Youngest Woman on Death Row: Christa Pike

Murder Files Unsealed · Oct 2, 2026 · 41m · transcript

Christa Pike, who endured a deeply traumatic childhood marked by severe neglect and abuse, became the youngest woman on death row in the United States after committing a brutal, premeditated murder in 1995. Motivated by intense jealousy over a love triangle, Pike and her accomplices lured a fellow Job Corps student named Colleen Slemmer to a remote park, where they tortured the victim for nearly an hour before carving a pentagram into her chest and bludgeoning her to death. Exhibiting classic traits of psychopathy, Pike displayed no remorse during her trial, even keeping a fragment of the…