Satan's Helper: The Christa Pike Story, Part 3 - Shoelace Around an Inmate's Neck

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Oct 16, 2026 · 15m

Patricia Jones weighed 217 pounds, twice Christa Pike's size by Pike's own estimate, and she was unconscious on the floor of a recreation cage at the Tennessee Prison for Women within minutes of a fire alarm on August 24, 2001. Pike had carried a boot lace out of her cell when the alarm went off. A sergeant who talked to her afterward said she was proud, unremorseful, and sure thirty more seconds would have done it. Six days later she said the same thing to her mother on a recorded line and called it premeditated. Chapter three of Satan's Helper: The Christa Pike Story, the Hidden Killers…