![]() There is evidence that when the victim began screaming Tackett took a small knife and cut the victim again. ![]() ![]() Tackett choked and stabbed the victim, then locked her in the car's trunk. Appellant punched the victim in the stomach and kneed her in the mouth. The girls went to Tackett's house, where Appellant and Tackett battered the victim. While at the house, the group teased and scared the victim, but she was essentially unharmed when they left this house. Then the girls took the victim to an abandoned house in Madison, Indiana. Shortly after the victim entered the car, Appellant pulled the victim's head back and put a knife to her throat in order to scare her. The victim had been dating Amanda Heavrin, Appellant's "girlfriend." Appellant intended to frighten the victim so that she would have no further contact with Amanda. On January 10, 1992, Appellant, Lauri Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence picked up Shanda Renee Sharer, the twelve-year-old victim, at her father's home in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The sentencing judge concluded that the arson and murder convictions merged and sentenced *977 Appellant to the maximum sentences available for murder, sixty (60) years, and criminal confinement, twenty (20) years, and ordered the sentences served concurrently, in accordance with the prosecutor's recommendation.Īppellant presents three issues for review:ġ) whether the trial court erred in failing to consider mitigating factors that were clearly supported by the record Ģ) whether the trial court considered improper aggravating factors andģ) whether it was error to allow more than one (1) witness to provide "victim impact" information. The plea agreement permitted a contested sentencing hearing where the State retained the right to pursue the maximum sentence available. Loveless pled guilty to murder, criminal confinement, and arson. In accordance with a plea agreement, Appellant Melinda D. This is a direct appeal of a sentence from the Jefferson Circuit Court. MacAbee, Johnson & Gray, Franklin, for appellant. ![]() There are reconstructions and among other things, interviews with Shanda's mother and school shooting survivor Cam Miller.*976 Russell A. She and her lesbian lover were both convicted of murder one of the other four defendants was convicted of manslaughter, and the fourth was acquitted. The only thing that can truly be held against her single parent father is that it was he who bought her the murder weapon, but be honest folks, could he really have seen that coming? The 1994 Wigginton case, from Australia, is bizarre beyond belief. It is claimed too that Brenda Spencer was likewise a victim of (sexual) abuse Spencer has made such claims herself, but the girl who famously didn't like Mondays is still behind bars. So abused they were driving around in Tackett's car. There is a pathetic attempt here if not to excuse then to mitigate this crime by claiming that all the perpetrators were victims of childhood abused. Although there was technically only one victim, Shanda's grieving father drank himself to death at 53. The other two are both likely to be behind bars until at least the next decade they are Laurie Tackett who was 17 at the time and the prime mover, the aptly named Melinda Loveless. Toni Lawrence – the only truly reluctant party - was released after 9 years another was released in April 2006. The four killers of Shanda Sharer were soon brought to book, one of them turning herself in shortly afterwards. This 2008 documentary covers three notorious murders committed by females: the case of 12 year old Shanda Sharer, who in January 1992 suffered the most horrific death imaginable - her killers were all teenage girls "lesbian vampire killer" Tracey Wigginton and the best known if not the most notorious, school shooter Brenda Spencer – who actually killed two men, and but for their heroism would have claimed many more victims. Women who kill are few and far between, but on occasion they commit crimes that are so staggeringly evil and brutal they sicken not simply police officers but the worst elements amongst the supposedly stronger sex.
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