Skylar Neese, 16, W.VA, Murdered by Best Friends

[HairOfTheDog]

Wondering why they no longer wanted to be friends with her?

This possible motive isn't confirmed by official sources, I threw it together based on local Morgantown talk and social media postings by the victim and the suspects. So, take it for what it's worth - it's just speculation added to the facts provided by LE.

1. You were right about the parents not being involved in their daughters' lives, or trying to be more like cool friends. Their daughters were all over the place, doing whatever they pleased.

2. The girls partied a lot; drugs and alcohol. Skylar's twitter page has a bunch of references to getting high and such.
Skylar's tweets: https://twitter.com/hiighasthe_sky

3. Skylar and Shelia (I've been spelling her name wrong, "l' before "i") were best friends since elementary school.

Rachel and Shelia were in love with each other (though they and their other girl friends all messed around with each other sexually).

Rachel and Shelia felt Skylar was getting in the way, and Rachel may have feared that Skylar would tell Rachel's boyfriend (who was in college and studying to be a lawyer) about her lesbian relationship. Rachel didn't want to lose him (Mikinzy is his name).

4. Rachel and Shelia decided to make Skylar disappear (which is similar to a plot line in their alleged favorite show, "Pretty Little Liars"), so they tricked her in to going out that night, took her to the spot they'd scoped out in advance, and on the count of three, they stabbed her to death (this according to Rachel's confession).

Rachel's tweets after the murder (people at school and around town were already talking about comments that Rachel and Shelia had made about Skylar before she "disappeared"):


The aftermath:
Though some of the girls' friends and people around town knew or strongly suspected what had happened from the get-go, cops didn't take the disappearance seriously and wrote it off as a run-away.

No major investigation, or physical searches, or alerts. Shelia and Rachel lied and put on a big show at flyer distributions, on Facebook (where Shelia was hailed as an angel for her commitment to her missing friend)...for months...til Rachel suffered a nervous breakdown, was admitted into a psych ward and ultimately confessed (that's confirmed).

Shelia's tweets after Rachel's confession: