked, Sheila 
said to the police that she 

542
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:59,120
would be willing to take a lie 
detector test and she would pass

543
00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:02,640
it because she wasn't lying. 
And like up until now, no one 

544
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,600
had accused her of lying. 
No one even thought that. 

545
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,280
So it was weird that she said 
that off her own back. 

546
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,360
Now, police were kind of 
suspicious. 

547
00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:14,280
If you're not lying, why would 
you feel the need to clarify 

548
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,200
that you're not lying when no 
one's accused you of lying? 

549
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,480
You know what I mean? 
So now police were a little bit 

550
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,840
alert about Sheila Eddie. 
And so they started to look a 

551
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,720
little bit closer into both 
Sheila and Rachel because the 

552
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,280
main theory at this point in the
case was actually quite a big 

553
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,160
rumour that had been going 
around the neighborhood for a 

554
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,160
little while at this point. 
And that was that maybe Skyla 

555
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,920
niece had died of some sort of 
drug overdose and now her 

556
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,720
friends were trying to cover it 
up because maybe they were 

557
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,240
scared and it kind of made 
sense. 

558
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,680
I mean, she snuck out of the 
house late at night, 11:00 PM, 

559
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,640
went and met her friends. 
All three of them went out. 

560
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,880
Two of them returned and Skylar 
didn't. 

561
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,240
Maybe they'd gone out to a 
party, like a wild house party. 

562
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,520
They were experimenting with 
drugs, mixing with alcohol. 

563
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,160
And maybe it had been fatal for 
16 year old Skylar. 

564
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,480
And I don't know about you, but 
I've definitely heard of these 

565
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,560
kind of situations happening 
before where this kind of thing 

566
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,840
happens. 
A young person died from drugs 

567
00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:15,520
and then their friends just kind
of freak out and they don't know

568
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,200
what to do. 
And maybe they ditch the body 

569
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,000
somewhere. 
And then they pretend like their

570
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,480
friend is missing because 
they're scared of getting in 

571
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,080
trouble for what they've done, 
like taking the drugs and 

572
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,600
sneaking out and stuff like 
that. 

573
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,400
Maybe Sheila and Rachel just 
didn't want to admit to their 

574
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,040
parents and police and Skyler's 
parents, who would have been 

575
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,440
heartbroken that they were all 
out at a party. 

576
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,040
They snuck out and they were 
doing all these illegal things. 

577
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,960
Maybe in their teenage brains 
this seemed like an easier thing

578
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,520
to do, to like just cover it up.
And that was most people's 

579
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,520
theory right now. 
A lot of the people in the 

580
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,440
neighborhood thought that Sheila
and Rachel knew more than they 

581
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,160
were letting on about what had 
happened to Skylar. 

582
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,920
Like even a lot of the parents 
in the neighborhood thought 

583
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:00,760
this. 
So police wanted to dig a little

584
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,720
bit deeper into this theory. 
And they seized both of the 

585
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,560
girls mobile phones so that they
could search through them, maybe

586
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,840
see what they've been texting 
each other over the last few 

587
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,720
months. 
And this was when cracks started

588
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,960
to show. 
So in both of the girls stories.

589
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,240
So if you remember right in the 
beginning when Skylar first went

590
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,160
missing and those girls admitted
that they picked her up in the 

591
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,200
car. 
They said that they picked 

592
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,240
Skylar up at 11:00 PM, but their
phones showed that they were 

593
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,360
texting Skylar for about an hour
after that, up until midnight, 

594
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,360
which like, if you're in the car
with her, why are you texting 

595
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,080
her? 
Surely not Like, surely you're 

596
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,920
not sat 2 feet away from each 
other and you're texting on your

597
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,840
phones. 
Even Sheila, Sheila would have 

598
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,160
been driving the car if her 
story was correct. 

599
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,480
So how was she texting on her 
phone? 

600
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,800
So police decided to go back and
look at that CCTV footage, you 

601
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,600
know, the footage that they got 
of Skyla sneaking out of her 

602
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,400
house and going and getting into
the car. 

603
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,800
And luckily it had the time that
it was recorded on it and Skyla 

604
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:05,080
snuck out around midnight. 
So why had she and Rachel given 

605
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,920
police the wrong time an hour 
earlier? 

606
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,320
And every single time they'd 
told police this story, they'd 

607
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,760
given them the same time. 11 PM.
11:00 PM. 

608
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,040
Like I said, the facts never 
wavered and I know that this is 

609
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,320
only a small discrepancy. 
They they gave the wrong timing 

610
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,800
by an hour. 
It's not that big of a deal, but

611
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,320
it's still odd, no? 
And to kind of give them the 

612
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,120
benefit of the doubt, that was 
the only discrepancy that police

613
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,120
could find at all in their 
stories. 

614
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,520
Both of the girls stories were 
the exact same as each other, 

615
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,720
and that was the only little 
thing that was a little bit 

616
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,600
weird. 
That was until December of 2012,

617
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,280
when Rachel Shoaf changed her 
story a little bit and Sheila 

618
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,720
Eddie didn't keep up. 
Rachel was now telling police 

619
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,640
that instead of just driving 
around for a couple of hours and

620
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,320
then dropping Skylar off at the 
end of the night, she changed 

621
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,280
her story. 
And now she was saying that 

622
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,880
they'd all driven out to a 
woods, like a forest, and they'd

623
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,360
all gotten out to talk because 
obviously their friendships were

624
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,200
a little bit rocky towards the 
end, You know, none of them were

625
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,760
happy. 
Skylar had literally tweeted the

626
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,640
night before she went missing 
about how she was unhappy with 

627
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,880
her friends, so Rachel was 
saying that they picked her up 

628
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,520
so that they could talk this 
through. 

