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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 death in Madison, Indiana by four teenage girls.
Sep 6, 2019 · Sep 6, 2019 Updated Sep 6, 2019. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A classmate of a southern Indiana girl murdered in 1992 said the Indiana justice system should be ashamed of itself. Craig Schoonover made...
Sep 5, 2019 · Melinda Loveless, now 43, was released from the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis on Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the Indiana Department of Correction. In Dec. 1992, Loveless...
Jan 11, 2018 · Tackett, who was 17 at the time of the killing, was charged as an adult and sentenced to 60 years in the Indiana Women's Prison in 1993 alongside co-defendant Melinda Loveless of New Albany.
Apr 9, 2024 · Melinda Loveless, 16, Lauri Tackett, 17, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence, who were both 15, were all found guilty in relation to Sharer’s murder. The victim was at her father’s home in...
Sep 5, 2019 · Melinda Loveless, now 43, left the Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis after serving nearly 24 years of a 60-year sentence for the brutal murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer in 1992. Sharer’s mother, Jacque Vaught, told WAVE 3 News in 2007, when Loveless sought an early release, that Loveless was the mastermind of the crime.
Jan 15, 2019 · Melinda Loveless, the ringleader, had by far the most extensive history of abuse. At the legal hearing, two of her sisters and two cousins testified that her father, Larry Loveless, had forced them to have sex with him, although they could not testify that Melinda, too, had been so abused.
