When Girls Next Door Kill

When Girls Next Door Kill
Author: Iris Owen
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539149040

In 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was tortured and killed by four teenage girls led by Melinda Loveless. Caught in a lesbian love triangle, the four girls would torture the young Shanda and burn her alive. The case would shock the picturesque town in southern Indiana and make national headlines, making an entire nation ask "why?"

Cruel Sacrifice

Cruel Sacrifice
Author: Aphrodite Jones
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780786010639

On a freezing January in 1992, five teenage girls crowded into a car. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. The fifth had been tortured and mutilated nearly beyond recognition. Her name was Shanda Sharer; her age-twelve. When the people of Madison, Indiana heard that a brutal murder had been committed in their midst, they were stunned. Then the story became even more bizarre. The four accused murderers were all girls under the age of eighteen: Melinda Loveless, Laurle Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Tonl Lawrence. Here, for the first time, veteran true crime journalist Aphrodite Jones reveals the shocking truth behind the most savage crime in Indiana history-a tragic story of twisted love and insane jealousy, lesbianism, brutal child abuse, and sadistic ritual killing in small-town America...and of the young innocent who paid the ultimate price.

A Cold-Blooded Business

A Cold-Blooded Business
Author: Marek Fuchs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2009-03-10
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1626367450

In 1959, Olathe, Kansas was made famous by the murder of the Clutter family and Truman Capote's ground-breaking book on the crime, In Cold Blood. But fewer know that Olathe achieved notoriety again in 1982, when a member of Olathe's growing Evangelical Christian population, a gentle man named David Harmon, was bludgeoned to death while sleeping—the force of the blows crushing his face beyond recognition. Suspicion quickly fell on David's wife, Melinda, and his best friend, Mark, student body president of the local bible college. However, the long arms of the church defended the two and no charges were pressed. The case was declared as dead as David Harmon. Two decades later, two Olathe police officers revived the cold case making startling revelations that reopened old wounds and chasms within the Olathe community—revelations that rocked not only Olathe, but also the two well-healed towns in which Melinda and Mark resided. David's former wife and friend were now living separate, successful, law-abiding lives. Melinda lived in suburban Ohio, a devoted wife and mother of two. Mark had become a Harvard MBA, a high-paid corporate mover, a family man, and a respected community member in a wealthy suburb of New York City. Some twenty years after the brutal murder, each received the dreaded knock of justice at the door. A Cold-Blooded Business provides fascinating character studies of Melinda and Mark, killers who seemingly returned to normalcy after one blood-splattered night of violence. A fast-moving true crime narrative, A Cold-Blooded Business is a chilling exploration into the darkest depths of the human psyche.

Minutes to Kill

Minutes to Kill
Author: Melinda Leigh
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Kidnapping
ISBN: 9781477829752

When corporate attorney Hannah Barrett returns to her hometown of Scarlet Falls, she discovers that the events that occurred in Las Vegas have followed her, and she once again turns to detective Brody McNamara to help.

She Can Kill

She Can Kill
Author: Melinda Leigh
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781503948693

"Reformed assassin Cristan Rojas just wants to raise his daughter in peace. But after twelve years on the run, he learns that even the quiet little town of Westbury, Pennsylvania, has many hidden dangers. Although he can't shake the feeling he's under surveillance, Cristan's attraction to Sarah Mitchell continues to grow, as do his concerns that his secret past could jeopardize anyone who gets too close to him"--Page 4 of cover.

Dead Against Her

Dead Against Her
Author: Melinda Leigh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Called to an isolated farm to check on an elderly widow, Sheriff Bree Taggert finds a brutal double homicide. One of the victims is Eugene Oscar, the bitter and corrupt former deputy she recently forced out of the department....

Smacked

Smacked
Author: Melinda Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0143527304

Smacked is the powerful, uncompromising story of one woman's downward spiral into addiction. Hooked on heroin and crack cocaine, Melinda Ferguson gave up everything she cared about - her children, her marriage, her career - in pursuit of the next fix, the next high. Bold, raw and unashamedly honest, Smacked is a tale of loss and rehabilitation that takes us to the darkest corners of an addict's psyche.

Little Lost Angel

Little Lost Angel
Author: Michael Quinlan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1995
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780671884680

The story of a shocking true crime details how four teenage Indiana girls, in a twisted search for popularity and love, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered twelve-year-old Shanda Sharer

Where the Bodies Are Buried

Where the Bodies Are Buried
Author: Fannie Weinstein
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1998-09-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780312966539

Fox Hollow Farm, a lush million-dolar suburban Indianapolis estate, had 18 acres of lawns, a fabulous swimming pool...and thousands of human bones buried in the yard. The piles of dismembered skeletons belonged to young men who has disappeared from the gay bars and cruising sites of this Midwest city. Their killer was Herb Baumeister, a beloved father and successful businessman who led a deadly double life. And until the day his son dug up a buried skull, Herb's pretty wife Julie never dreamed he was Indian's worst serial killer. She didn't know about the bizarre sexual encounters Herb held at the house when she went away with their kids...or about the brutal cravings that led him to kill. In this riveting account, two veteran journalists tell the uncensored story of Herb Baumeister--taking you into a psychopath's dark obsession to meet his victims, to witness the rituals of sex and death he forced his victims to perform, and to find out how this gruesome killing sprees finally--shockingly--came to an end...

Midnight Sacrifice

Midnight Sacrifice
Author: Melinda Leigh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Hikers
ISBN: 9781611098846

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh returns with a follow-up thriller that USA Today called "an impeccable, unpredictable package of suspense, mystery, romance, and passion." One by one, people are mysteriously disappearing from a small Maine town. Four months ago, a ruthless murderer killed two people and kidnapped three more, including Danny Sullivan's sister, who barely escaped. Unfortunately so did the killer, vanishing without a trace into the vast wilderness. When the police fail to find his sister's captor, Danny returns to Maine to hunt him down. He begins his search with another survivor, bed and breakfast owner Mandy Brown, but her refusal to cooperate raises Danny's suspicions. What is the beautiful innkeeper hiding? Mandy Brown has a secret. But sexy Danny Sullivan, his relentless questions, and the feelings that grow between them threaten to expose the truth. A revelation that puts her family in danger. As more people disappear, it becomes clear the killer is planning another ritual...and that he's circling in on Mandy.