Pretty Little Killers
Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller
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2012 · West Virginia & Pennsylvania
Skylar Neese
Teen & school
Skylar Neese left her West Virginia home with friends Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy in 2012 and did not return. Investigators eventually learned the two had killed her in Pennsylvania. Their guilty pleas exposed a planned murder behind months of misleading accounts about her disappearance.
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When2012
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Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese
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Pretty Little Killers
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Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese
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Investigation Discovery · Season 1, Episode 6 · Listed air date 2015-03-24
See No Evil — What Happened to Skylar Neese?
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Pretty Little Killers : The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
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True Crimecast — Best Friends: Skylar Neese
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Murder With My Husband
4. Skylar Neese - The Real Life Mean Girls
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released April 28, 2020. About 59 minutes.
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#131: Pretty Little Liars Killers (Case of Skylar Neese)
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released January 16, 2022. About 74 minutes.
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The Betrayal of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released March 5, 2026. About 47 minutes.
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True Crime All The Time
The Murder of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released January 21, 2019. About 73 minutes.
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Killer Duos: The Murders of Melissa Jenkins and Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released August 2, 2022. About 82 minutes.
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Skylar Neese: Murdered by Her Best Friends
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released May 1, 2025. About 47 minutes.
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Outlore with Eleanor Neale
Teens Killers Caught on Twitter: The Case of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released March 22, 2026. About 62 minutes.
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The Inmates: The Tragic Story of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released November 28, 2023. About 34 minutes.
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Stabbed in the Back: The Murder of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released March 17, 2026. About 48 minutes.
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66: We Just Didn’t Like Her Anymore: The Skylar Neese Case
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released September 9, 2021. About 74 minutes.
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The Darker Side of Life Podcast
The Murder of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released September 22, 2021. About 116 minutes.
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A Trial by Podcast
Ep. 068 | Ultimate Betrayal: The Murder of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released August 19, 2025. About 71 minutes.
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Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy: The Murder of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released May 25, 2020. About 50 minutes.
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"We just didn't like her anymore." | The Murder of Skylar Neese
Podcast coverage of the Skylar Neese case. Released April 2, 2026. About 44 minutes.
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Rotten Mango — Skylar Neese (Episode 131)
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Pretty Little Killers — Audiobook
Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller. Related reading for Skylar Neese. This library catalog lists the edition. Borrowing depends on membership in that library and current availability.
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Pretty Little Killers by Daleen Berry
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Pretty Little Killers
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Reading Access Notes
Search reviewed 2026-09-16. Sources searched: Google Books, Internet Archive, Open Library, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atavist Magazine, Google Books (case/title search), Scribd, Everand, OverDrive and hoopla (combined title search). Search indexing is incomplete; this is not an exhaustive list of the web. Access can change by edition, country and library membership. Library loans may require sign-in or a wait. Everand titles may need a paid subscription; a trial is not permanent free access. Scribd documents are third-party uploads, with uploader details noted where checked. We link to source pages and write our own descriptions rather than reproducing copyrighted books.
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The News Leader · 2013-05-26 · Page A7
Skylar Neese case shocks her community
The report follows the search for Skylar, Rachel Shoaf's guilty plea, and the community's effort to change missing-child alerts.
Contemporaneous coverage; the second teenager's case was still pending at publication.
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Internet Archive · Library record · 2014
Pretty little killers : the truth behind the savage murder of Skylar Neese
Berry, Daleen. A library catalog record for a book connected with Skylar Neese. The record may offer a preview or borrowing options; full reading access is not guaranteed.
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Internet Archive · TV News Archive
Dateline NBC : KNTV : March 7, 2014 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
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20/20 : KGO : January 3, 2015 10:00pm-11:01pm PST
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Dateline : MSNBCW : November 17, 2018 1:00am-2:01am PST
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Related civil caseGovernment repository
Insurers v. Clendenen / Neese — coverage decision
A federal civil decision concerning insurance coverage for claims arising from Skylar Neese’s death. This is separate from the criminal prosecutions of Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf.
- Court / agency
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia
- Document date
- March 1, 2016
- Case / citation
- 1:14-cv-00155; 1:14-cv-00172 · Document 56
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- GovInfo / U.S. Government Publishing Office
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Where this story happened
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See the full case checklist →Skylar Neese memorial area
Roadside historical referenceMorris Run Road, Wayne Township, Pennsylvania
The roadside memorial marks the area where Neese was killed in 2012. It lies across the state line from her West Virginia home.
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Dateline NBC ✹ SOMETHING WICKED ✹ Lesbian Sex Secret leads to the Murder of 16 Year Old Skylar Neese
Video from NewsBall TV covering the Skylar Neese case. Length: 44:19.
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When 'Best Friends' Become Killers || Skylar Neese Case
Video from True Crime Recaps covering the Skylar Neese case. Length: 12:28.
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High School Murderers | The TRAGIC Murder of Skylar Neese | Something Wicked |
Video from Christina Randall covering the Skylar Neese case. Length: 38:59.
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Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese | Official Trailer | Hulu
Trailer or preview from Hulu covering the Skylar Neese case. Length: 2:18.
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One of Skylar Neese’s killers denied parole for a third time
Video from WBOY 12 News covering the Skylar Neese case. Length: 1:23.
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Criminally Obsessed
Skylar Neese Lead Detective Reveals Stunning Case Details
Video from Criminally Obsessed covering the Skylar Neese case. Length: 49:13.
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One of Skylar Neese's killers denied parole
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OUTLORE with Eleanor Neale
Murder Solved by Killer's OWN TWEETS
Video from OUTLORE with Eleanor Neale covering the Skylar Neese case. Length: 1:05:11.
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Discussion: The Skylar Neese case
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Discussion: On July 6th 2012, 16-year-old Skylar Neese was stabbed to death by two girls she considered friends. The motivation given was that they…
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