Rachel Shoaf parole has been denied at her first attempt to leave prison since being convicted of the murder of Skylar Neese
According to court documents Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy would murder their friend Skylar Neese back in 2012
Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy would pick up Skylar Neese from her home late at night. The three girls would go to a forested area where Shoaf and Eddy would attack and murder Skylar
The two would deny any involvement until Rachel Shoaf would breakdown leading authorities to the body of Skylar Neese
Rachel Shoaf would plead guilty and be sentenced to thirty years in prison with parole eligibility after ten years
Shelia Eddy would go to trial and be sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after fifteen years
Rachel Shoaf Parole Denied
Rachel Shoaf, one of the women convicted of killing Skylar Neese as a teenager, was denied parole on Tuesday.
Shoaf was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with the possibility of parole after 10 years, while Skylar’s other killer, Shelia Eddy, was sentenced to life in prison. In July 2012, the two drove Skylar across the Mason-Dixon line into Greene County, Pennsylvania, to kill her and bury her body. Skylar was 16 years old.
12 News Reporter and Anchor Riley Holsinger was invited to the hearing by Skylar’s father, Dave Neese. The hearing also marked an opportunity for Shoaf and the family of her victim to speak almost 11 years after the July 6, 2012 incident.
During the testimony portion of the hearing, Shoaf said that she and Eddy were in a relationship, and felt that if they were exposed, they would face consequences.
“After things became known with the relationship, there was tension between us,” Shoaf said. “It was hostile and violent, in our teenage minds we didn’t know how to handle the conflict and we just wanted it to stop.”
She also told the Parole Board that she was under the influence of marijuana at the time, which she did on the way there.
Shoaf was asked what she would say to Skylar’s family.
“I know, I can’t express how sorry I am for what I have done and for the pain I have caused,” Shoaf said. “I loved her. I know what we did was terrible and there’s no words to describe the pain that we caused and I know there is nothing I can say or do. I just pray for them all the time and pray for peace in their heart. I would trade places with Skylar so she could be with her loved ones. I just want them to know how deeply sorry I am.”
Dave provided 12 News with a written copy of his prepared statement:
Ladies and gentlemen of the West Virginia parole board, thank you for the opportunity to tell you why I believe this inmate should not be granted parole.
Because of that malicious monster, my child never got a limo for her prom. Instead, she got a ride in a coroner’s vehicle. Also, there was no sparkling gown for Skylar, just a body bag. She will never have a certificate of graduation, only a death certificate.
This narcissistic, first degree, cold-blooded killer is not sorry for the brutal murder of my only child. It’s my belief that she is proud she murdered my daughter in cold blood. The day after she plunged kitchen knives into my child, this devil was seen on a friend’s boat, smiling and posing for photographs. The date of July 6, 2012 was chosen for a specific reason, you see—this beast wanted the killing out of the way before she left for church camp. Just another task to mark off of her list, like standing over my child saying “Die, b****!” as my baby girl took her last breath, because the evil butcher didn’t want to be her friend.
I wasn’t there to defend my baby girl from this diabolical killer on July 6, 2012, but I’m here today to do everything within my power to make sure she stays behind bars.
This inmate has proven that she is both evil and mentally unstable. No one can fix that kind of madness. I believe if she is paroled, she will kill again. Murder is a game to this inmate. Ladies and gentlemen, that is insanity. This person has proved to be a narcissist and is a dangerous person who has no remorse in the least. This inmate has destroyed so many lives when she murdered Skylar.
This inmate is just the rat that narced and got a deal. Yes, she showed us where she murdered Skylar, yet she is also the narcissist liar that put my daughter in that place. This monster is a danger to society. If released, no parent can close their eyes at night without fear that their own child could possibly be the next victim.
This vicious murderer sits here today asking for a second chance. I ask you, where is Skylar’s second chance? Where was her second chance when this monster counted to three and began to slash and stab at my only child?
