Christa Pike: The satanic "sacrifice" of Colleen Slemmer

   

Christa Pike was born in West Virginia on March 10th, 1976. Her mother was an alcoholic and her

 father was out of the picture, so Christa was raised by her grandparents. Christa and her grandmother

 were very close, but her grandma had a friend, named Earnest, who abused Christa for the majority of

 her childhood. According to Christa, the abuse began when she was still in diapers. However, this

 didn't affect the love that Christa had for her grandmother, and when she passed away, Christa

 attempted suicide at the age of 12. 

   She moved in with her mom, Carissa, who introduced Christa to marijuana almost immediately after

 moving in. But Christa and Carissa did not get along at all, because Carissa had multiple boyfriends,

 and a lot of them abused Christa, but her mom did nothing to stop the abuse.

   Later in her teenage years, Christa was arrested for shoplifting and served a month in juvenile. When

 she got out, she decided to join job corps to begin training as a nursing assistant. But when Christa

 arrived at job corps, she met a boy named Tadaryl Shipp, and became completely obsessed with him.

 Tadaryl was 17, and he was enrolled in the culinary arts program. He, like Christa, was also a high

 school dropout. He dropped out in the 9th grade and joined a gang, which was when his mom decided

 to send him to job corps. Tadaryl also had a dark obsession with satanism and the occult.

   Christa and Tadaryl's relationship progressed quickly, and it wasn't long before Christa took on

 Tadaryl's dark interests as her own. She became a satanist as well, which attracted the friendship of

 another job corps student, Shadolla Peterson. 

   But there was one girl on campus that Christa developed a jealous hatred for. Her name was Colleen

 Slemmer. Colleen was from Jacksonville, FL, and she was studying computer technology.

Colleen Slemmer

   Christa was worried that Colleen had an interest in Tadaryl, even though Colleen and Colleen's

 friends told her that she wanted nothing to do with Tadaryl. There was no logical reason for Christa to

 assume this about Colleen, but she still began to follow Colleen around campus and even back to her

 dorm room, threatening her and accusing her of liking Tadaryl over and over. Christa decided that

 Colleen should be sacrificed to Satan, and since Tadaryl and Shadolla both wanted the experience of

 sacrificing someone, Christa was easily able to convince them to help her. 

   On January 12th, 1995, Christa, Shadolla, and Tadaryl convinced Colleen to go into the woods with

 them and smoke some weed. They claimed they wanted to apologize for Christa's past behaviour. The

 four of them went into a nearby park. They walked around for a little while, and the three led Colleen

 to a nearby tunnel. Colleen started to become suspicious and asked the others if they were really going

to be smoking weed. Then, out of nowhere, Christa began to scream at Colleen, and started hitting her

 in the face. Colleen begged Christa to stop and tried to talk things out with her. But this just pissed

 Christa off more and she began to kick Christa in the face. 

   Christa removed a box cutter from her pocket and cut Colleen all over her body. Then, she handed the

 knife to Tadaryl, who carved a pentagram into Colleen's skin. They tortured Colleen for nearly an hour.

 They would let her stand up and beg for her life, then they would knock her back down and continue to

 beat her, cut her, and throw rocks at her. 

   When Christa and Tadaryl were finally done with the torture, Christa picked up a large piece of

 asphalt from a nearby pile, and bashed Colleen in the head with it. Over and over until she died.

   They hid her body in some bushes and Christa stole a piece of Colleen's skull to keep as a trophy. 

   Christa's other job corps friend Kim described her as being happy and giddy, showing off the piece of

 Colleen's skull and telling them all about the murder while laughing and dancing. But Kim wasn't the

 only person Christa bragged too. She told plenty of her other friends about the horrific murder. But

 none of them reported her right away. It didn't take long for Colleen's body to be found by a job corps

 employee. Her body was mutilated and one of the officers at the crime scene couldn't even tell if he

 was looking at Colleen's face when first examining the body. Christa actually showed back up to the

 crime scene for unknown reasons but was denied entry. She wasn't afraid of acting suspicious. She

 even left her hoodie in the job corps administrator's office, that had the piece of Colleen's skull stuffed

 inside the pocket. The campus handed it over to the police.

   After police spoke with Christa's peers and found out that she had been bragging about a murder, they

 brought Christa in for an interrogation. She cooperated with the police and immediately 

 confessed to the murder. She was excited to boast about the sick things she did to Colleen.

 In fact, she described the murder in so much detail that when her confession was typed out, it was 42

 pages long.

   Tadaryl, Shadolla and Christa were all arrested within two days of the killing. Shadolla plead guilty to

 being an accessory after the fact, and agreed to testify against Christa and Tadaryl, so she was given 6

 months of probation, since she technically didn't play a violent role in Colleen's murder. Tadaryl was

 convicted of capital murder and was given life with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Christa was

 convicted of capital murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She was sentenced to death by

 electrocution. She is awaiting death day at the Tennesse Prison for Women.