My child would want this.". 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 breeder convinced Vaught to watch a video of Loveless grown up and see what she does in prison for the program. On the morning of January 11, 1992, 2 hunters found Shanda's beaten and burned body. But Tackett also explained how after beating Sharerthey locked the injured but still-living girl in the trunk of her car and drove her to the spot where she was set on fire. 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. She donated a puppy named Angel for Loveless to train in prison. The conversation woke up Tackett's mother, who yelled at her daughter for being out late and bringing home the girls, so Tackett agreed to take them home. 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. Melinda has also reportedly changed her name since her release and prefers to stay away from the public eyes. 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. Shanda Sharer, a 16-year-old girl from Missouri, was murdered in 1998. The girls drove Sharer to Witches Castle in Utica where they bound her legs and arms and began their torture of the twelve-year-old girl. Loveless immediately grew jealous of Heavrin and Sharer's relationship. As per the show, she was jealous of Shanda and had written angry letters to Amanda about killing her perceived competition. [62] By November 2018 Shanda's mother Jacque Vaught stated that the scholarship fund had been depleted and is no longer accepting donations. Shanda was the kind of girl you wanted to be friends with; she was bubbly, outgoing and a lot of fun. 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. In Dec. 1992,Loveless pleaded guilty to the Jan. 11, 1992 murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer of New Albany. [54], Lawrence was released on December 14, 2000, after serving nine years. The ringleader and jealous lover soon leapt out from under the blanket and threatened to slit Sharers throat if she didnt confess to stealing Heavrin away from her. Larry was verbally abusive to his daughters and fired a handgun in the direction of Melinda's older sister Michelle when she was seven, intentionally missing her. Shanda attended fifth and sixth grades in Louisville at St. Paul School where she was on the cheer leading, volleyball and softball teams. Shanda Sherer Shanda Sherer Shanda Sherer was born on June 6, 1979, in Pineville, Kentucky. She convinced three other teens -- Hope Rippey, Laurie Tackett and Toni Lawrence -- to participate in the crime because she believed Sharer stole her girlfriend. Shanda Sharer was born on June 6, 1979 to her father Stephen, and her mother Jacqueline. Tackett poured out the Pepsi and refilled the bottle with gasoline. 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. All rights reserved. Loveless then convinced the other girls to take Sharer to a remote location where there would be no one else around for miles. 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. At the Witch's Castle, they took a sobbing Sharer inside and bound her arms and legs with rope. In March 1991, Loveless came out as a lesbian to her mother, who was initially furious but eventually accepted it. After reading about the murder of Bobby Kent that inspired the film "Bully," learn about . The 12-year-old seemed to have things working for her, and when she went missing, she was enrolled in a Catholic school. 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. [68], "Mean", an episode from the fifth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, is based on the murder. Loveless was released from Indiana Women's Prison on September 5, 2019. [69][70], The Cold Case second-season episode "The Sleepover" is loosely based on this crime. Melinda felt crushed, especially when Larry remarried. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. In 2012, Shanda Sharer's mother Jackie Vaught made headlines when she publicly forgave Melinda Loveless. Phil." Turning cloudy, a shower possible after 3pm. [11], For two years, beginning when Melinda was five, the family was deeply involved in the Graceland Baptist Church. [20] Her father was an engineer at a power plant. Shanda Sharer was 12 years old on January 11, 1992 when she was brutally tortured and murdered by 4 teenage girls. She served over 26 years in prison and will continue to serve parole in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Shanda Renee Sharer was born in June 1979 in Pineville, Kentucky. It is alleged that Loveless, Tackett, Rippey and Lawrence came from troubled or abusive . Most of the crimes occurred from 1968 to 1977. Jun 20, 1992 at 12:00 am. Copyright 2019 by WDRB Media. She confessed to her involvement and said three others were involved: Hope Rippey, then 15, Mary Tackett, then 17, and Melinda Loveless, then 16. The Shanda Sharer Murder. 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 was, by all accounts, a normal girl who made friends easily and had fun at school dances. Why 12-Year-Old Shanda Sharer Was Tortured And Killed By Four Teenage Girls. For nearly eight hours, the girls sexually assaulted and tortured Shanda Sharer, except for Toni Lawrence which refused to participate in the heinous act. 