Tausha Lee Lanham





Michelle Sue Tharp


Facts of the Crime:

Tharp, after being convicted of starving her seven-year-old daughter Tausha Lee Lanham to death in April 1998, was sentenced to death in Washington County on November 14, 2000. The jury was supplied with haunting evidence—pictures of a gaunt Tausha after her body was disposed of in a bush along a West Virginia dirt path.