629
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,920
They drove to this forest, got 
out to speak, but when they all 

630
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,680
got out of the car to have this 
conversation, Rachel told police

631
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,960
that Skylar just turned around 
and ran off into the forest. 

632
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,480
Just ran off into the trees, 
didn't say anything to the 

633
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,040
girls, didn't say where she was 
going, why she was doing this. 

634
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,080
She just ran out into the trees.
And Rachel and Sheila were just 

635
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,000
kind of left at the car and they
didn't, they didn't follow her 

636
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,040
straight away, Rachel said. 
After a moment or two, the girls

637
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,640
decided to then and run into the
trees after Skylar, but by then 

638
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,360
she was too far ahead of them. 
They couldn't find her. 

639
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,520
It was dark. 
They were running around looking

640
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,600
for her for a little while, but 
eventually Sheila and Rachel 

641
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,520
just got tired. 
It was late, it was dark, it was

642
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,560
cold, and they decided to just 
go back home without Skylar. 

643
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,040
So they said that she just run 
off into this forest and they 

644
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,600
never saw her again after that. 
So this was a very interesting 

645
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,240
development in the case. 
This was like a whole new part 

646
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,280
of the story unlocked randomly, 
and it also just didn't really 

647
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,000
make that much sense. 
But anyway, that aside, police 

648
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,200
decided to bring Sheila Eddie 
back in for another questioning.

649
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,760
They were just going to ask her 
the whole story again to see 

650
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,640
what she said. 
And they asked her if she had 

651
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,200
anything to add, if she had 
anything else to tell them. 

652
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,880
But she said she didn't. 
She said she'd already told them

653
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,840
everything. 
So now police are really 

654
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,520
suspicious of these two girls 
now their stories are different.

655
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,800
And so once again, maybe about a
week later, they called both of 

656
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,640
them in again, get them to go 
through the whole stories again.

657
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,520
And now Sheila's story had 
caught up with Rachel's. 

658
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,120
It seemed that now the girls had
had chance to speak to each 

659
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:54,920
other. 
They'd gotten their story 

660
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,040
straight, and now their story's 
matched again. 

661
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,280
Which was weird because didn't 
Sheila just tell police that she

662
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,720
told them everything and she had
nothing else to say? 

663
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,040
Suspicion of these two girls was
growing by the week, and so 

664
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,360
eventually police decided to 
send both of the girls off for a

665
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,360
polygraph test. 
A lie detector test. 

666
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,920
You know the test that Sheila 
Reddy was so confident that she 

667
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,600
would pass? 
Well, it turns out she failed 

668
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,000
it. 
Now, we know that polygraph 

669
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,080
tests are not entirely accurate.
They're not admissible in court 

670
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,240
because they're not 100% 
accurate, but there's still a 

671
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,240
relatively good indicator of 
whether someone's lying or not. 

672
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,160
So this was odd. 
But then it gets even weirder 

673
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,920
when it comes to Rachel Shoff's 
polygraph test, or should I say 

674
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,160
attempted polygraph test. 
Because on the way to the police

675
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,000
station to go and take this 
polygraph test, Rachel was in 

676
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,240
the car with her dad. 
He stopped at a red light and 

677
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,720
Rachel just freaked out, jumped 
out of the car and ran away. 

678
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,600
I think she ran to Sheila's 
house. 

679
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,560
She tried to escape because she 
didn't want to take that lie 

680
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,400
detector test, so she never 
actually took it. 

681
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,560
But I think that in itself is 
more telling than any polygraph 

682
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,640
result she could have gotten. 
The fact that she was too scared

683
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,480
to even get there and take it. 
And once Skyla niece's family 

684
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,040
found out about this, found out 
that Rachel was trying to dodge 

685
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,080
the lie detector test, they 
decided to go public with all 

686
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,239
the information that they had on
this investigation because up 

687
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,320
until now, they've been staying 
relatively private, you know, 

688
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,520
just letting police do their 
thing, letting police do the 

689
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,760
investigation. 
But now they weren't staying 

690
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,760
quiet any longer. 
And Skylar's mother, Mary, 

691
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,960
decided to write a Facebook 
status. 

692
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,840
In this status, she talked about
all the weird little things that

693
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,040
had happened throughout this 
investigation, the changing 

694
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,600
story, the lie detector tests. 
And she shared her suspicions 

695
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,679
that she thought Sheila and 
Rachel knew more than they were 

696
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:47,760
letting on. 
And she even said in this 

697
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,080
status, and this is absolutely 
heartbreaking, she said that she

698
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,440
knew it was unlikely that her 
daughter was going to come back 

699
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:59,440
alive, but at the very least she
just wanted Skylar found because

700
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,520
then at least they could give 
her like a proper send off, a 

701
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,400
proper funeral and lay her body 
to rest if she was dead. 

702
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,920
And this Facebook status that 
Mary posted went somewhat 

703
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,600
locally viral in that like town 
in that neighborhood. 

704
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,440
And news of this status ended up
getting back to Sheila and 

705
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,360
Rachel, and they both took it 
very differently. 

706
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,720
Sheila was pretty good at hiding
her emotions. 

707
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:28,120
She was quite like stone Cold. 
Whereas Rachel, as we've seen 

708
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,360
when it came up to the polygraph
test, she was a very anxious 

709
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,400
person. 
And this status pretty much sent

710
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,120
her into a like a mental 
breakdown. 

711
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,160
Her mental state was just 
getting worse and worse and 

712
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,480
worse, day by day by day, until 
three days after Christmas when 

713
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,840
her mother actually had to call 
911 because her daughter was 

714
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,960
having a full blown nervous 
breakdown. 

