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51 – Colleen Slemmer

  • February 24, 2022
  • , 11:15 pm
  • , Podcast
Colleen Slemmer thought she was being invited to the woods to smoke pot. Instead, she was tortured and murdered by her 18-year-old classmate Christa Pike, who is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row.

51 – Colleen Slemmer

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Colleen Slemmer thought she was being invited to the woods to smoke pot. Instead, she was tortured and murdered by her 18-year-old classmate Christa Pike, who is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row.

Show Credits:

Research, Writing, Editing, Audio Production, and Sound Design by Renee Lynn

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Music Credits:

MOVE Altered by Bill Conn (PodcastMusic)

Belonging by Muted (Artlist)

Winds by Blake Ewing (Musicbed)

A Sky Sparkling by Johannes Bornlof (Epidemic Sound)

I Do Believe It’s Time by Emanuel Wilde (Epidemic Sound)

It all Belongs Here by Borrtex (Artlist)

Music licensed from Artlist, Epidemic Sound, Musicbed, and/or PodcastMusic

Show Sources:

State wants to set execution date for Christa Gail Pike; defense argues now is not the time for only woman on death row by WBIR

The Job Corps killing: Passage of time can’t erase Christa Gail Pike’s savage crime by WBIR

How young is too young for a death sentence? Christa Pike fights move to set execution date by Knox News

Two men arrested in alleged attempt to break out Tenn. death row inmate Christa Gail Pike by CBS News

Mother of Christa Gail Pike’s slaying victim outraged over for-profit website by Knox News

State v. Pike, 03C01-9611-CR-00408, Tenn. Crim. App. 1997 by Court Listener

Job Corps Student Murdered on Agriculture Campus by UT Knoxville

CHRISTA GAIL PIKE v. STATE OF TENNESSEE, No. E2009-00016-CCA-R3-PD, April 14, 2010 Session, Filed April 25, 2011

CHRISTA GAIL PIKE, Petitioner, v. VICKI FREEMAN, Warden, Respondent, No. 1:12-cv-35, March 11, 2016

CHRISTA GAIL PIKE v. STATE OF TENNESSEE, No. E2002-00766-CCA-R3-PD, January 27, 2004 Session, Filed July 15, 2004

CHRISTA GAIL PIKE v. STATE OF TENNESSEE, No. M2012-01640-CCA-R3-PC, Assigned on Briefs March 19, 2013, Filed September 30, 2013

Christa Gail PIKE, Petitioner-Appellant v. Gloria GROSS, Warden, Respondent-Appellee, No. 16-5854, Argued: October 17, 2018, Decided and Filed: August 22, 2019, Rehearing En Banc Denied September 26, 2019

Christa Gail PIKE v.STATE of Tennessee, February 3, 2005 Session, May 12, 2005

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee v. Christa Gail PIKE, Appellant, October 5, 1998, Rehearing Denied November 23, 1998

Christa Pike by Wiki

Colleen Slemmer by Find a Grave

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