her eyes were remarkable. i was going to be there for her and she was going to be there for me. didn't matter what it was. i thought maybe she had been kidnapped. no one knew what was hpening. there is nothing i could have done or anyone could have done. >> nobody knows where she is. she is missing. >> something is wrong. something is bad wrong. >> why was skylar? >> it's like the fbi. >> someone was hiding something.

>> twitter, instagram, facebook. >> whispers, was something hiding someone? police are about to get a break. mean girls. were they mean enough to kill? >> diabolical. what are we dealing with? >> people come in all shapes and sizes. in the gentle rolling hills of north virginia in a sweet college town lived three teenage girls. their photos capture a moment in time. they were smart, talented, lovely. everything a parent could hope for in a daughter. and so who could have guessed just by looking that some of them carried a dark secret about a friend? >> 911, do you have an emergency? >> i have a 16-year-old daughter. she hasn't been home, not went to work. i'm scared to death.

>> these teens played a strange and haunting game. >> would you rather suffocate or get shot? >> get shot. >> a game of betrayal that would go beyond drama. >> she's calling out help me, why, why, why? >> at the center of it all was a girl named skylar. dave and mary neese welcomed their only daughter skylar to the world back in 1996. tell me about the day she was born. was that the greatest moment of your life? >> i wouldn't go that far. >> first time you saw her. >> first time i saw her yes, i can say that was the greatest moment of my life, yeah. it was instant love. >> they love in star city, a small suburb of morgan town west virginia where dave works at walmart and mary at a medical office. skylar was a toddler who owned her parents' hearts. >> hey gorgeous. >> hi, daddy.

>> you're beautiful. >> she was reading way before she was supposed to, doing math before she was supposed to. she was an intelligent little girl. >> dance for me! wee! >> when skylar started nursery school she made her first friend, morgan lawrence. morgan was drawn to skylar. did she light up a room? >> yeah, the giggle and laugh. >> the families became good friends, too. dave and cheryl say morgan and skylar was like sisters. what are your memories of skylar when she was this high? >> she giggled all the time. it just filled our house. >> she had the biggest eyes. you just wanted to hug her. >> they were good girls, got good grades. morgan dreamed of becoming a meteorologist. skylar a criminal lawyer. they also had a pact that they would always be there for one another. and you would both be in each other's wedding parties. >> everybody has a sister to put in their wedding, and we had each other.

>> as freshman, the two girls drifted a part a little. with a new school came new friends. classmate daniel says that bubbly skylar fit in right away. >> friends came first with her. she was always about hanging out with friends if she didn't have work or school. >> soon, skylar had two new bffs. sheley eddie they had known for years and rachel, a striking red head with broadway aspirations. they were calling themselves the three musketeers. and in pictures, they looked the part. >> they were together every part of every day it seemed like. they hung out all the time. >> like all teenage girls, they shared videos and photos with each other and online giving us a glimpse into their world. skylar and sheila just having fun. >> let me try to go on your back. and of course, they occasionally got into trouble, but even then for typical teenage things. dave and mary weren't too concerned. she's a straight a student who

loves her parents. did you sort of chalk it up to okay, we're not thrilled but she's a teenager? >> exactly. >> when summer rolled around after her sophomore year, skyler seemed happy. she had a job at wendy's which she loved. on thursday, july 5th, 2012 she came home from work and got ready for bed. >> put her arm around her mom and gave her a hug and kiss and said i love you mom, i love you dad and went to the room. >> the next day, dave planned to meet skylar in their apartment at lunchtime. he was surprised she wasn't there. a little worried, he called mary. >> i thought she was out with one of her friends. i figured they went swimming or shopping. >> dave called her friends including sheila. no one had seen her. next he went outside and find more cause for worry. a small bench was tucked near skylar's window and the window screen was missing. >> at this time i called her cell phone and said hey, you're in trouble. you better be calling me right

away. so i called her cell phone about ten times. i called mary again. >> again, mary told him to calm down. she said skylar was expected at work at 4:00. >> i said we're not going to worry. i'll call them about ten after 4:00, give her time to clock in and everything and see if she's there. >> but mary didn't get a chance to call wendy's. >> they called us first wanting to know if she was coming to work. >> was that a big moment for you? >> yeah. >> a few minutes later, there was another big surprise. a call from sheila. >> she said that she had to tell me the truth, and i said, well, what truth? she said well, we did, we snuck out last night. >> mary's heart fell. skylar had done that once before, gone on a late night joyride with rachel and sheila. that time they were caught for being out after the town curfew and here was a worried sheila saying they had done it again. >> i said where did you go? where is skylar?

