About this episode
Dave Neese’s daughter, Skylar Neese, was stabbed in the back by her two best friends in 2012. They attacked her with kitchen knives and left her in the middle of the woods. For six months, no one knew what happened to Skylar Neese. Meanwhile, Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy went back to life as normal teenagers acting as if nothing ever happened.
Dave and his wife, Mary, were beside themselves. They couldn’t eat or sleep. They had to find their daughter. She was their whole WORLD. They were devastated. Why did she leave? Where was she? Would she ever come home? Eventually, Rachel couldn’t carry the guilt anymore, broke down and confessed to the murder. She told police she and Shelia killed Skylar because she threatened to expose their physical relationship and took police to her body.
Dave and Mary were in disbelief. How could her best friends do this to their daughter? Then Dave became enraged. He told Senior Investigative reporter Anne Emerson something he hasn’t told anyone else—he had a plan for revenge. Find out why he didn’t go through with it and what happened after.
For more from Skylar's family, read Dave Neese's poem “Forever 16” published in this article from The Dominion Post in 2022.
