Together Again : After 44 Tortured Years

1992 crime in Madison, Indiana, U.s.a.

Shanda Sharer
Sharer in 1991
Built-in	Shanda Renée Sharer (1979-06-06)June vi, 1979 Pineville, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	January 11, 1992(1992-01-11) (aged 12) Madison, Indiana, U.S.
Crusade of decease	Immolation
Parent(s)	Stephen Sharer Jacqueline Vaught

Shanda Renée Sharer (June 6, 1979 – Jan xi, 1992) was an American daughter who was tortured and burned to decease in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls. She was 12 years old at the time of her death. The incident attracted international attending due to both the brutality of the murder and the young age of the perpetrators, who were aged between fifteen and 17 years old. The case was covered on national news and talk shows and has inspired a number of episodes on fictional crime shows.^[1]

Shanda Sharer [edit]

Shanda Sharer was born in the Pineville Community Hospital in Pineville, Kentucky, on June 6, 1979, to Stephen Sharer and his married woman Jacqueline, who was later known as Jacqueline Vaught.^[2] Afterwards Sharer's parents divorced, her mother remarried and the family unit moved to Louisville. There, Sharer attended fifth and sixth grades at St. Paul Schoolhouse, where she was on the cheerleading, volleyball and softball teams.^[3] When her mother divorced again, the family moved in June 1991 to New Albany, Indiana, and Sharer enrolled at Hazelwood Middle School.^[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.^[3]

Perpetrators involved in the homicide [edit]

Melinda Loveless [edit]

Melinda Loveless was born in New Albany on Oct 28, 1975, the youngest of three daughters, to Marjorie and Larry Loveless. Larry was drafted into the U.South. Ground forces during the Vietnam War and although horribly emotionally scarred, he was treated as a hero upon his return. Marjorie later described him equally a sexual deviant who would wearable 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. They lived in or near New Albany throughout Melinda'southward childhood.^[v]

Larry worked irregularly for the Southern Railway subsequently his armed services service; his profession immune him to piece of work whenever most convenient for him. In 1965, Larry became a probationary officer with the New Albany Police force Department, but was fired after 8 months when he and his partner assaulted an African-American man whom Larry accused of sleeping with his wife.^[6] In 1988, Larry briefly worked as a mail carrier, only quit afterward three months and did very little work, having brought most of his mail service home to destroy it.^[seven]

Marjorie had worked intermittently since 1974. When both parents were working, the family was financially well off, living in the upper-heart-class suburb of Floyds Knobs, Indiana. Larry, who was tearing and calumniating, did not unremarkably share his income with the family and impulsively spent any money he earned on himself, especially firearms, motorcycles and cars. He filed for bankruptcy in 1980. Extended family unit members often described the Loveless daughters as visiting their homes hungry, plain not getting enough food at home.^[8]

The Loveless parents would ofttimes visit bars in Louisville where Larry would pretend to be a doctor or a dentist and introduce Marjorie as his girlfriend. He would too "share" her with some of his friends from piece of work, which she found disgusting. During an orgy with another couple at their house, Marjorie tried to commit suicide, an act she would repeat several times throughout her daughters' childhoods.^[9] When Melinda was nine years onetime, Larry had Marjorie gang raped, after which she tried to drown herself. Later that incident, she refused him sexual activity for a month, until he raped her equally their daughters overheard the consequence through a closed door. In the summer of 1986, after she would not let him go home with two women he met at a bar, Larry beat Marjorie then severely that she was hospitalized; he was convicted of battery.^[10]

The extent of Larry'southward abuse of his daughters and other children is unclear. Various courtroom testimonies claimed he fondled Melinda as an baby, molested Marjorie's 13-twelvemonth-quondam sister early in the marriage, and molested the girls' cousin Teddy from historic period 10 to fourteen. Both older girls said he molested them, though Melinda did not admit this ever happened to her. She slept in bed with him until he abased his family when she was 14. In court, Teddy described an incident in which Larry tied all three sisters in a garage and raped them in succession; however, the sisters did non confirm this business relationship. Larry was verbally calumniating to his daughters and fired a handgun in the direction of Melinda's older sis Michelle when she was seven, intentionally missing her. He would as well embarrass his children by finding their underwear and smelling information technology in front of other family members.^[11]

