Then they lit Shanda Sharer on fire and drove off. When they returned to Tackett’s house, she laughingly described what had just happened.įinally, 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.Īgain driving to a remote location, the girls hauled their still-alive victim (at this time Sharer was only able to whisper “mommy”) out of the trunk, wrapped her in a blanket, and poured the gasoline on her. Tackett proceeded to stab Sharer several more times before driving off once more with Loveless to beat and sodomize Sharer with a tire iron. They then went to Tackett’s house to clean up and drink sodas before realizing that their victim, now screaming in the trunk, was still alive. 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. They then tried to slit Sharer’s throat, but the knife was too dull. That torture wasn’t enough to satiate the older girls. Meanwhile, Lawrence and Rippey stayed behind in Tackett’s car. Loveless hit the victim’s face with her knee until she bled profusely from her mouth. Loveless and Tackett stripped off Sharer’s clothes and proceeded to punch her repeatedly. The three other girls assumed Loveless was simply going to scare Sharer into breaking up with Heavrin.įor seven hours, the four girls brutally tortured Shanda Sharer before ultimately killing her. Loveless then convinced the other girls to take Sharer to a remote location where there would be no one else around for miles. In tears and fearful for her life, Sharer tried to respond but to no avail. Loveless soon leapt out from under the blanket and threatened to slit Sharer’s throat if she didn’t confess to stealing Heavrin away from her.

In the back seat, Melinda Loveless was hiding under a blanket with a knife. The girls then took Sharer into their car and told her they were going to drive her to the meeting place at the Witch’s Castle, an isolated and abandoned house that served as a local teen hangout. Sharer told the girls to return after her parents were asleep, which they did. The girls used the pretense that they were taking Sharer to see Heavrin as the excuse for their visit. The foursome drove to where Sharer was spending the weekend with her father. On the night of January 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. This worried Sharer’s parents, they were concerned about the effects of their daughter’s relationship with Heavrin, so they transferred her to a Catholic school in late November. In the weeks following, Melinda threatened Shanda in public and began to write letters to Amanda saying she wanted Shanda dead. At the dance, Melinda tried to fight Shanda, but Amanda stopped her.

The sight of Shanda and Amanda together made Melinda furious. On October 1991, Sharer and Heavrin attended a school together. In the fall of 1991, Shanda met Amanda Heavrin, whom she had a fight and both got sent to detention, where they later became friends and eventually they exchanged love letters and a relationship began.Īmanda Heavrin had previously dated 15-year old Melinda Loveless, so when Loveless found out that Heavrin was dating Sharer she grew jealous of them. When her mother divorced again, the family moved in June 1991 to New Albany, Indiana. Shanda was born in Pineville, Kentucky on June 6th, 1979 to Stephen Sharer and his wife Jacqueline, who was later known as Jacqueline Vaught.Īfter her parents got divorced and her mother remarried the family moved to Louisville.

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. So I recently found out about this case and I did my research and it hasn’t been posted here recently.

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