17 years ago, one of the most horrific crimes in Kentuckiana history happened-the murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer. Watch this story As her family and friends gathered on the anniversary ...

But none like Shanda Sharer’s. Ten hours after the body was ... where they picked up Melinda Loveless, 16, a friend of Laurie’s who was unknown to Toni and Hope. Together, they drove into ...

Craig Schoonover made that statement after Melinda Loveless, the last of four teenagers convicted of killing 12-year-old Shanda Sharer, was released from prison Thursday. He used to sit face to ...

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.

Laurie Tackett, now 43, was one of four teens convicted in the 1992 death of Shanda Sharer. She was sentenced to 60 years in prison but has served the required time for her release. She’ll ...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WTHR) - In January 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was lured from her home in Jeffersonville, tortured throughout the night and burned alive. It was a crime of passion and peer ...

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 ...

Four teenage girls were charged with beating and sodomizing 12-year-old Shanda Sharer, then setting her body on fire in a farm field near Madison, Ind., a picture-book village along the Ohio River.

MADISON, Ind. (WAVE)-- The woman who is serving time for one of the most brutal murders in our area, the torture and killing of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer, wants out of prison. On Thursday, Melinda ...