![]() ![]() Toni and Hope refused to get out of the car, but Melinda and Laurie weren’t hearing that. Laurie and Melinda demanded that Hope and Toni get out and see what they had done to Shanda. ![]() Then they drove to a place they thought would be remote enough that no one would find Shanda. They immediately poured out the soda and replaced it with gasoline. The four teens went to a gas station and bought a 2-liter of Pepsi. They updated the girls on what they had done while they laughed about it all. Melinda and Laurie returned in the morning and gathered up Toni and Hope. Laurie’s dad even came in and asked about Laurie, but they didn’t tell him what was really going on. Hope and Toni had been waiting in Laurie’s room not knowing what the others were doing. Melinda and Laurie beat and sodomized Shanda with a tire iron before returning to Laurie’s house. Laurie went back to the trunk and stabbed Shanda more then she and Melinda drove off with Shanda still in the trunk. The 2 older girls strangled Shanda with a rope until she passed out, and then they put her in the trunk thinking she was dead.Īll four girls then drove back to Laurie’s house to get cleaned up and celebrate by drinking some sodas until they heard Shanda screaming from the trunk. Melinda tried to slit Shanda’s throat, but the knife was too dull so she stabbed her in the chest. Punching her, kneeing her in the mouth until she was bleeding horribly from her mouth. They took her to a trash dump where Melinda and Laurie stripped her and beat her up. Shanda was taken to the Witch’s Castle where Toni and Hope thought they were going to scare her, but Melinda and Laurie had more extreme plans. Melinda didn’t care what Shanda had to say, really. Shanda tried to speak, but the angry teen wouldn’t let her. Melinda came out of her hiding spot and threatened to slit Shanda’s throat if she didn’t confess to stealing Amanda from Melinda. Also along for the ride was 17-year-old Laurie Tackett Melinda had a knife and a mission for vengeance. Hiding under a blanket in the back of the car was 16-year-old Melinda Loveless – Amanda’s ex-girlfriend. Shanda wasn’t aware of it, but there was no meeting with Amanda and she was not alone with Hope and Toni. When Hope and Toni returned, they told Shanda they were going to meet Amanda at the Witch’s Castle – an isolated, abandoned house that had become a hangout spot for teens. Shanda wanted to go, but asked the girls to come back later when her dad was asleep. Amanda and Shanda had become close since Shanda moved to town and had recently become romantically involved. ![]() 15-year-olds, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence asked Shanda if she wanted to come out and go for a ride with them to see Amanda Hearvin. On Friday, January 10, 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was staying the weekend with her father when 2 girls knocked on the door. So on January 10th, 1992, Melinda gathered 3 friends (Hope had actually just met Melinda the night before) and together they bullied, tortured and killed Shanda. She decided she had threatened Shanda enough, and it was time to make good on those threats. Melinda’s bullying had become so bad that Jacque had Shanda transfer from Hazelwood Middle School to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School. Amanda told her dad about the threats as well, and he told Shanda’s mother. She said they mentioned having a meeting with the parents. She also provided them with letters Melinda had written that included threats. Phil that when Melinda told her about how she was going to kill Shanda, she went to a youth prosecutor and told them about the threats. She began threatening Shanda and talked about killing her to many people. In October of 1991, Shanda and Amanda attended a school dance together where they ended up running into Amanda’s ex-girlfriend, Melinda Loveless. Phil that Shanda was actually the one to make the first move toward a more romantic relationship. Shanda met Amanda Hearvin in school and they became close. She and her mother Jacque were trying to figure out a new normal, and Shanda was trying to make friends. In 1991, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer had just moved to New Albany, Indiana from Kentucky after her parents divorced. ![]()
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