1 00:00:12,896 --> 00:00:15,689 [Patricia] The Job Corps was designed to help students 2 00:00:15,758 --> 00:00:17,689 to do better with their lives. 3 00:00:17,689 --> 00:00:19,172 I loved it. 4 00:00:19,241 --> 00:00:22,793 We were all such a close bunch of girls. 5 00:00:22,862 --> 00:00:24,793 She was pretty popular. 6 00:00:24,862 --> 00:00:27,275 And she was just a fireball. 7 00:00:27,344 --> 00:00:31,103 But she was on this like dark path. 8 00:00:31,103 --> 00:00:34,068 And that turned out to be a very toxic thing. 9 00:00:44,103 --> 00:00:46,275 This was totally different from anything I'd ever seen. 10 00:00:46,344 --> 00:00:49,896 The only other names that I can think of of people like 11 00:00:49,965 --> 00:00:53,068 this are Gacy or Dahmer. 12 00:00:53,137 --> 00:00:55,103 She said, if you tell anybody, I'll kill you. 13 00:00:55,103 --> 00:00:56,379 Love you, bye. 14 00:01:13,379 --> 00:01:17,103 [Randy] It was around daybreak, and this older couple that was 15 00:01:17,103 --> 00:01:21,482 walking came upon a wet spot in the pavement there. 16 00:01:21,482 --> 00:01:25,068 And the lady told her husband, 17 00:01:25,068 --> 00:01:26,482 she said, "That looks like blood." 18 00:01:26,482 --> 00:01:28,586 And he said, "No, that's probably transmission fluid." 19 00:01:28,655 --> 00:01:31,137 But sure enough, it was blood. 20 00:01:34,482 --> 00:01:37,793 When I got to the crime scene, I was led back there by one 21 00:01:37,793 --> 00:01:39,275 of the officers. 22 00:01:39,275 --> 00:01:43,586 And I had them all clear out, because the crime scene, 23 00:01:43,655 --> 00:01:45,586 it was horrendous. 24 00:01:45,655 --> 00:01:47,896 I could see drag marks. 25 00:01:47,896 --> 00:01:50,172 Then you see the handprints. 26 00:01:52,723 --> 00:01:56,378 And then, of course, the body itself was just a mass of blood. 27 00:01:56,448 --> 00:01:58,586 I could see there was a lot of pain involved, 28 00:01:58,655 --> 00:02:00,793 and it went on for a while. 29 00:02:00,793 --> 00:02:03,965 This was totally different from anything I'd ever seen. 30 00:02:07,275 --> 00:02:11,172 [Patricia] The discovery of this body was just 31 00:02:11,172 --> 00:02:13,689 an unusual situation in Knoxville, Tennessee. 32 00:02:13,689 --> 00:02:15,689 Murders just didn't happen very often. 33 00:02:15,689 --> 00:02:20,482 And here, this was a horrific one, and one that would 34 00:02:20,551 --> 00:02:23,068 actually cause fright amongst all the people 35 00:02:23,068 --> 00:02:24,689 in the community. 36 00:02:24,758 --> 00:02:27,275 [narrator] And no one is more terrified than the thousands 37 00:02:27,275 --> 00:02:29,448 of coeds who call Knoxville home. 38 00:02:31,103 --> 00:02:34,482 Within walking distance of Tyson Park is not only 39 00:02:34,482 --> 00:02:36,448 the prestigious University of Tennessee, 40 00:02:38,379 --> 00:02:41,655 but the humbler Knoxville branch of Job Corps as well. 41 00:02:45,793 --> 00:02:48,379 [Joe] Job Corps is a federal program. 42 00:02:48,379 --> 00:02:52,586 It was meant for learning skills or trades. 43 00:02:52,586 --> 00:02:57,000 It was designed to help students get further 44 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,172 education in such things as nursing, computer science, 45 00:03:01,241 --> 00:03:04,793 the culinary arts, and to give them an opportunity to do 46 00:03:04,793 --> 00:03:05,896 better with their lives. 47 00:03:10,275 --> 00:03:14,689 You went and you lived on site, and they would put 48 00:03:14,689 --> 00:03:17,275 you in class and help you get a job afterwards. 49 00:03:17,344 --> 00:03:20,103 My personal experience was great. 50 00:03:20,103 --> 00:03:25,896 I was away from home and I was happy to not be 100 percent 51 00:03:25,965 --> 00:03:28,689 supervised all the time. I had fun. 52 00:03:28,689 --> 00:03:32,482 I was taking nursing, and I loved it. 53 00:03:32,551 --> 00:03:34,689 I met people from all different cultures, 54 00:03:34,758 --> 00:03:38,067 and, you know, walks of life and I loved that. 55 00:03:38,137 --> 00:03:41,689 I was in the nursing program too, and I liked my friends 56 00:03:41,689 --> 00:03:43,275 that I had made. 57 00:03:43,275 --> 00:03:46,689 It was one floor of girls and three floors of boys, 58 00:03:46,689 --> 00:03:49,275 and so it was just us girls and then 59 00:03:49,344 --> 00:03:50,793 all those floors of guys. 60 00:03:50,793 --> 00:03:52,689 You know we had our little 61 00:03:52,758 --> 00:03:57,103 residential moms that stayed on the hall with us that, 62 00:03:57,103 --> 00:03:59,793 you know, did their best to keep us in line, 63 00:03:59,793 --> 00:04:04,000 but we pretty much, you know, stayed to ourselves. 64 00:04:04,034 --> 00:04:06,275 [narrator] But the residential mothers have more to worry about 65 00:04:06,344 --> 00:04:09,034 than just keeping boys off the girls floor. 