she said skylar insisted they drop her off at the end of the street so we wouldn't hear her sneaking back in. >> now that missing screen and bench outside skylar's window made sense. skylar had put it there to boost herself up to get back in but left them with a terrifying possibility. >> my first instinct was someone abducted her from the end of the street to our house. >> dave called the police. >> hey, i have a daughter that's 16 years old, apparently she snuck out of her room last night and hasn't been seen since. none of her friends can get ahold of her. i can't find her. >> what's her name? >> skylar neese. >> the neeses' world had fallen apart. their only daughter disappeared into the night and now she had been gone for nearly 24 hours. where was skylar? concern for skylar begins to

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star city, west virginia has just 1800 residents, only one stoplight. >> skylar going missing was a entire community. >> police officer jessica caught be a run away. there are kids that run away all

the time. >> it wasn't long before officer colbank got the video from the security cameras at the neeses' building. skylar's friend sheila eddie said skylar was hole around midnight so what was this car doing pulling up around 12:30 a.m.? who was in it? dave neese watched there horrified as on the tape out walked skylar. >> she slowly walked down to a car sitting there waiting on her and got in the backseat. i could tell that, and she drove away. >> police couldn't quite make out a license plate or tell the make or model. skylar's mom mary had a theory. >> she made it home, snuck back in the window, then a second person or persons had parked behind the building and she snuck out a second time. >> but why? who was in the car? and where did they go? the police didn't issue an amber alert since it looked like

skylar left voluntary. >> once that video came out that she willingly got in this car, they are not going to come out and look for someone driving around in a car. >> skylar's friend sheila came over. >> she spent a lot of time here telling us that it will be okay. she'll be home, and i really miss her. i love her. i want her back. >> the next day, sheila sat with mary on skylar's bed. both of them crying. >> did it bring comfort when sheila could come by being skylar's friend? >> yeah, it did. a little bit, yeah. knowing that how could skylar leave her behind? >> mary and sheila took to the streets together posting flyers for skylar. >> they could knock on the door and say have you seen this girl? we would show the pictures and they would say we haven't seen her. >> sheila was worried. about what had happened to skylar. >> chrissy swanson was a close family friend of sheila's, and saw her distress firsthand.

>> she was trying so hard to help them find anything, to figure out what happened. >> the star city police are looking for a missing 16-year-old. >> dave made a plead for help on local news station wboy. >> we love her and want her home. >> by sunday night, skylar had been gone the whole weekend. her family including her aunt carol was heart sick. >> i just had this horrible feel in my heart that, you know, something terrible had happened, and it wasn't like her to run away or disappear like she did. >> mary told me that night, she said something is wrong, dave, something is bad wrong. >> so your mind had kind of gone to that place already that she may never come home? >> yeah. >> the community held a candle light vigil. skylar's school friends came, including rachel and sheila. >> they were crying. came up and hugged me and mary, just crying their eyes out. >> the only thing mary could say

is what can we do to help these girls? how can we help these girls? >> skylar's family friend morgan lawrence was upset, too. she was away at camp when she read on facebook that skylar was missing. did it scare you when you saw the posts? >> definitely. >> how worried were you? >> sick to my stomach all the time worried. >> so was officer colbank. she was at it, nonstop. >> i would come to the office in the evenings watches the video. getting facebook records. >> she was swamped with tips saying they saw skylar from morgantown to new york and even california. each sighting was a dead end. at the same time she pulled skylar's records, and what she found was ominous. skylar wasn't using her cell phone or atm card. colbank had serious doubts that skylar had run away. >> usually runaways take items they want, especially if she had contacts or glasses. she didn't take that stuff with her.

