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Speaker 1: today's story. Morgantown, West Virginia, is this beautiful place nestled
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of this huge, huge mountain range called
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Speaker 1: the Green Mountains. It is a big time college town,
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Speaker 1: as the famous West Virginia University is located there, and
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Speaker 1: so during the school year, the town is full of
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Speaker 1: young people and during the football season the town is
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Speaker 1: absolutely buzzing with excitement. But the college is not the
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Speaker 1: only reason people live in Morgantown. Lots of families choose
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Speaker 1: to live there because there's so much to do year round. Also,
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Speaker 1: it's relatively safe, and in general it's an up and
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Speaker 1: coming place, with new shops and restaurants and museums popping
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Speaker 1: up every single year. But despite all of that, Morgantown
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Speaker 1: is also known for something absolutely terrible, and that is
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Speaker 1: the story of Skuyler Nice. In twenty twelve, sixteen year
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Speaker 1: old Skyler Nice was a sophomore in high school in Morgantown,
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Speaker 1: West Virginia. She was a straight A student and she
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Speaker 1: worked part time at a Wendy's, which is a fast
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Speaker 1: food restaurant chain, and by all accounts, she was extremely
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Speaker 1: well liked by our peers for co workers and had
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Speaker 1: many many friends. She was the only child of David Nice,
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Speaker 1: and they absolutely adored her. David in particular, who was
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Speaker 1: this big, burly man's man. He said that he spoiled
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Speaker 1: his daughter rotten. The parents would say their daughter was
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Speaker 1: full of love and life, and she was fiercely loyal
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Speaker 1: and at times she could be absolutely hilarious. One of
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Speaker 1: Dave's fondest memories is when Skyler was a very young girl,
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Speaker 1: he was home taking care of her by himself, and
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Speaker 1: that morning, as he's looking after her, she asks him
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Speaker 1: if he will participate in one of her trademark tea parties.
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Speaker 1: And so David, the ever dutiful father, walks over and says,
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Speaker 1: of course, I'll participate in your tea party. And he
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Speaker 1: sits down in this little, tiny pink chair, and his daughter,
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Speaker 1: who's got her ballerina tutu on, she's across the table
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Speaker 1: and she's all smiles, and she sits down in her
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Speaker 1: little pink chair and she hands him this little plastic
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Speaker 1: teacup and so he takes the tea cup and he
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Speaker 1: sees there's water already inside of it, and so he
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Speaker 1: SIPs the tea inside of the cup and he says, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's so good, honey, that's such a good job brewing
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Speaker 1: this tea. And Skyler is just she is so happy
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Speaker 1: and so thrilled that he liked her tea. Later that night,
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Speaker 1: when Mary came home from work, she goes to her
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Speaker 1: husband Dave and says, hey, how did it go? How
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Speaker 1: was it looking after Skyler today? And Dave would tell
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Speaker 1: her about all the things they did, including their big
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Speaker 1: tea party, and he would tell Mary that, you know,
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Speaker 1: this time, she actually put water inside of the tea cups,
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Speaker 1: so it was actually like a real tea party. And
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Speaker 1: Mary stops him and goes Dave, Skyler's not tall enough
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Speaker 1: to reach the faucet. How could she put water inside
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Speaker 1: of those cups? And it turned out Skyler was using
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Speaker 1: toilet water to fill the tea cups. Fast forward to
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve and on the night of July fifth, sixteen
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Speaker 1: year old Skyler niece had just finished a night shift
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Speaker 1: at the Wendy's restaurant and she just got home. She
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Speaker 1: walks through the front door of her family's apartment and
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Speaker 1: as soon as she gets inside, she tells her parents
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Speaker 1: she's really tired. She wants to go to bed, and
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Speaker 1: so she hugged both of her parents. She told them
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Speaker 1: that she loved them, and then Mary and Dave watched
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Speaker 1: their daughter walk down the first floor hallway, and then
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Speaker 1: they watched her open her bedroom door, go inside, and
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Speaker 1: shut it behind her. The following morning, Mary and Dave
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Speaker 1: both had to work, so they were up early, and
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Speaker 1: Skyler was not up. She was still in her bedroom.