I don’t want to live in a world without Skylar, but I have to. I want to make sure it’s as safe as possible from predators like this one.
I ask that you deny parole for this diabolical butcher and allow Skylar’s mother and I the knowledge that her killer will not be granted the reality of adulthood that out daughter was never allowed to experience.
Shoaf remains in the Lakin Correctional Center where her projected release date is April 2028, according to the West Virginia Department of Corrections.
Eddy is also serving her sentence in the same facility. Her first parole hearing is currently scheduled for May 2028.
Since it is almost 2023 I was curious to see which posts attracted the most views over the last 12 months here on My Crime Library. After a quick review I discovered that the posts with the most views this year tended to be the posts which are the most viewed since the inception of My Crime Library. I would like to take the opportunity to thank those who have spent time on my little corner of the web and hope you found what you are looking for. If you would like to support the growth of My Crime Library the easiest way is to just share the posts on whatever social media network that you use. Hope all of you have a great 2023. Already lets take a look at the ten most viewed posts for 2022
1. Jacob Matt Morgan Teen Killer Sets Fire Kills Brother
Jacob Matt Morgan was seventeen years old when he set a fire at his home that would kill his fourteen month old brother. There was some controversy surrounding this case as Jacob Matt Morgan is on the autistic spectrum and a number of people believing that the fire was set accidentally. Jacob Matt Morgan was released from prison in 2021
2. Lacy Aaron Schmidt Teen Killer Murders Ex Girlfriend
Lacy Aaron Schmidt was fourteen years old when he would murder a fourteen year old girl. Lacy Aaron Schmidt would steal the gun from the girl’s father, assemble the weapon and would fatally shoot the girl in the back of her head. Lacy Aaron Schmidt was featured on the show Kids Behind Bars Life Or Parole. Lacy Aaron Schmidt is serving life without parole
3. Dylan Schumaker Teen Killer Murders 23 Month Boy
Dylan Schumaker was babysitting for a friend when he lost his temper and beat to death the 23 month old child. Dylan Schumaker who would tell guards to watch his performance before delivering a Oscar winning speech in the courtroom where he begged for forgiveness. Needless to say the Judge did not buy it. Dylan Schumaker is eligible for parole in 2031
4. Amber Wright Teen Killer Seath Jackson Murder
Amber Wright is the ex girlfriend of Seath Jackson and the two teens relationship ended in murder. Amber Wright would invite Seath Jackson over to a home where he would be shot and beaten to death. Amber Wright would be sentenced to life in prison without parole over the brutal murder. Her new boyfriend Michael Bargo would be sentenced to death.
5. Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy Teen Killers
Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy were sixteen when they murdered their friend Skylar Neese. The true motive over this murder has been speculated on which range from just not liking Skylar Neese anymore or that Skylar Neese had information that could damage the reputation of Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy.
6. Justina Morley Teen Killer Jason Sweeney Murder
Justina Morley was dating Jason Sweeney at the time of his murder and is believed to be the mastermind over the brutal attack. What tends to disturb people even more than Jason Sweeney murder is that all of the participants in the murder received life sentences except Justina Morley who would be released from prison in 2020
7. Keith Randulich Teen Killer Murders Sister
Keith Randulich was seventeen years old when he stabbed to death his four year old sister. This is a brutal case as is the rest on this list and most on My Crime Library for that matter however I am not sure why this case attracts as much attention as it does. Keith Randulich earliest chance of parole is in 2049
8. Daniel Lugo Florida Death Row
Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal would murder Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton in 1995. The murder case was later turned into a movie Pain And Gain which started Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg. Pretty sure the movie tie in is the only reason this case gets any attention some twenty five plus years later.