For two years, beginning when Melinda was five, the family unit was securely involved in the Graceland Baptist Church. Larry and Marjorie gave total confession and renounced drinking and swinging while they were members. Larry became a Baptist lay preacher and Marjorie became the school nurse. The church building subsequently arranged for Melinda to exist taken to a motel room with a 50-yr-erstwhile man for a v-60 minutes exorcism. Larry became a wedlock counselor with the church building and acquired a reputation for being too forward with women, eventually attempting to rape one of them. Later on that incident, the Loveless parents left the church and returned to their former professions and drinking.^[12]

In November 1990, subsequently Larry was caught spying on Melinda and a friend, Marjorie attacked him with a pocketknife; he was sent to the hospital after he attempted to grab it. She then attempted suicide once more, and her daughters called authorities. After this incident, Larry filed for divorce and moved to Avon Park, Florida. Melinda felt crushed, especially when Larry remarried. He sent letters to her for a while, playing on her emotions, but eventually severed all contact with her.^[vii]

Laurie Tackett [edit]

Mary Laurine "Laurie" Tackett was born in Madison, Indiana, on October 5, 1974. Her mother was a fundamentalist Pentecostal Christian and her father was a manufacturing plant worker with two felony convictions in the 1960s. Tackett claimed that she was molested at least twice as a kid at ages 5 and 12. In May 1989, her female parent discovered that Tackett was changing into jeans at schoolhouse, and, after a confrontation that night, attempted to strangle her. Social workers became involved, and Tackett's parents agreed to unannounced visits to ensure that child corruption was not occurring.^[13] Tackett and her mother came into periodic conflict; at i point, her mother went to Promise Rippey'due south business firm subsequently learning that Rippey's father had purchased an ouija board for the girls. She demanded that the board be burnt and that the Rippey house be exorcised.^[14]

Tackett became increasingly rebellious after her fifteenth birthday and as well became fascinated with the occult. She would ofttimes attempt to impress her friends past pretending to be possessed by the spirit of "Deanna the Vampire".^[15] Tackett began to engage in cocky-harm, especially later early 1991 when she began dating a girl who was involved in the practice. Her parents discovered the self-mutilation and checked her into a hospital on March nineteen, 1991. She was prescribed an anti-depressant and released. Two days afterward, with her girlfriend and Toni Lawrence, Tackett cut her wrists deeply and was returned to the hospital. After treatment of her wound, she was admitted to the hospital's psychiatric ward.^[16] Tackett was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and confessed that she had experienced hallucinations since she was a young child. She was discharged on April 12. She dropped out of high school in September 1991.^[17]

Tackett stayed in Louisville in October 1991 to alive with various friends. There she met Loveless; the ii became friends in tardily November.^[18] In December, Tackett moved back to Madison on the promise that her father would buy her a car. She still spent near of her time in Louisville and New Albany, and, by December, spent most of it with Loveless.^[19]

Hope Rippey [edit]

Hope Anna Rippey was built-in in Madison on June 9, 1976.^[20] Her male parent was an engineer at a power constitute. Her parents divorced in February 1984, and she moved with her mother and siblings to Quincy, Michigan, for three years. She claimed that living with her family in Michigan was somewhat turbulent. Her parents resumed their relationship in Madison in 1987. She was reunited with friends Tackett and Toni Lawrence, whom she had known since childhood, although her parents saw Tackett as a bad influence.^[21] As with the other girls, Rippey began to self-damage at age fifteen.^[22]

Toni Lawrence [edit]

Toni Lawrence was born in Madison on Feb xiv, 1976. Her father was a boilermaker. She was close friends with Rippey from babyhood. She was abused by a relative at age 9 and was raped by a teenage boy at age 14, although the police were just able to event an club for the male child to keep abroad from Lawrence. She went into counseling after the incident just did not follow through. She became promiscuous, began to self-impairment, and attempted suicide in 8th course.^[23]

Events prior to murder [edit]

In 1990, 14-twelvemonth-old Loveless began dating another young girl named Amanda Heavrin. Later on Loveless's father left the family and her mother remarried, Loveless behaved erratically. She got into fights at school and reported being depressed, resulting in her receiving professional counseling. In March 1991, Loveless came out to her mother, who was initially furious just eventually accepted it. As the yr progressed, Loveless's relationship with Heavrin deteriorated.^[24]

Heavrin met Shanda Sharer early in the autumn semester at Hazelwood Junior Loftier when they got into a fight; however, they became friends while in detention for the atmospherics, and later on exchanged romantic letters. Loveless immediately grew jealous of Heavrin and Sharer'southward relationship. In early October 1991, Heavrin and Sharer attended a school dance, where Loveless institute and confronted them. Although Heavrin and Loveless had never formally concluded their human relationship, Loveless started to engagement an older girl.^[25]

