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Sharer, Shanda Renee

This page is dedicated to Shanda Sharer, one of the youngest murder victims in the state of Indiana in 1992. Shanda was a sweet, caring, outgoing 12 year old. She lived in New Albany, Indiana. When she started the 8th grade at a new school in New Albany (Hazelwood Jr. High) she had no trouble making new friends. One of her new friends, a 14-year old girl named Amanda Heavrin, coaxed Shanda into entering a lesbian relationship with her. Amanda already had a girlfriend, a very jealous 16-year old named Melinda Loveless. In the course of six months, Melinda threatened Shanda many times in and out of school. The situation became so troubling that after less then one full semester at Hazelwood Jr. High, Shanda's parents enrolled her into another school, a private catholic school. For awhile, Shanda secretly continued to see her lesbian friend, Amanda. During this time, Melinda Loveless continued to call Shanda and threaten her over the phone, or she would have 'friends' pass on threatening notes. Because of her fear of Melinda, Shanda cut off her relationship with Amanda on Christmas, 1991. In December of 1991, Melinda met a girl named Laurie Tackett through mutual friends. Melinda was not particularly interested in Laurie as a true friend, but she was interested in Laurie for one reason - 17-year old Laurie constantly bragged that she would like to kill someone, simply for the fun of it. When Melinda told Laurie of her rage and hatred towards Shanda, Laurie agreed to kill the young girl for her. On January 10th, 1992 Laurie called up a friend of hers from Madison, Indiana -- 15-year old Hope Rippey. Hope had never met Melinda before, but was interested in going to a 'punk rock' concert Laurie and Melinda invited her to that evening. Hope asked another friend of hers from school, 15-year old Toni Lawrence, if she would like to go with them to the show. Toni said yes. When the girls got together that night, Melinda immediately started talking about a girl she 'wanted to get', Shanda S

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