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Speaker 1: Her door was still shut, and so they assumed she
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Speaker 1: was just going to sleep in, and so Mary and
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Speaker 1: Dave they make breakfast, they're chatting, they're kind of doing
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Speaker 1: their morning routine, and then when it was time to
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Speaker 1: go to work, they decided, you know, let's not bother Skyler.
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Speaker 1: She worked late last night, you know, let her sleep in.
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Speaker 1: And so the parents they leave without seeing or talking
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Speaker 1: to their daughter. Later that afternoon, Dave would come home
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Speaker 1: early from work and he gets to the apartment. He
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Speaker 1: goes inside and it's quiet. Now Mary was still at work,
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Speaker 1: but Skyler at this point really should not have been asleep.
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Speaker 1: It's like two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and
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Speaker 1: so he's thinking, you know, she's got to be up
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Speaker 1: around here somewhere, and so he yells out to his daughter,
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, I'm home. You know, where are you?
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Speaker 1: What are you up to? But there was no response.
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Speaker 1: It was just silent, and so he walked down the
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Speaker 1: first floor hallway towards his daughter's bedroom and he saw
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Speaker 1: the door was still shut. Now, she only kept that
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Speaker 1: door shut when she was sleeping, and so he's thinking, oh, ok,
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Speaker 1: I guess she must still be asleep. This is really
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Speaker 1: late in the afternoon, so you know, I'm gonna knock
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Speaker 1: on the door and see if she's okay. And so
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Speaker 1: he knocks on the door and says, hey, sky you know,
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Speaker 1: it's late in the afternoon. You got to get up.
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Speaker 1: But there was no answer, and when he listened to
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Speaker 1: the door, there was no noise coming from the bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and so he thought that was pretty weird, and so
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Speaker 1: he knocked a few more times. He yelled out a
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Speaker 1: few more times, and when there was no response, no answer,
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Speaker 1: no sound, he opened the door up and when he
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Speaker 1: looked inside, Skyler was not in there. Now Dave was
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Speaker 1: thinking to himself, I don't think my daughter told me
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Speaker 1: that she would be gone today, or at least not
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Speaker 1: right now. And he's trying to think, you know, did
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Speaker 1: she say something? Was she meeting someone today? And he
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Speaker 1: couldn't think of it, and so he just pulled his
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Speaker 1: phone out and he called his daughter, but she didn't
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Speaker 1: pick up. So he called his wife, Mary, and Mary's
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Speaker 1: at work, and Mary picks up and Dave asked, her,
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Speaker 1: you know, hey, have you seen Skyler or do you
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Speaker 1: know where she is right now? And she would say, no,
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Speaker 1: I don't know where she is maybe she's out with
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Speaker 1: one of her friends. And so after Dave hung up
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Speaker 1: the phone with his wife, he wound up calling one
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Speaker 1: of Skyler's very closest friends. Her name was Sheila, and
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Speaker 1: she had known Skyler since they were in second grade.
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Speaker 1: They were practically inseparable, and he had a good relationship
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Speaker 1: with Sheila, and so he just calls Sheila and he says, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, I haven't seen Skyler. She's gone right now.
