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In the months that followed, Eddy regularly tweeted about watching TV, school, hating homework and other typical teenage things. She even tweeted about her and Shoaf's close friendship, writing in one tweet, \"no one on this earth can handle me and rachel if you think you can you're wrong.\"

#tweetapicturethatdescribesyourfriendship @_racchh pic.twitter.com/oiqn6r7Q

— shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) October 31, 2012

no one on this earth can handle me and rachel if you think you can you're wrong

— shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) November 5, 2012

Then, on Jan. 3, 2013, Shoaf confessed to stabbing Neese to death with Eddy and told authorities where they had left her body. Meanwhile, Eddy kept up appearances that everything was normal, tweeting about watching her favorite TV shows: \"staying home on a Tuesday is the best cause law and order svu is on all day.\"

staying home on tuesday is the best cause law and order svu is on all day

— shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) January 8, 2013

On the morning of March 13, 2013, the U.S. Attorney's Office publically announced that the human remains found in the wooded area in Brave, Pennsylvania, belonged to Skylar Neese. Eddy, still keeping up appearances, pretended to be devastated over the news that her friend had been found dead, tweeting, \"Rest easy Skylar, you'll ALWAYS be my best friend,\" with a photo montage of her and Neese together, and the words \"worst day of my whole life.\"

rest easy skylar, you'll ALWAYS be my bestfriend. i miss you more than you could ever know. pic.twitter.com/g6UaDf9Vfb

— shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) March 13, 2013

worst day of my whole life

— shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) March 13, 2013

During her January 2013 confession, Shoaf had told authorities she and Eddy had planned Neese's murder while in science class together. The plan was to pick Neese up from her house at night and drive to a remote area to smoke marijuana. Once they were in the woods, Shoaf said the plan was to count to three, then stab Neese to death.

On March 30, 2013, Eddy tweeted \"we really did go on three\":

we really did go on three

— shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) April 1, 2013

The following day, she tweeted:

they say you remember the past better than it really was

— shelia eddy (@_sheliiaa) April 1, 2013

As the investigation continued, police determined that the car Neese had been seen getting into on surveillance footage was Eddy's car and that blood found on the car belonged to Neese. On May 1, 2013, Eddy was arrested in a restaurant parking lot and Shoaf turned herself in to authorities. Both teens were charged with murder as adults.

Eddy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for her role in the killing. On Jan. 24, 2014, roughly 18 months after Neese’s death, she was sentenced to life in prison.

Shoaf, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, was sentenced to 30 years in prison the following month.

Today, both women are 23 years old and remain incarcerated at the Lakin Correctional Center in West Virginia.

\"Sheila
Lakin Correctional Center
Sheila Eddy, now 23, is seen here in this recent mug shot.
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\"Rachel
Lakin Correctional Center
Rachel Shoaf, now 23, is seen here in this recent mug shot.
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In memory of their daughter, Dave and Mary Neese helped pass Skylar’s Law in West Virginia. It requires Amber Alerts for all missing children, not only those believed to have been kidnapped.

The Neeses also transformed the wooded area where their daughter's body had been found into a memorial.

“Something horrible happened here,” Neese's father Dave Neese told \"20/20\" in a previous interview. “But I wanted to take the horrible thing that happened here and try to turn it into something good — a place that people can come and remember Skylar and remember the good little girl that she was, and not the little beast that they treated her like.”

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