Paul School, where she was on the cheerleading, volleyball and softball teams. There, Sharer attended fifth and sixth grades at St. After Sharer's parents divorced, her mother remarried and the family moved to Louisville. Shanda Sharer was born in the Pineville Community Hospital in Pineville, Kentucky, on June 6, 1979, to Stephen Sharer and his wife Jacqueline, who was later known as Jacqueline Vaught. The case was covered on national news and talk programs and has inspired a number of episodes on fictional crime shows. The incident attracted international attention due to both the brutality of the murder and the young age of the perpetrators, who were aged between 15 and 17 years old. She was 12 years old at the time of her death.
Lawrence had previously attempted suicide after repeated sexual assaults from men. Loveless proposed her new friends help her menace her ex’s new beau.Shanda Renee Sharer (J– January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls. The teens engaged in self-harm, drinking, and drug use. Tackett, Rippey, and Lawrence were childhood friends from Madison. She dropped out of high school and met Loveless in Louisville, KY.
Tackett was in and out of the hospital for committing self-harm on multiple occasions. Child services had to intervene when Tackett’s mother strangled her for changing into jeans at school. Tackett grew up in a strict Pentecostal home. Loveless's father routinely raped her mother while she and her sisters listened, and he allegedly molested each of his daughters. Laurie Tackett was also 17 years old when she helped murder Shanda. Loveless is eligible for release in 2019, after serving approximately 25 years of a 60-year sentence.Īlthough the courts considered the mitigating factors of the four teens’ backgrounds, the Indiana Supreme Court would not overturn Loveless and Tackett’s sentences during a 1994 appeal. Melinda Loveless, the 17-year-old ringleader of the girls who murdered Shanda, reportedly had a tumultuous upbringing. They accepted plea bargains to avoid the death penalty and pled guilty to counts of murder, arson, and criminal confinement. Jefferson County courts tried the four teens as adults. Prosecutors maintained the motive for the murder was jealousy - the same motive identified in the 2003 ‘ Miss Irresistible’ murders. The girls, minus Lawrence, then carried Shanda to a field and burned her alive. They forced her into the trunk of the car and moved her to another location. Subsequently, the teens beat, strangled, and stabbed Shanda. After Loveless threatened Shanda with a knife, the foursome tied her up. The Indiana teens picked up Shanda under the ruse Amanda was at an abandoned property near the Ohio River. Melinda Loveless, 17, Laurie Tackett, 17, Hope Rippey, 16, and Toni Lawrence, 16, plotted to murder Shanda as retaliation for Shanda dating Loveless’s ex-girlfriend, Amanda Heavrin. In 1992, four teen girls tortured and killed 12-year-old Shanda Sharer.
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