9. Ellen Friar Teen Killer Murders Father
Ellen Friar was fifteen years old when she planned with her nineteen year old boyfriend to murder her father. There are a lot of teen killers, especially teen girls, with basically the same story where the parents oppose the relationship so a murder takes place. Ellen Friar is eligible for release in 2033
10. Paris Bennett Teen Killer Murders Little Sister
Paris Bennett was thirteen years old when he murdered his little sister. Of all of the creepy murderers I have covered on My Crime Library this is the one that bugs me the most. Under no circumstance should Paris Bennett ever be allowed to walk free again as I am pretty sure this psychopath does not have a soul. Paris Bennett is eligible for parole in 2027
There are a number of teen killers who were caught up in the spur of the moment and committed murder however there are also a number of teen killers who are so dangerous that they should never be let out of prison again. Now this list of 10 teen killers who should never get out of prison does not go in any sort of order so lets just get on with the list. None of the below teen killers are serving life without parole so there is a chance all of them may be free one day. If you feel there is someone who belongs on this list make sure to leave it in the comments below
1. Paris Bennett – Teen Killer
Paris Bennett may be the scariest teen killer on this list and he should never be able to get out of prison. This psychopath was just thirteen years old when he murdered his four year old sister in Texas. The reason behind this brutal murder? He was mad at his mother and figured the best way to get back at her is to murder the four year old little girl. The murder was completely planned down to the smallest detail. Due to his age at the time of the murder Paris Bennett was sentenced to forty years in prison and becomes eligible for parole in 2027 and will be released by 2047.
Erin Caffey may look like the girl next door with her blond hair and soft voice however this teen killer is responsible for the murders of her mother and her two brothers and nearly her father. Now Erin Caffey may have not got her hands dirty in the triple murder however she was responsible in getting her boyfriend and his friends to do the crime. Erin Caffey would be in a number of interviews however she has never expressed any sort of remorse for the murders.
Aaron Campbell proves that now all twisted Teen Killers resides in the USA as this sixteen year old from Ireland would kidnap, sexually assault and murder a six year old girl. Apparently Aaron Campbell would obsess over the six year old girl until the day he kidnapped her, brought her to the woods where the child would be sexually assaulted and then tortured to death. Aaron Campbell has to spend twenty seven years before he is eligible for parole.
Philip Chism was fourteen years old when he sexually assaulted and murdered a teacher. This teen killer would wait until the teacher made her way to a washroom after school hours where he would then sexually assault and then murder her. Philip Chism would be sentenced to life in prison however he is eligible for parole in forty years.
Nehemiah Griego was fifteen years old when he killed his mother, father and three siblings. Initially the teen killer was to spend time in a juvenile prison until he turned 21 years old however that was appealed and this cold blooded killer was resentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Nehemiah Griego will be 52 years old when he first becomes eligible.
Of course everyone knows that Edmund Kemper is a serial killer who would murder eight women however Edmund would get his start as a teen killer who would murder his Grandparents when he was just fifteen years old. Edmund would be sent to a mental hospital where he would stay until he was 21 and then released. Edmund Kemper has been eligible for parole for years but thankfully he has chosen to ignore his routine parole hearings.
7. Monique Maestas Teen Killer
Monique Maestas and her brother Beau were pissed that the drugs that they were sold were fake so they decided to take it out on the woman’s children. By the time the two teen killers were done one little girl would be dead and another would be paralyzed. For killing the three year old girl and paralyzing a ten year old girl Beau Maestas was given a death sentence and Monique Maestas would be sentenced to forty seven years to life
Many believe that without Justina Morley that Jason Sweeney would still be alive and I tend to agree. Justina Morley would plan and set up the murder that would see Jason Sweeney have his head caved in with a large rock. Of course Justina Morley would be the first to talk to the police and got herself a sweetheart deal in the process. While the other three participants were sentenced to life this teen killer received a lighter sentence and as of 2021 she is out of prison
Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy were two teenage girls responsible for the murder of Skylar Neese and they only time the two would show any remorse is when they were caught. They were not remorseful for what they had done but that they were actually arrested. Unfortunately both teen killers have a parole eligibility date in the upcoming years and Rachel Shoaf actually has a release date.
