The murder of Shanda Sharer occured in Madison, Indiana early in the morning on January 11, 1982. Melinda Loveless, now 43, left the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis after serving nearly 24 years of a 60-year sentence for the brutal murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in 1992. Her case attracted nationwide attention due to its gruesome nature. 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. And Im doing it for her.. Wikimedia CommonsA small memorial to Shanda Sharer in the field where she died. Why 12-Year-Old Shanda Sharer Was Tortured And Killed By Four Teenage Girls. 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was murdered in 1992. And I know what my child would want. Below read an excerpt from the book and delve into the tragic . In May 1989, her mother discovered that Tackett was changing from a dress into jeans at school, and, after a confrontation that night, attempted to strangle her. She was sentenced to 60 years in prison but has served the required [] MADISON, Ind. April 25, 2016. In Dec. 1992,Loveless pleaded guilty to the Jan. 11, 1992 murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer of New Albany. 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. He received a sentence of time served and was released in June 1995. Parents: Jacqueline Vaught, Stephen Sharer. She was 12 years old at the time of her death. Instead, they stabbed her in the chest and strangled her with a rope before throwing her in the trunk of the car, thinking she was dead. The Abduction. But once Shanda got into the car, Melinda got out of her hiding place and held a knife to Shandas throat, and grabbed her hair. Furthermore, Shandas grades were getting affected. Sharer's mother, Jacque Vaught, told WAVE 3 News in 2007, when Loveless sought an early release, that Loveless was the mastermind of the crime. They initially thought it was a mannequin of some sort, but upon exiting the vehicle realized that it was clearly the burned body of a child. But the hands that once took life, now nurture it. [36][37], Loveless and Tackett returned to Tackett's house just before daybreak to clean up again. But the Indiana Supreme Court upheld their sentences. However, Jacqueline forbade her daughter from seeing Amanda because of some letters she had written that were sexual in nature. 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. Loveless was released from Indiana Women's Prison on September 5, 2019. [20] Her father was an engineer at a power plant. The incident attracted international attention due to both the brutality of the murder and the young age of the perpetrators, who were aged . What followed was a shocking story of deceit and torture. Vaught stated that she hoped to donate a dog every year in honor of Shanda Sharer. It was Shanda, and the investigation revealed that she had been burned alive after being tortured for hours. Shanda Sharer, 12 years old, had been reported missing by her parents some eight hours earlier. When the group of girls drove up to the house, Toni and Hope knocked on the front door; the girl's Daddy answered . Extended family members often described the Loveless daughters as visiting their homes hungry, apparently not getting enough food at home. In the end, Melinda and Mary pleaded guilty to murder, arson, and criminal confinement, receiving a 60-year sentence in January 1993. The next episode of Investigation Discovery's The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade will explore the horrifying torture and murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in 1992. INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WTHR) - In January 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was lured from her home in Jeffersonville, tortured throughout the night and burned alive. But, that night, Lawrence and Rippey went straight to the Jefferson County Sheriffs office with their parents and spilled the whole story. There, Sharer attended fifth and sixth grades at St. Paul School, where she was on the cheerleading, volleyball, and softball teams. After this look at the murder of Shanda Sharer, read about the disturbing killing of James Bulger. While Tackett went inside to ask for directions, Lawrence called a boy she knew in Louisville and chatted for several minutes to ease her worries, but did not mention Sharer's abduction. Meanwhile, Lawrence and Rippey stayed behind in Tacketts car. She's (Shanda) my child. There had been just three other murders in the previous 12 years in the County, and none of them were as gruesome. Four teenage girls lured 12-year-old Shanda Sharer to the witch's castle at midnight on the pretense that another friend was in desperate trouble. He would also embarrass his children by finding their underwear and smelling it in front of other family members. She was close to her mother, Jacqueline Vaught, who said her daughter was good at gymnastics, basketball, and baseball and was a cheerleader. Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the murder of Shanda Sharer. Some of Shanda's friends have put up a wonderful blog that discusses all the many issues surrounding this horrific crime. If you don't let good things come from bad things, nothing gets better. Thats all it was. The two. The details of her murder shocked the area. On the morning of Saturday, January 11, 1992, Canaan, Ind., resident Donn Foley and his brother Ralph were quail hunting in nearby Jefferson County when they spotted a strange object in a fallow soybean field near Lemon Road. Lawrence remained in the car while Tackett and Rippey wrapped Sharer, who was still alive, in a blanket, and carried her to a field by the gravel country road. Various court testimonies claimed he fondled Melinda as an infant, molested Marjorie's 13-year-old sister early in the marriage, and molested the girls' cousin Teddy from age 10 to 14. 'Wow.'". [9] When Melinda was nine years old, Larry had Marjorie gang raped, after which she tried to drown herself. Tackett and Loveless were sentenced to 60 years in the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis. The bulk of the evidence for the arrest warrant came from the statements made by Lawrence and Rippey. [45], All four girls were charged as adults. Melinda Loveless was the ringleader responsible for the murder of Shanda Sharer, along with her three accomplices, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence. Shanda Renee Sharer (June 6, 1979 - January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana by Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence. Mary, who was interested in the occult, even talked about holding a seance to ask Shandas ghost how it felt to be burned alive. They called the police at 10:55a.m. and were asked to return to the corpse. When they heard Sharer screaming in the trunk, Tackett went out with a paring knife and stabbed her several more times, coming back a few minutes later covered with blood. She convinced three other teens -- Hope Rippey, Laurie Tackett and Toni Lawrence -- to participate in the crime because she believed Sharer stole her girlfriend. "You know what, I didn't believe it," said Loveless of the gesture. Shanda Sharer met classmate Amanda Heavrin at Hazelwood in 1991, soon after moving to the area with her recently divorced mother from Kentucky. She demanded that the board be burnt and that the Rippey house be exorcised. Loveless immediately grew jealous of Heavrin and Sharer's relationship. At that point, Amanda was in an on-and-off relationship with another teenager, Melinda Loveless. Jacqueline was divorced from Shandas father, but they moved to New Albany, Indiana, to be closer to him. During the car ride, Sharer continued begging them to take her back home. Jacque saw something she had never seen before. She slept in bed with him until he abandoned his family when she was 14. Lawrence refused. Loveless was 18 when she planned the crime. Instead, Loveless would be eligible for parole in 15 years, thus maintaining the original guilty plea. [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. Phil." Jacque never wanted contact with any of Shanda's killers. In May 2011, Tackett appeared on an episode of "Dr. Indiana Offenders | National Organization of Victims of . Sharer told the girls to return after her parents were asleep, which they did. Small stated that he would seek to have jurisdiction over the case moved to the Indiana Supreme Court. She was discharged on April 12. Copyright 2019 by WDRB Media. She claimed that living with her family in Michigan was somewhat turbulent. 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. "I was the bad person.". I saw someone almost reborn. Shes my child. In today's video, we talk about 1992 torture and murder of 12 year old Shanda Sharer where she was kidnapped, beaten, tortured, and then burned alive by four. Loveless trained dogs for the program for several years. Tackett further taunted Sharer, claiming that the Witch's Castle was filled with human remains and Sharer's would be next. For hours, they tortured a barely conscious Sharer by assaulting her with a tire iron before ultimately taking her to a field and burning her alive. According to the show, Shanda began spending much time with her, and the two became romantically involved. [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. [55], On April 28, 2006, Rippey was released from Indiana Women's Prison on parole after serving 14 years of her original sentence. Shanda Rene Sharer (June 6, 1979 - January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was murdered by a group of girls in early 1992. Join us as we discuss the motive that turned teenage girls into killers and the aftermath of Shanda's murder. In an interview with Shanda Sharer's mother, Jacque Vaught, on the Investigation Discovery series Deadly Women, Vaught stated that Sharer's father was so destroyed by his daughter's murder that he "did everything he could to kill himself besides put a gun to his head" and that he "drank himself to death. However, Amanda was in an on-and-off relationship with Loveless, who could not handle the jealousy and made public threats to kill Sharer. [12], In November 1990, after Larry was caught spying on Melinda and a friend, Marjorie attacked him with a knife; he was sent to the hospital after he attempted to grab it. [2] After Sharer's parents divorced, her mother remarried and the family moved to Louisville. In a new twist to the case, police have now arrested a man named Johnny Lee Sharer for . Lastly, Loveless was released from Indiana Women's Prison on September 5, 2019. Tackett then dropped off Lawrence and Rippey at their homes and finally returned to her own home with Loveless. "I liked it because it wasn't planned," said Loveless. [69][70], The Cold Case second-season episode "The Sleepover" is loosely based on this crime. Upon further appeal, the judge reduced her sentence to 35 years. She went into counseling after the incident but did not follow through. [41], A friend of Loveless, Crystal Wathen, came over to Loveless's house, and they told her what had happened. 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. The killers looked no different than girls I knew in school who walked around, wreaking havoc and completely out of control. She convinced three other. The 12-year-old seemed to have things working for her, and when she went missing, she was enrolled in a Catholic school. When they returned to Tacketts house, she laughingly described what had just happened to Rippey. [25], After Heavrin and Sharer attended a festival together in late October, Loveless began to discuss killing Sharer and threatened her in public. When they opened the trunk, Sharer sat up, covered in blood with her eyes rolled back in her head, but unable to speak. And I know what my child would want. She was reunited with friends Tackett and Toni Lawrence, whom she had known since childhood, although her parents saw Tackett as a bad influence. While Tackett, Rippey, and Lawrence had never met Sharer prior to that night, Tackett had already known of the plan to intimidate the 12-year-old girl. After another divorce, she moved her family to New Albany, Indiana. The Killing Field. The procedure revealed that she had suffered multiple injuries. A sleepy Indiana town awoke one chilly morning in the winter of 1992 to discover the lifeless body of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in an open field. Date of birth: 6 June 1979. As Shanda Sharers mother, Jacque Vaught, said in a 2012 interview, I had many times said if you want to see as close to a person who has absolutely nothing inside of them, look into Melindas eyes because theres nothing there.. [14], Tackett became increasingly rebellious after her 15th birthday and also became fascinated with the occult. 