In 1995, Christa Pike was an angry, damaged 18-year-old who transformed jealousy into something almost ritualistic. Colleen Slemmer was lured into the woods, beaten, stabbed, and mutilated in a killing so vicious it stunned even hardened investigators. Pike returned to the taped-off crime scene giggling, asking questions, seemingly thrilled by the horror she’d created. A year later, a jury sent her to death row, while her mother wept and blamed herself for the chaos that shaped her daughter’s life
US state will execute a woman for the first time in 200 years: Inside her chilling crime