66 00:04:10,517 --> 00:04:15,103 There is very much the same amount of drama and competition 67 00:04:15,103 --> 00:04:17,896 at Job Corps as there was anywhere else. 68 00:04:17,896 --> 00:04:21,689 There was always somebody vying for one place or status 69 00:04:21,757 --> 00:04:26,793 or position, whatever that they do in college. 70 00:04:26,793 --> 00:04:28,689 [narrator] And 18-year-old nursing student 71 00:04:28,689 --> 00:04:33,000 Christa Pike would be voted most likely to come out on top. 72 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,793 Christa's personality, it just filled the whole room. 73 00:04:36,793 --> 00:04:43,000 Christa was about 5'2", maybe 95 pounds, soaking wet. 74 00:04:43,034 --> 00:04:47,482 And most of that was her hair. And she was just a fireball. 75 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 And Kim and her were really good friends. 76 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,379 And Kim was an extremely good person. 77 00:04:56,379 --> 00:04:57,896 [Kim] She was my best friend. 78 00:04:57,896 --> 00:05:01,689 But walking with Christa was sometimes a nightmare. 79 00:05:01,758 --> 00:05:03,896 I'm just trying to get from point A to point B, 80 00:05:03,896 --> 00:05:05,758 and she's going to stop and talk to 81 00:05:07,172 --> 00:05:09,379 everybody along the way. 82 00:05:09,448 --> 00:05:11,793 [narrator] Christa arrives at Job Corps with dreams of 83 00:05:11,793 --> 00:05:14,655 a brighter future after a rocky start in life. 84 00:05:15,896 --> 00:05:19,689 Christa had been shuttled back and forth in a split marriage 85 00:05:19,689 --> 00:05:23,275 between father and mother, West Virginia, North Carolina, 86 00:05:23,344 --> 00:05:27,379 West Virginia, North Carolina. Hard life for Christa Pike. 87 00:05:27,379 --> 00:05:30,000 [Patricia] When Christa was 18, she had dropped out 88 00:05:30,034 --> 00:05:32,379 of high school, and her mother decided 89 00:05:32,379 --> 00:05:34,586 that Job Corps was the place for her. 90 00:05:34,586 --> 00:05:36,793 Despite all of that, a really smart girl. 91 00:05:36,793 --> 00:05:39,000 She was smart. 92 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,482 [Kim] When she said she was taking nursing, I thought that 93 00:05:41,482 --> 00:05:44,000 would be a great thing for her because she was 94 00:05:44,034 --> 00:05:46,379 very charismatic but she was also very caring. 95 00:05:46,379 --> 00:05:50,275 She would do something to make you laugh or smile. 96 00:05:50,344 --> 00:05:52,000 Christa had a lot of friends. 97 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,793 She had Kim and Amy and Colleen and Shadolla. 98 00:05:57,862 --> 00:06:01,275 [Amy] Christa and Colleen actually came in together. 99 00:06:01,344 --> 00:06:03,275 They were in the same orientation together. 100 00:06:03,275 --> 00:06:06,689 You kind of create a bond with the girls that 101 00:06:06,689 --> 00:06:08,586 you come in with. 102 00:06:08,586 --> 00:06:11,379 Colleen was studying computers, 103 00:06:11,379 --> 00:06:13,275 and she was a good student. 104 00:06:13,275 --> 00:06:15,586 She was determined that she was going to succeed 105 00:06:15,655 --> 00:06:17,172 there at the Job Corps. 106 00:06:17,172 --> 00:06:18,793 [Kim] She was very studious. 107 00:06:18,793 --> 00:06:21,172 After she would eat, she would head to her room for 108 00:06:21,172 --> 00:06:22,793 a while to study. 109 00:06:22,862 --> 00:06:24,758 Usually she was in a room with books. 110 00:06:26,275 --> 00:06:29,172 Shadolla was studying culinary arts. 111 00:06:29,172 --> 00:06:31,379 She was a follower. 112 00:06:31,448 --> 00:06:35,068 She just wanted to fit in and be friends with whoever 113 00:06:35,068 --> 00:06:36,793 was most popular. 114 00:06:36,793 --> 00:06:38,586 [Patricia] Shadolla wanted to be part of the crowd. 115 00:06:38,586 --> 00:06:41,275 She was a very quiet girl. 116 00:06:41,344 --> 00:06:44,000 She was absolutely the opposite of Christa. 117 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Christa was one of the few friends that Shadolla had 118 00:06:47,034 --> 00:06:49,551 and so she was very loyal to her. 119 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:52,275 [narrator] And there's nothing 120 00:06:52,275 --> 00:06:55,068 Christa values more than loyalty. 121 00:06:55,137 --> 00:06:58,172 She always wanted to make sure she had plenty of friends 122 00:06:58,172 --> 00:07:01,586 and plenty of people on her side. 123 00:07:01,655 --> 00:07:06,000 [Kim] She would kind of went out of her way to make new friends 124 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,586 because Christa loved attention. 125 00:07:08,655 --> 00:07:12,172 She liked being the center of anything. 