>> and then, police got an important new lead in the case. there were two bank robberies in a nearby town and both went down near when skylar vanished. >> i was working with other investigators on those bank robberies. >> while looking into the robberies, ronnie was called into the case. there was a tip that somehow skylar had been at a party with a suspected bank robbers when something bad happened. what was the theory? >> just rumors, gossip going around there was this teenage party. there was a possible overdose, and people there were scared, so they hid the body. >> it seemed unlikely. skylar didn't use heavy drugs. >> it was just a lot of tracking down rumors, tons and tons and tons of rumors. >> all leading nowhere. by now, skylar had been gone more than a month. gaskins vowed he would find her. >> i don't like to make promises in my line of work, but the only promise i made to dave is we

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the first day of school the fall of 2012 was heartbreaking. one of university high school's top students, skylar neese had disappeared during the summer. classmate, shania ammond. >> starting school without her,

like that was probably one of the hardest days through the whole thing. skylar was the go-to person and she was just gone. >> skylar's friend morgan lawrence was dreading roll call. >> i didn't have any classes with her, thank god. >> you didn't want to hear her name called? >> it's not the same. you can't tell the teacher, we don't know if she's coming back. >> in some ways, life seemed normal. skylar's good friend sheley eddie seen here in this video taken in the classroom was back in school. so was bff, rachel shoef, singing for friends in this video. rachel got the lead in the fall play but everyone was worried about skylar and in school highways and on social media, rumors flew. >> between twitter and instagram and facebook, you just see things start to get ridiculously out of control. >> kids saying things from skylar had overdosed and things that skylar is in a different

country. >> daniel was in drama with rachel and knew how close the three girls were. he wondered if rachel and sheila might be helping cover something up with skylar. >> there were rumors going around, rachel and sheila know where she's hiding. >> daniel knew rh and will sheila were the last ones to see skylar. he wondered if they were protecting her or protecting someone else. either way, they had to know something. >> there were probably a good three, four, five times where i told rachel, if you know anything, you need to say what happened or where she's at. >> daniel wasn't alone. these writers live in the morgan up to area and wrote a book on the case. they spent hours combing through what kids were saying. >> the one thing that stood out to me is that people, teens were tweeting sheila and rachel had to know something. >> why don't you guys just talk, just say something, you know,

tell us what you know. >> rachel and sheila seen here in a photo taken around that time were now at the center of a storm. but they had supporters like shinna. >> i completely 100% supported and defended sheila. >> and shan tashia. >> when i seen it for rachel, of course, i would get bad comments from people. >> the heat got turned up on the girls when the fbi showed up and started interviewing students. >> i was only interviewed once. i guess i was nervous because i was like, it's the fbi, like they are serious. they asked me about rachel and sheila, if they seemed any different and i was telling them they didn't seem different but they were secluded to themselves more. ♪ >> the normal fall rituals like football and homecoming were punctuated with police visits to rachel and sheila. rachel left play rehearsal to meet with the fbi. >> they would talk about i have a lie detector test today or

something. >> mary and dave neese desperate to find their daughter, thought the police were waisting them time investigating the girls they knew so well. >> i even went to the police and said would you leave she la alone. the kid is going through enough right now. leave her alone. >> so you defended her? >> oh, god, yeah. she was like our daughter. >> but investigators were convinced the two girls knew more than they were saying. was it the belief, nobody is in trouble, we just want to know where she is. >> we just need to know what happened. >> that fall ronnie gaskins interviewed each girl repeatedly. >> how was sheila's demeanor? >> calm, collect, would look at you right in your face, right in the eyes. >> he said rachel seemed distracted. >> she would draw on the desk. play with the pencil, just non-verbal cues spoke a lot.

>> their story never varied. they picked skylar up, drove around morgantown, smoked a little pot and dropped her back off at home it was like a recording with these two. >> in the meantime, the officers collected physical evidence and didn't match up with the story the girls had been telling. surveillance video from a convenience store put the girl's car not heading east as they said but heading west towards blacksville. and the girls phone records from that night showed rachel's phone pinging off a cell tower in blacksville. >> that was an ah-ha moment finally. we have something to go on that is different from their story. >> now even skylar's parents joined the chorus of people trying to get the girls to talk. >> i started posting on facebook about karma, karma will get you. you can't hide. we were pushing. we were pushing the girls to get

them to say what happened. >> by late november, the pressure seemed to be taking its toll on rachel. in an interview she surprised police by changing her story, admitting for the first time that they did drive to blacksville that night and that's where skylar told them to let her out of the car, blacksville, where those bank robberies happened. the next day sheila changed her story to say the same thing. that must have been a big red flag for you. >> absolutely. >> at school, kids say rachel was increasingly rattled. >> rachel seemed distressed. she seemed like she was very upset over something. this was eating at her heart. >> rachel shoff was about to crack. please hurry. an emergency at home and interview with police. what exactly was rachel shoff about to reveal? >> we were speechless. [ telephone ringing ]

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dave and mary. it had been six months. >> the holidays must have been very tough that year. christmastime.