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Speaker 1: Do you know where she is? And Sheila would say, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I don't, but I did talk to her
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Speaker 1: last night. But you know, there was nothing unusual about
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Speaker 1: our interaction. It was just normal texting about, you know,
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Speaker 1: normal stuff. And so David said, okay, thank you. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you could, can you please try to
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Speaker 1: get in touch with Skyler, And if you do get
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Speaker 1: in touch with her, please tell her to get in
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Speaker 1: touch with us, or if you hear anything about her,
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Speaker 1: please just let me know. After Dave hung up the
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Speaker 1: phone with Sheila, he kind of stopped and just looked
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Speaker 1: around his daughter's bedroom and thought, you know, maybe there's
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Speaker 1: some clue in here about where she's gone. And at
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Speaker 1: first glance, really nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But
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Speaker 1: when he walked around her bed and was looking inside
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Speaker 1: of her closet, he saw the mesh screen that should
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Speaker 1: have been mounted on the outside of her window was
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Speaker 1: in her closet, and he's thinking, you know, why is
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Speaker 1: that there. There's no reason for it to be in
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Speaker 1: the closet, and so instinctively he just turns around and
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Speaker 1: walks over to the window that this screen is supposed
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Speaker 1: to be on, and when he looks down at the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the window, he sees it's open barely, just
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Speaker 1: enough where you could maybe get your fingernails underneath the
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Speaker 1: window and pry it open. And so Dave reaches down
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Speaker 1: and opens this window all the way and because there
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Speaker 1: was no screen on this window, he just stuck his
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Speaker 1: head all the way out the window, so his head
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Speaker 1: is outside of the apartment. He's just kind of looking
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Speaker 1: around looking for some explanation of why this screen had
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Speaker 1: been removed and put in her closet, And he got
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Speaker 1: his explanation when he looked straight down and saw on
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Speaker 1: the grass outside just several feet below this window. Because
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Speaker 1: this is a first floor window, there was a bench
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Speaker 1: and the bench clearly had been moved there recently for Dave,
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Speaker 1: even though he had never heard of his daughter sneaking
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Speaker 1: out of the house before and really didn't think that
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Speaker 1: was something she would do. He's looking around, thinking, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, the evidence in her room and now outside
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Speaker 1: of her room really indicates that that is exactly what
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Speaker 1: she must have done the night before. She must have
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Speaker 1: snuck out. But as he's processing this, he's also thinking, Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: if she snuck out of the house last night and
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Speaker 1: then you know, snuck back into her room, why didn't
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Speaker 1: she replace the screen on the window, and why didn't
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Speaker 1: she close the window all the way? And then this morning,
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Speaker 1: before she left to go wherever she went, why didn't
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Speaker 1: she go outside and move the bench from under her
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Speaker 1: window back to where it was supposed to go to
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Speaker 1: avoid suspicion? Why didn't she do that? And then it
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Speaker 1: dawns on him that his daughter must have snuck out
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Speaker 1: the night before but not come back yet she's still
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Speaker 1: out wherever she went. Dave was very concerned. However, he's thinking,
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Speaker 1: maybe there's a better explanation, Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions,
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Speaker 1: Maybe she didn't sneak out, And so he calls his
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Speaker 1: wife to kind of just talk with her and figure
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Speaker 1: out what they should do. And they decide, you know
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Speaker 1: what this is concerning, but let's just give her a
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Speaker 1: couple of hours to turn back up again. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: she's fine, And so they begin to wait, and then
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Speaker 1: at four pm that evening, Wendy's, the restaurant where Skyler worked,
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Speaker 1: called Dave and said, hey, have you seen Skyler? He
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Speaker 1: was supposed to work today and she didn't show up.
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Speaker 1: She didn't call. It's very unlike her. You know what's
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Speaker 1: going on? And this was the tipping point. Dave and
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Speaker 1: Mary knew something had to be wrong, and so Dave
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Speaker 1: called the policeency I have a sixteen year old daughter
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Speaker 1: who apparently sucked out of her in the last night.
