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Cruel Sacrifice
 

The New York Times bestselling book!
 

     Cruel Sacrifice  
     (Pinnacle Books; March 1, 1994)

Ordinary teenagers...extraordinary killers! 

On a freezing January in 1992, five teenager 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, 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.

The words of a murderer: "This should not have happened.  This is not me. It's so stupid when you think about it.  It shouldn't have caused a death.  I don't blame me. We just need a little growing up.  We were young, and we still are."  Aphrodite Jones takes the reader into the world of several teenage girls in small-town southern Indiana--their clothes, rock music, and fascination with offbeat spirituality, and also their lesbian jealousies and penchant for violence.  This book provides a useful balance to an earlier account by Michael Quinlan.  Jones's style is less dramatic than Quinlan's, but she devotes more space to the family backgrounds and psychological complexities of the two girls whose hot-vs-cold temperaments meshed to bring about the murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer.
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