After Heavrin and Sharer attended a festival together in belatedly Oct, Loveless began to hash out killing Sharer and threatened her in public. Concerned about the furnishings of their girl'south relationship with Heavrin, Sharer's parents arranged for her to transfer to a Catholic school in late November.^[26] Heavrin states she gave letters Loveless sent her containing expiry threats towards Sharer to a "youth prosecutor", but the youth prosecutor never did anything nearly it as far as she knew.^[27]

Events of January 10–11, 1992 [edit]

Pre-abduction [edit]

On the night of January ten, 1992, Lawrence (age 15), Rippey (15) and Tackett (17) collection in Tackett's car from Madison to Loveless'south house in New Albany. Rippey and Lawrence, while both friends of Tackett, had not previously met Loveless (xvi). Upon arrival, they borrowed some clothes from Loveless, and she showed them a knife, telling them she was going to scare Sharer with it. While Tackett, Rippey, and Lawrence had never met Sharer prior to that night, Tackett had already known of the plan to intimidate the 12-yr-former girl. Loveless explained to the two other girls that she disliked Sharer for being a copycat and for stealing her girlfriend.^[28]

Tackett allow Rippey drive the four girls to Jeffersonville, where Sharer stayed with her father on the weekends, stopping at a McDonald's restaurant en road to ask for directions. They arrived at Sharer'due south house presently before dark. Loveless instructed Rippey and Lawrence to go to the door and introduce themselves as friends of Heavrin (Loveless's former and Sharer's electric current girlfriend), then invite Sharer to come with them to encounter 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.

Sharer said that she could not go because her parents were awake, and she told the girls to come dorsum around midnight, a few hours subsequently.^[29] Loveless was angry at commencement, but Rippey and Lawrence bodacious her about returning for Sharer later. The four girls crossed the river to Louisville and attended a punk rock testify by the ring Sunspring^[xxx] at the Audubon Skate Park about Interstate 65. 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 automobile.^[31]

Eventually, the four girls left for Sharer'south business firm. During the ride, Loveless said that she could non wait to kill Sharer; yet, Loveless as well said she just intended to use the pocketknife to affright her. When they arrived at Sharer'due south house at 12:30 a.thou., Lawrence refused to recall Sharer, so Tackett and Rippey went to the door. Loveless hid nether a blanket in the back seat of the car with the knife.^[32]

Abduction [edit]

Rippey told Sharer that Heavrin was still at the Witch's Castle. Sharer was reluctant to become with them, yet agreed after changing her clothes. As they got in the auto, Rippey began questioning Sharer virtually her human relationship with Heavrin. Loveless and so sprang out from the back seat, put the knife to Sharer'south pharynx and began interrogating her about her sexual relationship with Heavrin. They drove towards Utica and the Witch'south Castle. Tackett told the girls that a local legend said the house was one time owned by nine witches and that townspeople burned down the house to go rid of the witches.^[33]

At the Witch'due south Castle, they took a sobbing Sharer inside and spring her arms and legs with rope. At that place, Loveless taunted that she had pretty hair and wondered how pretty she would look if they were to cutting it off, which frightened Sharer fifty-fifty more. Loveless began taking off Sharer's rings and handed each to the girls. At some bespeak, Rippey had taken Sharer'southward Mickey Mouse watch and danced to the melody it played. Tackett farther taunted Sharer, claiming that the Witch's Castle was filled with human remains and Sharer'south would be next. To farther threaten Sharer, Tackett then retrieved a shirt with a smiley design from the car and lit it on fire, but immediately feared that the burn would be spotted past passing cars, so the girls left with Sharer.

During the car ride, Sharer continued begging them to take her back dwelling house. 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. They became lost, so they stopped at a gas station and covered Sharer in a blanket. While Tackett went inside to ask for directions, Lawrence chosen a boy she knew in Louisville and chatted for several minutes to ease her worries, but did non mention Sharer'south abduction. They returned to the automobile but became lost again and pulled upwards to another gas station. There, Lawrence and Rippey spotted a couple of boys and talked to them before once again getting back into the car and leaving, arriving some time later at the edge of some wood well-nigh Tackett's domicile in Madison.^[34]

Torture [edit]