>> we didn't celebrate. >> uh-uh. we didn't put up any tree, we didn't do anything. >> just another day. >> yeah. >> around that time, rachel shoff and sheila eddie stopped attending university high. their few remaining friends told authors that rachel seemed agitated. >> she was acting out. getting into more family altercations at home. >> so the walls were closing in on rachel? >> 911, what's your emergency? >> i have an emergency with a 16-year-old daughter of mine. i can't control her anymore. >> and then, on december 28th, rachel apparently snapped. her upset mother called the police. >> she's hitting us, screaming, running through the neighborhood. give me the phone. no, no, no, this is over. [ screaming ] >> my husband is trying to contain her. please hurry. >> and rachel was taken to a mental health facility. a few days later, ronnie got a big surprise. rachel wanted to meet at her lawyer's office. she had something she wanted to

say. >> take us inside that attorney's office with rachel. what was her demeanor? >> i remember her pulling at the waste basket next to her. she was afraid she was going to throw up. and then we started asking her the questions we thought she would answer. if she overdoses or partied. i remember she just -- her face got red and she just, you know, glanced at us and said we stabbed her. >> was there just a hush in the room? how did everyone react? >> everybody was silent for a couple minutes. we were speechless. >> it wasn't an accident, it was a murder and not only had rachel and sheila killed skylar, they had planned it for months all the while acting like friends. like sheila and skylar do in this video. as part of the plan they settle on the night of july 5th to kill

her. >> earlier that day, rachel had obtained the shovel from her father's residence. they put it in sheila's trunk. they brought the clean clothes, cleaning supplies. and according to rachel, sheila had provided the kitchen knives. >> they called skylar to say they were on their way over and -- pulled up to the residence. there is skylar sneaking out in the grainy surveillance video. the car is sheila's and in it are her two best friends. >> skylar gets in the car and they go driving. >> they drove for nearly an hour, for miles and miles in a dark winding roads out past blacksville. >> they get to the scene. they park the car and found an area where they could sit and talk and skylar leaves and goes back to the car and rachel said on three. according to gaskins rachel counted one, two, three and on

three, the two girls began. >> that's when her and sheila started stabbing skylar. from behind. >> gaskins said skylar fought hard. to defend herself. >> did she indicate what skylar's last words were in that meeting? >> she said, skylar just said "why?" and that's all she said. >> rachel said the girls covered the body with dirt and branchs. threw their bloody clothes in the trunk and left skylar there. did rachel express how she felt when the crime was over? >> i just remember her saying that this was something she wanted to get done before she went to church camp. >> how did you feel when she said i had to get this done before church camp. >> what are we dealing with? >> did you ask rachel why? why did you two do this?

>> she would not give us specific details other than they just didn't like her. then when i asked her what do you mean you didn't like her, clarify that? >> she said nothing, we just didn't like her. >> after telling police the story, rachel led authorities down the road past blacksville to a spot just across the pennsylvania border. there they found a few scattered human remains and sent them to a lab for testing. >> i couldn't imagine the pain and suffering and being alone with their two best friends and she knew what was happening. when they started stabbing her. >> authorities kept rachel's confession secret, even from the neeses, while the investigation continued. the fbi told mary and dave only that remains believed to be skylar's had been found. >> i broke down pretty bad, yeah. >> we both did. that was a bad day. >> it was so lonely and so

deserted. it was a horrible thing to know that she had been there and no one knew. >> one, two, three, go. happy birthday skylar. >> in february of 2013 just as they had when she was a little girl. >> ready? >> the neeses gathered with friends on skylar's birthday. this time without her. they quietly told the lawrences their awful news. did your heart just break for mary and dave? >> my heart was slowly breaking the entire time. >> i remember the first thing i thought it was just like a surreal of i know she's not, you know, out there in the cold. >> ronnie gaskins had a confession from rachel and led him to a body. it wasn't enough. why wouldn't you arrest somebody right away. who has confessed to killing someone? >> she lied to us a number of times before. so we had to say well, whose to say she wasn't lying again.

