After her confession, Shoaf led investigators to Neese's body. David Neese stated that these two girls were among his daughter's best friends and that Eddy had even helped the family by distributing missing person flyers. The motivation Shoaf gave for the murder was they "didn't like her" and "didn't want to be friends with her anymore". The break in the case came when Shoaf admitted plotting with Eddy to kill Neese. The FBI and the West Virginia State Police joined the search for Neese on September 10, 2012, and began interviewing Neese's school friends. Eddy admitted to picking up Neese but stated that she had dropped her off an hour later. Police determined that the unknown sedan in which Neese was last seen belonged to Eddy and interviewed her. Neese's parents posted flyers about their missing daughter in the Monongalia County region. An early tip indicated that Neese had been seen in North Carolina, but the Star City Police Department determined that the person spotted was not Neese. Neese was initially considered by law enforcement authorities to be a runaway and an Amber Alert was not immediately issued in connection with her disappearance. They returned to the car to clean themselves and the murder scene, then left the scene. They instead covered Neese's body with rocks, fallen branches and dirt. Shoaf and Eddy then attempted to bury Neese, dragging her to the side of the road, but the road ran along a creek and the soil there was too hard and rocky to dig a hole. Eddy continued to stab Neese until there was complete silence and, according to Shoaf, "Neese's neck stopped making gurgling sounds." Neese managed to wrestle Shoaf's knife from her and, in an apparent attempt to defend herself, cut Shoaf's ankle. Neese attempted to run, but was only able to run a few feet (a meter or two) before Shoaf tackled her to the ground and continued the assault. Once Neese had turned her back, Shoaf and Eddy counted to three, their agreed-upon signal, then began to stab her. Neese volunteered to go back to the vehicle to fetch her own lighter. Once the girls were out of the vehicle, the perpetrators told Neese they had forgotten to bring a lighter. They eventually arrived at their destination just across the Pennsylvania state border, a spot where all three of the girls had occasionally smoked marijuana. Route 7, but turned around after spotting a state police car. The perpetrators had planned to travel along W.V. The three girls then headed northwest from Star City toward Blacksville via U.S. Law enforcement officers later determined that the sedan had been in the possession of Eddy that evening. They concealed the knives in their hoodies.Īt approximately 12:30 a.m., Neese climbed out of her bedroom window, crossed the street and got into the back seat of a four-door sedan.
They left Eddy's house prepared to carry out the assault on Neese, bringing with them kitchen knives, paper towels, bleach, cleaning cloths, clean clothes and a shovel. Shoaf and Eddy had been planning Neese's murder for months.
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After a series of phone calls and texts from the girls, Neese changed her mind. Neese, who had recently fallen out with the two, was initially hesitant. On the night of the murder, Shoaf and Eddy invited Neese to sneak out with them. ( November 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Neese's father said she did not take her cell phone charger, her window was left open and that she planned on coming home. Her apartment complex's surveillance video shows Neese left the apartment via her bedroom window at 12:30 a.m. On July 5, 2012, Neese returned to her family's Star City, West Virginia apartment after working a shift at Wendy's. Rachel Shoaf (born June 10, 1996) grew up in Morgantown, the only daughter of Rusty and Patricia Shoaf.īoth perpetrators attended University High School along with their victim. Shelia Rae Eddy (born September 28, 1995) was born in Blacksville, West Virginia, the only child of Tara Clendenen and Greg Eddy. She worked at Wendy's with two close friends. Skylar was a student at University High School who wanted to become a criminal defense lawyer. At that time, Mary Neese worked as an administrative assistant in a cardiac lab and David Neese was a product assembler at Walmart. Skylar Annette Neese (born February 10, 1996) was the only child of Mary and David "Dave" Neese. Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States
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