715
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,840
She just didn't know what to do 
with Rachel anymore. 

716
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,320
She was being violent, she was 
erratic, she was throwing 

717
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,680
things, screaming at family 
members, sobbing, crying. 

718
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,640
She was threatening to kill 
herself. 

719
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:07,280
And following this phone call to
911, Rachel Shoaf was admitted 

720
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,400
to a psychiatric unit where she 
was kept for the next week. 

721
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,040
And actually, on the day of her 
discharge from this hospital, 

722
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,560
she asked her parents if they 
could take her straight to her 

723
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,280
attorney's office because she 
had a confession to make. 

724
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,920
And from there, Rachel and her 
lawyer went together to the 

725
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,640
police station to tell them the 
truth once and for all. 

726
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,040
And when she arrived, Rachel was
very visibly anxious. 

727
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,000
She was pale white. 
She was shaking uncontrollably. 

728
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,600
And before she even sat down in 
the interview room with police, 

729
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,000
because they were going to, 
like, record all of this, they 

730
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,320
needed this on record, she asked
them if she could have a trash 

731
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,440
can next to her in the interview
room because she felt like she 

732
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,160
was going to throw up at any 
minute. 

733
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,800
She was that nervous. 
And when she did sit down to 

734
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,920
talk to them, she just could not
get her words out. 

735
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,960
She was just completely frozen. 
She was like stumbling over her 

736
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,760
words. 
She, she couldn't get anything 

737
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,640
out. 
And so investigators were trying

738
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,480
to ask her, like, leading 
questions, trying to pull it out

739
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,160
of her. 
They were asking, did Skylar 

740
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,520
fall and hit her head? 
Did she overdose? 

741
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,360
Were you afraid? 
And Rachel just looked at them, 

742
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,720
shook her head and said, we 
stabbed her. 

743
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:19,880
And police were just gobsmacked 
at this admission. 

744
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,520
They'd known for a while that 
Sheila and Rachel weren't 

745
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,440
telling them the whole story, 
but they never expected the 

746
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,600
whole story to be murder. 
Like I said, they thought that 

747
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,120
Skyler had probably overdosed 
and the girls were just trying 

748
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,400
to cover it up. 
But now they were learning that 

749
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,160
these two teenage girls were 
murderers. 

750
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,080
So police just said tell us 
everything right from the 

751
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,120
beginning. 
Tell us everything in as much 

752
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,160
detail as you possibly can, 
starting from when you first got

753
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,360
the idea to murder Skylar niece.
And Rachel told police that they

754
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:59,320
had been premeditating this for 
nine months, nine whole months. 

755
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,240
They had been planning to murder
their best friend. 

756
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,240
They murdered her in July and 
they had been planning it since 

757
00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:07,920
the September, since the 
September before. 

758
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,600
She said it all started when 
Sheila and Rachel were sat next 

759
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,880
to each other in a science class
one day and they realized that 

760
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,000
Skylar was just always in their 
way. 

761
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,560
Because like I said, the two of 
them were closer than they were 

762
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,560
to Skylar, and they felt like 
Skylar was just a bit of an 

763
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,720
annoyance in this trio. 
And they joked between each 

764
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,320
other did Rachel and Sheila 
about how much it would be 

765
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,120
easier if they could just kill 
Skylar and then she'd be gone 

766
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,600
and they wouldn't have to worry 
about it. 

767
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,760
Rachel said it was just a dark 
joke in passing that was just 

768
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,680
made very flippantly. 
But then as time went on, Sheila

769
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,160
kept bringing it up again, like,
oh wouldn't it be easier if we 

770
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,920
could just kill Skyler? 
And then she'd bring it up again

771
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,560
the next day and then the next 
day and eventually it wasn't a 

772
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,000
joke anymore and she was saying 
we should kill Skyler. 

773
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,200
It'd just be so much easier if 
we just killed her. 

774
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,200
At this point in their 
friendships, Sheila Eddie 

775
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,760
genuinely didn't like Skyler 
niece anymore. 

776
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,480
She was just kind of putting up 
with her because they were very 

777
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,880
different girls. 
Skyler was still that well 

778
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,640
behaved good girl with a 
promising future that she'd 

779
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,320
always been. 
But Sheila was taking this wrong

780
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,560
path. 
She was, you know, going out to 

781
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,760
parties, doing all these drugs, 
meeting all these older boys. 

782
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,400
She was becoming very different 
from Skylar. 

783
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,080
And she was just growing a 
general distaste for this girl 

784
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,800
that had always been her best 
friend. 

785
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,840
And so Rachel suggested to 
Sheila that, well, let's just 

786
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,480
stop hanging out with her then. 
Let's just hang out just me and 

787
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,160
you let's, you know, cut her 
off. 

788
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,600
But that wasn't enough for 
Sheila, Eddie. 

789
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,440
And it was the spring of 2012 
when the girls started taking 

790
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,720
this much more seriously. 
And they were actually putting 

791
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:48,280
plans to murder Skylar niece in 
action. 

792
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,680
Sheila Eddie had started doing 
research at home. 

793
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,440
She was Googling all different 
things about about how to murder

794
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,520
someone. 
She was Googling things like how

795
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:01,480
to dispose of a body, how to 
feed a human body to pigs. 

796
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,760
She was even asking, like her 
classmates, just in science 

797
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,720
class, how would you dispose of 
a body, you know, if you had to?

798
00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:10,160
And the two of them even went as
far to ask. 

799
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,880
Skyla needs herself how she 
would want to die, they asked 

800
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,960
her. 
If you could die like this or 

801
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:18,960
like this, which one would you 
choose? 

