
Todd held a brief hearing and issued arrest warrants on charges of murder for Loveless and Tackett. With Lawrence`s statement in hand, the officers and a representative of the county prosecutor`s office went to see Circuit Judge Ted Todd at his home. Lawrence`s account left it unclear whether she and Rippey were present when Sharer was killed. Later, Tackett and Loveless returned to say that they were going to burn Sharer`s body-and the police did recover a plastic bottle that had contained gasoline at the crime site. According to Lawrence, Tackett and Loveless dropped her and Rippey off at Tackett`s home. Lawrence said that, after they had driven back toward Madison, Sharer was tied up and put into the trunk of the car. Lawrence said Loveless sprang up, grabbed Shanda Sharer by the hair and put a knife to her throat. As they were riding around, Shanda started talking about the contested girlfriend, which, Lawrence said, threw Loveless into a rage. Loveless hid on the floor of the back seat, a blanket over her, while Tackett went to the door and invited Shanda to join them, Lawrence said.

By the time Tackett pulled up, Stephen Sharer had fallen asleep. Sharer`s parents are divorced and Shanda and her dad had spent a quiet evening watching TV.

Something about their nervous excitement made the boy think he wasn`t just witnessing adolescent bravado.įrom Louisville, the four girls drove back across the river to Jeffersonville, where 12-year-old Shanda Renee Sharer was spending the weekend with her father. A couple of girls had been saying they knew that another girl had been killed. That evening, a 15-year-old boy came to the Jefferson County Jail in Madison, where the sheriff has his office, to report a disturbing conversation he had overheard at the bowling alley that is a local teenage hangout.
.jpg)
Shipley and his colleagues had only a few hours to comfort themselves with the thought that, nasty as the day`s task was, at least they were cleaning up after a horror perpetrated by strangers, not local folks.
#Shanda sharer murderers Patch
If the killer or killers had driven only a few more yards, they could have dragged the body into a patch of forest so dense it might not have been discovered for a long time. The corpse had been left just off the edge of the road in a cornfield that, in mid-winter, was empty of vegetation. County Road 1133 twists and turns through a bucolic landscape where thick stands of trees are only occasionally interrupted by farms. Whoever was responsible certainly hadn`t taken any pains to hide the crime.
