Skylar Neese was born on 10 February 1996 in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA. She died on 6 July 2012 in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA.
On July 5, 2012, Neese returned to her family's Star City, West Virginia apartment after working a shift at Wendy's. Her apartment complex's surveillance video shows Neese left the apartment via her bedroom window at 12:30 a.m. on July 6 and got into a sedan. Neese's father said she did not take her cell phone charger, her window was left open and that she planned on coming home.