A teenage killer’s eerie tweets she sent after stabbing friend to death: 'We really did go on three'

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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.

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PHOTO: Skylar Neese (right), Sheila Eddy (center) and Rachel Shoaf (left) are seen here together in this April 2011 photo that was posted on Neese's Facebook account. (Skylar Neese/Facebook) More

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:

happpy birthdayy @young_muffintop! — shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) July 7, 2012

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."

no one on this earth can handle me and rachel if you think you can you're wrong — shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) November 5, 2012

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."

staying home on tuesday is the best cause law and order svu is on all day — shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) January 8, 2013

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."

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