Three Wavland
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- True Crime
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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.
Customer Reviews
My First True Crime Podcast
I’ve only recently started listening to podcasts, and since True Crime is a genre I love anyway, I figured I’d start there. This story was a great place to start and well done, thanks for telling it.
Overall a good presentation
The story and interviews are very well done. The last episode of various psychologists and similar, is the reason I won’t not give 5 stars. Too subjective and completely unnecessary. It’s not a “hard science”. I’ve been in the field, the closest to reality is the gentleman’s view. The rest is just subjective excuses and junk “science”. It ruined an otherwise great show with a preset narrative full of excuses for all involved. For future shows cut the last episode & biases related to in the investigation. Tell the story, ignore the rest…or do a different show completely. Focus only on that. Both don’t mix.
Awesome
Great journalism, compelling story and access