802
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,520
Between them, Rachel and Sheila 
decided that the best time to 

803
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,240
kill Skyla would be in the 
summer holidays, right before 

804
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,160
Rachel was due to go to church 
camp. 

805
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:32,640
Because then that way when she 
goes missing, all of the fuss 

806
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,240
would die down by the time they 
got back to school in the fall. 

807
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:37,880
Or at least that's what they 
thought. 

808
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,400
I don't know why they thought 
that everyone would just forget 

809
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,640
that Skylar was missing by by 
September. 

810
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,400
So that was the vague plan, 
although they never planned a 

811
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:51,320
specific date and then rolled 
around July 5th, 2012. 

812
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:56,080
And on this particular day, it 
was now or never for this plan 

813
00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:00,040
because Rachel was due to go to 
church camp the very next day, 

814
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,200
actually no two days later, but 
the very next day she had to go 

815
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,840
out on the lakes with her 
family. 

816
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,880
They hired a bull or whatever. 
So if they didn't kill Skylar on

817
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,360
July 5th, they couldn't do it at
all. 

818
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,280
And they knew that they wanted 
to do it. 

819
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,040
They knew that Skylar was 
working at Wendy's that evening,

820
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,000
that she was on a late shift. 
And so earlier in the day, 

821
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:23,320
Rachel and Sheila met up and 
created what Rachel called a 

822
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,040
serial killer kit to put in the 
back of Sheila's car. 

823
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,800
And this serial killer kit 
comprised of towels, bleach, 

824
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,520
cleaning clothes, paper towels, 
a shovel, and a fresh change of 

825
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,680
clothes for each of the girls. 
So they prepared the car because

826
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,920
they knew that Sheila was going 
to be driving and they were 

827
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,160
going to go and pick Skylar up, 
and then they both went back to 

828
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,000
their individual houses live the
rest of the day as if they 

829
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,400
weren't planning to murder 
someone that same evening. 

830
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,200
And then that night, before they
left the house again, both 

831
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,880
Sheila and Rachel went to their 
kitchens and picked out the 

832
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,640
biggest, sharpest knife that 
they possibly could, put it in 

833
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,160
their bags, and then set off to 
go and pick up Skylar. 

834
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,960
When they got to Skylar's road, 
they text her letting her know 

835
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,800
that they were there, and before
she could arrive at the car, the

836
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,480
two of them slipped their 
kitchen knives up their sleeves 

837
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,560
so that they would have easy 
access in the moment when they 

838
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,240
needed to use them. 
They managed to get Skylar out 

839
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:21,200
of her house on the premise that
they were all going to go out 

840
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,680
and smoke weed. 
They all used to go to this one 

841
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,560
particular place in 
Pennsylvania. 

842
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,520
It was just like a forest and 
apparently they smoked weed 

843
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,400
there often. 
And so they text Skylar about an

844
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,440
hour before they picked her up, 
just basically telling her, do 

845
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,000
you want, do you want to come? 
Do you want to come and smoke 

846
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,240
weed with us? 
And they kind of did it on the 

847
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:41,680
premise that they wanted to talk
through their friendship. 

848
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,240
They wanted to like, patch 
things up and, and make things 

849
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,000
OK again. 
So yeah, Skylar agreed to that. 

850
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,240
They went and picked her up 
around midnight. 

851
00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,000
They all drove out to 
Pennsylvania, to this forest. 

852
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,400
And then they all got out of the
car to walk into the forest a 

853
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,600
little bit and go to their usual
smoke spot. 

854
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,840
But as they started walking off 
into the trees, Sheila Eddie 

855
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,880
realized that she'd forgotten 
her lighter. 

856
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,800
She'd left her at home. 
And so she asked the other two 

857
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,280
girls if either of them had one.
Skylar didn't, but Rachel said 

858
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,160
she did. 
She had one in the car, and this

859
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,360
was all part of the plan. 
This was kind of like the queue.

860
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,200
I think they'd kind of agreed to
do this beforehand so that they 

861
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,000
would be able to walk back up to
the car together, just the two 

862
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,560
of them, and kind of leave 
Skyler lagging behind. 

863
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,920
And as the two of them turned to
kind of walk back up to the car,

864
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,880
they gave each other a look. 
The look. 

865
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:37,640
And with that, they counted 123.
And the two of them turned on 

866
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,080
their friend Skyler. 
Before Skyler could even 

867
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,360
register what was happening, 
Sheila and Rachel had pulled 

868
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,160
these knives out of their 
sleeves and started frenzied 

869
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,680
stabbing Skylar niece in the 
back. 

870
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,360
Skylar screamed in horror and 
tried to run away, but it was 

871
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,040
two against one. 
These two girls had more 

872
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,520
physical power over her and she 
couldn't get away. 

873
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,480
They just kept stabbing her. 
They managed to get her down 

874
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,680
onto the floor and Rachel told 
police that Skylar couldn't even

875
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,400
get any words out. 
She was trying to utter some 

876
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,960
kind of sentence, anything, but 
she couldn't say anything. 

877
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,040
She could actually only say one 
word over and over again. 

878
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:20,320
She was just asking why. 
She really tried her best 

879
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,680
though. 
She was really fighting for her 

880
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,800
life against these two girls. 
And actually at one point she 

881
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,880
managed to wrestle one of the 
knives out of one of the girl's 

882
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,360
hands. 
And she was kind of using it in 

883
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,760
self-defense. 
She was kind of just waving it 

884
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,720
about in front of her, doing 
what she could. 

885
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,920
And in that she managed to make 
quite a nasty cut on Rachel's 

886
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,680
leg. 
And with this, Rachel, Rachel 

887
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,120
kind of fell backwards and she 
stopped stabbing Skylar. 

