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

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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

What did Christa Pike do to Colleen Slemmer? Inside the 1995 murder case and death sentence

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Christa Pike was convicted of murdering her classmate Colleen Slemmer in Tennessee in 1995. (X/@SarcasmStardust)

Christa Pike murdered her 19-year-old classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995. Pike was 18 at the time of the crime, while Slemmer was 19. Pike and her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, were convicted of killing Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee. Christa Pike was convicted of murdering her classmate Colleen Slemmer in Tennessee in 1995. (X/@SarcasmStardust) Pike and Shipp … Read more