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United States Marine CorpsChuck Mawhinney in an undated photo taken during the Vietnam War.As one of the most prolific snipers of the Vietnam War, Chuck Mawhinney was a lethal sharpshooter who racked up the most confirmed kills in the history of the United States Marine Corps and the second-most confirmed kills of any American soldier in the countrys history. In one incident alone, Mawhinney had 16 confirmed kills in a mere 30 seconds all of them headshots.But when the war ended, Chuck Mawhinney simply retired from the Marine Corps and spent his days working in the U.S. Forest Service, telling no one not even his wife about his career in Vietnam. This is the amazing true story of Chuck Mawhinney, the legendary sniper who was as deadly as he was humble.Why Chuck Mawhinney Was Destined To Be A Sniper From The Very BeginningBorn on February 23, 1949 in Lakeview, Oregon, Charles Benjamin Mawhinney was the son of a World War II Marine Corps veteran who hoped his son would follow in his footsteps. And thats exactly what he did: Shortly after the deer-hunting season was over in June of 1967, the younger Mawhinney graduated high school and enlisted in the Marines.But before he could be sent off to war, Mawhinney enrolled in Scout Sniper School at Camp Pendleton in California and graduated in April 1968. The allure of being a sniper also came naturally to the younger Mawhinney, who had spent most of his life doing what formal sniper school had trained him to do anyway. My father was a Marine during World War II, Chuck Mawhinney told American Rifleman in 2012. I started shooting at a very young age, and he taught me to shoot like the Marines taught him, so there wasnt any big transition from hunting in Oregon to becoming a sniper.With his formal training out of the way, Mawhinney was dispatched to Vietnam, where the war was in the middle of one of its bloodiest stretches.Becoming A Deadly Legend In VietnamChuck Mawhinney was initially dispatched as a rifleman to Lima Company 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division and he hit the ground running as a deadly shot. However, after only three months in the battalion, he was transferred to several different battalions, before ultimately landing with the Delta Company.But it was his time with the Delta Company that proved to be the most lethal, and where he racked up his confirmed 103 kills. He later said of the Vietnam War, It was the ultimate hunting trip.Chuck MawhinneyThroughout the Vietnam War, no sniper had more known kills than Chuck Mawhinney.In perhaps his most astonishing moment, on Valentines Day 1969, Chuck Mawhinney was set up at a base near Da Nang when he got word that a large North Vietnamese Army platoon was advancing toward them. A monsoon made air support an impossibility, so Mawhinney volunteered to sneak forward and cover a river that the enemy was sure to cross.But the first wave of North Vietnamese never crossed the river. Mawhinney took position with just his spotter, as well as his trusty Remington M40 and M14, and waited until the entire contingent waded into the river then he started shooting. In the span of just 30 seconds, Mawhinney fired 16 shots, every one of them a dead-on headshot, single-handedly bringing the enemy attack to a screeching halt.I got 16 rounds off that night as fast as I could fire the weapon, Mawhinney said, according to Business Insider. Every one of them was headshots, dead center. I could see the bodies floating down the river.This moment was no exception: Throughout the entire war, only one enemy ever entered Mawhinneys scope and managed to survive and Mawhinney always said that this was his one regret from his time in the war. It happened during one particularly intense battle when an armorer was adjusting his rifle as he spotted an enemy combatant. He grabbed the rifle and fired off 16 shots, but all 16 of them missed their intended target.Its one of the few things that bother me about Vietnam, he said to The Los Angeles Times. I cant help thinking about how many people that he may have killed later, how many of my friends, how many Marines.Chuck Mawhinneys Legacy As The Deadliest Sniper In The History Of The MarinesMark Pellegrin/Wikimedia CommonsChuck Mawhinneys M40 rifle is on display in the United States Museum of the Marine Corps.After Chuck Mawhinney retired from the Marine Corps in 1970, he returned to his hometown of Lakeview, Oregon, and got married before beginning a career with the U.S. Forest Service, where he would stay for more than 20 years. In the late 1990s, Mawhinney retired and probably thought he was going to live the rest of his life in quiet anonymity, protected by the woods of his native rural Oregon.That all changed, however, in 1991. At that time, Joseph Wards best-selling book, Dear Mom: A Snipers Vietnam, hit the shelves, and it went into