

Cruel Sacrifice
Books | True Crime / Murder / General
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Aphrodite Jones
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, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni 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.
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Author
Aphrodite Jones
Pages
333
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Published Date
2005-05
ISBN
0786010630 9780786010639
Ratings
Google: 5
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"This book stuck with me after I read it. "
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"Like most true crime writers who are featured on Deadly Women or Snapped, Jones thinks she's saying something different when she's really just wallowing in salacious tidbits. Homophobia with a side of Satanic panic and horrific abuse."
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