True Crime Vault: How'd You Rather Die?
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Why did 16-year-old Skylar Neese disappear from Star City?
Step into the 2020 True Crime Vault, where you'll hear our most gripping stories. A high school girl sneaks away from home and disappears. But are there clues left behind in a diabolical game of would you rather? 2020 begins right now.
She walked out. She said, I love you, Daddy. It's the last time I ever heard her. Her missing poster is up all over town. What were you looking for? Anything and everything. Dave Neese called me and said, Tom, we have something. And what were you thinking when you saw her head flash on that screen? There was no evidence of a kidnapping. There was no abduction. There was no ransom. We're combing through everything, just hours and hours, dissecting every picture, every message, everything. If she got angry, she would put those tweets out there too. A girl, a girl, a bitch, a bitch. And I'm like, who is she talking about? No one realized how bad it was growing, the friction of two versus one. She said that she had to tell me the truth about what happened last night.
Would you guys rather suffocate or get shot? I don't think that most kids play would you rather in terms of how would you rather die.
Monongalia County 911, do you have an emergency? I don't know if it qualifies for emergency or not. To me, it is. It's the phone call no parent ever wants to have to make. A desperate 911 about a missing child. I have a 16-year-old daughter who has not been home, hasn't went to work, can't get a hold of her from any of her friends. I am scared to death. What's her name? Skylar Neese. What were you feeling at that point for your little girl? I was scared to death. I mean, I didn't know where my baby was. I mean, how would you feel? It was horrible. Nothing would ever be the same for Dave Neese and his wife Mary after that call in July 2012. That was one of my favorites. That was number one. It had to be. Or for the small suburban community of Star City, West Virginia, who would grapple with the mystery of Skylar Neese's disappearance.
Star City's a small little city off of Morgantown. It is a great place to live. It is a wonderful place to raise your family. As much as we have this real small knit community, we also have a university. Morgantown was more college town. Your crime was more college, property crimes, college kids having parties, typical stuff that any other college town would have, but nothing really serious.
It has that college town shine and bounce. It's not a podunk town, and it's not an urban metropolis. It's a combo, and it's breathtakingly beautiful there.
A blue-collar, middle-class town with working families like Dave and Mary Neese. He worked at Walmart, and she at a doctor's office. And that's the norm for this area. Morgantown's a fairly decent community. It's peaceful. It's a small town that's growing really fast. It's the kind of area where outside of college football, not much happens. So when 16-year-old Skylar Neese went missing on a summer evening in July, people were stunned. Now, more than a decade after her disappearance, a new podcast has topped the charts, exploring Skylar's story, which is still reverberating.
My name is Holly Moule. My name is Justine Harmon, and we are the co-hosts and co-creators of Three. Three. This story felt like a gothic reimagining of everyone's teenage experience. When you peel apart who these people were and what the circumstances were, they're fairly universal and human and relatable, and those are the things that interest me. This is episode one.
Skylar is missing. Part of the intrigue, the podcasters say, is that often treacherous intersection of adolescence and social media, a big deal for high school-age girls like Skylar.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:30
2
Why did 16-year-old Skylar Neese disappear from Star City?
0:30–8:47
3
What did Skylar’s friends tell her parents after she went missing?
8:47–18:11
4
What did security footage reveal about Skylar’s disappearance?
18:11–28:56
5
How did social media expose tension between Skylar and her friends?
28:56–39:58
6
Which timeline clues showed that Sheila and Rachel’s stories didn’t match?
39:58–55:54
7
What did Rachel confess about Skylar’s planned murder?
55:54–1:09:08
8
How did investigators find Skylar’s body and prove the case?
1:09:08–1:25:13