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Brandi starts us off with a story so upsetting that she\u2019s put off telling it for weeks. In the winter of 1992, two hunters discovered a body that was so badly abused it initially didn\u2019t look real. The body was charred. It had been beaten and stabbed. Law enforcement officers were stunned. Murders weren\u2019t common in Madison, Indiana, but this one was unspeakably gruesome. Despite the state of the body, it didn\u2019t take long to determine that it belonged to 12-year-old Shanda Sharer. A little while later, investigators rounded up their prime suspects: teenagers Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence.\xa0
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\nThen Kristin tells us about Jeff and Jody Brooks. In 2014, the couple found a house they thought they\u2019d live in for the next twenty years. The modest ranch in Annapolis, Maryland, had a main floor office for Jody and plenty of room for their children. But the home also had a strange scent. As winter turned to spring, the family discovered snakeskins on the floor. Then, they heard movement coming from inside their walls. What they discovered will give you the heebie jeebies.
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cWelcome to \u2018The Snake House\u2019: Lawsuit claims home infested with snakes,\u201d by Tim Prudente for the Capital Gazette
\n\u201cSettlement reached in Annapolis \u2018snake house\u2019 case,\u201d by Ben Weathers for the Captial Gazette
\n\u201cCapital follow-up: Famed Annapolis \u2018snake house\u2019 close to sale,\u201d by Rachael Pacella for the Capital Gazette\xa0
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cDeath of Innocence \u2013 The Murder of Young Shanda Sharer\u201d by David Lohr, Crime Library
\n\u201cWhy 12-Year-Old Shanda Sharer Was Tortured And Killed By Four Teenage Girls\u201d by William DeLong
\n\u201cWoman convicted in 1992 slaying of 12-year-old Shanda Renee Sharer is released from prison\u201d by Justin L. Mack, The Indy Star