Skylar Neese was stabbed to death by her best friends on July 6, 2012 Alex Gurley is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in ...

WEST COLUMBIA, W.Va. — One of the defendants in a high-profile Morgantown area murder case has been denied parole for the second year in a row. Rachel Shoaf (WVDOC) Rachel Shoaf, 28, asked the state ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – A West Virginia teenager has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for her role in her friend’s death. Seventeen-year-old Rachel Shoaf apologized before being sentenced ...

Skylar Neese was stabbed to death by her best friends on July 6, 2012 Skylar Neese was a teenage girl from West Virginia who was friends with Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf Skylar met up with Sheila and ...

When Skylar Neese sneaked out of her family’s apartment one summer night, she had no idea her best friends were secretly planning to kill her. The 16-year-old high schooler from West Virginia was a ...