Behind the Headline: The Knoxville Job Corps Murder
Thirty years ago, Christa Gail Pike tortured and killed an acquaintance on the University of Tennessee Ag campus near Tyson Park. Pike and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, suddenly turned on Colleen Slemmer, cursing her and taunting her. Pike slashed Slemmer's neck with a box cutter. Satan worshipers both, they carved pentagrams into her. When Slemmer tried to run away, Pike and her accomplice chased the girl down and resumed the attack. Pike slammed a piece of asphalt repeatedly into Colleen's head, fatally fracturing it. As the victim lay dying, Pike reached down and plucked a bit of bone from the left side of her skull as a souvenir. Revisit the 1995 Knoxville Job Corps Murder, how it horrified a community, the trial that followed and the long shadow this case has cast over East Tennessee.
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