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. In a new twist to the case, police have now arrested a man named Johnny Lee Sharer for . Loveless and Tackett took turns stabbing Sharer in the chest. :confused:--If that's the book by true crime author Aphrodite Jones, I remember it very well [66], The poem The Whole World Is Singing by Daphne Gottlieb, is told from the point of view of Shanda Sharer and includes lines from notes written from Shanda Sharer to Amanda Heavrin. "You know what, I didn't believe it," said Loveless of the gesture. I think the ICAN program allows her to have something in her life that shows her unconditional love, that she can show that love back to, and there's a result. Loveless instructed Rippey and Lawrence to go to the door and introduce themselves as friends of Heavrin (Loveless's former and Sharer's current girlfriend), then invite Sharer to come with them to see Heavrin, who was waiting for them at "the Witch's Castle", or Mistletoe Falls, a ruined stone house located on an isolated hill overlooking the Ohio River. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. Her name was Shanda Sharer; her age--twelve. Loveless and Tackett stripped off Sharers clothes and proceeded to punch her repeatedly. Catch the episode of The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade, titled The New Girl, on Investigation Discovery on August 19, 2022. Larry and Marjorie gave full confession and renounced drinking and swinging while they were members. The murder of Shanda Sharer occured in Madison, Indiana early in the morning on January 11, 1982. There were also reports of the victim being sexually assaulted with the same weapon. Rippey was sentenced to 60 years, with 10 years suspended due to mitigating circumstances plus 10 years of medium-supervision probation. Died: 11 January 1992. Its something that should have never happened., Furthermore, in an interview on Dr. Phil, the convicted killer explained why she thinks people kill. 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Court testimony indicates that the four girls lured Sharer from her home the night of Jan. 10, 1992, on the pretense that she was being taken to meet her new girlfriend. One of the dog breeders who supplies Indiana with pups is a burn victim, much like Shanda Sharer was. She passed away when she was 12 years old. In 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was brutally murdered by four other girls. ""All I've ever said is, 'I just want them to serve their sentence.' "Ididn't know Shanda at all. The two. So, lets find out more about this case then, shall we. Thats all it was. WARNING: This article contains graphic content related to physical and s*xual violence and murder. 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". There had been just three other murders in the previous 12 years in the County, and none of them were as gruesome. The prosecution immediately declared its intention to try both Loveless and Tackett as adults. They drove north of Madison, past Jefferson Proving Ground to Lemon Road off U.S. Route 421, a place known to Rippey. In 1992, four teen girls tortured and killed 12-year-old Shanda Sharer. [2] After Sharer's parents divorced, her mother remarried and the family moved to Louisville. Vaught donated a dog named Angel in Shanda's name to Loveless to train for the Indiana Canine Assistance Network program (ICAN) through Project2heal, which provides service pets to people with disabilities. "I've loved her, I've cried on her. She was kidnapped, tortured and burned alive by four teenage girls. Tackett and Loveless were sentenced to 60 years in the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis. Loveless explained to the two other girls that she disliked Sharer for being a copycat and for stealing her girlfriend.[28]. Melinda is training Angel to help someone in need, but Angel is already helping her. 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. Loveless began taking off Sharer's rings and handed each to the girls. par ; mai 21, 2022 From what we can tell, she chooses to keep a low profile and spends time with her children and father. There, Sharer and Heavrin were confronted by 16-year-old Melinda Loveless, who had previously been dating Heavrin for more than a year and was now extremely jealous of this new pairing. Loveless served more than 26 years in prison for murder and criminal confinement. 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was murdered in 1992. Parents: Jacqueline Vaught, Stephen Sharer. 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. 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. The man definitely died from a broken heart".[61]. [19], Hope Anna Rippey was born in Madison on June 9, 1976. Concerned about the effects of their daughter's relationship with Heavrin, Sharer's parents arranged for her to transfer to a Catholic school in late November. "Angel is in good hands. Tackett was released from Rockville Correctional Facility on September 11, 2018, after serving nearly 26 years in prison and completing a year of probation. Court testimony showed Loveless wanted Sharer killed because the two competed for the affections of the same girl. "They're going to have that.". Investigation Discoverys The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade: The New Girl chronicles what happened to Shanda and how four girls were responsible for her death. Your login session has expired. Rippey sprayed Sharer with Windex and taunted, "You're not looking so hot now, are you? The 1992 . "We bring our challenges, many times, to Melinda because she's able to figure out what their strength is," said Sally Irvin of ICAN. Vaught reported that she had endured criticism over