Skylar Neese was born in West Virginia in 1996 to David and Mary Neese. Skylar disappeared on the night of July 6, 2012. CCTV footage at her residence showed her exiting her bedroom window just after midnight and getting into a car with two girls. Police assumed that she had ran away, but her parents strongly disagreed. The two girls that she left with were reported to be her "best friends" and were interviewed by police, though they claimed they had dropped her back off after an hour. Lying hags. I won't spoil the book by going into anymore details than that about the case, except to say that Skylar's body was ultimately found on January 16, 2013...and it is FOUL that her parents had to go any length of time not knowing the truth about her.

One thing that enrages me about cases where someone is first declared missing is that police are SO QUICK to jump to "run away" instead of seeing the parade of red flags. Anytime you watch Unsolved Mysteries or Disappeared, that is THE FIRST thing they like to say. "Oh, they ran away. It isn't illegal to vanish and not tell anyone. They will turn up in a couple of days when they are ready." It's infuriating. What really happened to this girl is equally enraging. I cannot imagine doing to my friend what was done to this girl for the reasons that it was...or ever, really. People are just vile. They think they can do whatever for whatever reason and then get away with crimes and hatefulness like nothing ever happened. I had never heard of this case prior to reading this book, so I appreciated the level of detail the author went into about the case. I learned a great deal of information about the case, which is the point of reading true crime. This book is currently available on Audible Plus to listen to, and I think it was about 6 hours, maybe 7 hours.