Tackett led them to a dark abandoned edifice off a logging road in a densely forested area. Lawrence and Rippey were frightened and stayed in the car. Loveless and Tackett made Sharer strip down to her underwear; then, Loveless beat Sharer with her fists. Adjacent, Loveless repeatedly slammed Sharer's face up into her knee, which cutting Sharer's rima oris on her own braces. Loveless tried to slash Sharer'south pharynx, but the knife was too irksome. Rippey came out of the motorcar to hold down Sharer. Loveless and Tackett took turns stabbing Sharer in the breast. They then strangled Sharer with a rope until she was unconscious, placed her in the trunk of the car, and told the other 2 girls that Sharer was dead.^[35]

The girls collection to Tackett'south nearby dwelling house and went inside to drink soda and make clean themselves. 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 afterward covered with claret. Afterward she washed, Tackett told the girls' futures with her "runestones". At two:30 a.m., Lawrence and Rippey stayed backside equally Tackett and Loveless went "country cruising", driving to the nearby town of Canaan. Sharer continued to make crying and gurgling noises, so Tackett stopped the car. When they opened the trunk, Sharer sat up, covered in blood with her optics rolled back in her head, but unable to speak. Tackett beat her with a tire iron until she was silent, claiming that she felt the victim's head caving in, then told Loveless to "smell it". There were also reports of the victim being sexually assaulted with the same weapon. This tire-fe assail was off and on for hours as the girls went on a joyride through the countryside.^{[36] [37]}

Loveless and Tackett returned to Tackett's house just before daybreak to clean upwardly over again. Rippey asked about Sharer, and Tackett laughingly described the torture. The conversation woke upward Tackett's female parent, who yelled at her girl for being out late and bringing home the girls, then Tackett agreed to accept them home. She drove to the burn pile, where they opened the torso to stare at Sharer. Lawrence refused. Rippey sprayed Sharer with Windex and taunted, "You're not looking and then hot at present, are you lot?"^[38]

Burned alive [edit]

Memorial to Sharer at the location where she died

The girls collection to a gas station near Madison Consolidated High Schoolhouse, pumped some gasoline into the car, and bought a two-liter bottle of Pepsi. Tackett poured out the Pepsi and refilled the canteen with gasoline. They collection northward of Madison, by Jefferson Proving Footing to Lemon Road off U.S. Route 421, a place known to Rippey. Lawrence remained in the car while Tackett and Rippey wrapped Sharer, who was still live, in a blanket, and carried her to a field by the gravel country route. Tackett made Rippey pour the gasoline on Sharer, and so they set her on fire. Loveless was not convinced Sharer was dead, so they returned a few minutes afterward to cascade the rest of the gasoline on her.^{[39] [40]}

The girls went to a McDonald'south eating house at nine:thirty a.m. for breakfast, where they laughed about Sharer's body looking like i of the sausages they were eating. Lawrence and so phoned a friend and told her almost the murder. Tackett and then dropped off Lawrence and Rippey at their homes and finally returned to her own home with Loveless. She told Heavrin that they had killed Sharer and arranged to choice upwardly Heavrin later that 24-hour interval.^[41]

A friend of Loveless's, Crystal Wathen, came over to Loveless's house, and they told her what had happened. And then, the 3 girls drove to selection up Heavrin and have her back to Loveless'south house, where they told Heavrin the story. Both Heavrin and Wathen were reluctant to believe the story until Tackett showed them the torso of the car with Sharer's bloody handprints and socks still nowadays. Heavrin was horrified and asked to exist taken domicile. When they pulled upwards in front end of her house, Loveless kissed Heavrin, told her she loved her and pleaded with her not to tell anyone. Heavrin promised she would not before entering her firm.^[42]

Investigation [edit]

After on the morning of January eleven, 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. They initially idea information technology was a mannequin of some sort, merely upon exiting the vehicle realized that it was conspicuously a burned body of a child. They called the police at 10:55 a.m. and were asked to return to the corpse. David Camm, who was after acquitted of his own family'south murders, was one of the responding officers.^[43] Jefferson Canton Sheriff Buck Shippley and detectives began an investigation, collecting forensic testify at the scene. They initially suspected a drug deal gone incorrect and did not believe the crime had been committed by locals. It is also to be noted that her body was posed in a suggestive position, very patently meaning that this was washed on purpose and with intention. It was also plant that the victim's face up and hands were burnt in an attempt to proceed her unrecognizable and unidentifiable.^[44]

Sharer'due south father Steven noticed his daughter was nowhere to exist found early on Jan 11. Afterward phoning neighbors and friends all forenoon, he called his former wife, Sharer's mother, at 1:45 p.1000.; they met and filed a missing person report with the Clark County sheriff.^{[45] [46]}