the decision, but defends it saying, "It's my choice to make. Sharer moved to New Albany with her mother in 1991 and developed a romantic relationship with Amanda Heavrin, a 15-year-old she met at school. Indiana Offenders | National Organization of Victims of . Murderpedia Shanda Sharer's killers. [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. Ultimately four teenage girls would be arrested and charged for the murd. [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. Tackett further taunted Sharer, claiming that the Witch's Castle was filled with human remains and Sharer's would be next. The grieving mother said she did it to honor her little girl, who she still thinks about every day. Published on May 20, 2011. When they opened the trunk, Sharer sat up, covered in blood with her eyes rolled back in her head, but unable to speak. Derek Kaufman,21, the tough gang leader who was found guilty of first-degree murder. But a dog named Angel is a dog like no other -- a four-legged conduit to Melinda's victim, Shanda Sharer. Shanda Sharer met classmate Amanda Heavrin at Hazelwood in 1991, soon after moving to the area with her recently divorced mother from Kentucky. Copyright 2022 The Washington Times, LLC. At some point, Rippey had taken Sharer's Mickey Mouse watch and danced to the tune it played. Then, the three girls drove to pick up Heavrin and take her back to the Loveless home, where they told Heavrin the story. Hope was released on parole in April 2006. 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. Rippey was released on parole on April 28, 2006, from Indiana Women's Prison after serving 14 years of her original sentence. When the people of Madison, Indiana heard that a brutal murder had been committed in their midst, they were . 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. 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. Her prediction was partly true. After that incident, the Loveless parents left the church and returned to their former professions and drinking. 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. Shanda's parents divorced when she was young, and she ended up . One of the four women convicted of beating, burning and killing 12-year-old Shanda Renee Sharer in 1992 was released Thursday from prison on the 26th anniversary of the girl's body being found.. I saw someone almost reborn. Lawrence then phoned a friend and told her about the murder. She began attending Hazelwood Junior High School where she met Amanda Heavrin, 15, and developed a romantic interest in her. 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? She was 12 years old at the time of her death. Melinda was someone who had learned to nurture something, love it, then let it go, as she did with Odle last March. Loveless served more than 26 years in prison for murder and criminal confinement. She was compassionate. 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. He would also "share" her with some of his friends from work, which she found disgusting. The story was turned into a play by Rob Urbinati called Hazelwood Jr. High, which starred Chlo Sevigny as Tackett. [6] In 1988, Larry briefly worked as a mail carrier, but quit after three months and did very little work, having brought most of his mail home to destroy it. 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. [42], Later on the morning of January 11, 1992, two brothers from Canaan were driving toward Jefferson Proving Ground to go hunting when they noticed a body on the side of the road. The four teenagers were eventually arrested, and initially, Melinda and Mary pointed the finger at each other for the torture-murder. Shanda Sharer, 12 years old, had been reported missing by her parents some eight hours earlier. Melinda Loveless has a new lease on life as a trainer of service dogs for the disabled. But in prison, it seems as though Loveless has found some measure of escape from the cycle of violence and abuse. 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. Loveless served more than 26 years in prison for murder and criminal confinement. Marjorie later described him as a sexual deviant who would wear her and her daughters' underwear and makeup, was incapable of staying monogamous, and had a mixture of jealousy and fascination with seeing her have sex with other men and women. If the judge accepted these arguments, Loveless could have been retried or released outright. Rippey came out of the car to hold down Sharer. He filed for bankruptcy in 1980. Jacque has faced criticism over her decision to let Shanda's killer honor her name. Shanda Sharer. That said, Loveless did have a difficult childhood. [77], "Shana Sharer's mother to appear on Dr. Phil", Sharer murderer Rippey to be freed from prison, "Amanda Heavrin Speaks About Shanda Sharer - In Cold Blood: A Daughter's Brutal Murder", "Death of Innocence - The Murder of Young Shanda Sharer", "Thinking the Unthinkable: What Led 4 Teens to Torture, Murder Child? Lawrence refused. Larry became a Baptist lay preacher and Marjorie became the school nurse. [7], Marjorie had worked intermittently since 1974. Sharer told the girls to return after her parents were asleep, which they did. Jacqueline made her daughter switch schools, and that seemed to work. [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. Rippey and Lawrence, while both friends of Tackett, had not previously met Loveless (16). Shes my child. "That's the one Jacque had touched, had held, had named. [53] On November 14, 2008, Loveless's appeal was denied by the Indiana Court of Appeals, upholding Judge Todd's ruling. The whole episode I refer to Shanda as Shandra. After her parents divorced, her mother re-married and moved to Louisville, Kentucky. Her death is notable due to the torture she endured for more than 10 hours, and subsequently being burned alive. She was close friends with Rippey from childhood. Loveless and Tackett made Sharer strip down to her underwear; then, Loveless beat Sharer with her fists. 