Dear Diary | Chapter 3

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Speaker 11 In a video uploaded to YouTube in May of 2012, less than two months before Skylar went missing, Sheila and Rachel filmed themselves driving around Morgantown in Sheila's silver 2006 Toyota Camry.

Speaker 11 They primp in front of the camera before seeming to forget its presence entirely. They proceed to take hits from a stashed bowl and have looping, circuitous conversations.

Speaker 11 First, Rachel's worried she's too stoned to perform during rehearsal.

Speaker 14 Oh my god, I have to go to singing.

Speaker 3 6:30. That's when I have to go to singing and do a dance and do a song.
Two songs. So then why? I can't sing when I'm high.

Speaker 11 Then she brags about her floppy-haired boyfriend, McKenzie Boggs, a musician and frontman for the rock band, Call Us Next Tuesday.

Speaker 14 Go all the way back in that corner. This is where me and McKenzie fucked.

Speaker 14 Uh-uh.

Speaker 14 Is that a church?

Speaker 14 There's two.

Speaker 11 At one point, they get stoked on how cool the trees look whizzing past their windows.

Speaker 11 Look at the outside of my window. All these fucking shits!

Speaker 11 They're quite high.

Speaker 11 At the time when they were taken, the videos were part road journal, part amateur self-portrait, and part confessional.

Speaker 14 It's a really high song. Oh my god, you know what?

Speaker 14 I need to tell you a secret. I just forgot.
You have a secret from me? Well, I mean,

Speaker 14 I haven't told anyone. Not even Skylar.
No.

Speaker 15 Okay.

Speaker 14 I didn't even tell Skylar that I could hide.

Speaker 11 The videos, like everything the three girls touched, would become evidence.

Speaker 10 From Waveland, I'm Holly Millay.

Speaker 11 And I'm Justine Harmon. This is three,

Speaker 11 episode three, Dear Diary.

Speaker 10 While law enforcement now knew it was Sheila's Camry in the apartment security video, they were left asking, what happened next? Where did they go? What are they hiding?

Speaker 13 We thought the girls witnessed something. If you're being threatened, you're 100% safe with us.
We'll take care of you and all that. Tells you the bad guys are.
We'll go after them. That's our job.

Speaker 10 When I first met state trooper Chris Berry, he was 29, boyishly handsome, wearing jeans, long-sleeve white tee, and heavy boots.

Speaker 10 He was young enough to navigate the earliest days of social media, and he could easily pass for one of the 30,000 West Virginia University students who swell Morgantown every autumn.

Speaker 10 He still could today. We meet at Surfside Charlie's in Myrtle Beach.

Speaker 13 I would say social media has gotten 10 times times worse. Jesus, when you interviewed me, it was right there at the beginning.

Speaker 10 Tell me how you set up a fake Facebook page.

Speaker 13 That are attachments. We set up a fake Facebook profile, and that's how we caught bad guys.
We taught where all the drug dealers were, where all this was.

Speaker 13 And these kids would just fringe you and tell you anything. Throw a couple of stuff with like marijuana leaves or something like that, make it look like we're just a bunch of dopers.

Speaker 13 And kids, I had one kid one time, like, you go to warranty. I'm like, yeah.
And I said, well, I'm going to warn I've never seen you.

Speaker 13 And like last second, I had it's like, well, I'm always skipping class. That's why you never see me.
I'm always skipping class and getting stoned. And they're like, hell yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 13 It was just fun and easy like that.

Speaker 11 It was through the girl's friends and friends of friends that a better sketch of the teens and how they lived on and offline began to emerge.

Speaker 11 When Skylar hung out with, say, Shania Amons, the hijinks were more or less PG-13.

Speaker 15 I think ninth grade was the Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa.

Speaker 15 So Skylar and I went together. It was, my grandmother had bought our tickets and,

Speaker 15 you know, Skylar lived in Morgantown. So that was the first time that Skylar and I had ever stayed, just the two of us, by ourselves, and had ever done anything where it was just Skylar and I.

Speaker 15 Sheila wasn't there. I stayed at Skylar's and we had a great time.

Speaker 15 That was our first concert like that. Like I said, we were freshmen, so I think we were like 14, 15 years old, probably 14.

Speaker 15 And there was a lot of smoking in the Coliseum for the concert.

Speaker 15 And we were like smoking with complete strangers, but in those days, it wasn't as likely to get handed something that was much more dangerous than marijuana.

Speaker 15 Here's a picture of Skylar and I from that concert. And you know, we showed up in like jeans and whiskily fatigue shirts thinking we were all cool.