888
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,840
I think Rachel fell to the 
ground. 

889
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:50,160
And she watched as Sheila just 
kept going and going and going. 

890
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,800
And at this point, she changed 
the focus from Skylar's back to 

891
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,600
her neck. 
Now she was trying to finish 

892
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,640
this once and for all. 
Eventually Sheila stopped, she 

893
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,960
stepped back, came and stood 
with Rachel, and the two of them

894
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:11,760
just watched, stared at Skylar 
niece as she died, as she bled 

895
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:16,320
out on the floor of this forest.
And it was a relatively slow 

896
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,720
death as well, which is 
absolutely heartbreaking that 

897
00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:23,600
they were getting enjoyment out 
of watching her die, watching 

898
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,400
the life drain from her. 
They didn't put her out of her 

899
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:31,120
misery, they wanted to watch her
slowly and painfully die. 

900
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:35,040
In fact, they said she was still
making gurgling noises for quite

901
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,920
a while because she she'd been 
stabbed in the throat and she 

902
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,720
was desperately trying to 
breathe. 

903
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,760
And they just watched until she 
eventually stopped. 

904
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:47,200
And finally, when the girls were
sure that Skyla Nice was dead, 

905
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,680
they walked back up to Sheila's 
car and grabbed that serial 

906
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,280
killer kit with all the towels 
and the clothes and the spare 

907
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,440
change of clothes so that they 
could start covering this up. 

908
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,520
And this is where their plan 
went slightly off track because 

909
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,520
their initial plan was that they
were going to, they brought 

910
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,480
shovels, didn't they? 
So they were going to try and 

911
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:10,560
dig A and bury their 16 year old
friend in a shallow grave in 

912
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,760
this random forest in 
Pennsylvania, miles and miles 

913
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,560
away from her family. 
But as they started trying to 

914
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,280
dig this hole, they realized 
that the ground was far too 

915
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,720
rocky. 
There was no way they were going

916
00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:24,640
to be able to dig a hole big 
enough to fit Skyler in it. 

917
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,960
So instead they had to 
improvise. 

918
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,320
And so they just dragged 
Skyler's body over to a tree. 

919
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,080
They kind of propped her up by 
it and then just tried to cover 

920
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:38,160
her up as best as they could 
with like leaves and rocks and 

921
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,280
branches so that no one could 
see it. 

922
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,800
The two teenage girls then 
washed the blood off themselves,

923
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,240
got changed into their clean 
clothes, and then just drove 

924
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:52,080
off, drove back home, leaving 
their best friend's body just in

925
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:56,200
that forest alone, hoping that 
it would just eventually decay 

926
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,560
away into nothing. 
Between them, Sheila, Eddie and 

927
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:05,400
Rachel Schauf had stabbed Skylar
niece over 50 times and most of 

928
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,440
those were done by Sheila. 
And like I said, the two of them

929
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,400
just drove home after this and 
went to bed like nothing had 

930
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,440
happened. 
The next day, Rachel woke up and

931
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,200
and went out on the lake with 
her family and then after that 

932
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,280
she went to church camp. 
Imagine that, a murderer, a 

933
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,560
little literal murderer at 
church camp. 

934
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,720
But Sheila wasn't so lucky. 
She didn't get to just escape 

935
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,400
and run as far away from this 
investigation as she could. 

936
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,800
She was stuck in that town. 
And so now she had to make it 

937
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,840
look as though she actually 
cared about Skyler and she had 

938
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,800
to get involved with the search 
and just remember everything 

939
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,280
that she was doing. 
She was giving out missing 

940
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,600
persons posters, calling up the 
niece family every single day, 

941
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,040
asking for, asking how they were
doing, offering her help. 

942
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:59,200
She went and sat on Skyler's bed
with her mother and they sobbed 

943
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,200
and they hugged and they talked 
it out. 

944
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,360
And this whole time, Skyler's 
mum had no idea that this was 

945
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,320
her daughter's murderer. 
And that was Rachel Schuff's 

946
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,560
whole confession to the police. 
Once she'd finished telling them

947
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,160
that whole story, police just 
had one question for her. 

948
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,600
Why? 
Why on earth did you 2 girls do 

949
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,480
this to your best friend? 
And the only reason that Rachel 

950
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,440
Shove could give them was that 
they just didn't like Skyler 

951
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:28,880
anymore. 
So police asked for 

952
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,440
clarification. 
They were like, what do? 

953
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,480
What do you mean you don't like 
her? 

954
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,840
So you murdered her. 
And she just couldn't, she 

955
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,360
couldn't elaborate. 
She couldn't give them any more 

956
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,600
than just, I don't know, we 
don't like her. 

957
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,720
That was her only reason for 
murdering this girl, taking this

958
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:47,480
young girl's life so brutally. 
They just didn't like her. 

959
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,640
After she'd given this full 
confession to the police, they 

960
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:54,880
then drove Rachel Show out to 
that forest in Pennsylvania so 

961
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:58,200
that she could take them to the 
exact location of Skylar Niece's

962
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,120
body, and then they could 
finally lay her to rest and 

963
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,440
confirm this whole story. 
But frustratingly, when they 

964
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,600
went out there, turns out that 
Pennsylvania had had a huge 

965
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:13,000
snowstorm and this whole forest 
was just covered in a big 

966
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,040
blanket of white. 
And I mean, Rachel tried to take

967
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,760
them somewhere, but she was just
so disorientated. 

968
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,360
She didn't recognize any of the 
forest, and she couldn't 

969
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,160
remember exactly where Skylar's 
body was. 