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corporal ronnie gaskins was on a mission to put two girls behind bars. >> it was one of those where you couldn't get there fast enough. >> rachel scohf confessed to teaming up with skylar neese.

gaskins and his fellow investigators hatched a plan. she would invite sheila to the house and get her to incriminate herself. >> we were close by. in case something happened. >> sheila did come over and she tweeted this photo of herself and an uncomfortable looking rachel with the caption, "finally got to see rach." but police didn't record anything to pin sheila to the crime. >> the girl ds not disclose anything specific. >> a few days later they went to sheila's house with a warrant. >> we seized every kitchen knife we could find. the fbi seized sheila's car and were able to find a presence of dna in the trunk. >> dna in sheila's trunk. if it proved to be skylar's it would be critical to gaskin's case. a direct link connecting the girls to skylar's death. they shipped the sample to the lab and waited.

meanwhile, gaskins got a positive i.d. on the human remains out past blacksville. it was skylar. >> the search for teenager skylar neese is over. >> at university high school, confirmation that skylar had been found dead was heartbreaking. >> i was devastated. it was -- it was crazy. >> shania called her friend sheila as soon as she heard the awful news. >> i was crying. she was crying. >> there was sheila, suspended murderer, crying tears for skylar. >> she is like, who do you think could have done this? why would somebody do that to skylar? >> sheila cried with her friend crissy swanson. >> once skylar's body was found, sheila seemed upset to have lost her best friend. she couldn't believe something like this would happen. she even asked me how could someone do this to skylar? >> and sheila let everybody know

how sad she was. she tweeted things like worst day of my whole life. the pain is real and rest easy skylar, you'll always be my best friend. i miss you more than you could ever know. social media revealed two sides of sheila. she could mourn skylar. but on twitter and facebook, she and rachel also seemed care-free. as the police continued their investigation, sheila posed in photos. rachel tweeted, i need a mimosa or ten. they were going about their lives, even while the police believed the girls were stone-cold killers. >> the locals would whisper in each other's ears and say how are they still free? >> he runs a blog. early on, he started following this case and was struck by sheila's tweets. things like ain't no rest for the wicked and incredibly, this apparent reference to that

countdown to skylar's murder. we really did go on three. >> it is unbelievable that she feels she's so invincible to tweet this publicly. >> sheila eddie seemed to be daring police to just put her in handcuffs. so she could come to interview and -- >> leave. >> she would just say, i'm leaving. >> finally by mid april 2013 ronnie gaskins got confirmation that skylar's blood was found in sheila's trunk. >> on the video surveillance, phone records, racheled statement, at that point, we felt confident we had the probable cause to make the arrest. now authorities told skylar's parents the whole story. their daughter's two best friends had killed her. >> i think about it every day. i think about the misery my child must have been through. and i'm helpless. i can't help her.

she's calling out, "help me, why, why, why." >> animals got her. they didn't even care. >> they just threw her out like a bag of trash. >> on may 1st, in exchange for her corporation with police, rachel shoaf pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. within minutes gaskins raced across morgantown. his heart pounding. >> we went with lights and sirens because we had a murder charge. >> sheila was arrested with first-degree murder at the local cracker barrel restaurant where she and her mom were having lunch. >> sheila was crying and asking her mother is everything going to be okay? her mother, i don't know sheila. >> gaskins promised skylar's parents he wouldn't quit until it was solved. >> felt good she was coming with us. >> the question of who had been answered but people were haunted by an unanswered question.

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sheila eddie was not about to give in without a fight. there she was in september 2013 alone blond teen in a crowd of accused men pleading not guilty to the kidnapping and murder of skylar neece.

this was terrible news. >> i don't what to go through the trial and hear the grew some details of this. that would tear me about. apart. >> with a trial looming, the question on everyone's mind was why. investigators wanted to know, too, and in the halls of university high they got glances of a motive. saw snapshots of a troubled friendship. morgan lawrence saw a disturbing motive firsthand. >> i was not a huge fan of them. >> freshman year morgan worried her friend skylar was heading into a place she may not belong. when she became close friends with rachel and sheila. morgan especially didn't like sheila. >> she hung out with the wrong crowd. had lots of friends that was 20 some years old. that's just a little strange. morgan watched uneasy as the three girls became unacceptable. inacceptable. skylar's cousin adored her and found uneasy. >> you walk through the halls,

you don't see one without the other. skylar, sheila, rachel always together. >> by sophomore year he saw changes. >> it seemed like about that time she didn't have that same nice quality to her. >> she was more sour, i think, toward people. she started almost acting the way sheila acted. >> must have been hard to see her changing. >> it's difficult to watch it in general and even harder when it's someone as close as, someone you called your family. >> students told writers jeff and dalene by sophomore year the three girls' relationship had begun to deteriorate. they have written about this in their book, "the savage murder of skylar neese." >> sheila and rachel were dissing her when she wasn't around and putting her down. it was a two-faced situation. >> i could tell they were pushing skylar away or at least trying to. >> it's clear from these photos whatever was happening, three