Speaker 15 Yeah, that was definitely not the aesthetic that we were expecting we were at a rap concert in morgantown so uh we got a kind of a shock there

Speaker 11 normal teen stuff being and feeling younger than everyone else awkwardly asking strangers can i hit that and learning from it all but add sheila and the dynamics changed the hijinks suddenly turned rated r

Speaker 15 so then our 10th grade year she Sheila had her license first and her mom had given her her old car, so she was able to get around. And that's when we went to the Taiga concert.

Speaker 11 Sheila posted a picture of her, Schuyler, and Shania in a bathroom mirror selfie before the concert. They're all wearing slightly different black dresses.
Schuyler's looks to be strapless.

Speaker 11 Sheila is in a short t-shirt dress. And Shania is wearing a long-sleeve design with holes down the sleeves.
There are two giant big gulps in front of them. The caption, caption, a simple heart.

Speaker 17 And they were all excited because they had tickets.

Speaker 15 Skylar and I both got our dresses from Forever 21.

Speaker 17 Oh, these girls bought brand new dresses, spiked heels, special jewelry, and Skylar had on a little black dress with gold shoes and that gold necklace. And she had bought it special for that concert.

Speaker 17 It was a leaf, a gold leaf, like a maple leaf, but in a pot leaf.

Speaker 15 So we all ended up with a black dress and heels to go to this concert in 10th grade and Sheila driving. And we knew that we could get weed in ourselves.

Speaker 15 So snuck in lunch to smoke in the Coliseum like, you know, we had seen the year before. And it was a blast.
Now, Sheila like side-swiped a pole, almost wrecked.

Speaker 15 I swear we probably almost died 100 times that night. Once we got home, we all stayed at Sheila's house.
Her mom was a little more lenient about some things.

Speaker 10 That night, Sheila tweeted, ain't no rest for the wicked.

Speaker 10 Skylar was always a sounding board for Sheila and her exploits, and she was happy to have a front row seat. She chronicled everything in her diary.

Speaker 10 Back in 2014, Jessica Colbank put it to me this way: quote, a lot of her diary seemed not jealous of Sheila. Skylar was very pretty, but Sheila had all the guys and could do whatever she wanted.

Speaker 10 Sheila got all the attention.

Speaker 10 Skylar could live vicariously through Sheila, writing about what she called Sheila's sexcapades because she didn't have any of her own. And Sheila was not shy when it came to the details.

Speaker 10 According to Colbank, Sheila told Skylar who she did it with, how they did it, if it was good, if it was bad, if he was big, big, if he was small.

Speaker 10 That's another reason Schuyler wasn't sexually active. She didn't need to be because she could live off of the stories that Sheila was telling.

Speaker 10 The girl's outward appearance, bonded, happy, aligned, was often in sharp contrast with what Schuyler had written. The dissonance spoke volumes.

Speaker 18 It put in perspective a little bit the dynamics between Sheila and Schuyler. Because again, photos, they all looked happy.
They were all smiling in photos.

Speaker 18 They put their best face forward because Sheila is a very vain person, extremely vain.

Speaker 10 One entry in particular stands out. On August 21st, 2011, at 2.34 in the morning, Schuyler wrote about a vodka-soaked sleepover with Rachel and Sheila at Rachel's house.

Speaker 16 I remember that night. That is so weird because Rachel was never allowed to do anything and she was allowed to have a sleepover, which I thought was bizarre, you know, as far as Patricia muttering.

Speaker 10 That's Rachel's former next door neighbor, Kim Keener.

Speaker 16 And so anyway, I remember her coming to my house and I think the girls had been smoking pot down there that night because she said the windows were wide open and, you know, and I mean, big deal, kids smoke pot in high school.

Speaker 16 But and I mean, but it, but she told me that she was awakened at five o'clock in the morning to screaming, a screaming fight between the three girls.

Speaker 10 While holding her daughter's diary in 2014, Mary told me what Schuyler had written about on that raucous night.

Speaker 19 Schuyler, Sheila, and Rachel were all at Rachel's house one night and they wanted to party.

Speaker 19 So they snuck downstairs, got liquor out of her mom's liquor cabinet, went upstairs, locked themselves in so Patricia couldn't walk in and catch them, and they were drinking.

Speaker 19 And she said that they got drunk, and Sheila and Rachel

Speaker 19 proceeded to make out, she said,

Speaker 19 in every way that you possibly can outside of actually effing. And she said the word.