970
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,240
She gave them kind of the best 
verbal description that she 

971
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:30,840
could. 
But police couldn't do anything 

972
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:35,080
now until the snow had melted. 
And they had to wait weeks, 

973
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,040
weeks and weeks and weeks until 
eventually the snow melted. 

974
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,440
They went back out there and 
they were able to find Skylar's 

975
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,040
remains. 
Finally, on the 16th of January 

976
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:48,880
2013, six months after the 
murder took place, police took 

977
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,760
sniffer dogs out to that forest 
and they found Skylar. 

978
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,880
And it was just as Rachel Schuff
had described in her confession.

979
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:02,320
Skylar's skeleton was propped up
against a tree just covered in 

980
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,200
branches and leaves and rocks. 
Forensic teams were brought in 

981
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,560
to the scene to like, try and 
confirm that this was Skylar's 

982
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,480
skeleton. 
And around that kind of area 

983
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,120
they found traces of her blood 
still on different rocks and 

984
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,120
stuff. 
And so they could confirm that 

985
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,800
this was exactly where the 
murder had taken place. 

986
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:24,600
At this point, Sheila Eddie kind
of knew that the net was closing

987
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,720
in on her. 
I don't know if she knew that 

988
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:29,920
Rachel had confessed, but I 
think she could tell based on 

989
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,720
the way that everyone was acting
around her. 

990
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:33,400
And she was getting more 
questionings. 

991
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,560
And she knew that searches were 
going on in that field. 

992
00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:39,160
She knew that Rachel had 
confessed, yet she was still 

993
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,240
maintaining her innocence. 
Sheila was saying that she still

994
00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:43,440
had nothing to do with any of 
it. 

995
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,440
And when Sheila heard that 
Skyler's skeletal remains had 

996
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:50,000
been found in that forest, she 
actually tweeted about it. 

997
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,640
She wrote Rest easy Skylar, you 
will always be my best friend. 

998
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,080
I miss you more than you could 
ever know. 

999
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,080
And she followed up that tweet 
with worst day of my whole life.

1000
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:05,600
And police and Skylar's family 
are literally watching this all 

1001
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,720
unfold in real time. 
They knew by now that that was 

1002
00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:12,760
Skylar's murderer and she was 
still trying to pull the wool 

1003
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,440
over everyone's eyes. 
She was acting like the the 

1004
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,560
innocent, heartbroken best 
friend. 

1005
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:20,600
But everyone knew that it was a 
facade by now. 

1006
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:24,680
Even Sheila knew that everyone 
knew she was lying, but she was 

1007
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,760
still trying to keep this up and
it just made all her previous 

1008
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:32,440
behaviour so sickening. 
Everyone just felt sick to their

1009
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,960
stomachs that they had been so 
supportive and loving with this 

1010
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,320
girl the whole time. 
Skylar's own family had hugged 

1011
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,400
her most days throughout that 
investigation. 

1012
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,840
Their own daughter's murderer. 
But it wasn't just these couple 

1013
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,320
of tweets that related to 
Skylar. 

1014
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,480
Because now that police knew the
full story based on Rachel's 

1015
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:56,160
confession, they went back and 
looked at the girls social media

1016
00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,360
posts and it turns out they've 
been cryptically tweeting about 

1017
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:04,440
the murder that they committed 
the whole time for months. 

1018
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,400
Some of them were a little bit 
more vague than others. 

1019
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,720
Sheila tweeted at one point. 
No one on this earth can handle 

1020
00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:13,000
me and Rachel. 
If you think you can, you're 

1021
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,200
wrong. 
But then there was one very 

1022
00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:18,360
obvious tweet from Sheila Eddie,
which is only obvious in 

1023
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,600
retrospect. 
Now that we know the confession 

1024
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,000
Sheila tweeted, we really did go
on three. 

1025
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,040
If you remember, Rachel told the
police that the two of them gave

1026
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:31,080
each other that look and then 
they counted 123. 

1027
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,200
And then they turned and started
stabbing Skylar. 

1028
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,120
It was part of their plan that 
they were going to count to 3 

1029
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,120
and then murder their best 
friend. 

1030
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,280
So now police needed more 
evidence against Sheila Eddie to

1031
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,560
be able to finally arrest and 
charge her for her part in the 

1032
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,760
murder. 
And so they got a search warrant

1033
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,240
for both her house and her car. 
There wasn't much to be found 

1034
00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:56,080
inside Sheila's house. 
However, in her car, forensic 

1035
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:59,360
teams found traces of Skylar 
niece's blood. 

1036
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:03,200
And this just confirmed Rachel 
Schuff's confession story. 

1037
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:07,520
But it was something that police
found in Skylar's own bedroom 

1038
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,920
that really flipped this 
investigation on its head. 

1039
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:15,120
It finally gave police a better 
understanding of this case and 

1040
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,800
the real motive behind the 
murder. 

1041
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,320
Because like I said, Rachel said
their motive was that they just 

1042
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,400
didn't Skylar anymore. 
They just didn't like her. 

1043
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,800
She was annoying, she was in the
way, but that didn't make sense.

1044
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,040
People get annoyed by people all
the time. 

1045
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,280
People stop liking people all 
the time, but no one turns 

1046
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,720
around and murders them. 
That just didn't make sense to 

1047
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:36,840
police. 
They knew there had to be more 

1048
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,240
to it. 
And now that they found Skylar's

1049
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:42,920
diary, they realized that there 
was way more to it. 

