Both Heavrin and Wathen were reluctant to believe the story until Tackett showed them the trunk of the car with Sharer's bloody handprints and socks still present. Her prediction was partly true. Shanda Sharer Murder: Where Are Her Killers Now? She had since reportedly married her girlfriend and seems to live in Indiana. Jun 20, 1992 at 12:00 am. People were even more shocked when it was revealed that four teenage girls were responsible f Shes my child. "She helped me to heal, forgive and grow, whether she wanted that or not," Loveless said through tears, "She did a good thing. Shanda attended fifth and sixth grades in Louisville at St. Paul School where she was on the cheer leading, volleyball and softball teams. The Shanda Sharer Murder has forever changed my life. Sharer's mother and sister were also guests on the show. Lawrence and Rippey were frightened and stayed in the car. That torture wasnt enough to satiate the older girls. It's something that should have never happened.". There had been just three other murders in the previous 12 years in the County, and none of them were as gruesome. Shanda Sharer met classmate Amanda Heavrin at Hazelwood in 1991, soon after moving to the area with her recently divorced mother from Kentucky. As the four girls ate breakfast at McDonalds just after the killing, the four girls laughed as they compared their sausage breakfast to Shanda Sharers burnt corpse. He received a sentence of time served and was released in June 1995. August 19, 2022 by Vim Buzz Local Correspondent American girl Shanda Rene Sharer (June 6, 1979 - January 11, 1992) was murdered in Madison, Indiana, by four teenage girls after being tortured and set ablaze. She currently goes by a different name and works for a trucking company based out of Madison. Copyright 2019 by WDRB Media. Shanda's parents divorced when she was young, and she ended up . Melinda felt crushed, especially when Larry remarried. In March 1991, Loveless revealed to her mother that she was a lesbian. After that incident, she refused him sex for a month, until he raped her as their daughters overheard the event through a closed door. Loveless then convinced the other girls to take Sharer to a remote location where there would be no one else around for miles. Loveless was 18 when she planned the crime. She donated a puppy in her daughter's honor to the Indiana Canine Assistance Network program, where Loveless had taken to training dogs for the disabled. [8], The Loveless parents would often visit bars in Louisville where Larry would pretend to be a doctor or a dentist and introduce Marjorie as his girlfriend. April 25, 2016. Loveless ordered Sharer to slip off her bra, which she then handed over to Rippey, who slid off her own bra and replaced it with Sharer's while steering the car. [3] When her mother divorced again, the family moved in June 1991 to New Albany, Indiana, and Sharer enrolled at Hazelwood Middle School. [14], Tackett became increasingly rebellious after her 15th birthday and also became fascinated with the occult. Melinda Loveless, now 43, was released from the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis on Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Correction. It spiraled out of control way too fast. My opinion is that they [kill] to feel superior, or high on the victims fear, and theyre thirsty for the spill of blood.. Peer pressure. Loveless began taking off Sharer's rings and handed each to the girls. At 2:30a.m., Lawrence and Rippey stayed behind as Tackett and Loveless went "country cruising", driving to the nearby town of Canaan. [44][45], At 8:20p.m., a hysterical Lawrence and Rippey went to the Jefferson County Sheriff's office with their parents. Again driving to a remote location, the girls hauled their still-alive victim now only able to whimper mommy out of the trunk, wrapped her in a blanket, and poured the gasoline on her. The girls, who were all between the ages of 15 and 17, lured Shanda out of her home in the middle of the night and took her on a drive around southern Indiana. Shanda moved around a few times due to her parents divorcing. But the hands that once took life, now nurture it. I had never heard of Shanda Sharer before she was killed, but her murder has made me a fervent advocate for the prevention of crime. Lawrence and Rippey younger, less involved in the torture, and more forthcoming with authorities received lighter sentences, with Lawrence getting 20 years and Rippey getting 50 (shortened to 35 on appeal). :confused:--If that's the book by true crime author Aphrodite Jones, I remember it very well And I know what my child would want. Finally, in the early morning hours, the torturers stopped at a gas station and bought a two-liter bottle of Pepsi, which they quickly emptied and refilled with gasoline. The prosecution immediately declared its intention to try both Loveless and Tackett as adults. Watch the YouTube video part one and part two that tell about the grisley torture murder of young innocent 12 year old Shanda Sharer by teenage young women. All four of them were tried as adults and received lengthy sentences instead of the death penalty due to the plea bargain they entered after pleading guilty to their crimes. So, lets find out more about this case then, shall we. (Sun. And Im doing it for her.. If the judge accepted these arguments, Loveless could have been retried or released outright. She had been stabbed, strangled, beaten and burned alive. But 20 years later, something no one expected happened. Laurie Tackett, now 43, was one of four women convicted in the 1992 death of Shanda Sharer. