Little Lost Angel (44 page)

Laurie Tackett takes one last puff from her cigarette before entering the Madison courthouse. On the left is Deputy Randy Spry. (
Photo by
Courier-Journal
photographer Durrell Hall Jr
.)

Hope Rippey being led from the jail to the courthouse by Sheriff Buck Shipley. (
Photo by Joe Trotter
)

Toni Lawrence cries after receiving her sentence from Judge Todd. (
Photo by
Courier-Journal
photographer Paul Schuhmann
)

Shanda’s parents, cornered by reporters in the Madison courthouse. (
Photo by
Courier-Journal
photographer James Wallace
)

Shanda’s grave in Big Springs, Kentucky. The headstone markings—hands cupping a butterfly—were inspired by Reverend John Fink’s moving eulogy. (
Photo by Jacque Vaught
)

MICHAEL QUINLAN, staff member of the
Louisville Courier-Journal
, is the only journalist to gain the complete cooperation of Shanda’s parents.

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