1050
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:47,000
In Skylar's own diary, she had 
written about how Rachel and 

1051
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:51,560
Sheila, her two murderers, were 
actually way more than just 

1052
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,800
friends. 
In fact, an exact quote from 

1053
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,040
that diary is that they'd tried 
everything that 2 girls could 

1054
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:00,320
try together. 
Sheila, Eddie and Rachel Schuff 

1055
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,440
were in a secret relationship. 
Well, maybe not an exact 

1056
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,800
relationship, but they were 
certainly a thing. 

1057
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,680
And a lot of the things that 
they would do together 

1058
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,960
romantically and sexually, they 
would do in front of Skylar. 

1059
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,720
And this would make her feel 
quite uncomfortable because the 

1060
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:20,920
girls would literally be like 
naked making out on the sofa 

1061
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,680
next to Skylar. 
And I think that would make 

1062
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,920
anyone uncomfortable. 
She was not consenting to be in 

1063
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:30,920
the room witnessing that. 
You know, there was even one 

1064
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,880
story about how they locked her 
in the bathroom with them as 

1065
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:36,920
they were like making out in the
bath or something. 

1066
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,640
No one wants to be in that 
situation. 

1067
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,400
And Skylar didn't. 
And Skylar wrote about this in 

1068
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,440
her journal, in her diary quite 
a few times that this made her 

1069
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,800
feel so uncomfortable. 
But then there was one 

1070
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:53,040
particular diary entry about one
situation where Skylar had taken

1071
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,160
a selfie, I think. 
I think they were all having a 

1072
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,440
sleepover. 
Skylar had taken a selfie, and 

1073
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,120
in the background was Sheila and
Rachel making out. 

1074
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,120
And when they found out that 
Skylar had taken this picture, 

1075
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:09,440
those girls went crazy. 
Like they didn't want that photo

1076
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,560
getting out for kind of obvious 
reasons, because Rachel's family

1077
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:17,200
were very religious. 
They were not supportive of LGBT

1078
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:21,080
communities at all. 
And Rachel knew that if this got

1079
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:24,600
out, it would be a huge problem.
And police think that this 

1080
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,720
picture was the trigger for them
to switch from their plan, you 

1081
00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:31,240
know, their original plan of 
just cutting her off and, you 

1082
00:55:31,240 --> 00:55:33,160
know, becoming best friends 
without her. 

1083
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,200
That was no longer enough. 
They needed to make sure that 

1084
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,880
there was no way that picture 
would ever get out. 

1085
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,880
And if they did just cut Skyler 
off and, you know, move on 

1086
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,480
without her, there was always 
the chance that she could take 

1087
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,720
it quite badly and retaliate by 
maybe posting that picture 

1088
00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:52,720
online or sending it to the 
girls parents or something like 

1089
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:54,360
that. 
And they couldn't risk that 

1090
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,680
happening. 
And police think that that was 

1091
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:00,400
when the girls took matters into
their own hands and started 

1092
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,720
seriously planning Skyla Niece's
murder. 

1093
00:56:03,720 --> 00:56:08,560
Finally, on May 1st, 2013, 
Sheila Eddy was arrested and 

1094
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,800
charged with the murder of Skyla
niece. 

1095
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,760
And she was actually arrested 
while she was out for lunch with

1096
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,240
her mother. 
And so people saw this 

1097
00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:17,680
happening. 
You know, people in that 

1098
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,560
restaurant saw it happening and 
the news travelled so fast. 

1099
00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:24,200
Like people were posting on 
social media straight away. 

1100
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,560
And so Rachel actually wasn't 
arrested at this point. 

1101
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,520
I don't know why because she 
literally confessed to murder. 

1102
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,480
But anyway, she was just at home
and she heard that Sheila had 

1103
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,240
been arrested through social 
media. 

1104
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:40,000
And I think she just panicked 
and she knew that she didn't 

1105
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,360
want to go through the whole 
ordeal of being arrested in 

1106
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,720
public and, you know, police 
handcuffing her and having to go

1107
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:49,040
down to the station. 
So instead Rachel just took 

1108
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,960
herself to the police station 
and handed herself in. 

1109
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:56,520
So now police had both of these 
girls arrested and charged, and 

1110
00:56:56,520 --> 00:57:00,000
suddenly news was hit in the 
media that these two teenage 

1111
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,520
girls had been charged with the 
murder of their 16 year old best

1112
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,040
friend. 
And all of a sudden different 

1113
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:08,480
people start coming out of the 
woodwork to tell police 

1114
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:12,480
different things about these two
girls, mainly students from 

1115
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:16,040
their school that knew both 
Skylar and Sheila and Rachel. 

1116
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:19,400
This one boy told the police 
that he'd heard Rachel and 

1117
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,560
Sheila talking about disposing a
body. 

1118
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,840
They were discussing how they 
would dispose of a body, and he 

1119
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,720
thought that they were just 
joking at the time. 

1120
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,440
But now that all of this was 
coming to light, he realized 

1121
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:33,520
that he was listening in to a 
real conversation about a real 

1122
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,320
murder that they were planning. 
It was so much more sinister 

1123
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,200
now. 
Another report was actually from

1124
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,320
a teacher. 
A teacher came to police and 

1125
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,600
said that she also had heard 
these two girls discussing 

1126
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,200
disposing a body. 
But at that time, when the 

1127
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:50,040
teacher overheard this 
conversation, there had actually

1128
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,600
been a body found in in Star 
City. 

1129
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,480
I don't really know the details 
behind that, but the teacher 

1130
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,600
just thought that the girls were
talking about that. 

1131
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,400
And so she didn't think much 
into it. 

1132
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,920
And now she realized that they 
probably were. 

1133
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:05,200
So now it came to the girls 
murder trials. 

1134
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:09,560
First up was Rachel Schuff, and 
Rachel was actually offered a 

1135
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:13,280
plea deal because she'd been so 
cooperative with police. 