Speaker 19 And she said she was locked in the room with them and was afraid to leave because she was afraid then that Patricia would find out. they had gotten into the liquor.

Speaker 20 I know that the night that she talked about in her diary about those two being lesbians, they were all three drunk.

Speaker 10 That's Dave Neese again, Schuyler's dad.

Speaker 20 I think the night that those two had relations,

Speaker 20 Skylar talks about it in her diary. And she decided then, I'm the third wheel.
You know, I'm the one that's they're talking about.

Speaker 6 And it was true.

Speaker 13 I mean, they were

Speaker 20 After that encounter, she said in her diary, it made her sick to her stomach, and she hopes she never has to watch anything like that again.

Speaker 10 Her private testimonial revealed a painful, permanent fissure in the friendship, something Schuyler's parents would only realize after their daughter had gone missing.

Speaker 10 One of the things I've found out this go-round is Skylar had a temper.

Speaker 13 She did. We noticed that too in her diary.
But knowing she had a temper, she also was very forgiving, very forgiving. She was very quick to bite,

Speaker 3 but then bring it back.

Speaker 13 Then she'd hope for the best and go from there. Well, then, boom, something else would happen.
It was just constant.

Speaker 10 Two weeks after Rachel and Sheila hooked up in front of her, Skylar took to Twitter.

Speaker 11 I'd tell the whole school all the shit I have on everyone, which is a lot. Hashtag, if I could get away with it.

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Speaker 10 By September of junior year, the school had become a pressure cooker. From the get-go, the principal and staff discouraged all chatter regarding Schuyler's disappearance.
Here's Tom Bloom again.

Speaker 22 We had kids who needed to talk to people.

Speaker 22 And I will be point blank, I blame it on the principal and, you know, the administration. They put a ban on all talking, couldn't help.
And why the hell would you do that?

Speaker 22 The teachers weren't allowed to talk. So now you had the teachers who couldn't help the kids.
It was more important to keep the image of university high school than help the kids at that time.

Speaker 22 And that's one of my real angers of the school system. I'm bitter on that.

Speaker 10 While discussion of Schuyler was restricted, there was no keeping law enforcement from coming into the school and questioning students.

Speaker 10 At 16, juveniles can be interviewed as adults without the presence of a parent or guardian. Yet Rachel and Sheila's mothers both resisted their daughter's cooperation.

Speaker 10 And before long, the teens each had their own attorney. They were the only students who did.

Speaker 11 Under increasing pressure, the two girls turned to each other, leaving their peers behind.

Speaker 11 They were both acting weird, really weird. Like they stopped hanging out with a lot of people.
It was just Rachel and Sheila.

Speaker 11 Just them, no one else.

Speaker 11 They started smoking a lot more marijuana, and that's a surefire thing that something's wrong in their life that they need to stop thinking about.

Speaker 11 So that was another trigger for me because they definitely, before

Speaker 11 that happened, they smoked weed on occasion at parties and stuff. After all this happened, they were smoking every day.
After school, before school, during school.

Speaker 10 Daniel Hovader, a friend of Schuyler's since childhood, grew close to Rachel while spending so much time with her during theater rehearsals. Sheila, he kept at a distance.

Speaker 10 Sheila's definitely the queen bee. I never really liked Sheila because she was controlling.

Speaker 10 She wasn't my type of person. Like the authorities, Daniel thought the girls were holding back, and he wasn't afraid to speak up.

Speaker 10 And people would be like, You can't say that? Yeah, I can. One day I pulled Rachel out of class.
We were in studio acting together and I started talking to her.

Speaker 10 And I was like, Rachel, we have to talk. And she was like, Listen here, if it's about Skylar, I don't even want to hear it.
I've been questioned by the FBI so much lately that I can't even take it.

Speaker 10 And I was like, Well, I'm just letting you know that if you know something, you need to let them them know because they're going to find out. They're the FBI.
It's not a game anymore, Rachel.

Speaker 10 On October 2nd, 2012, nearly three months after Skylar's disappearance, Sheila posted a plea on the Team Skylar Facebook page with a picture of Skylar.

Speaker 10 The two are sitting on the floor with Sheila leaning back between Skylar's legs, eyes closed. as Skylar's kissing her cheek.

Speaker 11 She wrote, Skylar, sorry I haven't posted in a while. School has been taking up all my time.
Me and Rachel miss you so much, especially at lunch. We sit at a lunch table alone.

Speaker 11 Come back so we don't look like loners anymore. LOL, school is so hard without you.
Actually, everything is hard without you.