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. [49] Tackett was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and suffering from hallucinations. Three more hours later, they took her to another . Shanda Rene Sharer (June 6, 1979 - January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was murdered by a group of girls in early 1992. Its something that should have never happened., Furthermore, in an interview on Dr. Phil, the convicted killer explained why she thinks people kill. [59][60] A few weeks following his release, Larry unsuccessfully sued the Floyd County Jail for $39 million in federal court, alleging he had suffered cruel and unusual punishment during his two-year incarceration. Shanda Sharer. Court testimony showed Loveless wanted Sharer killed because the two competed for the affections of the same girl. Known as one of the youngest serial killers ever, Mary was just 10 when she murdered two boys, age four and three, both by strangulation. An Indiana Department of Correction spokeswoman says 44-year-old Melinda Loveless was released from the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis on Thursday after serving 23 years and eight months . "I was the bad person.". Tackett told people in one interview that, I didnt know Shanda at all. Shanda Renee Sharer (June 6, 1979 - January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls. The crime was documented in two true crime books, Little Lost Angel by Michael Quinlan[30] and Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones;[64] Jones's book on the case became a New York Times Bestseller. Nationality: American. Sharer was tortured, beaten and burned in a rural area of Jefferson County, Indiana. It was published February 8, 1993 and May 11, 1995 in the Jeffersonville, Indiana-based newspaper, The Evening News. The case was covered on national news and talk shows and has inspired a number of episodes on fictional crime shows. In January 1992, Shanda Sharer was brutally tortured and murdered by four teenage girls, led by Melinda Loveless, a 17-year-old girl from Louisville. After phoning neighbors and friends all morning, he called his former wife, Sharer's mother, at 1:45p.m.; they met and filed a missing person report with the Clark County sheriff. Small also argued that Loveless, who was 16 years old when she signed the plea agreement, was too young to enter into a contract in the state of Indiana without consent from a parent or guardian, which had not been obtained. In exchange for her cooperation, Lawrence was allowed to plead guilty to one count of criminal confinement and was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years. Two days later, with her girlfriend and Toni Lawrence, Tackett cut her wrists deeply and was returned to the hospital. She's my child," said Jacque. Sharer moved to New Albany with her. Parents: Jacqueline Vaught, Stephen Sharer. Loveless and Tackett took turns stabbing Sharer in the chest. The four girls crossed the river to Louisville and attended a punk rock show by the band Sunspring[30] at the Audubon Skate Park near Interstate 65. They both gave very rambling statements, identifying the victim as "Shanda", naming the two other girls involved as best as they could, and describing the main events of the previous night. Angel is in good hands. In a new twist to the case, police have now arrested a man named Johnny Lee Sharer for . In October of that year, the pair attended a school dance together. Stephen resettled in Jeffersonville, Indiana with his wife, Sharon. When they arrived at Sharer's house at 12:30a.m., Lawrence refused to retrieve Sharer, so Tackett and Rippey went to the door. Small stated that he would seek to have jurisdiction over the case moved to the Indiana Supreme Court. Mary, Hope, and Toni drove to Shandas fathers place to lure her out sometime after 11:30 pm. She then attempted suicide again, and her daughters called authorities. Jacqueline made her daughter switch schools, and that seemed to work. At some point, Rippey had taken Sharer's Mickey Mouse watch and danced to the tune it played. Shipley felt his heart sink as he read the description - blonde hair, five feet tall, around 100 pounds. Tackett then dropped off Lawrence and Rippey at their homes and finally returned to her own home with Loveless. [PREVIOUS STORY: Judge denies Loveless' request for earlyrelease in torture-killing]. She got into fights at school and reported being depressed, resulting