Sharer sat up, covered in blood and her eyes rolled in the back of her head, but was unable to speak. Sharer continued making crying and gurgling noises, so Tackett stopped the car. Lawrence and Rippey stayed behind as Tackett and Loveless went "country cruising" at 2:30, driving to the nearby town of Canaan. They realized Sharer was screaming in the trunk, so Tackett went out with a paring knife and stabbed her several more times, coming in a few minutes later covered in blood. They went to Tackett's nearby home and went inside to drink soda and clean themselves. Loveless and Tackett took turns stabbing Sharer in the chest they then strangled Sharer with a rope until she was unconscious, placed her in the trunk, and told the other two girls that Sharer was dead. Loveless then tried to slash Sharer's throat but the knife was too dull, and Rippey came out of the car to hold Sharer down.
Loveless repeatedly slammed Sharer's face into her knee, cutting Sharer's mouth on her own braces, which she hadn't had for long. Loveless and Tackett made Sharer leave the car and strip half naked, then Loveless beat Sharer with her fists. Tackett drove them to a garbage dump off a logging road in a densely forested area.
When Sharer got in, Loveless took her by the hair and held a knife to her throat, screaming "You stole my girlfriend!" Hiding under a blanket in the backseat of a car at Sharer's house, Loveless waited as Rippey and Lawrence lured Sharer into the car. She enlisted Tackett, Rippey and Lawrence to "scare" her with a knife, not telling them she had planned from the beginning to kill Sharer. He abused Melinda, her mother, her sisters and a cousin for years.Īt 16 years of age, Loveless became jealous when her ex-girlfriend Amanda Heavrin wanted to be with Shanda Sharer. Court records testified that Melinda's father was violent. It is alleged that Loveless, Tackett, Rippey and Lawrence came from troubled or abusive homes. While she was furious at first, she accepted her daughter's lifestyle. In March 1991, Loveless revealed to her mother that she was a lesbian.
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