Job Corps to Death Row: The Christa Pike Case

Send us Fan Mail In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike was enrolled in Job Corps in Knoxville, Tennessee—a program meant to help young people build a future. Instead, she ended up on death row. What started as jealousy and teenage drama escalated into the brutal murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a crime so disturbing that Christa would become the youngest woman sentenced to death in Tennessee at the time. But decades later, the case still raises questions that go far beyond what happened tha...