Speaker 11 I seriously think about you 24-7 and miss talking to you on the phone day and night. I know you wouldn't like some of the things that are being said lately.

Speaker 10 While law enforcement was tracking the girls online, watching them post in real time, other forces were hard at work. Two people, using the pseudonyms at Josie Snyder and at Mia Bar8,

Speaker 10 started following Sheila and Rachel on Twitter and, with obvious relish, were taunting them.

Speaker 11 On October 10th, 2012, at Mia Bar8 tweeted, Luke 12, 2, nothing is covered up that will not be revealed or hidden that will not be known.

Speaker 10 On October 26th, Josie Snyder tweeted back to Mia bar 8.

Speaker 11 Bring pretty little liars down together. Hashtag promise to never leave you cold.

Speaker 10 Feeling attacked, Sheila fired off a tweet that was clearly a warning to all.

Speaker 11 No one on this earth can handle me and Rachel, and if you think you can, you're wrong.

Speaker 10 Rachel and Sheila were finding the hassle from the police, the fandom posters, and the kids at school unendurable. By mid-December, they were no longer attending UHS and were homeschooling online.

Speaker 16 Patricia was going to the party down in Virginia, and she had just left the house, gets to call the FBI or there to question Rachel, and she calls me and tells me to get over to the house.

Speaker 11 That's Rachel's family friend, Kelly Kearns again.

Speaker 16 Instead of even turning around and coming home, she goes on to her party. And I get there.
The neighbor, Kim, is there.

Speaker 16 Rachel's boyfriend is there.

Speaker 16 They're up in the living room. I don't really know what to do.
I've never dealt with anything like this before.

Speaker 16 So I'm talking with Kim and the boyfriend. And finally, I don't know, about 30 minutes later, I go upstairs and I say, okay, I need to know what's going on.
And they were like, you know, we're done.

Speaker 16 It's the only time I had Rachel to myself in all those years.

Speaker 16 And she gave me some cock and bull story about Skylar sneaking out twice because they dropped her off. So she had to have snuck back out.

Speaker 10 But the entries in Rachel's diary revealed a very different story. Up until July 6th, she would write the typical musings of a hormone-fueled teen.

Speaker 10 But on July 6th, Rachel began writing in code of the Schuyler situation and not wanting that to happen and how she wanted to be re-baptized. Here's Chris Berry.

Speaker 13 She had a diary that Ronnie and I found on the first search where we did her house. And her

Speaker 13 pages on,

Speaker 13 she dated them, everything.

Speaker 13 Rachel was just straightforward, time outspokenly, having sex for the first time, this, this, and this.

Speaker 13 Her diary screwed her first.

Speaker 13 It was the day after Skylar went missing. She talked like this deep religious saying of like, dear God, please take me down the golden path for the sins I've committed and all that

Speaker 13 Mark Looking around, what the fuck do we got here?

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Speaker 2 podcasts, and welcome back to the show. Even nature sounds.

Speaker 2 Oh, and the thing where someone crinkles tissue and whispers at you.

Speaker 3 Hello.

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Reese's.

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Speaker 4 Nice. Yeah, that's really nice.

Speaker 6 20th Century Studios presents the upcoming comedy, Ella McKay, from Academy Award-winning writer-director James L.

Speaker 4 Brooks.

Speaker 8 Emma Mackey plays Ella McKay, an idealistic young woman who juggles her family and work life in a story about the people you love and how to survive them.

Speaker 8 Featuring an all-star cast, including Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Loudon, Kumale Ninjani, Iowa Deborey, Julie Kavner, with Albert Brooks and Woody Harrelson.

Speaker 4 Ella McKay in theaters December 12th.

Speaker 23 Would you guys rather suffocate or get shot? Get shot. Shot.

Speaker 23 Wait, depends on where. Would you rather in the head? Shot.

Speaker 15 There would be no suffering at all.

Speaker 23 Eaten by ants or suffocated.

Speaker 21 Suffocate.

Speaker 11 In this clip, Sheila casually asks Rachel and Schuyler how they'd prefer to die. Eaten by ants or suffocated? Drowning or suffocating.

Speaker 11 sheila appears to delight in hosting the morbid game show drowning or suffocating suffocating it's almost the same thing i know but it's not

Speaker 13 we interviewed her you could look straight in her eyes there was nothing there like you'd ask her questions and she'd be like nope anything else you want to ask like that creepy response is back.

Speaker 10 As the investigation progressed, the consensus among all was that Rachel and Sheila knew more than they were letting on.