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Speaker 1: She has not been home, hasn't one or can't get
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Speaker 1: a hold of her. For many of her friends, I
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Speaker 1: am scared to death before no. After Dave got off
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Speaker 1: the phone, he and his wife began kind of frantically
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Speaker 1: figuring out what they should do. You know, while the
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Speaker 1: police are out looking, you know, should we go out
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Speaker 1: and look too, or should we stay here in case
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Speaker 1: she comes home and you know, maybe she's hurt. Maybe
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Speaker 1: we can help her if she gets here. And so
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Speaker 1: they're having this really difficult and stressful conversation when Mary's
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Speaker 1: phone rings and it's Sheila, and so Mary immediately answers it,
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Speaker 1: hoping for some good news about her daughter. But Sheila
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Speaker 1: asked Mary right away, you know, hey, has Skylar come
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Speaker 1: home yet? And Mary says, no, she hasn't, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: we just got off the phone with the police because
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Speaker 1: this doesn't make sense. Something's wrong, and we're getting the
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Speaker 1: police involved. And so when Sheila hears this, she kind
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Speaker 1: of takes a deep breath, and then after a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a hesitation, she says, Mary, I've got to
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Speaker 1: tell you the truth about last night. She would go
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Speaker 1: on to explain that the night before, Skuyler had snuck
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Speaker 1: out of the house and so had she along with
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Speaker 1: their other very close friend named Rachel, and Rachel was
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Speaker 1: someone that Mary and Dave also knew very very well.
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Speaker 1: The three girls were kind of like best friends and
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Speaker 1: totally inseparable, and so Sheila said, the three of them
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Speaker 1: snuck out, and in fact, they did this a lot,
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Speaker 1: and they would drive around town and smoke marijuana together.
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Speaker 1: But this was not the big reveal. Despite this being
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Speaker 1: fairly shocking to Mary and Dave. This was not the
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Speaker 1: big reveal. The big reveal was that when they went
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Speaker 1: out and snuck out of their houses and smoked weed together,
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Speaker 1: they would make sure they never drove their car. Whoever
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Speaker 1: was driving, would never drive directly in front of any
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Speaker 1: of their houses because they were concerned that the noise
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Speaker 1: from the car could wake up parents and then they'd
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Speaker 1: get caught. The way they would do it is after
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Speaker 1: they snuck out of their house, they would walk a
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Speaker 1: block or two away from their house, and then they
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Speaker 1: would call or text the other two and they'd get
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Speaker 1: picked up and they'd go do their thing. And then
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Speaker 1: when they got dropped off, they would get dropped off
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Speaker 1: a block or two away from their home and then
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Speaker 1: walk the rest of the way. And so Sheila told
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Speaker 1: Mary that last night, like so many other nights, she
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Speaker 1: dropped Skyler off about a block away from their apartment,
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Speaker 1: and then Sheila and Rachel drove off, so they did
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Speaker 1: not actually see Skyler enter her apartment, so they don't
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Speaker 1: know for sure if she actually made it home okay.
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Speaker 1: And so this was obviously horrifying for Mary and Dave
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Speaker 1: to hear because it totally opened the door for their
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Speaker 1: daughter to have been abducted during this walk from the
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Speaker 1: drop off point back to her apartment, and the street
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Speaker 1: she was on was not well lit, it's the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night, it's stark, she's potentially high on marijuana,
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Speaker 1: and so it seemed like that was a very realistic
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Speaker 1: thing that could have happened as whole horrifying as it sounded.
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Speaker 1: And so after Mary got off the phone with Sheila,
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Speaker 1: she called the police and she updated them about what
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Speaker 1: Sheila had told her, and then Mary and Dave met
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Speaker 1: up with Sheila and Sheila's mother and began searching the
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Speaker 1: immediate area around their apartment in hopes that maybe, you know,
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Speaker 1: she fell somewhere and she's trapped and she just needs
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Speaker 1: to be picked up or helped in some way. But
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Speaker 1: after searching for several hours and knocking on dozens and
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Speaker 1: dozens of doors, nobody saw anything, nobody knew anything, there
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Speaker 1: was no sign of Skyler. And so as this group
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Speaker 1: is totally down, they don't know what to do. They
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Speaker 1: feel totally helpless. They know the police are out looking