At eight:twenty p.m., a hysterical Lawrence and Rippey went to the Jefferson County Sheriff's role with their parents. They both gave very rambling statements, identifying the victim as "Shanda", naming the two other girls involved as all-time as they could, and describing the main events of the previous night. Afterward an inter-county investigation, Shippley contacted the Clark County sheriff and was finally able to match the body to Sharer'southward missing person report.^[47]

Detectives obtained dental records that positively identified Sharer as the victim.^[48] Loveless and Tackett were arrested on January 12. The majority of the evidence for the abort warrant was Lawrence and Rippey's statements. The prosecution immediately declared its intention to try both Loveless and Tackett as adults. For several months, the prosecutors and defence attorneys did not release any information well-nigh the case, giving the news media only the statements by Lawrence and Rippey.^[46]

Judicial procedure [edit]

Timeline
January 11, 1992	Body of Shanda Sharer constitute in rural Jefferson Canton, Indiana
April 22, 1992	Lawrence accepts plea deal
September 21, 1992	Loveless and Tackett accept plea bargains
Jan 4, 1993	Loveless sentenced to 60 years
December 14, 2000	Lawrence released on parole
November 3, 2004	A estimate reduces Rippey's sentence to 35 years
April 28, 2006	Rippey released on parole
Jan 11, 2018	Tackett released on parole
September 5, 2019	Loveless released on parole

All 4 girls were charged as adults. To avoid the capital punishment, the girls accepted plea bargains.^[49]

Mitigating factors [edit]

All four girls had troubled backgrounds, with claims of physical or sexual abuse committed by a parent or other adult. Lawrence, Rippey, and Tackett all had histories of self-harming behavior.^[l] Tackett was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and suffering from hallucinations.^[17] Loveless, ofttimes described as the ringleader in the set on,^[51] had the virtually extensive history of corruption and mental health issues.

Sentences [edit]

Tackett and Loveless were sentenced to 60 years in the Indiana Women'southward Prison in Indianapolis. Tackett was released in 2018, and served probation for one yr. Loveless was released in September 2019.^[52] Rippey was sentenced to lx years, with ten years suspended for mitigating circumstances, plus ten years of medium-supervision probation. On entreatment, a judge reduced the sentence to thirty-five years. In substitution for her cooperation, Lawrence was allowed to plead guilty to one count of criminal confinement and was sentenced to a maximum of twenty years.

Appeals [edit]

In October 2007, Loveless's attorney, Marker Pocket-sized, requested a hearing to argue for his client's release. He said that Loveless had been "greatly retarded" by childhood abuse. Moreover, she had not been represented competently past counsel during her sentencing, which caused her to have a plea deal in the face of exaggerated claims nearly her chances of receiving the death sentence. Small also argued that Loveless, who was 16 years erstwhile when she signed the plea agreement, was likewise young to enter into a contract in the state of Indiana without consent from a parent or guardian, which had not been obtained. If the judge accustomed these arguments, Loveless could have been retried or released outright.^[53]

On January 8, 2008, Loveless'due south request was rejected by Jefferson Circuit Judge Ted Todd. Instead, Loveless would exist eligible for parole in fifteen years, thus maintaining the original guilty plea.^[54] On November 14, 2008, Loveless's appeal was denied by the Indiana Court of Appeals, upholding Judge Todd's ruling. Small stated that he would seek to have jurisdiction over the case moved to the Indiana Supreme Court.^[55]

Releases [edit]

Lawrence was released on December 14, 2000, after serving ix years. She remained on parole until December 2002.^[56]

On April 28, 2006, Rippey was released from Indiana Women's Prison house on parole later serving fourteen years of her original sentence. She remained on supervised parole for five years until April 2011.^[57]

Tackett was released from Rockville Correctional Facility on January 11, 2018, the 26th anniversary of Sharer's decease, after serving nearly twenty-half-dozen years, and has completed an additional year of parole.^[58]

Loveless was released from Indiana Women's Prison house on September 5, 2019.^[59] After serving 26+ years in prison, she will serve parole in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Aftermath [edit]