Eliza Wasni was a sixteen year old girl who planned out the murder of a Uber driver in Illinois. The teen killer went shopping for weapons and would steal a knife and a machete before hailing an Uber. Once the driver arrived and she got into the car Eliza Wasni would stab the man repeatedly causing his death. Eliza Wasni would show no remorse and her behavior was so poor in Juvenile Detention that she was sent to an adult facility. Eliza Wasni release date is in 2047
Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy were sixteen when they murdered their friend Skylar Neese. According to court documents The two teen killers planned the murder of their friend, though the reason has never been clear, the two girls would pick up Skylar from her home and drive across the State line from West Virginia to Pennsylvania. Once at their destination the two girls would turn on Skylar and attack her with a series of weapons they had earlier packed into their vehicle. Skylar would be stabbed over fifty times.
Neese body would not be found for over two months until Shoaf would tell police that her and Eddy had talked about killing Skylar. Rachel would eventually lead authorities to the remains of Skylar. Rachel would plead guilty to second degree murder and be sentenced to thirty years in prison with parole possible after ten. Eddy would be sentenced to life in prison with parole possible after fifteen years
Shelia Eddy – Current Facility – LCC – Parole Eligibility 2028
Offender ID (OID) Number: 3573487
Name: Eddy, Shelia
Sex: Female
Birth Date: 9/28/1995
Height: 5′ 5″
Weight: 107 lbs.Race: White
Location: LCC
Intake Date: 2/7/2014 12:39:00 PM
Next Parole Hearing: 5/1/2028
Maximum Parole Discharge Date: Not Available
Projected Release Date: Not Available
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As high school sophomores, Skylar Neese, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf were inseparable.
Living in Morgantown, West Virginia, the then-16-year-olds were pretty and sociable, taking selfies and spending time together.
But everything changed on July 6, 2012, when Neese’s parents discovered she was missing. Six months later, Shoaf told authorities that she and Eddy had stabbed their best friend Neese to death.
At 16, Skyler Neese was thriving, according to her parents. She had a 4.0 grade point average, a part-time job at a fast food restaurant and an active social life.
She was Dave and Mary Neese’s only child.
“Skylar was a very bubbly person,” Dave Neese told ABC News’ “20/20.” “She was also very loyal to her friends, the people she thought was her friends.”
Skylar Neese met her best friend Shelia Eddy at age 8.
“She was like a part of our family. She really was,” Dave Neese said. “I mean, just like one of our kids.”
While entering her freshman year in high school in September 2010, Eddy met Rachel Shoaf. The next month, Eddy transferred to the same high school as Skylar Neese, and Shoaf also soon became friends with her. Before long the three teens began to argue among themselves.
On July 5, 2012, Skylar Neese went home after finishing a shift at work.
The next morning, her dad said he discovered that she didn’t sleep in her bed. He later found her window screen in her closet and a hidden bench that she could use to climb in and out of her window.
“Then I knew: she snuck out last night,” Dave Neese said. “And then, oh my god, she snuck out last night, and she’s not home.”
That same day, after Skylar Neese missed work for the first time ever, her parents called police to report her missing. Star City, West Virginia, police officer Bob McCauley responded to the 911 call and began investigating Skylar Neese’s disappearance.
Later that day, Sheila Eddy called Skylar Neese’s parents to tell them what had happened the night before.
“She proceeded to tell me that her, Skylar, and Rachel had snuck out the night before and that they had driven around Star City, were getting high, and that the two girls had dropped her back off at the house,” Mary Neese told “20/20.” “The story was they had dropped her off at the end of the road, because she didn’t want to wake us up sneaking back in.”
Eddy said she and Rachel Shoaf had picked up Skylar Neese at around 11 P.M. and dropped her back off at home before midnight.
On the Neese’s apartment’s surveillance camera, a car is seen pulling up to the apartment at 12:30 A.M.
