12 épisodes
Three Wavland
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After midnight on July 6th, 2012, three teenage girls walked into the thick Appalachian woods somewhere along the Mason-Dixon line. Hours later, under the glow of a nearly full moon, only two walked out.
The very last time Dave and Mary Neese saw their only child Skylar was in a grainy black-and-white video. In it, she's sneaking out of her ground-floor bedroom in the middle of the night, her purse over her shoulder, her brown hair swinging as she hurries across the small parking lot to a waiting car.
What happened to Skylar Neese has become gothic American lore: the odd girl out in a vicious teenage triangle. But in the ten years since that fateful night beneath the West Virginia stars, a fuller portrait of what happened has emerged. From award-winning journalists Justine Harman and Holly Millea comes a gripping 10-part series featuring Skylar's family, closest friends, and law enforcement who lived the case—and are still living it.
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Skylar Is Missing | Chapter 1
Star City, West Virginia. Sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese disappears into the night, just after the July 4th holiday, 2012.
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The Day After | Chapter 2
July 6, 2012, the first day without Skylar, was complicated. After a strange summer, Shelia and Rachel return to University High School for their junior year.
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Dear Diary | Chapter 3
As law enforcement circle Shelia and Rachel, a group of digital vigilantes begin to kick up dust. Officers learn more about the girls from their private journals.
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Hunger Games | Chapter 4
It's a bleak Christmas for the Neeses, who go to extreme lengths to find their daughter. An examination of the past reveals warning signs.
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"They Know" | Chapter 5
A last ditch effort to extract information from Shelia goes awry; Rachel returns to the scene of the crime.
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Silent Snow, Secret Snow | Chapter 6
As prosecutors build their case from Rachel's shocking confession, Shelia keeps up with her social calendar. Dave and Mary finally get some answers.
Avis
Captivating
Really well done podcast. I already knew the story so I was hesitant to listen. So many details and things you may not have known. Interviews with police officers and detectives add to the story. Great job.
White-central galore
My major issue with true crime is the white-centricism of it. The host begins the podcast with a reference to an article she wrote about the effects of social media on empathy. Well, a white teenager’s level of empathy is verrry different from a BIPOC teenager’s. Furthermore, the victim is called or referred to as angelic in every other sentence (literally), but then described in a not very angelic way. My issue is not what she did. She was a teenager and did normal teenager things. My issue is that only white teenagers are given this privilege. BIPOC teenagers are not given this right. Given that the audience is mostly likely predominantly white, people will disagree with me due to defensiveness. I’m not sure if I’ll finish this podcast because it’s getting nauseating to hear this exaggerated narrative.
Ruined it
This was such an interesting case but the host told a one dimensional story and made it SOOOO boring how?