During Loveless's sentencing hearing, extensive open court testimony revealed that her father Larry had abused his married woman, his daughters, and other children. Consequently, he was arrested in February 1993 on charges of rape, sodomy, and sexual battery. Most of the crimes occurred from 1968 to 1977. Larry remained in prison for over two years awaiting trial; all the same, a judge eventually ruled that all charges except ane count of sexual battery had to be dropped due to the statute of limitations, which was five years in Indiana. Loveless pleaded guilty to the one count of sexual battery. He received a sentence of time served and was released in June 1995.^{[60] [61]} A few weeks post-obit his release, Larry unsuccessfully sued the Floyd Canton Jail for $39 million in federal court, alleging he had suffered cruel and unusual penalisation during his 2-year incarceration. Among his complaints were that he was non allowed to slumber in his bed during the day or to read the newspaper.^[61]

Sharer's begetter, Steven Sharer, died of alcoholism in 2005 at the age of 53. In an interview with Shanda Sharer's mother, Jacque Vaught, on the Investigation Discovery series Deadly Women, Vaught stated that Sharer'south father was then destroyed by his daughter's murder that he "did everything he could to kill himself as well put a gun to his head" and that he "drank himself to death. The man definitely died from a broken heart".^[62]

The Shanda Sharer Scholarship Fund was established in January 2009. The fund planned to provide scholarships to two students per year from Prosser School of Technology in New Albany; one scholarship to a student who is continuing his or her pedagogy, and the other scholarship to a student who is outset his or her career and must buy tools or other work equipment.^[63] By Nov 2018 Shanda's female parent Jacque Vaught stated that the scholarship fund had been depleted and is no longer accepting donations.

In 2012, Sharer's mother, Jacque Vaught, made her first contact with Melinda Loveless since the trials, although indirectly. Vaught donated a dog named Affections in Shanda's proper noun to Loveless to train for the Indiana Canine Assistance Network plan (ICAN) through Project2heal, which provides service pets to people with disabilities. Loveless trained dogs for the program for several years. Vaught reported that she had endured criticism over the decision, but defends it saying, "It's my selection to make. She's (Shanda) my kid. If you don't allow good things come from bad things, zilch gets better. And I know what my child would want. My child would want this." Vaught stated that she hoped to donate a dog every twelvemonth in honor of Shanda Sharer.^[64] A documentary produced by Episode 11 Productions, entitled Charlie's Scars, captured Vaught'southward determination to allow Loveless to train dogs in Shanda's proper name. The picture show as well has 3 interviews with Loveless.

In pop civilization [edit]

In literature and phase plays [edit]

The crime was documented in two true crime books, Footling Lost Affections by Michael Quinlan^[30] and Cruel Cede by Aphrodite Jones;^[65] Jones's book on the example became a New York Times Bestseller.

The story was turned into a play by Rob Urbinati chosen Hazelwood Jr. High, which starred Chloë Sevigny as Tackett.^[66] The play was published by Samuel French, Inc. in September 2009.^[67]

The poem The Whole World Is Singing by Daphne Gottlieb, is told from the betoken of view of Shanda Sharer and includes lines from notes written from Shanda Sharer to Amanda Heavrin.^[68]

The poem In God'southward Arms by author Lacy Gray dedicated to the family of Shanda Renee Sharer. Information technology was published Feb eight, 1993 and May 11, 1995 in the Jeffersonville, Indiana-based paper, The Evening News.^[69]

In television receiver [edit]

"Hateful", an episode from the fifth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, is based on the murder.^{[70] [71]}

The Cold Example 2nd-season episode "The Sleepover" is loosely based on this criminal offense.^[72]

In 2011, Dr. Phil aired a two-part series on the crime, which featured Shanda Sharer's mother and sis Paige, who both harshly confronted Promise Rippey on the show, and an interview with Amanda Heavrin.^[73]

The murder of Sharer was covered in the first of two segments in the Lifetime serial Killer Kids, episode "Jealousy", aired: July 2014.^{[74] [75]}

The Investigation Discovery serial The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade, episode "The New Girl" interviews Sharer'due south mother along with pb police force officers, aired: November 2018.^[76]

In art [edit]

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.^[77] McCarty's cartoon entitled Melinda Loveless, Toni Lawrence, Hope Rippey, Laurie Tackett, and Shanda Sharer – January 11, 1992 (one:39 am) (2000–2001) is now in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Fine art, Los Angeles.^[78]

Meet also [edit]

• Child murder
• Murder of Bobby Kent
• Murder of Michele Avila
• Murder of Skylar Neese
• Slender Human stabbing
• Parker–Hulme murder case
• Murder of Sylvia Likens

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External links [edit]

• Charlie's Scars - Documentary related to Shanda Sharer
• Lohr, David. "The Killing Field." Criminal offence Library
• Video nearly Shanda Sharer murder on YouTube

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