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Christa Pike, who earned her spot as Tennessee’s solely feminine loss of life row inmate by stabbing and beating her classmate to loss of life – then practically executing an elaborate jail break – was featured on a latest episode of Investigation Discovery’s “Imply Woman Murders.”
Now 48, Pike was convicted in 1995 for killing fellow Knoxville Job Corps pc programming pupil Colleen Slemmer, who was 19 on the time. The homicide was carried out as a result of Pike believed Slemmer wished to “steal” her boyfriend. Pike was additionally the final particular person sentenced to loss of life for against the law dedicated after they had been 18 within the state.
Pike was the topic of the documentary’s “She-Satan” episode, which featured particulars of the grotesque killing within the episode that aired this Monday.
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Christa Pike seems at her mom after the jury learn the responsible verdict in Knox County Legal Court docket in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 29, 1996. (Byron Small/Knoxville Information Sentinel)
Those that knew Slemmer denied that she ever had intentions with Pike’s then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. However within the days main as much as luring Slemmer into the woods, in accordance with reporting by the Straits Occasions in 2001, Pike advised Shipp that the “little wh— needs to be taught a lesson.”
Pike, together with Shipp and pal Shadolla Peterson, signed out of their dormitory and lured Slemmer with marijuana to an deserted steam mill, telling her that she wished to make amends, the documentary particulars.
Earlier than they left, Pike pocketed a field cutter and a meat cleaver, per court docket paperwork.
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Colleen Slemmer, 19, was tortured for a few half hour earlier than Christa Pike crushed her cranium with a bit of asphalt in January 1995. (Might Martinez/Particular to the Information Sentinel)
After they reached the distant mill within the woods, Pike started accusing Slemmer of attempting to sleep along with her boyfriend. When the opposite teen denied it, Pike allegedly kneed her within the face, kicking off a half hour of taunting, beating and slashing.
Pike and Shipp attacked Slemmer whereas Peterson stood watch. The teenager assailants carved a pentagram into her chest earlier than Pike smashed her cranium with a bit of asphalt. Earlier than she died, Slemmer had been stabbed a whole bunch of instances, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
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Christa Pike enters a Knox County courtroom on Dec. 4, 2007. (J. Miles Cary/Knoxville Information Sentinel)
Pike fished a bloody piece of Slemmer’s cranium out of the gash in her head and secretly slipped it into her jacket pocket, in accordance with reporting by the Straits Occasions. Pike confirmed the piece of cranium to buddies, in accordance with the documentary.
All three teenagers had been arrested inside 36 hours, with police noting that 4 college students had signed out of the dorms and solely three had returned. After they ultimately searched Shipp’s room, they discovered a satanic bible and an altar. The fragment of Slemmer’s cranium was discovered amongst Pike’s belongings.
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Christa Pike is pictured in court docket in 2021. (Knoxville Information Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK)
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Shipp was given a life sentence with the potential of parole, as a result of he was solely 17 when he carried out the crime. He’ll change into eligible for parole in 2026, in accordance with the Tennessee Division of Correction. Peterson received off with six years of probation after pleading responsible to being an adjunct in Slemmer’s homicide.
Pike’s upbringing, fraught with violence, sexual abuse, drug abuse and neglect, was a pervasive factor of her trial, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
The convicted killer’s aunt testified that her niece would recurrently “crawl round via piles of canine stool everywhere in the home” and that her mom, Carissa Hansen, ignored her kid’s extreme seizures as a toddler. Hansen tried suicide after dishonest on her husband and separating, in accordance with court docket paperwork, however the couple would remarry for 2 years. Pike tried suicide for the primary time when she was 12.
Pike’s father despatched her away to boarding faculty after her youthful sisters claimed that she molested them, per court docket paperwork. Pike additionally mentioned she was sexually assaulted and molested at a number of factors in her life. Her household and buddies solid doubt on many of those claims, noting that she is a pathological liar, per testimony.
Pike’s attorneys appealed her loss of life sentence a number of instances. In 2014, attorneys tried to commute her sentence to life in jail, arguing that she had ineffective help from counsel and that the loss of life penalty can be unconstitutional resulting from her identified psychological sickness.
That request was denied however was dredged up in 2018 and denied a second time by the US Court docket of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, per court docket paperwork.
Christa Pike is proven in an April 2008 photograph. (J. Miles Cary/Knoxville Information Sentinel)
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Since her conviction, Pike has lived on loss of life row at Debra Okay. Johnson Rehabilitation Heart in Nashville, in accordance with Tennessee Division of Correction data.
In 2001, Pike tried to strangle one other incarcerated lady, Patricia Jones, with a shoestring. Three years later, she was convicted of tried homicide, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported.
In 2012, Pike recruited corrections officer Justin Heflin and pen pal Donald Kohut in an elaborate escape try, the Related Press reported.
Though many particulars surrounding the foiled escape have been suppressed resulting from safety considerations, Heflin’s unsealed indictment revealed that the trio meant to make a duplicate of a jail key and laid out a plan for escape earlier than jail personnel had been tipped off to the plot.
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Pike’s scheduled execution on Aug. 27, 2020, was delayed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. On the time of this report, Tennessee had but to announce a brand new execution date.
If she had been executed, per the documentary, Pike can be the primary lady to be executed within the state in roughly 200 years.
