<p><b>--SUPERS</b>-- </p>\n<p>Friday </p>\n<p>Greene County, IA </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:13-:20</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon</p>\n<p>Found Wedding Dress</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p>A WOMAN FROM IOWA MADE AN UNUSUAL DISCOVERY LAST MONTH WHILE DRIVING WITH HER HUSBAND.</p>\n<p>SHE SPOTTED A WEDDING DRESS LYING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN GREENE COUNTY...IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE.</p>\n<p>SHE IS NOW TRYING TO TRACK DOWN THE OWNER.</p>\n<p>OPHELIE JACOBSEN HAS MORE:</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>-- </p>\n<p>Natsot</p>\n<p>Voice Of: Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "June Twelfth was the day that we found it on the side of the road."</p>\n<p>JUST NORTH OF RIPPEY ON HIGHWAY ONE FORTY FOUR.</p>\n<p>Voice Of: Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "All this fluff was just fluffing around in the wind."</p>\n<p>SOMETHING IN THE GRASS CAUGHT DENISE GANNON'S EYE.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "We had to go get parts one day into Perry and we drove on one-forty-four diagonal, and here was this on the side of the road."</p>\n<p>A WEDDING DRESS IN A DITCH.</p>\n<p>NOW HANGING ON HER CLOTHESLINE.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "It's an Alfred Angelo is the style, and it's a size 18-w. It is a very pretty dress."</p>\n<p>FOR THE PAST MONTH, GANNON HAS BEEN TRYING TO REUNITE THE DRESS WITH THE BRIDE.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "I really thought that if I put it on Facebook, somebody would notice it and want it. But nothing. Nothing."</p>\n<p>THE DRESS WAS FOUND NEXT TO THIS BLISS BRIDAL DRESS BAG.</p>\n<p>SO GANNON CALLED THE MASON CITY SHOP.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "They don't sell that brand, so they don't think they sold. They didn't sell the dress."</p>\n<p>Natsot</p>\n<p>HOW THE DRESS ENDED UP IN A DITCH IS A MYSTERY.</p>\n<p>GANNON SAYS EVERYBODY HAS A THEORY.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "I just don't know if somebody was hauling or moving and it blew out of their vehicle."</p>\n<p>SOME PEOPLE THINK THE BRIDE CHANGED HER MIND.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "I think the dress has already been worn, so I don't think she changed her mind."</p>\n<p>OTHERS BELIEVE IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE GREENFIELD TORNADO.</p>\n<p>BUT GANNON SAYS THOSE DATES DON'T ADD UP.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "It had not been there. I do not believe it has anything to do with Greenfield."</p>\n<p>GANNON SAYS IF SHE CAN'T FIND THE OWNER IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS SHE'LL DONATE IT.</p>\n<p>BUT REMEMBERING HER TIME AS A BRIDE 45 YEARS AGO SHE FEELS THE PERSON WHO OWNS THIS DRESS.</p>\n<p>Denise Gannon/Found Wedding Dress: "Hopefully somebody will just find it and say, hey, that's my dress."</p>\n<p>WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN TO FIND IT.</p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p>AGAIN GANNON IS HOPING SOMEONE WILL COME FORWARD AND CLAIM THE DRESS.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAG--</b></p>\n<p>IOWA WEDDING MISSING DRESS MARRIAGE SIDE OF ROAD FOUND</p>\n<p></p>

HOPE RIPPEY, ONE OF FOUR TEEN AGED GIRLS ACCUSED OF TORTURING AND BURNING TO DEATH 12-YEAR OLD SHANDA SHARER, MAKES A COURT APPEARANCE.

16 YEAR OLD HOPE RIPPEY PLEADED GUILTY TODAY TO HER ROLE IN THE JANUARY 1992 TORTURE SLAYING OF A 12 YEAR OLD SOUTHERN INDIANA GIRL. RIPPEY PLEADED GUILTY TO CHARGES OF MURDER, FELONY MURDER, ARSON AND CRIMINAL CONFINEMENT IN THE MURDER CASE OF 12 YEAR OLD SHANDA RENEE SHARER. RIPPEY WORE AN ORANGE JAIL SUIT AND WHITE SNEAKER AND WAS SHACKLED AROUND THE WAIST AND WRISTS AND ANKLES AT TODAY'S HEARING. SPEAKING QUIETLY TO JUDGE JEANNE JOURDAN, SHE ADMITTED HER ROLE IN THE DEATH OF THE 12 YEAR OLD. SHE ADMITTED THAT SHE HELPED LURE SHANDA FROM HER FATHER'S HOME AND THE TAKE PART IN THE SYSTEMATIC TORTURE OF THE GIRL. SHE ALSO ADMITTED THAT SHE POURED GASOLINE OVER SHANDA AND THEN SET HER AFIRE. RIPPEY IS THE FOURTH TEENAGER TO PLEAD GUILTY IN THE CASE. 17 YEAR OL MELINDA LOVELESS AND 18 YEAR OLD MARY LAURINE TACKET ALSO HAVE PLEADED GUILTY TO CHARGES IN SHANDA'S DEATH. EACH OF THEM HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON. 16 YEAR OLD TONI LAWRENCE HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO CHARGES OF CRIMINAL CONFINEMENT AND SHE HAD BEEN SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON. RIPPEY WILL BE SENTENCED ON JUNE 1ST. SHE FACES UP TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON AND 30 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN FINES.