At 12:35 A.M., the grainy video shows Skylar Neese sneaking out of her room and slipping into the car, which drives away.
“I was scared to death. I mean I didn’t know where my baby was. It was horrible,” said Dave Neese.
On July 7, 2012, Shelia Eddy and her mom helped Skylar Neese’s parents canvass the neighborhood looking for her, while Rachel Shoaf left for Catholic summer camp for two weeks.
Two days later, the public learned that Neese was missing through television, radio and internet coverage. As weeks passed, the investigation into Skylar Neese’s disappearance continued. Police believed the most likely scenario was that Neese went to a house party and overdosed.
Corporal Ronnie Gaskins told “20/20” he heard rumors that Neese had supposedly overdosed on heroin. “She died. People there panicked, and they disposed of the body,” said Gaskins.
Jessica Colebank, who was working on the case, found Shelia Eddy’s demeanor suspicious when she went to speak to her for the first time.
“Just complete blank on emotions and there was absolutely nothing. It was like iced over,” Colebank told “20/20.”
Colebank also thought Rachel Shoaf was very nervous when she first spoke to her.
“Their stories were verbatim, the same. No one’s story is exactly the same, unless it’s rehearsed,” Colebank said. “Everything in my gut was, ‘Sheila is acting wrong. Rachel is scared to death.’”
After viewing surveillance video and cell phone records that proved Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf were lying about what happened the night they last saw Skylar Neese, police told Dave and Mary Neese that Eddy and Shoaf had a secret.
Dave and Mary Neese, classmates and even strangers put pressure on Eddy and Shoaf to tell the truth.
On Dec. 28, 2012, Rachel Shoaf had a nervous breakdown and was committed to a local psychiatric hospital, where she had no contact with Shelia Eddy.
After being discharged from the hospital on Jan. 3, 2013, Shoaf confessed to her attorney and police that she and Eddy stabbed Neese to death.
“We never encountered anything that led us to believe that these two girls conspired with one another to commit premeditated murder,” Corporal Ronnie Gaskin said.
The car that Skylar Neese was seen getting into was determined to be Shelia Eddy’s.
After her confession, Shoaf agreed to lead police to the site of the murder to try to find Skylar Neese’s body.
Shoaf talked with Eddy while wearing a microphone, but Eddy failed to incriminate herself.
With the discovery of Skylar Neese’s body and that the blood found on Eddy’s car was Skylar Neese’s, police had enough evidence to arrest Eddy and Shoaf.
“We asked Rachel, ‘Why did you guys kill Skylar?’ And her only answer to that was, ‘We just didn’t like her,’” State Police Corp. Ronnie Gaskin said.
Rachel Shoaf turned herself into authorities at the Monongalia County Circuit Court on May 1, 2013.
Shoaf, now 18, was transferred to criminal court in closed hearing and was charged as an adult. She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is incarcerated at the Northern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Wheeling, West Virginia.
She faces 30 years in prison and will soon be transferred to adult prison.
Also on May 1, Shelia Eddy, now 18, was arrested in a restaurant parking lot.
She was charged as an adult, pleaded guilty and was sentenced as an adult to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 15 years.
“They’re both sickos, and they’re both exactly where they need to be: away from civilization, locked up like animals. Because that’s what they are, they’re animals,” said Dave Neese.
In memory of their daughter, Dave and Mary Neese helped pass Skylar’s Law in West Virginia. It requires Amber Alerts for all missing children, not only those believed to have been kidnapped.
To honor their daughter, Dave and Mary transformed the site of her murder into a memorial. Dave often makes the 20-mile drive.
“Something horrible happened here,” Dave Neese said. “But I wanted to take the horrible thing that happened here and try to turn it into something good — a place that people can come and remember Skylar and remember the good little girl that she was, and not the little beast that they treated her like.”
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Sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese never made it back home after she snuck out of her Star City, West Virginia, home after midnight on July 6, 2012, to meet up with her two friends, Rachel Shoaf and Sheila Eddy, both of whom were the same age.