126 00:07:12,172 --> 00:07:13,379 She loved it. 127 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,379 [narrator] But Christa plays the popularity game to win, 128 00:07:17,379 --> 00:07:20,482 which means someone else has to lose. 129 00:07:20,482 --> 00:07:23,068 Christa definitely had a mean girl side to her. 130 00:07:23,068 --> 00:07:25,482 She was kind of a time bomb type. 131 00:07:25,482 --> 00:07:29,068 Just any little thing could set Christa off. 132 00:07:29,137 --> 00:07:32,068 [Kim] I never knew what I was getting from her. 133 00:07:32,068 --> 00:07:34,482 She ran very much hot and cold. 134 00:07:36,379 --> 00:07:39,172 She wasn't afraid to just, like, lash out. 135 00:07:39,241 --> 00:07:45,172 She would scream and cuss and, you know, go off. 136 00:07:45,172 --> 00:07:47,689 [Kim] It was just loud and obnoxious. 137 00:07:47,689 --> 00:07:49,379 I was like, why are you like this? 138 00:07:50,620 --> 00:07:52,689 I think she wanted people to think she was 139 00:07:52,689 --> 00:07:55,172 a big and bad person. 140 00:07:55,241 --> 00:07:58,241 I think that she had to outplay her small frame. 141 00:08:01,689 --> 00:08:05,275 [narrator] Queen Christa rules the social circuit at Job Corps. 142 00:08:05,344 --> 00:08:08,068 And when she locks eyes with Tadaryl Shipp 143 00:08:08,137 --> 00:08:09,275 one day after class, 144 00:08:09,275 --> 00:08:12,689 she is certain she's found her king. 145 00:08:12,689 --> 00:08:17,586 And she's like, who's that? He was like, who's that? 146 00:08:17,655 --> 00:08:19,172 So I introduced them, 147 00:08:21,793 --> 00:08:25,689 and they stood there talking, and that was the end of it. 148 00:08:25,758 --> 00:08:29,000 They met on, let's just say Wednesday. 149 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 They were basically married by Friday. 150 00:08:32,586 --> 00:08:34,586 It was an instant connection with them two, 151 00:08:34,586 --> 00:08:38,482 and it was a very intense connection. 152 00:08:38,482 --> 00:08:40,379 It was almost like they were stuck together, 153 00:08:40,448 --> 00:08:43,034 like you never saw them apart. 154 00:08:44,827 --> 00:08:49,482 Tadaryl was 17, and he was studying culinary arts. 155 00:08:49,482 --> 00:08:53,379 [Kim] Tadaryl was tall. He had a lot of friends. 156 00:08:53,379 --> 00:08:57,068 He was always on his way or coming back from somewhere. 157 00:08:57,068 --> 00:08:59,896 He was always doing something. 158 00:08:59,965 --> 00:09:04,275 He was friendly, liked to joke, just very active. 159 00:09:04,275 --> 00:09:08,379 He was a friend. I mean, he was on my floor. 160 00:09:08,379 --> 00:09:10,586 Now, Tadaryl got in the fights. 161 00:09:10,586 --> 00:09:12,896 But he wasn't like this bad dude. 162 00:09:12,896 --> 00:09:16,379 He was a cool guy. People liked him. 163 00:09:16,448 --> 00:09:22,068 He was intense as far as he kind of radiated anger 164 00:09:22,068 --> 00:09:23,275 when he was mad. 165 00:09:23,344 --> 00:09:25,068 When he was angry, I steered clear. 166 00:09:25,137 --> 00:09:28,482 I was like, no, I didn't need that. 167 00:09:28,482 --> 00:09:30,793 [narrator] But Christa never saw a red flag 168 00:09:30,793 --> 00:09:33,068 she couldn't overlook. 169 00:09:33,137 --> 00:09:37,482 [Amy] I think Tadaryl made Christa feel like she was, 170 00:09:37,482 --> 00:09:40,586 you know, the one and only, like, number one. 171 00:09:42,103 --> 00:09:44,000 He made her feel special. 172 00:09:45,586 --> 00:09:49,000 He made her feel like a princess because he was 173 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,896 6'1", maybe. 174 00:09:50,965 --> 00:09:54,172 But she was so little that he could just swoop her up. 175 00:09:54,172 --> 00:09:56,379 And, you know, I think she liked that. 176 00:09:56,379 --> 00:09:59,241 You know, she liked feeling safe and secure. 177 00:10:00,793 --> 00:10:04,689 [narrator] As Christa enjoys the view from Tadaryl's arms, 178 00:10:04,689 --> 00:10:09,172 she can't hear the shade being thrown just out of earshot. 179 00:10:09,241 --> 00:10:12,379 I don't want to say I was happy for Christa when she was 180 00:10:12,379 --> 00:10:15,689 with Tadaryl, because he was on this, like, dark path. 181 00:10:19,620 --> 00:10:23,103 Tadaryl claimed to be a Satanist, and he was really 182 00:10:23,103 --> 00:10:24,793 open about that. 183 00:10:24,862 --> 00:10:27,172 He made sure that he was kind of loud and proud about it, 184 00:10:27,172 --> 00:10:29,068 and he made sure that everybody knew it. 185 00:10:30,689 --> 00:10:33,068 Worshiping the Underlord, as he called it. 186 00:10:33,068 --> 00:10:35,275 He called him the Underlord. 187 00:10:35,275 --> 00:10:36,793 It was just weird. 188 00:10:39,379 --> 00:10:43,068 Knowing Christa before Tadaryl, you wouldn't think she would 189 00:10:43,068 --> 00:10:46,793 be the type to be into that. 190 00:10:46,793 --> 00:10:51,896 But she kind of changed. She was just really different. 191 00:10:51,896 --> 00:10:54,793 She definitely embraced that side of Tadaryl. 192 00:10:54,793 --> 00:10:58,551 She just kind of picked it up right along with him, I think. 193 00:10:59,793 --> 00:11:01,000 [Kim] And that... 194 00:11:02,172 --> 00:11:04,172 turned out to be a very toxic thing. 195 00:11:12,689 --> 00:11:14,896 [Patricia] Tadaryl had ornaments. 196 00:11:14,896 --> 00:11:18,000 He had a Satanic bible. 197 00:11:18,034 --> 00:11:21,482 Everything that was Satanistic, he followed. 198 00:11:21,482 --> 00:11:25,172 He introduced Christa to seances 199 00:11:25,172 --> 00:11:27,172 and to the Ouija board. 200 00:11:27,241 --> 00:11:30,793 He also had her kneel to the altar of Satan 201 00:11:30,793 --> 00:11:32,689 that he had in his room. 202 00:11:32,689 --> 00:11:34,758 This was his place of worship. 203 00:11:34,827 --> 00:11:37,172 I remember thinking, you know, 204 00:11:37,241 --> 00:11:40,931 this is really out there. 205 00:11:42,413 --> 00:11:45,689 And it was just the talk of the hall. 206 00:11:45,689 --> 00:11:46,965 It was talk of Job Corps. 207 00:11:50,103 --> 00:11:53,275 [Kip] There was even one night, and I remember this night, 208 00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:56,379 the RA of the floor, they do bed checks. 209 00:11:56,379 --> 00:11:59,172 And so they go to your room, open your door, 210 00:11:59,241 --> 00:12:00,551 and check on you. 211 00:12:02,275 --> 00:12:05,586 And she did a bed check, and so Tadaryl had Christa 212 00:12:05,586 --> 00:12:08,275 in his room, which was a big no-no. 213 00:12:08,275 --> 00:12:10,862 There were candles lit in the room, 214 00:12:10,931 --> 00:12:13,068 and he was chanting stuff. 215 00:12:13,068 --> 00:12:16,758 And I remember it scared this dorm director so much, 216 00:12:16,758 --> 00:12:17,931 she just started yelling. 217 00:12:20,931 --> 00:12:25,000 And then security came up and broke it up. 218 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,379 [Amy] I think she was looking for something to make her 219 00:12:27,379 --> 00:12:30,275 feel stronger than what she was. 220 00:12:30,275 --> 00:12:34,275 I think she got a sense of power out of Satanism. 221 00:12:34,275 --> 00:12:37,896 He had a tattoo that said, "Baby Satan." 222 00:12:37,896 --> 00:12:42,068 Christa got a tattoo that said, "Little Devil." 223 00:12:42,068 --> 00:12:44,172 And she was quite proud of that. 224 00:12:44,241 --> 00:12:46,379 [narrator] But to everyone else at Job Corps, 225 00:12:46,448 --> 00:12:50,172 the Satanism seems little more than cringy theater. 226 00:12:50,172 --> 00:12:52,758 Oh, my gosh. 227 00:12:52,827 --> 00:12:56,172 Me and my roommate would call them doom and gloom because 228 00:12:56,241 --> 00:12:58,172 they would just be so serious. 229 00:12:58,172 --> 00:13:01,448 I think the whole Satanist thing was probably for show. 230 00:13:02,793 --> 00:13:05,068 As a whole, Job Corps students, we didn't 231 00:13:05,137 --> 00:13:06,793 think much of it. 232 00:13:06,793 --> 00:13:09,482 I thought it was 100 percent for attention. 233 00:13:09,482 --> 00:13:12,172 I took it as a joke. 234 00:13:12,241 --> 00:13:14,379 [Randy] They may have just been dabbling in it just for fun, 235 00:13:14,379 --> 00:13:16,793 just to, you know, just for the experience. 236 00:13:16,793 --> 00:13:19,172 You know, even good kids just think it's cool to 237 00:13:19,172 --> 00:13:20,758 do a seance. 238 00:13:24,310 --> 00:13:27,103 So, a couple months after Christa and Tadaryl 239 00:13:27,103 --> 00:13:31,379 were dating, one day, Tadaryl was walking down the hall, 240 00:13:31,448 --> 00:13:34,793 and Colleen waved at Tadaryl, I guess. 241 00:13:34,793 --> 00:13:37,103 Colleen was very quiet, but friendly. 242 00:13:37,103 --> 00:13:38,689 She was starting to come out of her shell. 243 00:13:38,758 --> 00:13:42,862 She kind of blossomed, and she waved because it was 244 00:13:42,931 --> 00:13:47,172 a friendly face she knew. He waved back, smiled. 245 00:13:47,172 --> 00:13:49,482 I thought, there's not a big deal in that. 246 00:13:49,551 --> 00:13:52,482 Christa's like, "Colleen's trying to steal my boyfriend." 247 00:13:52,482 --> 00:13:53,586 I said, "No, she's not..." 248 00:13:54,586 --> 00:13:56,068 "...she's really not." 249 00:13:56,068 --> 00:13:58,275 [narrator] Christa might think Colleen is a backstabbing 250 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:02,103 boyfriend stealer, but she's anything but. 251 00:14:02,103 --> 00:14:05,482 Colleen was shy, but if she'd meet somebody, 252 00:14:05,482 --> 00:14:08,103 she would be friends, she would say hi. 253 00:14:08,103 --> 00:14:09,586 Colleen was the type of child, 254 00:14:09,586 --> 00:14:11,586 she would please you no matter what. 255 00:14:11,586 --> 00:14:14,068 Colleen would do anything for you. 256 00:14:14,137 --> 00:14:18,482 She was a nerd, a geek, a nerd, with -- 257 00:14:18,551 --> 00:14:22,275 with the computer, always at the lab, 258 00:14:22,344 --> 00:14:24,379 always trying to take things apart. 