Shanda Renee Sharer
June 6, 1980 - January 11, 1992

Shanda Renee Sharer was a pretty girl with a beautiful smile. She did well in school, liked sports and got along with everybody. On January 10th, 1992, two girls she didn't know knocked on her door telling her that her girlfriend Amanda wanted to see her. Shanda's father wouldn't let her go but Shanda snuck out to be with them later that night. The two girls, Toni Laurence and Hope Rippey, led Shanda to the car where Laurie Tackett was waiting and Melinda Loveless was hiding. Shanda didn't know Laurie, but she knew Melinda. Melinda hated Shanda for stealing her Amanda away from her. (Melinda and Amanda had been going out when Shanda came along.) After Shanda was safetly in the car Melinda came out from under the blanket with a knife.

they took her to a crumbling, desereted castle where they taunted her, harrassed her and threatened to kill her. they tried to cut her throat with the knife, they hit her and tried to strangle her. after she lost consciousness they thought she was dead so they threw her in the trunk of the car. whenever she screamed or cried they would open the trunk and beat her with a tire tool. they continued this until the early hours of the morning. while deciding what to do with Shanda, Hope sprayed Windex on her wounds.

they decided to burn Shanda. they drove out fo the countryside, took her out of the trunk, threw gasoline on her and set her on fire. she was alive and conscious when this happened. she died from smoke inhalation.

Shanda Renee Sharer was killed by four girls, three of whom she had never met before that night. Laurie Tackett was 17 years old. melinda Loveless was 16; Hope Rippey and Toni Laurence were both 15. Shanda was only twelve.

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