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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.
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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. Melinda Loveless, 17, was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1992 for the murder of Shanda Renee Sharer, a 12-year-old girl who was tortured and burned to. 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. The foursome drove to where Sharer was spending the weekend with her father. They forced her into the trunk of the car and moved her to another location. 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. 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. This week on ISGD Podcast, Stacey tells us about the horrific murder of Shanda Sharer, a 12 year old girl from Madison, Indiana who was tortured to death by. In 1992, four teen girls tortured and killed 12-year-old Shanda Sharer.