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Pretty Little Killers

The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese

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After killer Shelia Eddy pled guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison and Rachel Shoaf was sentenced to thirty years for second-degree murder, family, friends, investigators, and other key sources reveal the facts you would have learned if the case had gone to trial.

Including specific details drawn from Rachel's confession, Pretty Little Killers looks at the crime through the eyes of the victim and killers, providing intimate testimony from the pages of Rachel's personal journal, Skylar's diary and school papers, and court records. Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller examine all this, including previously unreported details about Rachel and Shelia's rumored lesbian relationship, and explain why more than one investigator believes that Skylar's murder was a thrill kill. Most important, Pretty Little Killers provides a satisfying answer to Skylar's final question: "Why?"

©2014 Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller (P)2014 Tantor Murder True Crime Crime Scary
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A sad case of kids killing kids, no apparent reason other than they did.
The book was very in depth and although not confusing it did jump back and forth in the timeline, would have been better from start to finish rather than jumping around.

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Looking at the photo of the 3 smiling teenagers - who seem so wholesome and innocent - it is shocking that two of them plotted and then killed the third. In this rather long and terrible story, the repeated use of verbatim Twitter posts from the girls shows how dark and self possessed the teen world can be. How entitled and detached from reality in some cases. A few times in the story one or other of the 3 is described as “little girl”. I fully appreciate that to the parents in this tragedy their daughter is their little girl but these are not young innocents. Sneaking out late to joy ride, smoke pot, 2 were sexually active, one seemed to take pleasure in running down small animals on these late night jaunts - these were not “little girls”. Their self centred, attention seeking, immature, horrible tweets shows they were not adult either. There is something about the teen brain that thinks and acts differently. Most however do not think it is acceptable to plot between two of you to murder a third “friend” because a) you don’t want to be fiends with her any more and b) she might reveal your secrets (which seem to be the fact that the two murderers had sex together in front of their friend, who filmed it and threatened to expose them). Who does that?? The tweets made me mad just hearing them. This was some time ago now but all those poor me / try to work out what I am saying / attention seeking / hashtag laden messages are revolting. One of the girls had been found to have sent thousands of messages over something like 3 days. What a waste of time and energy. All those parents who despair of their teens constantly nose in phone tapping away - I feel for you. Mine were teens just before smartphones so at least they were limited to laptops. At least one of the murderers showed no remorse. What kind of person kills a supposed friend and has no remorse. Hard enough to imagine one 16 year old actually going though with this. Two is almost unbelievable. The poor parents. It hurts my heart to even imagine…..

Scary

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This was a really interesting but devastating look into what happened to Skylar Neese at the hands of her killers.
I would have personally liked if the book had focussed more on Skylars background before her death, and the person that she was, as the story made her come across bad in points and no one deserved what happened to Skylar and the focus should more have been on that, although I appreciated hearing about how kind she was to animals and how she was kind to the LGBTQ+ community.
I think we had too many perspectives in the book and I would have appreciated it being narrowed down.
I thought the narration was great. Very well paced.

Devastating story about what happened to Skylar Neese

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I think that the author has described the tragedy with compassion and explained well most probably causes. It gives s glimpse in the complicated world of changes in a teenagers social world.

Compassionate

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

It's a warning to all parents of teenagers, a stark and terrifying one, I

Who was your favorite character and why?

The Lad who loved Skylar, he seemed really sweet, kind and genuine.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

No, to be honest. I didn't like Skylar, I thought she was demanding, jealous, controlling and someone who would blackmail friends in order to keep them as friends, dangling the threat of exposure like a nasty old carrot. The three girls were typical bratty singletons , and the issues that singletons have when children is a 'mine mine mine' demeanour when they mature the unwillingness to share is just as prevalent and in this case it ended in disaster.

Sadness

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