Christa Pike’s influence from Tennessee’s death row
Most of the world never got to meet Colleen Slemmer because Christa Pike killed her in 1995. Colleen was only 19 at the time. Christa was 18. As described by the people who loved her, Slemmer was kind, playful, trusting, easygoing, generous and smart. This month, she’d be 51 years old. She didn’t get to […]
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