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. In October of that year, the pair attended a school dance together. The fifth had been tortured and mutilated nearly beyond recognition. Melinda almost immediately found Amanda (the same day Shanda's body was found) and told her the whole story. Heavrin was horrified and asked to be taken home. [16] Tackett was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and confessed that she had experienced hallucinations since she was a young child. Tackett proceeded to stab Sharer several more times before driving off once more with Loveless to beat and sodomize Sharer with a tire iron. The Shanda Sharer Murder. She was sincere. The whole episode I refer to Shanda as Shandra. [73][74], The Investigation Discovery series The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade, episode "The New Girl" interviews Sharer's mother along with lead police officers, aired: November 2018. They beat her, sodomized the 12-year-old with a tire iron, choked her with a cord, and sliced her legs with a knife. Her parents resumed their relationship in Madison in 1987. She became promiscuous, began to self-harm, and attempted suicide in eighth grade. Loveless ordered Sharer to tell the truth about stealing the girlfriend or have her throat slit. The story was turned into a play by Rob Urbinati called Hazelwood Jr. High, which starred Chlo Sevigny as Tackett. My child would want this." Larry became a Baptist lay preacher and Marjorie became the school nurse. 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 . 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. The same morning, a hunter found a badly burned body out in a field in Madison and called the authorities. At the Witch's Castle, they took a sobbing Sharer inside and bound her arms and legs with rope. Wikimedia Commons Shanda Sharer In 1991, Shanda Sharer was a bubbly 12-year-old attending Hazelwood Middle School in New Albany, Ind. Larry and Marjorie gave full confession and renounced drinking and swinging while they were members. Online records list the earliest possible release date forLoveless as Sept. 5, 2019. Slaughter 35,000 Civilians During One Korean War Massacre Or Is It North Korean Propaganda? When they arrived at Sharer's house at 12:30a.m., Lawrence refused to retrieve Sharer, so Tackett and Rippey went to the door. Ligature marks were found on her wrists, and she had several lacerations on her head, neck and legs. In 1991, Shanda Sharer was a bubbly 12-year-old attending Hazelwood Middle School in New Albany, Ind. Tackett made Rippey pour the gasoline on Sharer, and then they set her on fire. She helped me to heal, forgive and grow, whether she wanted that or not. [17] Loveless, often described as the ringleader in the attack,[50] had the most extensive history of abuse and mental health issues. She remained on parole until December 2002. The four girls who took place in the events that occured that night are Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence. My child would want this.". Two days later, with her girlfriend and Toni Lawrence, Tackett cut her wrists deeply and was returned to the hospital. They entered plea bargains to avoid the death penalty. Her prediction was partly true. [75], American artist Marlene McCarty used the Shanda Sharer murder as one of the subjects for her Murder Girls series of drawings about teenage female murderers, their sexuality and their relationships. Sharer continued to make crying and gurgling noises, so Tackett stopped the car. In 1992, four teen girls tortured and killed 12-year-old Shanda Sharer. Melinda Loveless, now 43, left the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis after serving nearly 24 years of a 60-year sentence for the brutal murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in 1992. It's something that should have never happened.". The case was covered on national news and talk shows and has inspired a number of episodes on fictional crime shows. (Sun. Did The U.S. 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. 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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. 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. Loveless admitted abducting Sharer, torturing her and burning her to death in Madison. 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. Three more hours later, they took her to another . [58] After serving 26+ years in prison, she will serve parole in Jefferson County, Kentucky. "I've loved her, I've cried on her. At present, all of them are out of prison, much before the end of their sentences. They became lost, so they stopped at a gas station and covered Sharer in a blanket. The breeder convinced Vaught to watch a video of Loveless grown up and see what she does in prison for the program. [49] Tackett was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and suffering from hallucinations. Tacketts motives aside, what would drive 16-year-old Loveless to mastermind such a brutal murder? She was 12 years old at the time of her death. Image of Melinda Loveless, taken in Dec. 2007. Sharer moved to New Albany with her. They then went to Tacketts house to clean up and drink sodas before realizing that their victim, now screaming in the trunk, was still alive. She was released on December 14, 2000 after serving nine years in prison. But in prison, it seems as though Loveless has found some measure of escape from the cycle of violence and abuse. The teens then bound, bludgeoned, choked, cut and sodomized Sharer at a remote location. 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