The church later arranged for Melinda to be taken to a motel room with a 50-year-old man for a five-hour exorcism. Larry became a Baptist lay preacher and Marjorie became the school nurse.
Larry and Marjorie gave full confession and renounced drinking and swinging while they were members. įor two years, beginning when Melinda was five, the family was deeply involved in the Graceland Baptist Church.
He would also embarrass his children by finding their underwear and smelling it in front of other family members. Larry was verbally abusive to his daughters and fired a handgun in the direction of Melinda's older sister Michelle when she was seven, intentionally missing her.
In court, Teddy described an incident in which Larry tied all three sisters in a garage and raped them in succession however, the sisters did not confirm this account. She slept in bed with him until he abandoned his family when she was 14. Both older girls said he molested them, though Melinda did not admit this ever happened to her. Various court testimonies claimed he fondled Melinda as an infant, molested Marjorie's 13-year-old sister early in the marriage, and molested the girls' cousin Teddy from age 10 to 14. The extent of Larry's abuse of his daughters and other children is unclear. 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 he was convicted of battery. After that incident, she refused him sex for a month, until he raped her as their daughters overheard the event through a closed door. When Melinda was nine years old, Larry had Marjorie gang raped, 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. The Loveless parents would often visit bars in Louisville where Larry would pretend to be a doctor or a dentist and introduce Marjorie as his girlfriend. Extended family members often described the Loveless daughters as visiting their homes hungry, apparently not getting enough food at home. Larry, who was violent and abusive, did not usually share his income with the family and impulsively spent any money he earned on himself, especially firearms, motorcycles and cars. When both parents were working, the family was financially well off, 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 did very little work, having brought most of his mail home to destroy it. In 1965, Larry became a probationary officer with the New Albany Police Department, but was fired after eight months when he and his partner assaulted an African-American man whom Larry accused of sleeping with his wife. Larry worked irregularly for the Southern Railway after his military service his profession allowed him to work whenever most convenient for him. They lived in or near New Albany throughout Melinda's childhood. Marjorie later described him as a sexual deviant who would wear her and her daughters' 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. Army during the Vietnam War and although horribly emotionally scarred, he was treated as a hero upon his return. Melinda Loveless was born in New Albany on October 28, 1975, the youngest of three daughters, to Marjorie and Larry Loveless. Perpetrators involved in the homicide Melinda 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 girls' basketball team.
When her mother divorced again, the family moved in June 1991 to New Albany, Indiana, and Sharer enrolled at Hazelwood Middle School. Paul School, where she was on the cheerleading, volleyball and softball teams.
There, Sharer attended fifth and sixth grades at St. After Sharer's parents divorced, her mother remarried and the family moved to Louisville. Shanda Sharer was born in the Pineville Community Hospital in Pineville, Kentucky, on June 6, 1979, to Stephen Sharer and his wife Jacqueline, who was later known as Jacqueline Vaught. 2 Perpetrators involved in the homicide.