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The Tennessee Death Row: The Story of Christa Pike, Murder, and Life Behind Bars
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ISBN13: 9798178201176
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At 18, she committed one of the most horrific murders in Tennessee history. At 19, she became the youngest woman sentenced to death row in modern American history.
On January 12, 1995, Christa Gail Pike lured fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer into a dark, wooded area near the University of Tennessee campus under the pretense of an informal truce. What followed was a thirty-minute nightmare of torture, occult ritualism, and brutal violence, culminating in Pike retrieving a fragment of her victim's skull to keep as a macabre souvenir.
On January 12, 1995, Christa Gail Pike lured fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer into a dark, wooded area near the University of Tennessee campus under the pretense of an informal truce. What followed was a thirty-minute nightmare of torture, occult ritualism, and brutal violence, culminating in Pike retrieving a fragment of her victim's skull to keep as a macabre souvenir.
The Tennessee Death Row: The Story of Christa Pike, Murder, and Life Behind Bars delivers the complete, unvarnished story of this infamous case-from Pike's troubled childhood in West Virginia to her high-stakes Knox County trial and three decades as the sole occupant of Tennessee's female death row.
Beyond the fatal night in Knoxville, this narrative details Pike's turbulent decades behind bars, including her 2001 attempted murder of a fellow inmate using an improvised shoestring garrote, her sophisticated 2004 prison escape conspiracy involving a compromised correctional officer, and the unending legal war testing neuroscience, capital punishment, and adolescent brain development.
A compelling study of youthful pathology, institutional security breaches, and life under a sentence of death, The Tennessee Death Row is an essential addition to the bookshelf of any true crime or reader legal history enthusiast.
Beyond the fatal night in Knoxville, this narrative details Pike's turbulent decades behind bars, including her 2001 attempted murder of a fellow inmate using an improvised shoestring garrote, her sophisticated 2004 prison escape conspiracy involving a compromised correctional officer, and the unending legal war testing neuroscience, capital punishment, and adolescent brain development.
A compelling study of youthful pathology, institutional security breaches, and life under a sentence of death, The Tennessee Death Row is an essential addition to the bookshelf of any true crime or reader legal history enthusiast.
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