1136
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:14,920
She'd given them a full 
confession. 

1137
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:17,440
She'd told them where Skylar's 
body was. 

1138
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,640
I mean, I personally have a 
problem with that because no, 

1139
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:24,080
she wasn't cooperative. 
She'd lied for six months. 

1140
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,480
Maybe she was cooperative in the
end, but I don't think she 

1141
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,920
should have gotten a plea deal 
for sitting on such horrific 

1142
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,120
information for six months. 
But anyway, she was offered this

1143
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,080
plea deal. 
And if she pled guilty, she 

1144
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,640
would get second degree murder 
rather than first degree murder.

1145
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,520
So Rachel Shove pled guilty to 
2nd degree murder. 

1146
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:46,000
And I have a little bit of her 
statement here that she read out

1147
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,400
in court. 
She said, I am so sorry. 

1148
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,240
I don't know if there is any way
to make this apology because 

1149
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,080
there are not. 
Not even words to describe the 

1150
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,440
guilt and remorse that I feel 
each day for what I have done. 

1151
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:58,960
The person that did that was not
the real me. 

1152
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,520
I became scared and caught up in
something I did not want to do. 

1153
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:06,720
May God bring eternal peace to 
Skylar and the entire niece 

1154
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:08,200
family. 
After reading out that 

1155
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:11,920
statement, Rachel Shove just sat
down next to her attorney and 

1156
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:16,280
for the rest of the entire 
hearing she just sat and sobbed.

1157
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:20,320
After she gave that statement, 
Skylar's father Dave then stood 

1158
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:24,760
up and spoke directly to the 
judge and pled with him not to 

1159
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,000
give Rachel that plea deal. 
He said that she should be up 

1160
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,600
for the full sentence just like 
Sheila. 

1161
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,480
And I agree because she wasn't 
cooperative. 

1162
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,960
She waited six months. 
She put that family through six 

1163
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:41,080
months of hell searching for 
their daughter when she knew 

1164
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,880
that she had murdered her, that 
they had premeditated this 

1165
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:48,800
murder for nine months. 
But unfortunately, the decision 

1166
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,560
was already made that Rachel 
Shoff was going to get this plea

1167
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,280
and the judge didn't change his 
mind. 

1168
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:58,240
And so Rachel was sentenced to 
30 years in prison with 

1169
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:01,880
eligibility for parole after 
just 10 years. 

1170
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,440
So that's. 
Pretty bloody soon Sheila 

1171
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,560
Eddie's trial was next and of 
course she wasn't given a plea 

1172
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,120
deal and so hers was about to be
a lot stricter. 

1173
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,840
One of the main pieces of 
evidence that was used against 

1174
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,720
Sheila Eddie was Rachel Shoffs 
confession. 

1175
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,920
It was all read out fully and at
the end, the judge or whoever 

1176
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:24,040
asked Sheila if she agreed with 
everything that Rachel said and 

1177
01:00:24,040 --> 01:00:27,800
Sheila said yes. 
So in essence, they kind of got 

1178
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:29,400
a confession from Sheila as 
well. 

1179
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:33,960
But Sheila was nowhere near as 
emotional as Rachel was in her 

1180
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:36,040
trial. 
They didn't get a single tear 

1181
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:37,560
out of Sheila the whole entire 
time. 

1182
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:42,040
In fact, she actually smiled 
like a few times during this 

1183
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,520
trial. 
How and why can you be smiling 

1184
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:47,480
during your murder trial? 
In the end, Sheila Eddie was 

1185
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,840
found guilty of first degree 
murder and she was sentenced to 

1186
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:55,760
life in prison with a minimum of
just 15 years, which is 

1187
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,920
horrifying. 
As of May of 2013, there's 

1188
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:02,840
actually a new law in West 
Virginia named Skylar's Law, 

1189
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:07,840
which means that an Amber Alert 
can and will be issued for any 

1190
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,960
missing child, no matter what 
the situation, whether they 

1191
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,560
believe they're in danger or 
not, whether they're a runaway 

1192
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:15,800
or not. 
And this means that any children

1193
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:19,760
in Skylar's position or position
similar to hers will be treated 

1194
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:23,080
just as seriously as abduction 
cases. 

1195
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,560
And hopefully in turn, this can 
save a a lot more lives. 

1196
01:01:26,560 --> 01:01:30,120
After all of this came to an 
end, the niece family ended up 

1197
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,920
suing both the show family and 
the Eddie family for the 

1198
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:37,440
wrongful death of their child. 
They won this lawsuit and they 

1199
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:41,040
were awarded $5 million from 
both of those families. 

1200
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:44,200
Now the niece family know that 
they are never going to see that

1201
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,400
money. 
Of course not the Eddie family, 

1202
01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,000
the show family do not have 
$5,000,000. 

1203
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,640
But it's not about the money, 
actually this lawsuit, because 

1204
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,920
that's not the only benefit from
the lawsuit. 

1205
01:01:55,920 --> 01:02:00,080
Another one of the outcomes is 
that both Rachel and Sheila will

1206
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:04,000
never be able to make money off 
of Skyla niece's murder. 

1207
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,280
That means they can't write a 
book about it. 

1208
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,880
They can't do like documentary 
appearances or any other way 

1209
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,520
that they could possibly make 
money off of this murder that 

1210
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,840
they committed. 
It's all taken away because of 

1211
01:02:14,840 --> 01:02:17,680
this lawsuit. 
And that's why the niece family 

1212
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,120
did it. 
And that is all I have on this 

1213
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:21,640
case. 
Thank you so, so much for 

1214
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:23,400
watching. 
It really means a lot to me.