Christa Pike’s accomplices: Why did Tadaryl Shipp get a different sentence in the Colleen Slemmer murder case?

Christa Pike and Tadaryl Shipp received different sentences in the 1995 Colleen Slemmer murder case. (J. Miles Cary/ Knoxville News Sentinel/USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) (via REUTERS)

Christa Pike, Tadaryl Shipp and a third companion were involved in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee. Pike was 18, her boyfriend Shipp was 17, and Slemmer was their classmate at a vocational training centre called Knoxville Job Corps. The case drew widespread attention because of the brutal nature of the … Read more