259 00:14:24,448 --> 00:14:28,000 She did not care about any boys the whole time 260 00:14:28,034 --> 00:14:29,482 she was in school. 261 00:14:29,482 --> 00:14:33,103 I know she didn't have any interest in Tadaryl whatsoever. 262 00:14:33,103 --> 00:14:36,379 [narrator] But Christa has already made up her mind. 263 00:14:39,586 --> 00:14:40,793 [Kim] Christa went to Colleen and said, 264 00:14:40,793 --> 00:14:42,448 "Why are you trying to steal my boyfriend?" 265 00:14:44,068 --> 00:14:47,793 Colleen was like, "I don't want your boyfriend." 266 00:14:47,793 --> 00:14:50,275 You know, they're friends, but, you know, nice guy, 267 00:14:50,275 --> 00:14:51,551 but I don't want him. 268 00:14:54,758 --> 00:14:58,000 Christa said, "Yes, you do. 269 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,896 I'm going to need you to stay away from him." 270 00:15:00,896 --> 00:15:03,068 Colleen's, like, "Done." 271 00:15:03,137 --> 00:15:05,068 [narrator] But why forgive and forget 272 00:15:05,137 --> 00:15:08,034 when holding a grudge is so much more fun? 273 00:15:11,172 --> 00:15:14,379 [Kip] Christa started spreading rumors that Colleen was 274 00:15:14,379 --> 00:15:17,000 messing with other guys, that she was easy, 275 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,896 that she was trying to get with Tadaryl, 276 00:15:19,896 --> 00:15:22,689 trying to steal Tadaryl away, things like that. 277 00:15:22,758 --> 00:15:25,862 She would call her names, just, "Hey, bitch," 278 00:15:25,862 --> 00:15:29,689 or "Hey, ho," or she's like, "You ugly, ugly bitch." 279 00:15:29,758 --> 00:15:30,758 I mean, just all kinds of 280 00:15:30,758 --> 00:15:34,241 just things to, I guess, bring her down. 281 00:15:35,931 --> 00:15:37,482 [Amy] I always felt horrible for Colleen 282 00:15:37,551 --> 00:15:39,000 that she had to deal with that. 283 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,068 She singled Colleen out to, you know, do that to her. 284 00:15:43,068 --> 00:15:45,689 [Kim] I was just like, 285 00:15:45,689 --> 00:15:47,379 I was so tired of hearing about it. 286 00:15:47,448 --> 00:15:51,586 Because I'd never seen or heard her act any way 287 00:15:51,586 --> 00:15:53,344 inappropriately towards her boyfriend. 288 00:15:55,172 --> 00:15:58,689 [narrator] After weeks of abuse, Colleen decides to finally 289 00:15:58,758 --> 00:15:59,896 stand up to Christa. 290 00:15:59,896 --> 00:16:02,000 [Kim] Colleen told Christa, she's like, 291 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,896 "I don't want your boyfriend." 292 00:16:03,896 --> 00:16:06,896 He's a nice guy, but she wasn't into guys like Tadaryl. 293 00:16:06,896 --> 00:16:10,172 What she meant by guys like Tadaryl, I don't know. 294 00:16:10,241 --> 00:16:12,482 But Christa just automatically assumed it was because 295 00:16:12,482 --> 00:16:14,000 he was black. 296 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,758 [Amy] I don't think Colleen was a racist at all. 297 00:16:16,827 --> 00:16:20,586 And I just remember how intense it was. 298 00:16:20,655 --> 00:16:23,862 And I remember Shadolla being there too. 299 00:16:23,931 --> 00:16:27,689 And Christa definitely got Shadolla on board with her on 300 00:16:27,689 --> 00:16:29,758 this campaign against Colleen. 301 00:16:31,206 --> 00:16:35,000 She just really made it her mission to just really trash 302 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,275 Colleen's name. 303 00:16:36,275 --> 00:16:38,379 And a lot of people ran with it. 304 00:16:38,448 --> 00:16:41,068 A lot of people, you know, thought Colleen 305 00:16:41,068 --> 00:16:44,586 was racist, that she hated black guys, 306 00:16:44,586 --> 00:16:48,482 and she hated all black people now. 307 00:16:48,551 --> 00:16:51,586 There wasn't really any truth at all to any of it. 308 00:16:51,655 --> 00:16:54,965 [narrator] And Christa is just getting started. 309 00:17:01,758 --> 00:17:05,275 We would leave the dorms during the day and go to school. 310 00:17:05,344 --> 00:17:07,275 And I remember at the end of the day, 311 00:17:07,344 --> 00:17:09,068 Colleen went to her room. 312 00:17:10,792 --> 00:17:12,482 And it had been just completely trashed. 313 00:17:14,482 --> 00:17:16,378 And she had had some things stolen, 314 00:17:16,378 --> 00:17:18,896 some jewelry, some money stolen. 315 00:17:18,896 --> 00:17:21,482 And all of her belongings were just, like, 316 00:17:21,482 --> 00:17:23,482 dumped in the center of the room. 317 00:17:23,482 --> 00:17:25,378 [Kim] I looked at Christa. 