In the summer of 1986, after she would not let him go home with two women he met at a bar, Larry beat Marjorie so severely that she was hospitalized. After that incident, she refused him sex for a month, until he violently raped her as their daughters watched. When Melinda was nine years old, Larry forced Margie to participate in a gang bang, after which she tried to drown herself. During an orgy with another couple at their house, Marjorie tried to commit suicide, an act she would repeat several times throughout her daughters' childhoods. He would also 'share' her with some of his friends from work, which she found disgusting. They would often visit bars in Louisville, where Loveless would pretend to be a doctor or a dentist and introduce Marjorie as his girlfriend. Through most of their relationship, Larry was unfaithful to his wife and they often had an open marriage. He filed for bankruptcy in 1980, and extended family members often described the Loveless daughters as visiting their houses hungry, apparently not getting food at home.

Larry did not usually share his income with the family, making the mortgage payments and impulsively spending any money he earned on himself, especially firearms, motorcycles, and cars. When both parents were working, the family was financially well, living in the upper-middle-class suburb of Floyds Knobs, Indiana. Marjorie had worked intermittently since 1974. In 1988, Larry briefly worked as a mail carrier but quit after three months and very little work, having brought most of his mail home to destroy it. In 1972, Larry became a probationary officer with the New Albany Police Department, but he was fired after eight months when he and his partner assaulted a black man whom Larry accused of sleeping with his wife. Larry worked irregularly for the Southern Railroad after his military service his profession allowed him to work whenever most convenient for him. They lived in or near New Albany, Indiana throughout Melinda's childhood. His wife later described him as a pervert who would wear her and her daughter's underwear and makeup, was incapable of staying monogamous, and had a mixture of jealousy and fascination with seeing her have sex with other men and women. Larry was drafted into the US Army during the Vietnam War, and he was treated as a hero upon his return. Melinda Loveless was born in New Albany, Indiana on October 28, 1975, the youngest of three daughters, to Marjorie and Larry Loveless. Early in the school year, she transferred to Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, a Catholic school in New Albany, where she joined the school's female basketball team.

When her mother divorced again, the family moved to New Albany, IN in June 1991, and Shanda enrolled at Hazelwood Middle School. ДЄfter Sharer's parents divorced, her mother remarried and the family moved to Louisville, KY. Paul School, where she was on the cheerleading, volleyball, and softball teams. Sharer attended fifth and sixth grades in Louisville at St. Shanda Renee Sharer was born at Pineville Community Hospital in Pineville, Kentucky on Jto Steve Sharer and Jacqueline Vaught.

April 28, 2006: Hope Rippey released on parole.

November 3, 2004: A judge reduces Hope Rippey's sentence to 35 years.

December 14, 2000: Toni Lawrence released on parole.

January 4, 1993: Loveless sentenced to 60 years.

September 21, 1992: Tackett and Loveless accept plea bargains.

April 22, 1992: Toni Lawrence accepts a plea bargain.

January 11, 1992: The body of Sharer is found in rural Jefferson County, Indiana.

October 1991: Loveless meets Laurie Tackett.

1990: Melinda Loveless meets and begins dating Amanda Heavrin.

Raging with jealousy, Amanda's ex summoned 3 of her friends to torture and murder the 12 year old girl. 12 year old Shanda Sharer started dating Amanda, a girl she met at her new school.

Shanda renee sharer