Almost three decades after she was convicted a Tennessee judge has upheld the death sentence of the state’s only woman on death row. In 1996 Christa Pike was convicted of brutally murdering then 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
Pike’s case has garnered national attention and raised questions about the justice system, particularly concerning the application of the death penalty to a woman who committed the crime as a teenager.
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The Murder that Shook Tennessee
Christa Pike was just 18 years old when she committed the brutal murder.
There was no apparent motive for her crime. And when she confessed to authorities she infamously admitted to the murder because she “just felt mean that day.”
On January 12, 1995, Pike along with her friend, led Slemmer and others away from the Job Corps Center in Knoxville, Tennessee into a sinister ordeal. About two hours later they returned without Slemmer. That night, Pike admitted to her friends that she had killed Slemmer.
