This is a Blast Box Media Podcast. The woman is attached to a black leather medical table by red nylon straps attached to every limb. She is blinded and muted with duct tape.

On that floor with that metal bar that he used to strangle her with and that puddle of blood,

it just looked like too much blood to come out of a tiny little 8 year old.

Being raped at gunpoint, like, what else do you do? Like, you can't do anything,

and it's two men against one woman. And I probably, you know, I weigh 98 pounds.

So it's not like I can take them down myself and I wasn't about to wrestle a gun out of their hand.

I was just trying to do it. Oh, Welcome to human monsters. This episode describes another horrific crime committed in Indiana that targeted a teenage female. Shanda Shearer met her end as a victim of female criminals.

Like Sylvia Likens, she was targeted by a jealous female who, along with accomplices,

persecuted her as part of a grisly scheme born of unimaginable,

evil, and brutality.

Part 1, the Villains and the Victim.

Melinda Lovelis was born on October 28, 1975.

She grew up in a dysfunctional household. When they met, her mother was 16 and her father was 20.

Her father, Larry, was sexually, emotionally, and physically abusive to her mother, Marjorie.

He beat her on many occasions, even once pushing her out of a moving car.

He coerced her into group sex and mate swapping after she made it clear she did not want to participate.

He once allowed a group of his friends to gang rape her. Larry's behavior toward his three his and abusive. During court proceedings after Melinda was charged with the murder of

Shanda Shearer, her cousin Teddy Barber took the stand. She spent a great deal of

time with the loveless family starting at the age of 10. She's

a great deal of time with a loveless family starting at the age of 10. She babysat Melinda, then a newborn,

because of Marjorie's commitments to her nursing career.

She spent evenings and weekends there for six years. This was

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