Neese's body was found less than 30 miles (48 km) away from her home. Ihlenfeld II issued a press release stating that a body found just over the nearby state line on January 16, 2013, in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, had been identified as the body of Neese. After her confession, Shoaf led investigators to Neese's body. David Neese stated that these two girls were among his daughter's best friends and that Eddy had even helped the family by distributing missing person flyers. The motivation Shoaf gave for the murder was they 'didn't like her' and 'didn't want to be friends with her anymore'. The break in the case came on January 3, 2013 – six months after the disappearance – when Shoaf admitted plotting with Eddy to kill Neese. The FBI and the West Virginia State Police joined the search for Neese on September 10, 2012, and began interviewing Neese's school friends. Eddy admitted to picking up Neese but stated that she had dropped her off an hour later. Police determined that the unknown sedan in which Neese was last seen belonged to Eddy and interviewed her. Neese's parents posted flyers about their missing daughter in the Monongalia County region. An early tip indicated that Neese had been seen in North Carolina, but the Star City Police Department determined that the person spotted was not Neese. Neese was initially considered by law enforcement authorities to be a runaway and an AMBER Alert was not issued for the then-minimum 48 hours in connection with her disappearance. Neese's father said she did not take her cell phone charger, her window was left open, and that she planned on coming home. on July 6 and got into a sedan with Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy. Her apartment complex's surveillance video shows Neese left the apartment via her bedroom window at 12:30 a.m. On July 5, 2012, Neese returned to her family's Star City, West Virginia apartment after working a shift at Wendy's. Neese's disappearance led to new West Virginia legislation that made changes to the AMBER Alert missing child alert system. Eddy pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on January 24, 2014, and was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 15 years.

Shoaf pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 1, 2013, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison with eligibility for parole after 10 years. In December 2012, Shoaf confessed to authorities that she and Eddy planned and carried out Neese's murder.

Neese was murdered by two of her high school best friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. Neese's body was found in January 2013, across the nearby state line, in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Skylar Annette Neese (February 10, 1996 – July 6, 2012) was an American teenage girl who disappeared from her home in Star City, West Virginia, around midnight on July 6, 2012. Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States

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