Age, Biography, and Wiki
Christa Gail Pike was born on March 10, 1976. She gained notoriety in 1996 when she was convicted at the age of 18 for the brutal murder of a fellow student, Colleen Slemmer. This crime led to her being sentenced to death, making her one of the youngest women on death row in the U.S. during that time. Her case remains one of the most disturbing in American history due to its brutality and the age at which she committed the crime.
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| Date of Birth | 10 March 1976 |
| Age | 49 Years |
| Birth Place | Beckley, West Virginia, US |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
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Height, Weight & Measurements
There is limited information available regarding Christa Pike's physical measurements, such as height and weight. Given her confinement, such details are not regularly updated or reported.
On January 12, 1995, Pike, Shipp, Peterson, and Slemmer signed out of the dormitory and proceeded to the woods, where Slemmer was told they wanted to make peace by offering her some marijuana. Upon arrival at the secluded location, Slemmer was attacked by Pike and Shipp while Peterson acted as lookout. According to later court testimony, for the next thirty minutes Slemmer was taunted, beaten, and slashed; and a pentagram was carved in her chest. Finally, Pike smashed Slemmer's skull with a large chunk of asphalt, killing her. Pike kept a piece of Slemmer's skull.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Pike was involved in a romantic relationship with a fellow inmate, Tadaryl Shipp, while incarcerated. However, details about her current relationship status are limited and not publicly disclosed.
Her parents had a tumultuous relationship, being married for two years, divorced for a year after Hansen was found to be cheating, and remarried for another two years after Hansen attempted suicide. Both of them were frequently negligent. An aunt noted that, as an infant, Pike would be "crawling around through piles of dog stool all over the house," and that Hansen wanted to keep carousing when she received news that her toddler was experiencing severe seizures. Pike's paternal grandmother would frequently help care for her. Christa Pike believed this grandmother was the only one who ever loved her. Pike's mother testified that Pike had attempted an overdose of acetaminophene when she was in third grade; thereafter she received psychiatric treatment, followed by psychological care and therapy at different times. At age 12, subsequent to her grandmother's death in 1988, Pike attempted suicide for which she received little support.
Pike's living situation continued to be unstable throughout her teenage years as she was both the recipient, and perpetrator, of violence. One of her mother's boyfriends punched her in the face after Pike chased him with a butter knife; criminal charges were filed, then settled. While staying with her father's new family, one of her young half-sisters claimed to have been molested by Pike, causing her father eject her from his home. Pike claimed to have been sexually assaulted or molested at several points in time. Her friends and family doubted these occurrences, noting that she is a pathological liar. Her mother claimed that in one incident, a man claiming by telephone that he was going to rape Hansen. In response, Pike and a friend beat him with a stick in a parking lot.
Although she had been intelligent as a child, Christa's unstable home caused her to frequently change schools, which affected her performance in school drastically. In tenth grade, she was sent to a juvenile facility for a year, where she became interested in the Job Corps, a government program aimed at helping low-income youth by offering vocational training and career skills; Pike reportedly completed her GED program and aspired to train as a nursing assistant. In late 1994, Pike attended the Job Corps Center in Knoxville, Tennessee (no longer in operation). She began dating a man a year her junior named Tadaryl Shipp. Together, they developed interest in the occult and devil worship.
Christa became jealous of her Job Corps classmate, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, who she thought was trying to "steal" her boyfriend from her; friends of Slemmer denied the accusations. Along with friend Shadolla Peterson, 18, Pike planned to lure Slemmer to an isolated, abandoned steam plant near the University of Tennessee campus.
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Net Worth and Salary
Given Christa Pike's incarceration and the nature of her notoriety, her net worth is essentially non-existent. Prison inmates typically do not earn a salary or accumulate wealth during their imprisonment. Unlike some other infamous figures, Pike does not have opportunities to leverage her notoriety for financial gain while incarcerated.
Career, Business, and Investments
Christa Pike's "career" is marked by her criminal conviction and subsequent imprisonment. There are no known business ventures or investments attributed to her. Her life has been defined by her conviction and the legal proceedings surrounding it.
In May 2014, Pike's lawyers entered an appeal in the federal court system. Her lawyers sought a commutation of the sentence from death to prison on the following grounds: ineffective assistance of counsel; Pike suffered from mental illness; and capital punishment as administered in Tennessee is unconstitutional. In a 61-page ruling by US District Judge Harry Sandlin Mattice Jr. issued on March 11, 2016, all grounds were rejected, and the requested commutation was denied. On August 22, 2019, having heard the same appeal by Pike's lawyers on October 1, 2018, the three judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit panel unanimously upheld the lower court ruling and denied relief.
On May 31, 2012, Kohut was sentenced to seven years in prison to be served at the Tennessee State Northeast Correctional Complex. Heflin, who cooperated with authorities after his arrest, served no prison time, but was terminated from his job with the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
Social Network
Pike does not have an active social media presence due to her incarceration. Her notoriety is largely confined to media coverage of her case rather than any personal online presence.
Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the US during the post-Furman period. She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
Education
Information about Christa Pike's educational background is not extensively detailed. Her life took a dramatic turn with her involvement in the crime at a young age, which likely precluded any further educational pursuits.
In summary, Christa Pike's life is characterized by her criminal conviction and the legal consequences that followed. Unlike some other infamous figures who have managed to leverage their notoriety for financial gain, Pike's situation is marked by her ongoing imprisonment and lack of opportunities for earning or investing.
Pike began to show off the piece of skull around the school, and the three were arrested within 36 hours. The log book showed that Pike, Shipp, Peterson, and Slemmer left together and only three returned. Detectives found the piece of skull in Pike's jacket pocket. Soon after her arrest, Pike confessed to police of the torture and killing of Slemmer, but insisted they were merely trying to scare her and it got out of control.
During Pike's trial, the prosecution was aided by evidence and Pike's confession. Pike was charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. On March 22, 1996, after only a few hours of deliberation, Pike was found guilty on both counts. On March 30, Pike was sentenced to death by electrocution for the murder charge and 25 years in prison for the conspiracy charge. Shipp received a life sentence with the possibility of parole plus 25 years. Peterson, who had turned informant, received probation for pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact.
On August 24, 2001, Pike (with alleged assistance from inmate Natasha Cornett) attacked and attempted to strangle fellow inmate Patricia Jones with a shoe string and nearly succeeded in choking her to death. Jones had been serving a life sentence for the 1994 murder of 84-year-old Alberta Coker in Knoxville at the time of her attack. Pike was convicted of attempted first degree murder on August 12, 2004. Although the Tennessee Department of Corrections maintained that Cornett assisted in this crime, their investigators concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge her with helping Pike attack Jones.
