![]() This is a book that is terribly hard to read. There is also detail at the end regarding the court cases of the 4 girls, including part of the actual confession written by Toni Lawrence. The final part of the story tells of Melindas main accomplice, Laurie Tacket, and her childhood with a strict religious upbringing, accounts from friends regarding her instability, and information about time she spend receiving mental health care before the crime. ![]() The Loveless family story takes up a third of this book. The second part of this story is dedicated to her childhood, with a main focus on her perverted father and the families troubles as a result of him. The main perpetrator, and the only girl who actually knew Shanda, was Melinda Loveless. They were 15 and 16, their victim, Shanda, was 12. The beginning of this story details the night of January 10th 1992, when four teenage girls tricked a 5th into getting in their car, and proceeded to spend the rest of the night engaging in beating, torturing, and eventually burning alive the girl they'd tricked. ![]() Jones is a well known author, who has researched and written about many different crimes. ![]() It is written with input from the killers family, court testimony, Psychiatry notes, and interviews from people indirectly involved in the lives of the teenage girls who committed this horrible act. Cruel Sacrifice, by Aphrodite Jones, is a true crime story about the now infamous and tragic Shanda Sharer murder. ![]()
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