JUST IN: Christa Pike Execution Countdown Begins — The Girl-on-Girl Murder That Shocked America

🔴 Christa Pike Execution Countdown + The Murder of Colleen Slemmer | Tennessee Death Row, Mental Health, Appeals & 2026 Warrant

In January 1995, Knoxville, Tennessee, was shaken by a crime so disturbing it dominated national headlines for months. Eighteen-year-old Christa Gail Pike, a troubled student at the Knoxville Job Corps Center, lured her classmate Colleen Slemmer into a wooded area near the University of Tennessee campus. What unfolded became one of the most shocking torture murders in modern American true crime history — and the youngest woman convicted of capital murder in the United States.
The case revealed a volatile mix of jealousy, untreated mental illness, childhood trauma, and escalating obsession, culminating in an attack prosecutors described as ritualistic. Investigators found symbolic markings, a prolonged struggle, and a chilling fragment of bone that Pike kept as a trophy. Within 48 hours, she confessed in detail, sending the case into the national spotlight.
Christa Pike was sentenced to death in 1996, becoming the only woman on Tennessee death row. Over the next three decades, her story evolved into a complex legal battle involving brain development science, ineffective-counsel claims, prison violence, solitary confinement, and an international human-rights campaign. Yet every appeal was denied.
In 2025, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a warrant scheduling her execution for September 30, 2026, marking what may become the state’s first female execution in nearly 200 years. For Colleen’s family, the date symbolizes long-awaited justice. For Pike’s defenders, it raises questions about trauma, punishment, and the limits of the death penalty.

In this gripping breakdown, we explore:
🚨 The unstable childhood and psychological decline of Christa Pike
🚨 The relationship dynamics inside Job Corps and the events leading to the murder
🚨 The forensic findings, evidence chain, and confession that sealed the case
🚨 The capital murder trial and how Pike became the youngest woman on death row
🚨 Decades of appeals, brain scans, and legal challenges
🚨 The 2001 attempted murder behind bars and the 2012 escape conspiracy
🚨 Mental health deterioration inside solitary confinement
🚨 The 2026 execution date and the renewed debate over Tennessee’s death penalty

👉 This video draws from court transcripts, appellate rulings, psychiatric evaluations, forensic reports, and eyewitness accounts to deliver the most complete investigation ever compiled on this case.
📺 If you’re drawn to death row documentaries, capital punishment debates, and real true crime cases that challenge our understanding of justice, this is a must-watch.
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