The Sharp family had just moved in to cabin 28 the year before. Plumas County Sheriff’s Department A back view of cabin 28 where the family had lived for a year. They had apparently slept through the entire massacre which had unfolded mere feet from their beds. Stranger still, in an adjoining bedroom the two youngest Sharp boys, Rickey and Greg, as well as their friend and neighbor, 12-year-old Justin Smartt were found unharmed. Sheila’s sister, 12-year-old Tina Sharp, was nowhere to be found. ![]() ![]() ![]() The three had been bound by medical and electrical tape and had either been viciously stabbed, strangled, or bludgeoned. Inside Cabin 28 were the bodies of her mother, Glenna “Sue” Sharp, her teenage brother John, and his high school friend, Dana Wingate. What the 14-year-old girl discovered inside the modest four-room cabin instantly became one of the most macabre scenes in modern American crime history - and has come to be known as the gruesome Keddie murders. On the morning of April 12, 1981, Sheila Sharp returned to her home at Cabin 28 in the Keddie Resorts in California from the next-door neighbor’s house. The former Sharp home was condemned and demolished in 2004 Plumas County Sheriff’s Office Cabin 28 at Keddie Resort, 1981.
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