Betrayed by Best Friends

0:00 Speaker 1: The murder of Skyler Nice. On the night of July fifth,

0:03 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, sixteen year old Skyler Nie quietly climbed out

0:07 Speaker 1: of her bedroom window in Star City, West Virginia. Her

0:11 Speaker 1: parents were asleep. She left behind her cell phone charger,

0:15 Speaker 1: her glasses, and a note saying she would be back soon.

0:18 Speaker 1: She never returned. Skyler was an only child who lived

0:22 Speaker 1: with her parents, David and Mary Nice. She was bright,

0:26 Speaker 1: independent and had a close circle of friends. Two of

0:30 Speaker 1: those friends, Sheila Eddie and Rachel Chauff, had been inseparable

0:34 Speaker 1: with her throughout high school. Security footage from Skuyler's apartment

0:38 Speaker 1: complex showed her climbing into a sedan around twelve thirty am.

0:42 Speaker 1: Investigators quickly identified the car as belonging to one of

0:45 Speaker 1: her friends. When questioned, Sheila and Rachel claimed they had

0:49 Speaker 1: picked Skyler up, driven around for a short time, and

0:53 Speaker 1: then dropped her off near her apartment. Police initially treated

0:57 Speaker 1: the case as a missing person investigation. Days turned into weeks.

1:02 Speaker 1: Search teams combed forests, rivers, and abandoned properties throughout the area.

1:07 Speaker 1: Flyers appeared across West Virginia and neighboring states, but something

1:12 Speaker 1: felt wrong as detectives dug deeper. They discovered inconsistencies in

1:17 Speaker 1: the stories told by Sheila and Rachel. Their accounts changed repeatedly.

1:22 Speaker 1: Social media posts from both girls also raised suspicions. Despite

1:26 Speaker 1: claiming to be devastated by Skuyler's disappearance, they often appeared

1:31 Speaker 1: carefree online. Months passed without answers. Then, in December twenty twelve,

1:37 Speaker 1: investigators received a major breakthrough. Rachel Chauff suffered an emotional

1:41 Speaker 1: breakdown and confessed she revealed a horrifying truth. According to Rachel,

1:47 Speaker 1: she and Sheila had planned Schuyler's murder for months. On

1:51 Speaker 1: the night of July fifth, they picked her up and

1:53 Speaker 1: drove across state lines into a remote wooded area in Pennsylvania.

1:58 Speaker 1: Once there, the three girls got out of the vehicle

2:01 Speaker 1: without warning. Sheila and Rachel attacked Skyler with knives. Skyler

2:06 Speaker 1: tried to run. She fought desperately for her life, but

2:09 Speaker 1: the attack was relentless. The two girls stabbed her repeatedly

2:13 Speaker 1: before leaving her body hidden in the woods. When detectives

2:17 Speaker 1: asked why they did it, Rachel's answer stunned everyone. We

2:21 Speaker 1: just didn't like her anymore. Investigators later recovered Skyler's remains

2:26 Speaker 1: in a remote area of Pennsylvania, based on Rachel's directions.

2:30 Speaker 1: The discovery devastated her family and shocked the nation. In

2:33 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, Rachel Chauff pleaded guilty to second degree murder

2:38 Speaker 1: and received a sentence of thirty years in prison, with

2:41 Speaker 1: eligibility for parole after serving part of her sentence. A

2:44 Speaker 1: year later, Shila Eddie pleaded guilty to first degree murder

2:48 Speaker 1: and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility

2:51 Speaker 1: of parole after fifteen years under West Virginia law. At

2:55 Speaker 1: the time, the case became one of the most disturbing

2:58 Speaker 1: crimes involving teenage pertrators in modern American history. What made

3:03 Speaker 1: it especially chilling was that Skuyler had not been lured

3:06 Speaker 1: by a stranger. She had gotten into a car with

3:08 Speaker 1: the two people she trusted most for her parents. The

3:12 Speaker 1: betrayal was almost impossible to comprehend. The girls, who had

3:16 Speaker 1: spent time in their home, shared meals with their daughter

3:19 Speaker 1: and called themselves her best friends, had secretly planned her murder. Today,

3:24 Speaker 1: Skuyler's story remains a haunting reminder that danger does not

3:28 Speaker 1: always come from strangers. Sometimes it comes from the people

3:31 Speaker 1: standing closest to you, smiling for photographs, sharing your secrets,

3:37 Speaker 1: and calling you their friend.