Deep Calls to Deep: To Forgive a Murderer

I was a junior in high school when a devastating and horrific crime rocked my hometown of Madison, Indiana.

In 1992, four teenage girls (three of whom I went to school with) tortured and murdered a twelve-year-old girl named Shanda Sharer. 

It is by far the most heinous and gruesome event I have ever been close to, and there is no way to fully capture how traumatic it was for everyone involved and for our small community. Despite attending the trial and following what I believed was every ...