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. In March 1991, Loveless revealed to her mother that she was a lesbian. Tackett told people in one interview that, I didnt know Shanda at all. As the year progressed, Loveless's relationship with Heavrin deteriorated. 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. I couldn't thank her enough. [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. She slept in bed with him until he abandoned his family when she was 14. While she was furious at first, she accepted her daughter's lifestyle. Social workers became involved, and Tackett's parents agreed to unannounced visits to ensure that child abuse was not occurring. While at Hazelwood, Shanda had met Amanda Heavrin. What followed was a shocking story of deceit and torture. They called the police at 10:55a.m. and were asked to return to the corpse. And Im doing it for Shanda. 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. Sharer continued to make crying and gurgling noises, so Tackett stopped the car. The girls then drove to the field near Madison, covered her with a blanket, and poured gasoline on her. Wikimedia CommonsA small memorial to Shanda Sharer in the field where she died. why taoism is often misunderstood as a superstitious religion because eric montross big grits eric montross big grits Shipley then started the paperwork to get warrants for the arrest of Laurie Tackett and Melinda Loveless. Her parents discovered the self-mutilation and checked her into a hospital on March 19, 1991. They lived in or near New Albany throughout Melinda's childhood. Amanda. Her mother was a fundamentalist Pentecostal Christian and her father was a factory worker with two felony convictions in the 1960s. [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. The authorities learned that while Shanda was in middle school, she befriended an older teenager named Amanda. Rippey asked about Sharer, and Tackett laughingly described the torture. After her parents got divorced and her mother remarried . (Sun. When they pulled up in front of her house, Loveless kissed Heavrin, told her she loved her and pleaded with her not to tell anyone. Shanda Renee Sharer (19791992) was a young girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls. In seven years, Loveless has become one of the most trusted and competent trainers in the Indiana Canine Assistance Network (ICAN) program. "Peer pressure. The teens then bound, bludgeoned, choked, cut and sodomized Sharer at a remote location. Sharer would have been 40 years old this year. 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 remained on supervised parole for 5 years until April 2011. At this point, Sharers mother transferred her to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School in order to protect her. Lawrence and Rippey quickly lost interest in the music and went to the parking lot outside, where they engaged in sexual activities with two boys in Tackett's car. 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. Once they had her in their car, they beat and tortured her for hours before finally setting her on fire. At 2:30a.m., Lawrence and Rippey stayed behind as Tackett and Loveless went "country cruising", driving to the nearby town of Canaan. 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. In October of that year, the pair attended a school dance together. "If you don't let good things come from bad things, nothing gets better. In early October 1991, Heavrin and Sharer attended a school dance, where Loveless found and confronted them. [63] A documentary produced by Episode 11 Productions, titled Charlie's Scars, captured Vaught's decision to allow Loveless to train dogs in Shanda's name. She was sentenced to 60 years for murder. She had been stabbed, strangled, beaten and burned alive. First, they took Sharer to a remote trash dump near a logging road in a densely forested area. My child would want this." Sharer entered the car, not knowing Loveless was hiding in the back seat under a blanket, according to IndyStar archives. As they got in the car, Rippey began questioning Sharer about her relationship with Heavrin. The three other girls assumed Loveless was simply going to scare Sharer into breaking up with Heavrin. 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. 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. He received a sentence of time served and was released in June 1995. I couldnt thank her enough. An unlikely alliance formed between the ringleader of the murder and Shanda's mother. Shanda Sharer moved to New Albany with her mother in 1991. They left soon after, fearing they had drawn attention to themselves. Tackett then dropped off Lawrence and Rippey at their homes and finally returned to her own home with Loveless. She would often attempt to impress her friends by pretending to be possessed by the spirit of "Deanna the Vampire". 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