Days of our Lives
1965
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Then, on the night the body was found, a 15-year-old girl, Toni Lawrence, walked into the police station claiming to know about the murder. She confessed to her involvement and said three others were involved: Hope Rippey, then 15, Mary Tackett, then 17, and Melinda Loveless, then 16.
On the night of January 10, 1992, Lawrence (age 15), Rippey (15) and Tackett (17) drove in Tackett's car from Madison to Loveless's house in New Albany. Rippey and Lawrence, while both friends of Tackett, had not previously met Loveless (16).
She convinced three other teens — Hope Rippey, Laurie Tackett and Toni Lawrence — to participate in the crime, because she believed Sharer stole her girlfriend.
On the night of 10th January 1992, Loveless and a group of friends: Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence kidnapped Sharer from her home. Loveless and Tackett beat her and took turns stabbing Sharer in the chest.
In Dec. 1992, Loveless pleaded guilty to the Jan. 11, 1992 murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer of New Albany. Sharer was tortured, beaten and burned in a rural area of Jefferson County,...
One of the four women convicted of beating, burning and killing 12-year-old Shanda Renee Sharer in 1992 was released Thursday from prison on the 26th anniversary of the girl's body being found.
A Southern Indiana woman convicted for her role in the brutal murder of a child was released from prison on Kentucky parole early Thursday morning. Melinda Loveless, 43, was one of the four women...
