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Hope rippey shanda sharer4/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1992, four teen girls tortured and killed 12-year-old Shanda Sharer. The four girls drove to Shanda's father's. Police said that she was unknown to Toni and Hope. 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. A Catholic school seventh-grader, Shanda Sharer was described looking closer to 16 than to 12. 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. The Indiana teens picked up Shanda under the ruse Amanda was at an abandoned property near the Ohio River. After Loveless threatened Shanda with a knife, the foursome tied her up. ![]() Subsequently, the teens beat, strangled, and stabbed Shanda. 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. They forced her into the trunk of the car and moved her to another location. The foursome drove to where Sharer was spending the weekend with her father. Shanda Sharer was an ordinary Indiana teenager in 1992, until four girls led by Melinda Loveless and Laurie Tackett tortured and killed her. The girls, minus Lawrence, then carried Shanda to a field and burned her alive. The four girls who took place in the events that occured that night are Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence. She was kidnapped, tortured and burned alive by four teenage girls. Prosecutors maintained the motive for the murder was jealousy - the same motive identified in the 2003 ‘ Miss Irresistible’ murders. The murder of Shanda Sharer occured in Madison, Indiana early in the morning on January 11, 1982. 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. Three of the murderers whom she did not even know or had ever seen before until the day she was taken from this world. Jefferson County courts tried the four teens as adults. Sharer, who had only been a resident of her new town for less than six months, never had a clue that she was the target of death when she began her new life at her new school. They accepted plea bargains to avoid the death penalty and pled guilty to counts of murder, arson, and criminal confinement. 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. 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. Tackett grew up in a strict Pentecostal home. ![]() Child services had to intervene when Tackett’s mother strangled her for changing into jeans at school. Tackett was in and out of the hospital for committing self-harm on multiple occasions. She dropped out of high school and met Loveless in Louisville, KY. Tackett, Rippey, and Lawrence were childhood friends from Madison. The cause of death has not been publicly released however it has been reported that he was buried in the same cemetery as his daughter.The teens engaged in self-harm, drinking, and drug use. While the news of Rippey's impending release was difficult for Shanda's family to understand, their anger would once again turn to sorrow when, on May 8, 2005, Shanda's father, 52-year-old Stephen Maloy Sharer, died. But it's just wrong." The only thing Vaught said she wanted was for Rippey and the others to serve their full sentences. She's done everything she can to get out early. "She's gotten every degree she can get, with my tax dollars, I might add. ![]() Sharer's mother, Jacque Vaught, was angered by the decision. With the judge's decision affirmed, Hope Rippey's earliest possible release date was changed from 2017 to 2006. In making her decision, Manier took into account Rippey's bachelor's degree from a Ball State University general studies program for inmates, along with the time she spent training seeing-eye dogs and speaking to various youth groups. According to reports in The Courier-Journal, Judge Manier felt Rippey was remorseful and likely to be productive in society. Toni Lawrence had come forth with details of that night, and Hope Rippey. On November 3, 2004, Indiana Superior Court Judge Jenny Manier reduced Hope Rippey's prison sentence from 50 to 35 years. Melinda Loveless and Laurie Tackett were arrested. On the chilly evening of January 10, 1992, Loveless sought the assistance of three friends, namely Laurie Tackett (17), Hope Rippey (15), and Toni Lawrence (15), to exact her revenge on Shanda Sharer. ![]()
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