extensive detail about the legend of Chuck Mawhinney in the jungles of Vietnam. Initially, Wards claim was hotly contested, because Carlos Hathcock who also served in Vietnam in the Marine Corps was believed to have held the record with a confirmed total of 98 kills. However, subsequent investigation proved that Mawhinney did indeed hold the most confirmed kills in the Marine Corps history, and the second-most kills in the American armed forces history (behind Adelbert Waldron of the United States Army, who held a confirmed total of 109 kills). Its believed, too, that Mawhinney actually killed more than 200 combatants, but not all of those deaths have been confirmed by the armed forces.His M40 rifle is on display in the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He was also the subject of a History Channel special called Sniper: The Anatomy of the Kill, in which an astounding headshot by Mawhinney was recreated for the special. And if asked, he only has one piece of advice for aspiring snipers.I give them Chuck Mawhinneys three rules of becoming a good sniper: Practice, practice, and more practice, he said to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.Now that learned about Chuck Mawhinney, read about Hiroo Onoda the soldier who kept fighting World War II for nearly 30 years after it ended. Then, read all about Adrian Carton de Wiart, the soldier who fought four wars in six decades and simply could not be killed.The post Meet Chuck Mawhinney, The Deadliest Sniper In The History Of The Marine Corps appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Wikimedia CommonsShanda Sharer, the 12-year-old girl who was murdered by four teenagers because of a love triangle gone wrong.In the fall of 1991, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer walked into her new school in New Albany, Indiana. She soon met a classmate named Amanda Heavrin, and they quickly became romantically involved. This innocent middle school relationship would ultimately end in Sharers murder.Heavrin was also dating an older teen named Melinda Loveless. When Loveless found out about Sharer, she started sending the girl death threats and in January 1992, she followed through on her chilling warnings.Loveless enlisted three other teenage girls to help her abduct Sharer, torture her for eight hours, and then burn her alive. Afterward, they went out to breakfast and laughed about what they had done.All four girls were ultimately arrested and imprisoned, but the disturbing case continues to haunt everyone who was involved, from Shanda Sharers loved ones to the police who investigated the murder. As one of the defense attorneys at Loveless trial put it: Stephen King couldnt come up with a plot like this. The Events Leading Up To Shanda Sharers MurderIn 1991, Shanda Sharer moved to New Albany, Indiana, after her mother and stepfather got divorced. She started seventh grade at Hazelwood Middle School, where she met Amanda Heavrin. The two girls started exchanging romantic notes, sparking the jealousy of Heavrins girlfriend, Melinda Loveless.In retaliation, Loveless began dating someone else. But when Sharer and Heavrin went to a school dance together that October, Loveless showed up and confronted the girls, slapping Heavrin and threatening Sharer.Family Photo/Find a GraveShanda Sharer shortly before her murderShortly after, according to the 1994 true crime book Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones, Heavrin wrote Sharer a note that read: I dont think I would ever tell Melinda we are going out together. She would probably kill you.Shanda Sharer and Amanda Heavrin continued dating throughout the fall, and Melinda Loveless ramped up her threats. She once told Sharer, If you even try to talk to Amanda again Im going to fing kill you.The threats became so concerning that Sharers mother transferred her to a new school. Tragically, it wasnt enough to save her.Unthinkable Torture At The Hands Of Four Teenage GirlsOn the evening of Jan. 10, 1992, 16-year-old Melinda Loveless invited her friend, 17-year-old Laurie Tackett, to her house in New Albany. Tackett lived in Madison, Indiana, about an hour away. She brought two other girls with her: Hope Rippey and Toni Lawrence, who were both 15. Rippey and Lawrence had never met Loveless or Sharer, but when Loveless told them that she wanted to scare Sharer for being a copycat and stealing her girlfriend, they went along with the plan.The four teenagers drove to Sharers fathers house, and Loveless sent Rippey and Lawrence to the door, telling them to introduce themselves as Amanda Heavrins friends. The girls told Sharer that they were going to meet up with Heavrin at the Witchs Castle, an abandoned stone house not far from town.Shanda Sharers killers, clockwise from the top left: Melinda Loveless, Laurie Tackett, Hope Rippey, and Toni Lawrence.Sharers parents had banned her from