318 00:17:25,378 --> 00:17:27,068 I immediately looked at Christa. 319 00:17:27,068 --> 00:17:30,689 And she kind of smirked and said, what? 320 00:17:30,758 --> 00:17:32,896 I said, did you do that to her stuff? 321 00:17:32,896 --> 00:17:34,379 Christa said, "No... 322 00:17:36,068 --> 00:17:37,172 "...but I know who did." 323 00:17:49,689 --> 00:17:50,724 I said, "Who did it?" 324 00:17:52,862 --> 00:17:54,517 Christa is like, "I'm not going to tell you," 325 00:17:55,689 --> 00:17:56,827 and then walked away. 326 00:17:58,482 --> 00:18:00,379 She would always change the subject, like, who did it? 327 00:18:00,379 --> 00:18:02,862 I want to know. I'm not telling you. 328 00:18:05,586 --> 00:18:08,965 I don't know who she talked into doing it, 329 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,448 or what she offered them, or what stakes they had in it. 330 00:18:12,517 --> 00:18:15,172 But she was behind it. 331 00:18:15,172 --> 00:18:17,344 [narrator] But Christa doesn't realize she's finally 332 00:18:17,344 --> 00:18:19,241 pushed Colleen too far. 333 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,448 Colleen knew that Christa had been in trouble a lot. 334 00:18:25,517 --> 00:18:28,965 She knew that if she got in trouble anymore, 335 00:18:28,965 --> 00:18:31,758 that she would be banned from the program. 336 00:18:31,758 --> 00:18:35,655 There was a system in place where you got so many points, 337 00:18:35,724 --> 00:18:37,689 you had to eventually leave the Job Corps Center. 338 00:18:37,689 --> 00:18:40,172 You would get sent home for good. 339 00:18:40,172 --> 00:18:43,793 Christa had already been in so much trouble. 340 00:18:43,793 --> 00:18:47,344 She'd been reprimanded for various things and for being 341 00:18:47,344 --> 00:18:49,965 in Tadaryl's room after hours, 342 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,655 for fighting, and skipping school. 343 00:18:54,448 --> 00:18:56,896 [Amy] Colleen did finally go to somebody 344 00:18:56,896 --> 00:18:59,758 about Christa and all the bullying 345 00:18:59,827 --> 00:19:01,758 she had been dealing with Christa. 346 00:19:01,827 --> 00:19:04,344 [narrator] The disciplinary board convenes 347 00:19:04,413 --> 00:19:07,000 and will render a decision about Christa's fate 348 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,551 at Job Corps after they conduct an investigation. 349 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,448 Christa was really upset that Colleen had went 350 00:19:15,517 --> 00:19:18,482 to the powers that be about her. 351 00:19:18,482 --> 00:19:20,896 You could kind of just see the smoke 352 00:19:20,896 --> 00:19:22,034 coming from her ears. 353 00:19:23,241 --> 00:19:27,793 She was devastated because she knew that she would lose 354 00:19:27,793 --> 00:19:29,137 all the friends who followed her. 355 00:19:29,137 --> 00:19:33,551 She would have to go home to a menial existence. 356 00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:35,551 She had no future at that point. 357 00:19:35,551 --> 00:19:38,862 [narrator] And it's not just her own future that's at stake. 358 00:19:44,793 --> 00:19:47,206 [Kim] Christa found out she was pregnant. 359 00:19:48,793 --> 00:19:50,965 Christa was totally excited. 360 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,655 We had talked about, you know, when we grow up, 361 00:19:52,724 --> 00:19:54,551 we're going to have babies and live next door to each 362 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:57,689 other and raise our kids together. 363 00:19:57,689 --> 00:20:01,551 So her part of it was already started. 364 00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:05,241 [Amy] She told everyone right away that she was pregnant. 365 00:20:05,241 --> 00:20:09,241 She was very happy about it and wanted to be a mommy, 366 00:20:09,241 --> 00:20:11,000 wanted to have Tadaryl's baby. 367 00:20:12,275 --> 00:20:14,068 [narrator] Christa may know what she wants, 368 00:20:14,068 --> 00:20:17,103 but the same can't be said for Tadaryl. 369 00:20:18,896 --> 00:20:22,758 I don't think he was, quote unquote, as obsessed 370 00:20:22,827 --> 00:20:25,413 about her as she was him. 371 00:20:26,655 --> 00:20:31,551 Tadaryl certainly wasn't prepared to be a father. 372 00:20:31,620 --> 00:20:34,000 He didn't have much drive in his classes. 373 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,551 He didn't have a lot of direction. 374 00:20:36,620 --> 00:20:39,551 And the fact that he claimed to be a Satanist, 375 00:20:39,620 --> 00:20:41,241 he was open about that. 376 00:20:43,379 --> 00:20:44,965 You know, like, what? 377 00:20:46,586 --> 00:20:48,241 [Kim] And then 378 00:20:48,310 --> 00:20:51,275 a couple of days later, or it might have been a week, 379 00:20:51,275 --> 00:20:53,000 she was gone for a couple of days. 380 00:20:54,586 --> 00:20:57,758 I found out she went to the hospital because 381 00:20:57,758 --> 00:20:59,034 she had a miscarriage. 