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Speaker 1: for Skyler, but they want to do something, and they
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Speaker 1: just they don't know what to do. And that's when
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Speaker 1: Mary remembers there is a security camera on the outside
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Speaker 1: of their apartment building that is looking down at the road,
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Speaker 1: and so right away the four of them literally run
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Speaker 1: back to the apartment building. They go inside, they find
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Speaker 1: the security manager, they explain the situation, and sure enough,
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Speaker 1: he pulls up the footage from the night before, and
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Speaker 1: the footage they see doesn't make sense. Sheila had dropped
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Speaker 1: Skyler off on that corner out of view of the
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Speaker 1: camera at around midnight, but at twelve thirty, so thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes after she's been dropped off, you see this unknown,
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Speaker 1: kind of generic looking car pull up right in front
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Speaker 1: of the apartment complex, and then Skyler comes running across
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Speaker 1: the lawn, goes right up to the car, opens the
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Speaker 1: back door, hops in the back seat, shuts it, and
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Speaker 1: the car drives off. Even though this did not solve
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Speaker 1: the mystery of where their daughter was because they had
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Speaker 1: no idea what car this was, who was driving it,
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Speaker 1: or where they were going, Mary and Dave still felt
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Speaker 1: relieved because from their perspective, it seemed like their daughter
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Speaker 1: had willingly got into this vehicle, whoever it was, whatever
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Speaker 1: they were doing, she had gotten in on purpose, which
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Speaker 1: meant she probably was not being abducted. Which was their
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Speaker 1: big fear. Over the next couple of days, the police
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Speaker 1: analyzed this footage and tried to get information about this car,
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Speaker 1: but the footage was so grainy they couldn't do it. However,
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Speaker 1: the police were telling Dave and Mary, you know, hey, guys,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure Skyler is going to show up
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Speaker 1: any day now. You know, as much as you may
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Speaker 1: not want to believe it, that your daughter is capable
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Speaker 1: of running away, it is fairly common for teens to
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Speaker 1: do that. They'll run away and then you know, a
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Speaker 1: couple of days later, they'll pop back up. And so
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's what's going on with Skyler. You know,
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Speaker 1: she chose to get in that car, and so I'm
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Speaker 1: sure she will choose to get back in touch when
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Speaker 1: she feels comfortable. So a couple of days go by
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Speaker 1: and the parents haven't heard anything from their daughter, and
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Speaker 1: then a couple of weeks go by, still nothing, and
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Speaker 1: then a couple of months go by, still nothing. And
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Speaker 1: this is all despite the fact that there is a
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Speaker 1: massive search happening led by the police, and locals in
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Speaker 1: Morgantown have put flyers up everywhere that have pictures of
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Speaker 1: Skyler niece's face everywhere in town and in neighboring towns.
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Speaker 1: It was like you could not go five feet without
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Speaker 1: being reminded that this girl is missing. Have you seen her?
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Speaker 1: If you have, give us information. Despite the amount of
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Speaker 1: publicity this case was getting, no one came forward with
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Speaker 1: any meaningful information. It was like Skyler had just vanished
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Speaker 1: and no one had a clue what happened to her.
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Speaker 1: Her parents were obviously devastated that they had no idea
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Speaker 1: what happened to her, but they were kind of holding
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Speaker 1: on to this idea that, you know, maybe she did
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Speaker 1: run away and maybe she will eventually be in touch
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Speaker 1: with us. But by December of that year, so six
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Speaker 1: months after Skyler had gone missing, no one had heard
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Speaker 1: from her, No one had seen her, no one had
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Speaker 1: any idea where she was. There was no new leads,
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Speaker 1: and so people were starting to feel less and less optimistic,
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Speaker 1: and the case was starting to kind of go cold.
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Speaker 1: And then on December twelfth, something totally unexpected happened that
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Speaker 1: changed everything. On that night, Rachel, the other friend who
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Speaker 1: had been there with Sheila and with Skyler on the
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Speaker 1: night that Skyler had vanished, she has a full blown
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Speaker 1: nervous breakdown. In fact, it's so bad that she's screaming
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Speaker 1: and running around and she's punching her family members, and
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Speaker 1: her mom actually calls the police on her. I have
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Speaker 1: an issue with a sixteen year old daughter of mine.