seeing Heavrin, so she told the girls to come back later that night, after her father had gone to bed, so she could sneak out. Loveless, Tackett, Rippey, and Lawrence left and went to a concert before returning around 12:30 a.m.Loveless hid under a blanket in the back seat while two other girls went to get Sharer. Once the car was moving, Loveless revealed herself and held a knife to Sharers throat as she interrogated her about her sexual relationship with Heavrin.When they arrived at the Witchs Castle, the four teens bound Sharers hands and feet with rope and threatened her. Then, they put her back in Tacketts car and drove to a dense forest near Tacketts house in Madison. Lawrence and Rippey stayed in the car while Loveless and Tackett took Shanda Sharer into the woods, stripped her down to her underwear, beat her, and tried to slit her throat.When they realized that their knife was too dull, Rippey exited the car to hold Sharer down while Loveless and Tackett stabbed her in the chest and strangled her with a rope until she was unconscious.The girls then threw Sharer into the trunk and went back to Tacketts house. They were drinking soda inside when they heard Sharer screaming.Tackett went back out and stabbed Sharer several more times. Then, Loveless joined her for a ride to the countryside. When the two teenagers stopped the car, they beat Sharer with a tire iron and then repeatedly sexually assaulted her with the weapon. WLKY News Louisville/YouTubeMelinda Loveless in handcuffs after she masterminded the murder of Shanda Sharer.They returned to Tacketts house just before dawn and showed Lawrence and Rippey what theyd done. According to Cruel Sacrifice, Rippey sprayed Sharer with Windex and laughed, Youre not looking so hot now, are you?Finally, all four girls went to a gas station, filled a two-liter Pepsi bottle with gasoline, drove to a rural area north of Madison, carried Tackett into a field, poured the fuel on her, and lit her on fire. Sharer was still alive and crying for her mother at the time.Loveless, Tackett, Lawrence, and Rippey then went to McDonalds for breakfast and joked that their sausage looked like Shanda Sharers charred corpse. Later that morning, two brothers stumbled upon Sharers body and called the police. Around the same time, Sharers father reported her missing. But it wasnt until Toni Lawrence and Hope Rippey turned up at the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office that night that investigators connected the two cases.The Conviction Of Shanda Sharers KillersLoveless, Tackett, Lawrence, and Rippey were all charged as adults for the murder of Shanda Sharer. Lawrence and Rippey who were younger, less involved in the torture, and more forthcoming with authorities received lighter sentences. Rippey spent 14 years behind bars, while Lawrence was imprisoned for just eight years.Tackett was sentenced to 60 years in prison, but she was released in 2018 after 26 years. Loveless, the ringleader, also received a 60-year sentence but was released in 2019.Everyone who heard about the case had one question: How did a simple dispute over a girlfriend end in torture and murder?It was later revealed that all four teenagers had troubled pasts. Rippeys parents had an on-and-off relationship, and she was known to engage in self-harm. Lawrence had been raped at age 14 and attempted suicide shortly after. And Tackett was molested as a child and spent time in a psychiatric hospital for her borderline personality disorder.Chiliad22/Wikimedia CommonsA memorial to Shanda Sharer in the field where she died.Loveless, meanwhile, was sexually abused by her own father. In a 1998 interview with WISH-TV, Loveless said, It turns into anger if you keep that hurt and dont let it go That hurt can turn into anger and hate and make you do things that you would never really do.Laurie Tackett had different thoughts on the matter. In 2011, she released a statement from prison for an episode of Dr. Phil: Lets say, for instance, I know a couple of people who kill simply for the fear that they see in their victims eyes, and for the sight of blood on their bodies [M]y opinion is that they do it to feel superior, or high on the victims fear, and theyre thirsty for the spill of blood.Today, a small memorial to Shanda Sharer sits in the field where she was brutally murdered. Its easy to miss, but it marks the spot of one of the most chilling crimes in the states history one that was carried out by four young girls.After reading about the murder of Shanda Sharer, go inside the stories of nine teenage serial killers. Then, learn about Alyssa Bustamante, the high schooler who murdered a nine year old.The post Shanda Sharer, The 12-Year-Old Who Was Tortured For Eight Hours Before She Was Burned Alive By Four Teenage Girls appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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