![]() In tears and fearful for her life, Sharer tried to respond but to no avail. The ringleader and jealous lover 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. 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. Unfortunately, that did nothing to stop the horrific events that would soon unfold. At this point, Sharer’s mother transferred her to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School in order to protect her. Loveless then threatened Sharer in public and soon even talked about killing the 12-year-old. ![]() There, Sharer and Heavrin were confronted by 16-year-old Melinda Loveless, who had previously been dating Heavrin for more than a year and was now extremely jealous of this new pairing. In October of that year, the pair attended a school dance together. Sharer and Heavrin became fast friends and then romantic partners. Shanda Sharer met classmate Amanda Heavrin at Hazelwood in 1991, soon after moving to the area with her recently divorced mother from Kentucky. ![]() She was, by all accounts, a normal girl who made friends easily and had fun at school dances.īut it was one such dance that set in motion a chain of events that would soon bring Shanda Sharer’s life to a gruesome, torturous end at the hands of four teenage girls. In 1991, Shanda Sharer was a bubbly 12-year-old attending Hazelwood Middle School in New Albany, Ind.
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