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in our little world of weird, the world of true crime. Now, today's story, you know those cases

that are just so awful and incomprehensible that they stay with you.

You think about them at random times later on.

The murder of Shanda Sherer could turn into June 6th, 1979 in Pineville, Kentucky.

Her parents, Stephen Scherer and Jacqueline Vault, got divorced when Shanda was just a child.

Shanda was best friends with her mom and close with her father and stepmother, Sharon.

Shanda was the kind of girl you'd want to be friends with.

She was bubbly, outgoing, and a lot of fun.

At school, she was a cheerleader and played volleyball.

She was smart and got good grades.

In June 1991, around Shanda's 12th birthday, she and her mom moved to New Albany, Indiana,

so that Shanda could see her dad more often.

She started at Hazelwood Middle School in New Albany.

Early on in the school year, she got into a fight with a 14-year-old named Amanda Havran.

The two ended up in detention together, where they

resolved their issues and became friends. Jackie, Shanda's mother, was unsettled by the friendship.

Since it began, Shanda's grades were slipping, and she was getting into trouble. The friendship

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