The Shanda Sharer Story
Many murder victims are innocent people and many crimes are vicious. When you watch the true crime magazine type shows you often hear a police officer talking about a particular case being the worse crime they had investigated, or the worse crime scene ever. I admit that I often roll my eyes to these statements because they seem overly dramatic for television purposes, or so it seems. There are few cases in which if I were to hear an officer state that I would understand why.... the Sylvia Likens case was one.... the Shanda Sharer case is another. In a sense the two cases have many similarities. Both girls were teenagers. Sylvia was 16 when she was tortured and murdered in 1965... Shanda was 12 when she was tortured and burned alive in 1992. Both girls were murdered in Indiana. Both cases involved multiple people and sadly they both involved other teenagers. Shanda lived in a small southwestern Indiana town, New Albany, with her mothe...