After Neese went missing, her mother said Eddy told her that the three of them had been driving around town that night getting high before she and Shoaf had dropped Neese off at the end of the road from her apartment building so that Neese could sneak back in. The surveillance camera on Neese’s apartment building captured her sneaking out and getting into a car at around 12:30 a.m.
As the investigation into Neese’s disappearance continued, suspicion mounted that the girls were harboring a secret. A few months later, Shoaf suffered a nervous breakdown. Then, on Jan. 3, 2013, she confessed to her attorney and police that she had stabbed Neese to death with Eddy. She agreed to lead authorities to Neese’s remains, which were in a wooded area over the Pennsylvania state line, about 20 miles from Star City.
“We asked Rachel, ‘Why did you guys kill Skylar?’ And her only answer to that was, ‘We just didn’t like her,’” State Police Cpl. Ronnie Gaskin told “20/20” in a previous interview.
Neese’s parents told “20/20” that the three high school sophomores used to be inseparable. But in the days leading up to her death, Neese’s Twitter account, which was eventually deleted, showed that something had gone awry.
On July 4, 2012, two days before she was murdered, Neese tweeted, “It really doesn’t take much to p*** me off,” and, “Sick of being at f****** home. Thanks ‘friends,’ love hanging out with you all too.”
The day before she was killed, Neese tweeted, “you doing s*** like that is why I can NEVER completely trust you.”
Neese’s last tweet, sent out hours before she snuck out of her bedroom window, was a retweet from a friend who had posted, “All I do is hope.”
Prior to Shoaf’s confession and before the truth about Neese’s disappearance was revealed, Eddy remained active on Twitter, posting regularly about her thoughts and day-to-day activities as authorities searched for her “missing” friend. In hindsight of Neese’s murder, several tweets from Eddy seemed disturbing.
Eddy’s first tweet on July 7, 2012, the day after she and Shoaf killed Neese, was a message to a friend wishing her a happy birthday:
In the months that followed, Eddy regularly tweeted about watching TV, school, hating homework and other typical teenage things. She even tweeted about her and Shoaf’s close friendship, writing in one tweet, “no one on this earth can handle me and rachel if you think you can you’re wrong.”
Then, on Jan. 3, 2013, Shoaf confessed to stabbing Neese to death with Eddy and told authorities where they had left her body. Meanwhile, Eddy kept up appearances that everything was normal, tweeting about watching her favorite TV shows: “staying home on a Tuesday is the best cause law and order svu is on all day.”
On the morning of March 13, 2013, the U.S. Attorney’s Office publically announced that the human remains found in the wooded area in Brave, Pennsylvania, belonged to Skylar Neese. Eddy, still keeping up appearances, pretended to be devastated over the news that her friend had been found dead, tweeting, “Rest easy Skylar, you’ll ALWAYS be my best friend,” with a photo montage of her and Neese together, and the words “worst day of my whole life.”
During her January 2013 confession, Shoaf had told authorities she and Eddy had planned Neese’s murder while in science class together. The plan was to pick Neese up from her house at night and drive to a remote area to smoke marijuana. Once they were in the woods, Shoaf said the plan was to count to three, then stab Neese to death.
On March 30, 2013, Eddy tweeted “we really did go on three”
As the investigation continued, police determined that the car Neese had been seen getting into on surveillance footage was Eddy’s car and that blood found on the car belonged to Neese. On May 1, 2013, Eddy was arrested in a restaurant parking lot and Shoaf turned herself in to authorities. Both teens were charged with murder as adults.
Eddy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for her role in the killing. On Jan. 24, 2014, roughly 18 months after Neese’s death, she was sentenced to life in prison.
Shoaf, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, was sentenced to 30 years in prison the following month.
Today, both women are 23 years old and remain incarcerated at the Lakin Correctional Center in West Virginia.
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