in her receiving professional counseling. Hope Rippey was one of four girls convicted of murdering Shanda Sharer luring her from her home in the dead of the night and pouring gasoline on her body. In March 1991, Loveless came out as a lesbian to her mother, who was initially furious but eventually accepted it. Loveless hid under a blanket in the back seat of the car with the knife. There, they cold-heartedly beat and terrorized the girl. [21] As with the other girls, Rippey began to self-harm at age 15. Shanda was best friends with her mom, and close with her father and stepmother, Sharon. Her mom said that her daughter believed it was her destiny that she would murder someone in cold blood and spend the rest of her life in prison. The Abduction. An Indiana Department of Correction spokeswoman says 44-year-old Melinda Loveless was released from the Indiana Womens Prison in Indianapolis on Thursday after serving 23 years and eight months of a 60-year sentence for the murder and criminal confinement of Shanda Sharer in 1992. She was abused by a relative at age 9 and was raped by a teenage boy at age 14, although the police only issued an order for the boy to keep away from Lawrence. [7], Mary Laurine "Laurie" Tackett was born in Madison, Indiana, on October 5, 1974. In the summer of 1986, after she would not let him go home with two women he met at a bar, Larry beat Marjorie so severely that she was hospitalized; he was convicted of battery. Loveless was released from Indiana Women's Prison on September 5, 2019. [39][40], The girls went to a McDonald's restaurant at 9:30a.m. for breakfast, where they laughed about Sharer's body looking like one of the sausages they were eating. Loveless served more than 26 years in prison for murder and criminal confinement. Age at death: 12 years old. The girls then drove to the field near Madison, covered her with a blanket, and poured gasoline on her. [54], Lawrence was released on December 14, 2000, after serving nine years. She claimed that her mother beat her often. [16] Tackett was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and confessed that she had experienced hallucinations since she was a young child. When both parents were working, the family was financially well off, living in the upper-middle-class suburb of Floyds Knobs, Indiana. And Im doing it for Shanda. Loveless is the last of the four to be released from prison. Amanda. Tackett beat her with a tire iron until she was silent, claiming that she felt the victim's head caving in, and then told Loveless to "smell it". Loveless explained to the two other girls that she disliked Sharer for being a copycat and for stealing her girlfriend.[28]. After that incident, the Loveless parents left the church and returned to their former professions and drinking. She was released on December 14, 2000 after serving nine years in prison. My child would want this., Loveless, for her part, feels as if Vaught is helping her to overcome her past. But it was one such dance that set in motion a chain of events that would soon bring Shanda Sharers life to a gruesome, torturous end at the hands of four teenage girls. Shanda Rene Sharer (June 6, 1979 January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls. Slaughter 35,000 Civilians During One Korean War Massacre Or Is It North Korean Propaganda? "I had many times said, "If you want to see as close to a person that has absolutely nothing inside of them, look into Melinda's eyes 'cause there's nothing there,'" Vaught said. [4] Early in the school year, she transferred to Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, a Catholic school in New Albany, where she joined the girls' basketball team. It was a crime of passion and peer pressure committed by four teenage girls. 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. [23], In 1990, 14-year-old Loveless began dating another young girl named Amanda Heavrin. If you don't let good things come from bad things, nothing gets better. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The last of four teenagers convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of a 12-year-old girl has been released from prison. The perpetrators were four teenage girls who committed unspeakable crimes under the influence of teenage jealousy and peer pressure. She was, by all accounts, a normal girl who made friends easily and had fun at school dances. She enlisted the help of her friend Laurie Tackett, 17, and the latter's childhood friends Hope Rippey, 15, and Toni Lawrence, 15. She has chosen to keep her life private since then, and not much is known about what she currently does; her last known location remains to be Indiana. Loveless ordered Sharer to tell the truth about stealing the girlfriend or have her throat slit. On the cold winter night of Jan. 10, 1992, Loveless enlisted three friends Laurie Tackett (17), Hope Rippey (15), and Toni Lawrence (15) to help her take her revenge on Shanda Sharer. [17] Loveless, often described as the ringleader in the attack,[50] had the