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Missing Child: Skylar Neese

Is a 16-year-old girl named Skylar-Earl Neese missing from her West Virginia home?

Published Nov. 22, 2012

Claim:

Claim:   A 16-year-old girl named Skylar-Earl Neese is missing from her West Virginia home.


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Example:   [Collected on the Internet, November 2012]


Missing child Skylar Neese .Missing since July 6, 2012. sixteen
years old. Missing From Star City W. Virginia

Skylar Neese


 

Origins:   16-year-old Skylar Neese was last seen on the night of 7 July 2012, when

she returned to her Star City, West Virginia, home after her shift at Wendy's, told her parents she was tired, and went to bed; by the following morning she was gone. Police subsequently reviewed security camera footage from the apartment complex where Skylar and her family live, which revealed that the teenage had climbed out a window around midnight and got into a car belonging to one of her friends. That friend acknowledged to police that she had indeed picked up Skylar that evening but maintained she had dropped her off down the street from Skylar's home an hour later. Police found no surveillance footage showing Skylar returning to her apartment complex

Skylar last posted to her Twitter account two days before she disappeared, a 5 July 2012 message reading, "You doing sh*t like that is why I will NEVER completely trust you." .

In March 2013, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced that a body found in Greene County, Pennsylvania, two months earlier had been identified as the remains of Skylar Neese.

Last updated:   13 March 2013

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