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Speaker 1: She can't control her anymore. He's screaming, she's running through
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Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Give me the phone. Oh God. After this
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Speaker 1: call was made, the police show up to Rachel's house
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Speaker 1: and they take her away to a psychiatric hospital. And
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Speaker 1: then several days later, when she was released from that hospital,
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Speaker 1: she went straight to the Morgantown Police department. She walked
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Speaker 1: inside and said, I got to get something off my
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Speaker 1: chest about Skyler. Apparently whatever it was that she had
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Speaker 1: been keeping secret had just been too difficult to keep inside.
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Speaker 1: It was quite literally driving her crazy. And so the
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Speaker 1: police said, okay, great, and they brought her into an
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Speaker 1: interview room. They sat down and they said, okay, what
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Speaker 1: do you got for us. The following has been pulled
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Speaker 1: from what Rachel told police. Back on July fifth, twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: Skyler came home from that night shift at Wendy's. She
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Speaker 1: goes inside her family's apartment. She says good night, to
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Speaker 1: her mom and dad. She goes into her bedroom and
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Speaker 1: she shuts the door and she's laying on her bed.
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Speaker 1: She's on her phone. She's not going to bed quite yet.
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Speaker 1: And as she's laying there, she starts getting text messages
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Speaker 1: from Rachel and also from Bia asking her if she
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Speaker 1: wants to sneak out that night. Now, Skyler didn't want to,
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Speaker 1: and she said as much because she was actually hurting.
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Speaker 1: She was mad at her two friends. According to some
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Speaker 1: of her other friends that went to school with her
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Speaker 1: and Rachel and Sheila, the three of them were totally inseparable,
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Speaker 1: but lately, kind of the few months leading up to
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Speaker 1: when she ultimately disappeared, there had been tension in their group.
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Speaker 1: It seemed like Sheila and Rachel were getting very very
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Speaker 1: close and kind of pushing Skyler away, and Skyler was
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Speaker 1: starting to pick up on it. It was little things
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Speaker 1: like Sheila and Rachel would show up to school in
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Speaker 1: matching outfits, but they wouldn't tell Skyler beforehand, kind of
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Speaker 1: leading her out, or whenever they posted selfie's of the
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Speaker 1: three of them, Skyler was always relegated to the back
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Speaker 1: or kind of in some other way obscured to make sure,
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Speaker 1: she was not the focal point of the picture. It
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Speaker 1: was just very obvious that they were deprioritizing Skyler and
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Speaker 1: it was really hurting Skyler's feelings. And so it seemed
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Speaker 1: like her way of standing up to them and kind
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Speaker 1: of telling them that she was upset was to turn
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Speaker 1: down their office for sneaking out and smoking weed with them.
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Speaker 1: But over the next couple of hours, Skyler would eventually say, okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'll come with you guys. I'll sneak out
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Speaker 1: and we'll go smoke together. Just before twelve thirty am
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Speaker 1: on July sixth, Skyler gets off of her bed. She
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Speaker 1: walks over to her window. She lifts it up, and
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Speaker 1: she pulls the screen off, and she walks over to
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Speaker 1: her closet. She puts the screen in her closet and
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Speaker 1: shuts the door to the closet, and then she walks
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Speaker 1: back over to the window and crawls out and lowers
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Speaker 1: herself down onto the grass below. And then she walks
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Speaker 1: over and grabs the bench and slides it over and
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Speaker 1: puts it right underneath her window. And then she stands
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Speaker 1: on the bench and reaches up and pulls the window
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Speaker 1: down so there's just a little crack left so she
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Speaker 1: can get back inside. And then she just waited by
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Speaker 1: the side of the apartment, looking out towards the road.
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Speaker 1: And right after twelve thirty, this car, the unknown car
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Speaker 1: on the surveillance camera, pulls right in front of the
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Speaker 1: apartment building, and Skyler runs over to it, opens up
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Speaker 1: the back right door, and climbs inside. This unknown car
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Speaker 1: was Sheila's car. Sheila is driving and Rachel was in
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Speaker 1: the front passenger seat. It would turn out Rachel and
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Speaker 1: Sheila lied about basically everything, including what time they picked
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Speaker 1: up Skyler. So the three girls they drive away from
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Speaker 1: Skyla's apartment and Sheila hops on a highway and starts
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Speaker 1: driving northwest. Now, the girls did not immediately start smoking
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Speaker 1: inside of the car. They decided instead they would actually
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Speaker 1: drive to a location, get out and smoke there. And
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Speaker 1: the place they decided on was a spot they had
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Speaker 1: smoked at before. It was a known hangout spot for teenagers.
