A Texas Monthly feature in May told the story in full, lurid detail. Residents in Channelview became garish caricatures with Texas drawls. The world came to Houston to cover the case that even the British tabloids digested with great glee. After one circus-like trial ended with Holloway getting a year sentence, it was overturned. She would later plead no contest as the second one started in She was sentenced to a decade in prison, but only served six months on "hoe detail" before being released on probation.
ABC's own flick "Willing to Kill" was a little more straight with the storytelling and not as darkly comedic. Later in , Wanda's daughter Shanna Widner would tell PEOPLE magazine that she didn't even want to be a cheerleader and that the whole ordeal made her endure years of depression.
Craig Hlavaty is a reporter for Chron. He's an intolerable native Texan with too much ink in his skin and too much brisket stuck in his teeth. Only his father survived the attack. Houston veterinarian, Valerie McDaniel, and boyfriend, Leon Jacob, allegedly hired someone to kill their former significant others. Widner does, however, have her own way of parenting, gathered from the lessons she's learned in her year journey from the scandal that rocked her family.
I think I've learned that lesson," she said on "GMA. If they're not having fun, then try something different. It's not worth it.
Holloway bought Shanna her first cheerleader kit when she was just five-years-old and forked out for intensive gymnastics lessons. But her mother's grueling regime, in which she forced Shanna to practice through injuries and sickness, saw Shanna grow to hate cheerleading.
But I was so close to my mom. She was my world, and I wanted to please her. But Shanna failed to make the squad and Holloway watched enviously as neighbour Verna Heath's daughter Amber managed to make the cut and filled her bedroom with trophies.
Holloway - who was divorced from Shanna and older brother Shane's father Tony Harper - was convinced Verna had somehow hindered her daughter's chances of becoming a cheerleader. In , Shanna had the chance to make the eighth grade squad, but when she failed again and Amber managed to make the squad, Holloway snapped, reports People magazine.
Obsession: Wanda Holloway, pictured here with Shanna then 13 in , was convicted of plotting to kill her daughter's cheerleading rival's mother. Target: Holloway had wanted to murder Verna Heath, pictured here right arriving in court in August , with her cheerleader daughter Amber. She felt Verna was trying to get in the way of my becoming a cheerleader. Unbeknown to the year-old, her mother began hatching a plan to hire a hitman and have Verna murdered in the hope that Amber would be so shattered by the death that she would drop-out of the team.
The next day, Shanna was practicing in the garage - which her mother had had fitted with a special floor and mirrors to help her succeed - when two police officers came to the door. Shanna told People magazine that she will never forget how her mother calmly put her jewellery on the kitchen table and left with the officers. Happier: Shanna, pictured here with her husband Joe, has managed to get her life back on track through her passion for teaching and children.
New life: Shanna, pictured here with her husband Joe, says she will never 'push' her two sons to pursue her desires as her mother had pushed her. The next day the mother-of-two was released on bail and returned home to tearfully explain the situation to her daughter.
As news of the scandal rocked the small town and grabbed national headlines, Shanna's life came crashing down around her. I was hurt, angry and confused. It ruined my world'. Shanna said the ordeal made high school a living nightmare for her.
She was not invited to parties that Amber was going to and dropped out of dance classes when Amber was brought in as a teacher. Shanna was plagued by depression and anxiety attacks, which brought on stomach pains and rashes, and her once close relationship with her mother became non-existent. The church-going teen turned her hatred towards God. I hate you! Holloway was Heath, Their year-old daughters both attended Alice Johnson Junior High, trained at Alpha Gymnastics, and hoped to land a spot on the Channelview High School cheerleading squad.
Her macabre solution? Harper later said the family would spend years pretending none of this had ever happened. After dropping Shanna off at church on January 28, Holloway met Harper at a Pasadena motel and was caught on tape making a down payment of two 1. What followed was a high-profile media circus led by the British tabloids, Geraldo , and A Current Affair.
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