Speaker 10 In her interviews, Rachel was clearly uncomfortable, exhibiting non-verbal cues in conflict with what she was saying.

Speaker 10 When I interviewed trooper Ronnie Gaskins in 2014, he described watching her slowly falling apart.

Speaker 10 Things weren't adding up from what she was telling us before.

Speaker 10 So when we would approach her with more evidence, then she would, you know, start to get more nervous. So, you know, there was

Speaker 10 the one occasion where

Speaker 10 she blocked herself out from the interview.

Speaker 10 She looked down, she wouldn't look at us. She had a pencil in her hand, she was playing with the pencil.

Speaker 10 It just seemed like she wasn't engaging in the interview with us. She just kind of blocked herself out.
So, I mean, you could just tell looking at her, you know, something was bothering her.

Speaker 10 Sheila, unfazed, seemed to revel in the process. Here's FBI agent Morgan Spurlock in 2014.

Speaker 10 Sheila, you know, she had great posture, she had her hands folded on the table, and she'd look at you in the eye and speak to you matter-of-fact look, you know, almost.

Speaker 10 You know, she would apologize for changing her story so many times, and you know, she would try and layer

Speaker 10 her perception of the events that happened with a cloud of doubt over some of the facts that we couldn't stick to her. Sometimes I even see that with the career criminals.

Speaker 13 I told Ronnie, I said, she's one of those crazy bitches that it got to the point I had to start watching when I was going home.

Speaker 13 And because my house, she had a little section that goes to the back door, but it was covered because we lived on a mountain. So we had a patio or a breezeway that went back, easy to hide into.

Speaker 13 It was nice. I was taking my gun out of my flashlight and kind of peeking around the corner because I said this crazy bitch would come out and stab me.

Speaker 11 There were only two directions Sheila and Rachel could have gone after picking up Skylar. They said they drove east.

Speaker 11 On a hunch, Barry went to two different Sheets gas stations and scanned hours of surveillance tape until boom, there it was, Sheila's car driving west towards Blacksville, Eddie's home turf.

Speaker 13 So then we went to the crossroads to the other sheets to see if they went on the interstate or kept going out. Well, it showed that she kept going out on Route 7 towards Blacksville.

Speaker 11 so right there we knew 12 30 1 o'clock in the morning they were heading out to blacksville and we just got sheila and rachel alive star city police officer jessica colbank decided it was time to turn up the heat to confront the inconsistencies in rachel and sheila's stories once and for all

Speaker 18 so we made arrangements we're like we know these girls are lying we need to we need to hem them up and we'd been pushing that especially me and chris we need to get these girls separated because they were like blue and their parents were not helping separate them.

Speaker 18 And so, with everything going on, the state police had their polygraph examiner available at their office.

Speaker 10 Sheila took the polygraph test first and was confident she'd passed. As Colbank told me in 2014, she was big-headed.
She thought she could beat it.

Speaker 10 Sheila even texted Rachel, all nonchalance.

Speaker 11 Police station probably gonna fail because of nerves. No big fucking deal.

Speaker 11 To which Rachel responded, As long as you don't fail because you're lying, you can ask to take it again because you were nervous the first time.

Speaker 11 Sheila shot back, oh well, I'm definitely not scared about lying, but it's not like they'd know the difference, LOL.

Speaker 10 Sheila failed the polygraph test not once, but twice, for withholding information from law enforcement.

Speaker 10 The questions the examiner asked assumed that she knew what happened to Schuyler that night, but was either afraid to say or being threatened by those involved.

Speaker 10 What Sheila actually did know was so beyond comprehension, she was never asked if she had murdered her.

Speaker 20 But when they started hitting them with lie detector tests, that Eddie girl took two of them, and the only thing she got right was her name.

Speaker 11 Okay, I mean, it was the whole thing was a lie, so they couldn't compare it to anything else you know everything she said was a lie so how can you compare a liar to what's telling the truth through it all she kept on tweeting you're fat because i hate you i cannot express how much i love being naked ah law and order svu will always bring joy to my life

Speaker 18 on december 12th it was rachel's turn to take the lie detector test but on the way downtown she panicked the day that Rachel was supposed to be polygraphed, she jumped out of a moving car to not go and ran down the street, which her dad called and said, hey, she just jumped out of the car.

Speaker 18 I don't know what's going on. I don't know where she went.

Speaker 18 But he did not want to file a missing persons report because he said she'll show up somewhere. I'm not that concerned.

