Torture
Tackett led them to a dark abandoned building off a logging road in a densely forested area. Lawrence and Rippey were frightened and stayed in the car. Loveless and Tackett made Sharer strip down to her underwear; then, Loveless beat Sharer with her fists. Next, Loveless repeatedly slammed Sharer's face into her knee, which cut Sharer's mouth on her own braces. Loveless tried to slash Sharer's throat, but the knife was too dull. Rippey came out of the car to hold down Sharer. 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 of the car, and told the other two girls that Sharer was dead.[35]
The girls drove to Tackett's nearby home and went inside to drink soda and clean themselves. When they heard Sharer screaming in the trunk, Tackett went out with a paring knife and stabbed her several more times, coming back a few minutes later covered with blood. After she washed, Tackett told the girls' futures with her "runestones". At 2:30 a.m., Lawrence and Rippey stayed behind as Tackett and Loveless went "country cruising", driving to the nearby town of Canaan. Sharer continued to make crying and gurgling noises, so Tackett stopped the car. When they opened the trunk, Sharer sat up, covered in blood with her eyes rolled back in her head, but unable to speak. Tackett beat her with a tire iron until she was silent, claiming that she felt Sharer's head caving in, and then told Loveless to "smell it". They also sexually assaulted Sharer with the same weapon. The tire-iron assault continued off and on for hours as the girls went on a joyride through the countryside.[36][37]
Loveless and Tackett returned to Tackett's house just before daybreak to clean up again and woke up the other two girls. Rippey asked about Sharer, and Tackett laughingly described the torture. The conversation woke up Tackett's mother, who was initially angry with her daughter for being out so late, but she also offered to cook the girls some breakfast. Tackett declined and said she needed to drive the other girls home. However, instead Tackett drove to the burn pile, where they opened the trunk to look at Sharer. Lawrence refused. Rippey suddenly sprayed Sharer with Windex and taunted, "You're not looking so hot now, are you?"[38]
Burned alive
Memorial to Sharer at the location where she died
The girls drove to a gas station near Madison Consolidated High School, pumped some gasoline into the car, and bought a two-liter bottle of Pepsi. Tackett poured out the Pepsi and refilled the bottle with gasoline. They drove north of Madison, past Jefferson Proving Ground to Lemon Road off U.S. Route 421, a place known to Rippey. Lawrence remained in the car while Tackett and Rippey wrapped Sharer, who was still alive, in a blanket, and carried her to a field by the gravel country road. Rippey poured the gasoline on Sharer, and then they set her on fire. Loveless was not convinced Sharer was dead, so they returned a few minutes later to pour the rest of the gasoline on her.[39][40]
The girls went to a McDonald's restaurant at 9:30 a.m. for breakfast, where they laughed about Sharer's badly burned body looking like one of the sausages they were eating. Lawrence then phoned a friend and told her about the murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer