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Speaker 1: It was located about forty five minutes away, just barely
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Speaker 1: across the border into Pennsylvania. It was down this kind
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Speaker 1: of old country road that nobody ever went on. And
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Speaker 1: so Sheila drives the car forty five minutes she crosses
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Speaker 1: into Pennsylvania. She finds the turn onto this old road.
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Speaker 1: They drive down it a little ways until they're pretty
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Speaker 1: far away from the highway, at which point Sheila pulls
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Speaker 1: off the road onto the grass parks the car. The
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Speaker 1: three girls get out and they walk past the car
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Speaker 1: a little ways down the path to a clearing. On
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Speaker 1: the right, there was a hill that went up on
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Speaker 1: the right and would kind of sit on this hill
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Speaker 1: looking downhill, and that would be where they would smoke.
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Speaker 1: And so the three girls they sit down. They're all
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Speaker 1: next to each other facing downhill. They're not facing each other.
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Speaker 1: And Sheila, who is sitting all the way to the
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Speaker 1: right with the car being over to the left, she
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Speaker 1: pulls out the marijuana joint and she's about to light it,
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Speaker 1: but she realizes she does not have a lighter, and
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Speaker 1: so she asks Rachel and Skyler if they have a lighter,
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Speaker 1: and they both path themselves down. They're checking themselves. They
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Speaker 1: don't have a lighter, and then Sheila says to Skyler,
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Speaker 1: who's all the way to the left of the way
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Speaker 1: they're sitting, so Skyler is closest to the car. She
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Speaker 1: asks Skyler, Hey, can you go in the car and
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Speaker 1: get the lighter that I know is in there. And
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Speaker 1: Skyler said, no problem. So Skyler, she stands up and
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Speaker 1: she turns her back is to her two friends, and
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Speaker 1: as soon as she starts walking, what she would have
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Speaker 1: heard is the sound of her two friends standing up
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Speaker 1: as well and then loudly saying one, two, three, and
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Speaker 1: on three, Skyler would have felt two knives being plunged
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Speaker 1: into her back by Rachel and Sheila. In a panic.
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Speaker 1: Skyler does not even turn around, She just starts taking
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Speaker 1: off running towards the car, and she manages to run
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Speaker 1: away from her attackers, but because of her grievous injuries
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Speaker 1: in her back, she eventually slows down, at which point
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Speaker 1: Sheila tackles her from behind. She gets her on the ground,
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Speaker 1: she pins her on her back, and Sheila is trying
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Speaker 1: to stab Skyler, but Skyler's doing her best to keep
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Speaker 1: the knife off of her. But at some point Rachel
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Speaker 1: comes running up beside them, and between Rachel and Sheila,
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Speaker 1: they managed to hold Skyler's hands down, at which point
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Speaker 1: Sheila and Rachel begin taking turns, stabbing her in the
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Speaker 1: chest and in the neck. The whole time Skyler is
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Speaker 1: trying to defend herself, but it's impossible with these two
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Speaker 1: on top of her. And at some point she just
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Speaker 1: kind of gives up and she says, why are you
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Speaker 1: doing this to me? Why are you doing this to me?
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Speaker 1: But they don't give her a reason. They just keep
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Speaker 1: on going, and eventually Rachel stops stabbing Skyler, but Sheila doesn't.
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Speaker 1: Sheila keeps on going until quote her neck stopped making
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Speaker 1: gurgling sounds, and then once Skyler went still, Sheila stood
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Speaker 1: up like it was nothing, and she and Rachel just
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Speaker 1: walked away from her body back to the car. They
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Speaker 1: went around to the trunk of the car. They opened
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Speaker 1: it up and inside was shovels, bleach, trash bags, rags.