382 00:21:01,172 --> 00:21:04,689 Things got really sad with Christa after that. 383 00:21:04,689 --> 00:21:05,965 They got kind of dark, 384 00:21:05,965 --> 00:21:08,344 and she was in a really bad place. 385 00:21:10,551 --> 00:21:13,586 I think she wanted to blame the miscarriage on somebody. 386 00:21:13,586 --> 00:21:18,034 And I remember her and Tadaryl were having a lot of fights. 387 00:21:18,034 --> 00:21:22,586 They seemed to not be in that lovey-dovey state anymore 388 00:21:22,586 --> 00:21:25,586 after that experience. 389 00:21:25,586 --> 00:21:29,172 [Kim] The smallest things would spark an argument. 390 00:21:29,172 --> 00:21:32,689 And some of them were very explosive to the point of, 391 00:21:32,689 --> 00:21:34,862 I wondered sometimes, is she going to hit him? 392 00:21:34,862 --> 00:21:36,827 Is he going to hit her? 393 00:21:38,551 --> 00:21:41,241 They would have knock-down, drag-out fights. 394 00:21:41,241 --> 00:21:44,965 We heard rumors that Tadaryl would hit Christa. 395 00:21:44,965 --> 00:21:47,724 Christa would attack Tadaryl. 396 00:21:55,103 --> 00:21:57,965 [narrator] Finally, the school disciplinary board issues 397 00:21:57,965 --> 00:22:00,965 a ruling on Colleen's complaint about Christa. 398 00:22:02,103 --> 00:22:05,551 And they told Christa she was on her last strike. 399 00:22:05,620 --> 00:22:08,344 [Amy] She should have been sent home, 400 00:22:08,413 --> 00:22:10,103 but they let her stay. 401 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:23,758 I remember everybody coming back after Christmas and being 402 00:22:23,827 --> 00:22:26,655 happy and being in a brighter place. 403 00:22:26,724 --> 00:22:29,965 It seemed like it was probably going to be better. 404 00:22:32,172 --> 00:22:33,655 It definitely felt lighter. 405 00:22:33,655 --> 00:22:35,655 [narrator] Christa comes back to campus 406 00:22:35,724 --> 00:22:38,896 a changed and nicer person. 407 00:22:38,896 --> 00:22:44,586 [Kim] Christa, she would walk by Colleen and wave at her. 408 00:22:44,586 --> 00:22:48,344 She seemed like she wanted to be friends. 409 00:22:48,344 --> 00:22:50,655 [Amy] Christa was going to make friends with Colleen. 410 00:22:50,655 --> 00:22:53,482 And I remember thinking, that's good. 411 00:22:53,482 --> 00:22:55,034 That's nice to hear. 412 00:22:56,172 --> 00:22:58,000 [Kim] Colleen thought, you know what? 413 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,482 This can end now. 414 00:22:59,482 --> 00:23:03,896 We don't have to be best friends, but we'll be OK. 415 00:23:03,896 --> 00:23:05,482 Colleen was happy. 416 00:23:05,482 --> 00:23:08,172 I think she had a good break, maybe expecting to have 417 00:23:08,172 --> 00:23:10,655 a better year. 418 00:23:10,724 --> 00:23:12,965 [narrator] Even Christa and Tadaryl seemed to be back in 419 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,793 one another's good graces. 420 00:23:15,793 --> 00:23:18,068 Things seemed to be going smoother. 421 00:23:18,068 --> 00:23:21,448 There were less hassles, less confrontations, 422 00:23:21,517 --> 00:23:23,655 and everyone was getting along at that point. 423 00:23:28,586 --> 00:23:30,275 [Patricia] Christa went looking for Colleen, 424 00:23:30,275 --> 00:23:32,689 and when she found her on campus, 425 00:23:32,689 --> 00:23:35,103 she asked her if she would like to go to the video store 426 00:23:35,103 --> 00:23:36,965 with her and help to pick out a movie. 427 00:23:36,965 --> 00:23:39,448 And Colleen was excited about that. 428 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,551 [Joe] I recall being outside sitting and Colleen made 429 00:23:47,551 --> 00:23:50,793 a concerted effort to come up to me and just all smiles 430 00:23:50,793 --> 00:23:52,344 and just happy. 431 00:23:52,344 --> 00:23:55,758 She was wearing, I think, some of the clothes that 432 00:23:55,827 --> 00:23:57,758 she received for Christmas. 433 00:23:57,827 --> 00:24:00,551 She was wearing blue jeans and a pinkish type 434 00:24:00,551 --> 00:24:01,758 long-sleeved sweater. 435 00:24:01,827 --> 00:24:04,551 You had to sign out and sign back in 436 00:24:04,551 --> 00:24:07,758 at the guard shack to leave or come onto the properties. 437 00:24:07,827 --> 00:24:10,689 [narrator] On their way out, Tadaryl and Shadolla 438 00:24:10,689 --> 00:24:12,862 ask if they can come too. 439 00:24:12,931 --> 00:24:17,000 And I seen Colleen, Christa, Tadaryl, 440 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,344 and Shadolla sign out. 441 00:24:19,758 --> 00:24:21,758 Four people signed out that night. 