most extensive history of abuse and mental health issues. They then strangled Sharer with a rope until she was unconscious, placed her in the trunk of the car, and told the other two girls that Sharer was dead. January 1992- New Albany, Indiana- 12 year old Shanda Sharer is abducted, tortured and killed by 4 teenage girls.I feel like I have done a huge disservice to Shanda and her family. Her parents discovered the self-mutilation and checked her into a hospital on March 19, 1991. Shanda Sharer, a young girl with a promising future, was the victim of a brutal torture death that has forever been imprinted into the minds of the locals. They drove towards Utica and the Witch's Castle. Loveless, the one angry with Sharer and the ringleader behind the murder, naturally received a longer sentence than the two younger girls, but why would Tackett take so much to the killing and earn herself the longer sentence as well? Sharer's body was found the morning of Jan. 11, 1992. But in 2004, five years were shaved off her sentence for good behavior. I read the book about the case. They became lost, so they stopped at a gas station and covered Sharer in a blanket. Shipley then started the paperwork to get warrants for the arrest of Laurie Tackett and Melinda Loveless. In Dec. 1992,Loveless pleaded guilty to the Jan. 11, 1992 murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer of New Albany. MADISON, Ind. At a remote trash dump in a densely overgrown area, Loveless and her gang stripped the clothes from Sharer's body, punched her repeatedly, sprayed window cleaner into her eyes. par ; mai 21, 2022 I couldnt thank her enough. She donated a puppy named Angel for Loveless to train in prison. When her parents divorced, her mother married another man and I think the ICAN program allows her to have something in her life that she can show love back to and theres never betrayal on either side.. She would often attempt to impress her friends by pretending to be possessed by the spirit of "Deanna the Vampire". Shanda was born in Pineville, Kentucky on the 6th of June 1979. [68], "Mean", an episode from the fifth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, is based on the murder. She remained on supervised parole for 5 years until April 2011. Derek Kaufman,21, the tough gang leader who was found guilty of first-degree murder. Her death is notable due to the torture she endured for more than 10 hours, and subsequently being burned alive. Upon arrival, they borrowed some clothes from Loveless, and she showed them a knife, telling them she was going to scare Sharer with it. Tackett made Rippey pour the gasoline on Sharer, and then they set her on fire. During the episode, Tackett said that if she could go back, she wouldn't have been there that nightand she would have done everything in her power to stop it. After treatment of her wound, she was admitted to the hospital's psychiatric ward. In 2012, Jacque Vaught made her first contact with Melinda Loveless since the trials, although indirectly. Melinda Loveless was the ringleader responsible for the murder of Shanda Sharer, along with her three accomplices, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence. Tackett further taunted Sharer, claiming that the Witch's Castle was filled with human remains and Sharer's would be next. She was sentenced to 60 years for murder. [9] When Melinda was nine years old, Larry had Marjorie gang raped, after which she tried to drown herself. 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But the Indiana Supreme Court upheld their sentences. [56], Tackett was released from Rockville Correctional Facility on January 11, 2018, the 26th anniversary of Sharer's death, after serving nearly 26 years, and has completed an additional year of parole.[57]. Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Investigation Discovery's ' The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade: The New Girl' chronicles what happened to Shanda and how four girls were responsible for her death. Among his complaints were that he was not allowed to sleep in his bed during the day or to read the newspaper. The 1992 . Died: 11 January 1992. Shanda Renee Sharer was a 12 year old who was brutally murdered and tortured by 4 teenage girls (between the ages 15 and 17) in January 12, 1992. The description matched his Jane Doe. At the Witch's Castle, they took a sobbing Sharer inside and bound her arms and legs with rope. After an inter-county investigation, Shippley contacted the Clark County sheriff and was finally able to match the body to Sharer's missing person report. As a way of rebelling against her parents, the youngster shaved her head and started to engage in occult practices. [24], Heavrin met Shanda Sharer early in the fall semester at Hazelwood Junior High when they got into a fight; however, they became friends while in detention for the altercation, and later exchanged romantic letters. Its my choice to make. It was only when the puppy, Angel, ran into her arms the first time they met in a crowd