Tackett was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and confessed that she had experienced hallucinations since she was a young child.

After treatment of her wound, she was admitted to the hospital's psychiatric ward. Two days later, with her girlfriend and Toni Lawrence, Tackett cut her wrists deeply and was returned to the hospital. She was prescribed an anti-depressant and released. Her parents discovered the self-mutilation and checked her into a hospital on March 19 th, 1991. Tackett began to engage in self-harm, especially after early 1991 when she began dating a girl who was involved in the practice. She would often attempt to impress her friends by pretending to be possessed by the spirit of 'Deanna the Vampire'. Tackett became increasingly rebellious after her fifteenth birthday and also became fascinated with the occult. She demanded that the board be burnt and that the Rippey house be exorcised. Tackett and her mother came into periodic conflict at one point, her mother went to Hope Rippey's house after learning that Rippey's father had purchased an Ouija board for the girls. Social workers became involved, and Tackett's parents agreed to unannounced visits to ensure that child abuse was not occurring. In May 1989, her mother discovered that Tackett was changing into jeans at school, and, after a confrontation that night, attempted to strangle her. Tackett claimed that she was molested at least twice as a child at ages 5 and 12. Her mother was a fundamentalist Pentecostal Christian and her father was a factory worker with two felony convictions in the 1960s. Laurie Tackett was born in Madison, Indiana, on October 5 th, 1974. She participated the second most in the torture-murder, just behind Melinda. Laurie Tackett was one of the four teenage girls that tortured and murdered 12-year old Shanda Sharer on January 11 th, 1992, along with Melinda Loveless (the architect of the plan), Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence. She does have pretty hair, doesn't she? And I'm going to cut it all off. Be forgiven for her role in the murder (ongoing)

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