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{{Mature}} {{Villain_Infobox |Image =Christa-pike.jpg |fullname = Christa Gail Pike |alias = |origin = Nashville, Tennessee, United States |occupation = College student<br>Job Corps trainee |type of villain = Envious Murderer |goals = Kill Colleen Slemmer (successful) |crimes = [[Murder]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>Mutilation |hobby = }}'''Christa Gail Pike''' (b. March 10, 1976) is the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States Pike was very jealous of a student, Colleen Slemmer, 19. She believed that Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend. Although Slemmer's friends denied the accusation Pike took revenge on her. On January 12, 1995: Pike, Shipp, Peterson, and Slemmer escaped out of the bedroom and accessed the forest, where they took Slemmer to offer her his pot. Upon arrival at the location, Slemmer was attacked by Pike and Shipp while Peterson acted watching. She suffered 45 minutes of torture until, finally, Pike broke Slemmer's skull with a large piece of asphalt pavement, killing her. Pike kept a fragment of her victim's skull as a "trophy." ==Biography== Pike lived a troubled life and dropped out of high school. She joined the Job Corps, a government program aimed at helping low-income youth by offering vocational training and career skills, and attended the now-closed Job Corps center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike began dating a man a year her junior named Tadaryl Shipp. Together, they developed interest in the occult and devil worship. Pike became jealous of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, who she thought was trying to "steal" her boyfriend from her; friends of Slemmer denied the accusations. Along with friend Shadolla Peterson, 18, Pike planned to lure Slemmer to an isolated, abandoned steam plant near the University of Tennessee campus. On January 12, 1995, Pike, Shipp, Peterson, and Slemmer signed out of the dormitory and proceeded to the woods, where Slemmer was told they wanted to make peace by offering her some marijuana. Upon arrival at the secluded location, Slemmer was attacked by Pike and Shipp while Peterson acted as lookout. According to later court testimony, for the next thirty minutes Slemmer was taunted, beaten, and slashed, and a pentagram was carved in her chest. Finally, Pike smashed Slemmer's skull with a large chunk of asphalt, killing her. Pike kept a piece of her victim's skull. Pike began to show off the piece of skull around the school, and within thirty-six hours the three were arrested. The log book showed that the four of them left together and only three returned. Detectives found the piece of skull in Pike's jacket pocket. The suspects' rooms were searched and a copy of the Satanic Bible was found in Shipp's. Soon after her arrest Pike confessed to police of the torture and killing of Slemmer but insisted they were merely trying to scare her and it got out of control. During Pike's trial, the prosecution was aided by evidence and Pike's confession. Pike was charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. On March 22, 1996, after only a few hours of deliberation, Pike was found guilty on both counts. On March 30, Pike was sentenced to death by electrocution for the murder charge and 25 years in prison for the conspiracy charge. Shipp received a life sentence with the possibility of parole plus 25 years. Peterson, who had turned informant, received probation for pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact. On August 24, 2001, Pike (with alleged assistance from inmate [[Natasha Cornett]]) attacked and attempted to strangle fellow inmate Patricia Jones with a shoe string, and nearly succeeded in choking her to death. She was convicted of attempted first degree murder on August 12, 2004. Although it is the position of the Tennessee Department of Corrections that Cornett assisted in this crime, their investigators concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge her with helping Pike attack Jones. On August 27, 2020, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery’s office requested the Tennessee Supreme Court to set an execution date for Pike. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee and various other factors, Pike's attorneys were granted extensions by the court, allowing them more time to argue as to why Pike should not be executed. The state did not oppose the extensions. On June 7, 2021, Pike's attorneys filed a motion to oppose the execution date and request a Certificate of Commutation. The court is expected to decide on the matter as to whether Pike can be executed or if her sentence will be commuted. If Pike is executed, she would be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in roughly 200 years. [[Category:Murderer]] [[Category:Modern Villains]] [[Category:Female]] [[Category:Imprisoned]] [[Category:Torturer]] [[Category:Living Villains]] [[Category:Vengeful]] [[Category:Satanism]] [[Category:Sadists]] [[Category:Mutilators]] [[Category:Envious Villains]] [[Category:Paranoid]] [[Category:Tragic]] [[Category:From Nobody to Nightmare]] [[Category:Mentally Ill]] [[Category:Mongers]] [[Category:Psychopath]] [[Category:Wrathful]] [[Category:Homicidal]] [[Category:Obsessed]] [[Category:Control Freaks]] [[Category:Egotist]]
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