![]() In 1990, a 14 year-old girl named Melinda Loveless started dating another young girl named Amanda Heavrin. However, after receiving threats from one of her peers, she transferred to Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, which was a Catholic school in New Albany, where she joined the basketball team. When her mother divorced again in 1991, they moved to New Albany, Indiana where Shanda enrolled at Hazelwood Middle School. Paul School where she was on the cheer leading, volleyball and softball teams. Shanda attended fifth and sixth grades in Louisville at St. After her parents divorced, her mother re-married and moved to Louisville, Kentucky. Shanda was born in Pineville, Kentucky on the 6th of June 1979. 1 Shanda's Life Before She Was Murdered.They had decided earlier that Tackett would sleep over, but first they wanted to make some calls and brag about what they had just done. Afterwards, Tackett drove Rippey and Lawrence to their homes and went with Loveless to her house. During breakfast, Tackett and Loveless joked several times about the resemblance of the sausages they were eating to Sharer. All of their exertions had tired them, so they stopped at a McDonald's on their way back. Tackett had seemed to enjoy herself during the crime, and Rippey and Lawrence must not have been too shaken up, because they had had several opportunities during the night to summon help for Sharer, but they had chosen not to. Sharer was finally out of Loveless' life for good. Loveless thought Sharer's death throes were funny and described them to the others. After she felt she had seen enough, she poured the remaining gasoline on Sharer's smoldering corpse and ran back to the car. She stood staring momentarily as Sharer curled up into a fetal position and her tongue darted in and out of her mouth. Back at the scene, Loveless grabbed the bottle with the remaining gasoline and ran over to Sharer's body. She wanted to make sure the body was burning. The girls hopped back into the car and began to pull away when Loveless became nervous and told Tackett to turn around. The gasoline instantly ignited, and the fire appeared to be burning well. Rippey took the bottle of gasoline and poured a significant amount on Sharer then Tackett struck a match and threw it down on Sharer's gas-soaked body. Lawrence chose not to help and sat in the car watching as they carried Sharer several feet behind the car before laying her on the ground. Tackett opened the trunk, and Loveless and Rippey helped her pick up Sharer with the blanket with which they had covered her earlier. When they spotted an old logging road they turned in and stopped the car. Rippey was familiar with the area and suggested that it would be a good spot to get rid of Sharer. Finishing their business at the gas station, the girls then drove out to Lemon Road. ![]() ![]() Tackett pulled into a Clark Oil station north of Madison to fill up the gas tank and asked Lawrence to buy a two-liter bottle of soda to fill with gas. Once Tackett returned from the house the girls decided it was time to end Sharer's life once and for all.Īs the girls drove down the road, they again concluded that the best way to get rid of Sharer was to burn her. ![]() Tackett's mother then yelled out the door for her, causing Tackett to slam the trunk down on Sharer's head. At some point about this time, the evidence suggests the girls sodomized Sharer with the tire iron however none of them has ever admitted any knowledge of the wounds inflicted to her anal cavity. Sharer began swaying back and forth as Tackett talked to her, but she said nothing in response. ![]() Her body was covered in blood, and her eyes were pure white. As the Windex fizzled in her wounds, Sharer somehow managed the strength to sit up. When Tackett opened the trunk, Rippey noticed a bottle of Windex next to Sharer, so she picked it up and began spraying Sharer with the cleaning liquid. Lawrence did not want to look at the body so she was told to start the car and rev the engine if Sharer started to scream. Instead, Tackett decided to show Rippey her handiwork. The burn pile was covered in frost, and they did not have any gasoline to start a fire. The girls quickly discovered that their plan would not work. ![]()
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