was a crowd. students say that around this time, they started hearing rachel and sheila discuss the best way to kill someone and rachel's friend fantasia recalls a chilling conversation. >> rachel was ranting to me how much she didn't like skylar one day. she said word to word was i wouldn't mind if she died at this point. >> which makes this cell phone video all the more haunting because it was captured by skylar six months before she was killed. sheila asks skylar to choose the best way to die. >> would you guys rather suffocate or get shot? >> shot. >> shot. >> wait, depends on where. >> would you rather -- in the head. >> shot. >> shot. >> there would be no suffering. >> drowning or suffocating. >> suffocating. >> almost the same thing. >> i know but. >> incredibly disturbing scene. friends say in the months before skylar's death, she and sheila fought constantly. on july 5th, skylar said you doing blank like that is why i

will never completely trust you. later that night, skylar is seen on the surveillance tape driving away from home f the last time. what were they fighting about? there's a possible answer. hallway whispers that rachel and sheila developed a sexual relationship and skylar knew and threatened to out them. did they kill her to keep their secret? it's as close to a motive as anyone can come up with. do you think we'll ever know why? >> i think it's something for rh rachel and sheila to say. they know the answers to that. >> in january 2014 dave and mary finally got the news they were hoping for, a plea deal. >> sheila eddie how do you plead to the offense to murder in the first-degree of the felony charge in count three of the indictment in this case. >> guilty. >> sheila's attorney michael read a statement from sheila and her family. >> my client and her family

recognize that the neese family is in a constant state of despair, loneliness and sadness as a result of skylar's death. >> sheila was sentenced to life in prison and is eligible for parole in 15 years. a month later, dave and mary went back for rachel shoaf's sentencing. >> rachel has a profound sadness at this loss and a profound sadness for mr. and mrs. neese. >> she's been hired by rachel's family and been meeting with her in prison since 2013. >> from the day i met rachel, she has said to me, i deserve to be in here. i did something terribly wrong. i hurt somebody. rachel does miss skylar very much so and she also weeps for her because she knows she cannot undo the past and she will never see her again. >> in court, rachel apologized directly to dave and mary. >> i don't know if there is a

proper way to make this apology because there are not even words to describe the guilt and remorse that i feel each day for what i've done. i became scared and caught up in something i did not want to do. i never realized the gravity of my actions and how many people i hurt. >> skylar's dad that once defended the girls did not miss words. >> rachel, you sure did cooperate but rachel also murdered my daughter in cold blood. she can take her apologies and everything else and sit on them because that's what they are worth to me and my wife. she has done nothing but make our lives a living hell since this day one. >> dave and mary wish they had known more about what was going on in skylar's life in the months before she died. what is your biggest regret, if you have one? >> not knowing the girls better. i don't know if anyone could have known them that well. there had to be a sign somewhere. there had to be a clue. >> rachel shoaf, please stand. >> rachel was sentenced to 30

years in prison. she will be eligible in ten years. marsha says don't be fooled by the girl's appearance. >> are they cold calculate killers despite the baby faces? >> they certainly were on july 5th and 6th, 2012. they planned that crime, not just for hours but days, weeks, months. the horror of that really is what strikes us in the end, not how those girls look in shackles. >> young, attractive, unattractive, male, female, doesn't matter. evil comes in all shapes and sizes. these days around morgantown, there's lingering damage. teenagers who feel they will never trust anyone again. >> after i had went through all that, i didn't really want to become friends with anybody else. >> it's like finding out your little sister was a murderer. >> i still to this day have trust issues.

>> skylar's friend morgan lawrence thinks about all the milestones she and skylar had planned to mark together. you two should be doing everything alongside each other. >> yeah, they didn't just take away a bride, they took away a bridesmaid. >> skylar's second parents say they will miss out, too. >> when morgan walks down the aisle, skylar won't be there. >> she will be. >> she'll be watching over? >> she will. >> in june 2013, dave and mary had a memorial service at the site where skylar was killed and they are proud to have helped pass skylar's law that reports amber alerts even when they suspect a teen has run away. it's peaceful here. they come here often, even in the winter to tend the small garden they have built for skylar. >> mary, how do you want skylar to be remembered? >> the happy, loving, little

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