of people that Loveless believed it. "You know what, I didn't believe it," said Loveless of the gesture. She became promiscuous, began to self-harm, and attempted suicide in eighth grade. [20] Her father was an engineer at a power plant. "I liked it because it wasn't planned," said Loveless. Toni pleaded guilty to criminal confinement and received a 20-year sentence due to her cooperation. Below read an excerpt from the book and delve into the tragic . The Shanda Sharer Scholarship Fund was established in January 2009. They initially suspected a drug deal gone wrong and did not believe the crime had been committed by locals. Authorities quickly narrowed in on the killers four teenage girls, three of whom had never met the victim until . Upon further appeal, the judge reduced her sentence to 35 years. Be the first one to comment on this story. That same day, the girls started talking. After she washed, Tackett told the girls' futures with her "runestones". Everyone involved had been sworn to secrecy. Witnesses said thatLoveless plotted to kill Sharer because she believed Sharer had stolen her 15-year-old girlfriend from her. Heavrin promised she would not before entering her house. In January 1992, a horrifying discovery out in a field near Madison, Indiana, led the authorities on a shocking inquiry that ultimately led to the conviction of four teenagers. But a dog named Angel is a dog like no other -- a four-legged conduit to Melinda's victim, Shanda Sharer. They beat her, sodomized the 12-year-old with a tire iron, choked her with a cord, and sliced her legs with a knife. She went into counseling after the incident but did not follow through. Two other defendants, Toni Lawrence and Hope A. Rippey, were sentenced to 20 years and 50years respectively, according to IndyStar archives. As of September 2019, all four had been released from prison at various times. "Odle comes in, and he's going to set with them, and they're going him hug him, and they're going to talk to him to make it easier for them," said Loveless. The story was turned into a play by Rob Urbinati called Hazelwood Jr. High, which starred Chlo Sevigny as Tackett. He filed for bankruptcy in 1980. She was kidnapped, tortured and burned alive by four teenage girls. Sharer entered the car, not knowing Loveless was hiding in the back seat under a blanket, according to IndyStar archives. Tackett grew up in a strict religious household where normal teenager things were not welcome behaviors. -- The two bird hunters who found the body of 12-year-old Shanda Renee Sharer on that cold, sunny morning in January, said it looked at . Larry became a marriage counselor with the church and acquired a reputation for being too forward with women, eventually attempting to rape one of them. The man definitely died from a broken heart".[61]. Loveless and Tackett were sentenced to 60 years in prison at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis. As the year progressed, Loveless's relationship with Heavrin deteriorated. [10], The extent of Larry's abuse of his daughters and other children is unclear. The whole thing happened around the jealousy stemming from lesbian relationships. In 1992, four teen girls tortured and killed 12-year-old Shanda Sharer. The four teenagers were eventually arrested, and initially, Melinda and Mary pointed the finger at each other for the torture-murder. Ididn't," Tackett said. After her parents divorced, her mother re-married and moved to Louisville, Kentucky. She even showed Amanda the bloody trunk and Shanda's bloody clothes. Thereafter, Minato and Miyano, then aged 15 and 18, respectively, and two other youths took her to a residence in the Ayase area of Adachi Ward . In November, 1988, Minato (then using the first name Nobuharu) and Hiroshi Miyano (now using the surname Yokoyama), worked together to abduct Junko Furuta as she commuted home from a part-time job. She was 12 years old at the time of her death. As per the show, Hope and Mary poured the accelerant over Shanda, who was set on fire while she was still alive. They called the police at 10:55a.m. and were asked to return to the corpse. However, Jacqueline forbade her daughter from seeing Amanda because of some letters she had written that were sexual in nature. [27], On the night of January 10, 1992, Lawrence (age 15), Rippey (15) and Tackett (17) drove in Tackett's car from Madison to Loveless's house in New Albany. Mary also grew up in a sheltered environment and was rebellious. Did The U.S. [26] Heavrin states she gave letters Loveless sent her containing death threats towards Sharer to a "youth prosecutor", but the youth prosecutor never did anything about it as far as she knew. Shanda Sharer, a 16-year-old girl from Missouri, was murdered in 1998. She was compassionate. Shanda Sharer. Her father, a Vietnam veteran, sexually abused her and her siblings when they were younger and experts have attributed her anger to that abuse (for which he was later arrested and convicted). 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