Dave Neese’s daughter, Skylar Neese, was stabbed in the back by her two best friends, Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy, in 2012. They attacked her with kitchen knives and left her in the middle of the woods. For six months, no one knew what happened to Skylar Neese. Meanwhile, Rachel and Shelia went back to life as normal teenagers acting as if nothing ever happened. Dave and his wife, Mary, were beside themselves. They couldn’t eat or sleep. They had to find their daughter.
Eventually, Rachel couldn’t carry the guilt anymore, broke down and confessed to the murder. She told police she and Shelia killed Skylar because she threatened to expose their physical relationship and took police to her body. Dave and Mary were in disbelief. How could her best friends do this to their daughter? Then Dave became enraged. He told Investigative reporter Anne Emerson something he hasn’t told anyone else — he had a plan for revenge. Find out in this interview why he didn’t go through with it and what happened after.
If you’d like to support Dave and Mary Neese in their fight for justice, this is their address: P.O. box 314, Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, 15349
For more from Dave Neese, read the poem “Forever 16” published in this article from The Dominion Post in 2022.