Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post- Furman period. [1]

Oct 2, 2025 · Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow Knoxville Job Corps student. Slemmer, 18, was stabbed and beaten by …

Mar 21, 2026 · Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off …

Jan 27, 2026 · Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, has filed a law­suit in the Davidson County Chancery Court chal­leng­ing the state’s lethal injec­tion pro­to­col, assert­ing it vio­lates …

May 24, 2024 · Christa Pike, who became Tennessee's only death row inmate after butchering her high school romantic rival in 1996, is the subject of a new "Mean Girl Murders" episode.

Feb 3, 2020 · Christa Pike murdered Colleen Slemmer on Jan. 12, 1995. She and Shipp, Satan worshipers both, carved pentagrams into Colleen.

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