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Speaker 1: They had brought along a kill kit because they knew
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Speaker 1: what they were going to do this night, and so
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Speaker 1: they start by cleaning themselves off. They get the blood
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Speaker 1: off of them and off of their weapons, and then
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Speaker 1: they take the shovels and they walk a little ways
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Speaker 1: off of the road, kind of into the woods, and
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Speaker 1: they tried to dig a grave, but it would turn
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Speaker 1: out the ground was too hard, and so they abandoned
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Speaker 1: the grave idea and just grabbed Skyler's lifeless body and
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Speaker 1: drag it just about six feet off of the road
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Speaker 1: and kind of chuck it against a log, and then
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Speaker 1: they threw boulders and sticks and anything they could on
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Speaker 1: top of her body. They don't know if she's still
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Speaker 1: alive at this point, so they're potentially dealing the fatal
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Speaker 1: blow with these rocks and logs. They cover her up
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Speaker 1: until she's totally obscured, and then the two girls just
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Speaker 1: walk back up. They grab their shovels, they grabbed their rags.
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Speaker 1: The bleak, so they put it back in the trunk.
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Speaker 1: They hop in their car, and they drive away. It
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Speaker 1: would turn out Rachel and Sheila had been planning this
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Speaker 1: for months the reason they didn't like Skyler anymore, and
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Speaker 1: apparently it wasn't enough to just be mean to her
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Speaker 1: and not include her in things. They actually needed to
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Speaker 1: kill her, and so the entire night that they went
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Speaker 1: out and snuck out, that was all planned. They knew
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Speaker 1: Skyler did not want to come out and sneak out
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Speaker 1: with them, because they knew she was upset with them,
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Speaker 1: and so they said whatever they had to say to
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Speaker 1: convince her to leave her house and sneak out with them,
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Speaker 1: and so she did she snuck out and when she
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Speaker 1: got in that car, Sheila and Rachel had their knives
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Speaker 1: already in their front pocket of their sweatshirt ready to go.
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Speaker 1: And on their ride to this spot in Pennsylvania, Sheila
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Speaker 1: and Rachel acted like, oh, let's just go to this
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Speaker 1: spot and smoke, when in reality this was planned too.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to make sure they were far away from
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Speaker 1: Morgantown when they killed Skyler, and so when they got
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Speaker 1: there and they walked down to their spot to actually
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Speaker 1: begin smoking, Sheila and Rachel had intentionally not brought lighters,
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Speaker 1: and Sheila had left a lighter in the car specifically
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Speaker 1: so she could ask Skyler to go get it. Because
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Speaker 1: the plan was as soon as Skyler gets up to
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Speaker 1: get that lighter and her back is to us, Sheila
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Speaker 1: and Rachel had promised each other that they would count
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Speaker 1: to three and then attack her. Ultimately, Rachel would be
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Speaker 1: sentenced to thirty years in prison, but she'll be eligible
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Speaker 1: for parole in twenty twenty three, and Sheila would be
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Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison, but she would also be
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Speaker 1: eligible for parole in twenty twenty eight. During their trials,
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Speaker 1: Rachel was very remorseful and even gave an apology to
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Speaker 1: Skyler's parents during the sentencing phase. Sheila, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: smirked during her trial. For most of the time, she
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Speaker 1: was smiling and totally making light of it. She said
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Speaker 1: she didn't do it, she was totally not remorseful, and
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Speaker 1: she did not offer an apology to Skyler's parents. She did, however,
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Speaker 1: leave an unbelievably cruel message on Twitter in March of
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, when the police came out and officially said
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Speaker 1: we have identified the remain in the forest in Pennsylvania
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Speaker 1: as belonging to Skylar Nice. When that announcement was made
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Speaker 1: just a couple of days later, Sheila tweeted, we really
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Speaker 1: did go on three. Sheila was arrested one month later,
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