Born in Quantico, Virginia on October 22, 1968, and raised in Frankville, Alabama, Shelby Lynne Moorer would be forced into a position of independence from a young age. At the age of 17, Shelby and her sister witnessed the murder of their mother at their alcoholic father's hands, who then killed himself.
on her own
Left to fend for themselves, Shelby and her younger sister left Alabama for Nashville, Tennessee. Accompanying them was Shelby's husband, the high-school sweetheart she married aft...