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Legally Brunette

Stabbed in the Back: The Murder of Skylar Neese

Legally Brunette

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When 16-year-old Skylar Neese disappeared from her family home in 2012, no one expected her two best friends were to blame.

After Skylar’s “friends” physically stabbed her in the back, they put on a show to convince the public that they wanted nothing more than to find their missing friend.

Emily and Shane dive into the details, explaining how one psychotic break led to the unraveling of the truth and the conviction of Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. 

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0:00.0

Hi guys. Welcome to Legally Brunette. I will be your host today, Emily Simpson with my

0:07.1

my sidekick. Shane. Shane. So we are going to discuss it is a new series on Hulu called

0:15.1

Friends Like These. And actually I was thinking when I watched it, I kind of love that we're doing

0:20.6

it now as far as the timeline is concerned.

0:22.5

Because if you didn't listen to our last episode, we did it on what was called the Scream Murders, which really focused on these teenagers in Idaho.

0:32.0

And now this, this new Hulu series is called Friends Like These, and it's the murder of Skylar Nice.

0:39.2

And again, we're dealing with teenagers and a heinous teenage murder.

0:45.0

But we're moving over to West Virginia.

0:47.1

So I think it's interesting that we're doing these podcasts back to back because really there's a lot.

0:50.5

When I was watching it and researching it and thinking about it, there's a lot of contrast. So let's get into it. So Skylar Nice was a 16-year-old from Star City, West Virginia,

1:01.7

and she disappeared on July 5, 2012 after sneaking out of her bedroom to meet some friends. For months,

1:10.3

investigators believed that she may have

1:12.2

run away. But the case took a shocking turn in January of 2013 when one of her best friends,

1:19.5

her name was Rachel Schof, confessed that she and Skyler's best friend from childhood,

1:26.3

Sheila Eddie, had murdered her. The two teens had lured

1:30.1

Schuyler to a remote wooded area in Pennsylvania and stabbed her to death. All right. So that's the

1:36.6

brief synopsis of what we're dealing with here. We're talking about 16 year old girls.

1:42.0

And a lot of this documentary and a lot of their,

1:45.1

in the documentary,

1:46.2

their relationship,

1:47.8

you could see it play out on social media because I've never been a big fan of Twitter.

1:53.4

Like I've never really,

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