I'm Chanley Painter and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

On July 6, 2012, a security camera captured the last moments of 16-year-old Skylar niece's life as she climbed into the backseat of a sedan, disappearing into the West Virginia night with her two best friends.

What followed was six months filled with lies, grief, and deception as Sheila Eddie and Rachel Schof helped search for

the very girl they stabbed to death. The Hulu docu series, Friends like these, the murder of

Skylar Nice, chronicles a comprehensive look at this tragedy, unearthing never-before-seen archival footage, and intimate

interviews to piece together the betrayal.

Joining me today to discuss the making of the series and the haunting reality of the niece

case is the director of friends like these, Claire Titley.

Claire, thank you for joining me to talk about your work on this. You were the

director of this film. And talk about the work that went into this because you had to sift through

thousands of hours of social media posts, personal videos, and do all of this research to make

this come together, right? It was. This was not a fast turnaround series by any means. We spent a lot of time investigating,

researching. We, you know, we uncovered material that had never seen the light of day before,

not just sort of FBI materials and police materials that had never really been out in the public domain before, but as you said, a lot of social media that we painstakingly went through.

And that was really important to us because we really wanted to do something different with this series and we really wanted to try and tell this story from the inside out.

It was important for us that the audience tried to connect with what it was like to be a teenage girl or to a teenager, quite frankly.

And the only way to kind of see inside the world of those three girls and their really, really intense friendship was through this

digital footprint that they left behind, this, or these tweets and so forth.

Right.

Give us more of an idea of that.

In that research, did you find like a moment where it shifted to this kind of mean girl

drama into a homicide plot.

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