Speaker 13 She skipped on the polygraph. That pissed me off.
God, that pissed me off. And because Ronnie and Martin's like, well, screw it, she don't want to do the polygraph.
We can't force her to.

Speaker 13 so we'll just you know call it off Sheila's mom Tara had also been of little help we're hitting dead ends after dead ends after dead ends this girl's been missing and they're fucking around with us I hate to say it's like I got two 16 year old girls and a dip shit mother who's pulling her dicks Tara because she had been calling incessantly you know

Speaker 18 you're depriving my daughter of her electronics and I need my computer and everything like that. And so I said, you can come get them.
I'm done with them.

Speaker 18 We've We've gotten all the information we need off of them. Tara comes up to the office.
We were upstairs at the time.

Speaker 18 And I'm getting a box of things. And I just happened to ask her, do you know where Rachel's at? She said, yeah, she's in my car in the parking lot.
So I said, hold on a second.

Speaker 18 So I called the state police because they said she didn't show up.

Speaker 18 And I said, she's in my parking lot right now. Come get her.

Speaker 18 And the FBI was there and they had a discussion and they called her her dad to see if they wanted them to come get her. And he said, no, she's fine with Tara and she left.

Speaker 13 That's when Jessica just started going off and Tara and called her a fucking tool bag and all that. I'll never forget.
I was sitting there at the table and I'm just kind of like this.

Speaker 8 I say, it's good, you're nothing but a fucking tool bag.

Speaker 13 I was like, damn. I was like, all right, here we go.
And I was like, you go, girl, you keep going. You do your thing.
And she just laid in and Tara was crying.

Speaker 18 And I called her a fucking tool. I said, you are a tool for your daughter and her friend to get away with whatever they're trying to get away with.

Speaker 18 They are using you, they are manipulating you, and you are letting them. There is no question in my mind that you know something and it needs to stop.

Speaker 18 And I told the FBI that and the state police, and they said, Yeah, that's not quite how we want to run the show. You know, let us just take it over.

Speaker 10 And just like that, Colbank was kicked off the case. All the while, the Phantom Posters applied steady pressure.
At Josie Snyder, said, Failed lie detector.

Speaker 11 Ooh, no, no, hiding from Popo.

Speaker 10 At Mia Bar 8, clearly connected to someone in the know, heckled.

Speaker 11 At Reach, you know Sheila is pointing the finger at you.

Speaker 11 And then, what you gonna do? What you gonna do when they come for you?

Speaker 11 Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys, what's it gonna do?

Speaker 10 Next time on three.

Speaker 16 She said, get your shit together, Rachel, and slapped her. That's why she said, get your shit together.
She said, she picked up a lit candelabra and hit me in the face.

Speaker 6 She told us exactly where to find Skylar.

Speaker 17 She needs to be put to rest the proper way. She says, what do you mean?

Speaker 17 And I said, you know exactly what I mean.

Speaker 11 3 is an original production of Wavelamp. The series is created and written by Holly Millay and me, Justine Harmon.
The executive producer is Jason Hoke, who produced and edited the series.

Speaker 11 Associate producers are Lydia Horne and Leo Culp. Fact-checking by Lydia Horn.
Sound engineering by Shane Freeman. Music by Robert Ellis.

Speaker 11 Studio recording at CDM Studios in New York and Wild Woods Picture and Sound in Los Angeles. Special thanks to Dave and Mary Neese in the city of Morgantown, West Virginia.

Speaker 11 If you love this series, leave a review and please tell your friends. Follow Waveland on Instagram at Waveland Media for more on this series and upcoming new shows.
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 Here's a quick podcast for all you true crime fans. The case of the missing Reese's.

Speaker 3 It was me at the store with my mouth. Motive?

Speaker 2 Um, they're Reeses. What was I going to do? Stop myself?

Speaker 3 Tune in next time to see if I do it again. Spoiler, I will.

Speaker 3 Wow, that had everything. Reese's, suspense,

Speaker 3 Reese's.

Speaker 1 Are you ready to get spicy?

Speaker 12 These Doritos Golden Sriracha aren't that spicy.

Speaker 24 Sriracha? Sounds pretty spicy to me.

Speaker 12 Um, a little spicy, but also tangy and sweet.

Speaker 24 Maybe it's time to turn up the heat.

Speaker 3 Or turn it down.

Speaker 12 It's time for something that's not too spicy.

Speaker 3 Try Dorito's Golden Striracha.

Speaker 24 Spicy.

Speaker 12 But not too spicy.