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Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, was recently featured on an episode of Investigation Discovery's TV series "Mean Girl Murders.". Pike, 48, was convicted of murder for the ...
Christa Pike: In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike lured out her fellow Job Corps trainee, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, to an isolated section of the University of Tennessee agricultural campus, spurred on by the belief that Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. Pike bashed her head with a chunk of asphalt and kept a piece of ...
On August 24, 2001, Cornett and death row inmate Christa Pike allegedly attacked fellow prisoner Patricia Jones, nearly strangling Jones to death with a shoelace after Pike and Jones were placed in a holding cell with Cornett during a fire alarm. Although the Department of Corrections believed that Cornett was involved, investigators found ...
In 1996, a jury convicted Pike of murder and sentenced her to death for the brutal killing of Colleen Slemmer, another student at the Knoxville Job Corps, a year before.
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On January 13, 1995, Pike, Shipp, and their friend, Shadolla Peterson, lured Slemmer into the woods, where Pike began to torture her using a boxcutter. Pike then hit Slemmer in the head with a piece of asphalt, killing her, and kept a piece of her skull as a trophy. For testifying against the others, Peterson got a six-year suspended sentence.
Villisca Ax Murder House. 508 E. 2nd St. Villisca, Iowa. The tiny town of Villisca, Iowa, was the site of gruesome axe murders in 1912. Eight people in one household were killed with an ax ...