442 00:24:23,689 --> 00:24:25,000 Three came back. 443 00:24:37,172 --> 00:24:39,034 [Patricia] There was a couple walking in Tyson Park. 444 00:24:39,034 --> 00:24:41,344 They came across what they found to be 445 00:24:41,413 --> 00:24:43,448 a spot of blood, or they believed to be 446 00:24:43,517 --> 00:24:47,344 a spot of blood along the pathway. 447 00:24:47,413 --> 00:24:50,482 As he walked down the path, he saw what he believed 448 00:24:50,482 --> 00:24:53,137 to be an animal, perhaps a dog. 449 00:24:53,137 --> 00:24:55,000 [John] And then he looked a little bit closer, 450 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,689 and he realized it wasn't an animal. 451 00:24:56,689 --> 00:24:58,172 It was a human being. 452 00:24:58,172 --> 00:25:01,172 So you can imagine his horror. He calls the cops. 453 00:25:01,172 --> 00:25:02,896 The cops get there, and they're like, 454 00:25:02,896 --> 00:25:04,344 holy, you know what? 455 00:25:04,344 --> 00:25:06,758 [Randy] I think the crime scene itself took up 456 00:25:06,758 --> 00:25:09,655 about 250 feet in a circle. 457 00:25:09,724 --> 00:25:13,965 I found a piece of pavement there that was bloody. 458 00:25:13,965 --> 00:25:17,655 You could see the imprints of hands in the mud. 459 00:25:17,655 --> 00:25:22,068 And the body was laying at the base of this pile of dirt. 460 00:25:22,068 --> 00:25:25,448 It was pretty bloody. 461 00:25:25,448 --> 00:25:28,448 And she was nude from waist up. 462 00:25:28,517 --> 00:25:31,448 There was items of clothing in the tree. 463 00:25:31,448 --> 00:25:35,379 In another tree, there was a bra, a bloody bra. 464 00:25:35,379 --> 00:25:38,758 But I did not think that it was a sexual assault. 465 00:25:38,758 --> 00:25:41,896 I can't imagine they put part of the clothes back on 466 00:25:41,896 --> 00:25:44,448 and not all the clothes back on. 467 00:25:44,517 --> 00:25:45,965 And the way she was cut and hacked, 468 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,724 that's not just average rape, murder. 469 00:25:53,344 --> 00:25:54,827 I knew it was two or more, 470 00:25:57,241 --> 00:26:00,551 because you could see certain tracks at certain places. 471 00:26:00,620 --> 00:26:03,551 And so we had an idea that it was a group of people, 472 00:26:03,551 --> 00:26:05,448 and it told us that they were mad at her. 473 00:26:05,448 --> 00:26:08,448 Something was going on other than just stranger meeting 474 00:26:08,448 --> 00:26:10,862 stranger on a bicycle trail. 475 00:26:10,931 --> 00:26:13,586 [narrator] A closer look at the body reveals more about 476 00:26:13,586 --> 00:26:16,000 the horrors of the night before. 477 00:26:18,344 --> 00:26:20,344 There was multiple slashes across her forehead 478 00:26:20,344 --> 00:26:23,172 and across her, of course, the body. 479 00:26:23,172 --> 00:26:25,344 Her throat was cut seven times. 480 00:26:26,482 --> 00:26:29,275 But what actually caused the death was 481 00:26:29,275 --> 00:26:31,862 the piece of pavement. 482 00:26:31,931 --> 00:26:33,965 [Patricia] The chunk of asphalt that was beside the body, 483 00:26:33,965 --> 00:26:36,000 that was the murder weapon. 484 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,689 And there was a piece of the skull missing. 485 00:26:39,689 --> 00:26:42,862 It was obvious there was a piece missing there. 486 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,793 [News anchor] You have a body of a white female. 487 00:26:46,793 --> 00:26:49,448 She's been a victim of a homicide. 488 00:26:49,517 --> 00:26:54,103 To find somebody sort of tossed aside, sliced up, 489 00:26:54,103 --> 00:27:00,068 and nude from the waist up, that's all a message. 490 00:27:00,068 --> 00:27:04,586 It was just a horrendous whole scene. 491 00:27:04,586 --> 00:27:07,379 Authorities had no idea who the victim was. 492 00:27:07,379 --> 00:27:09,551 It was assumed that it was a student, 493 00:27:09,551 --> 00:27:13,034 but they really had no clue. 494 00:27:13,034 --> 00:27:15,689 [narrator] No one wants to know more than the college students 495 00:27:15,689 --> 00:27:17,551 living in Knoxville, 496 00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:20,241 whose sense of safety has been shattered. 497 00:27:20,310 --> 00:27:23,344 We were told to, you know, stick together off campus 498 00:27:23,344 --> 00:27:27,241 and not to be by ourselves when we were out and about. 499 00:27:27,310 --> 00:27:30,034 You had a lot of students that left 500 00:27:31,379 --> 00:27:32,655 that just went home. 501 00:27:34,137 --> 00:27:37,482 And you had a lot of students that were just 502 00:27:37,482 --> 00:27:39,068 in shock. 503 00:27:41,379 --> 00:27:42,965 I can't even explain it. 504 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,275 I mean, how do you react to something like that? 505 00:27:47,275 --> 00:27:50,172 [Joe] I was at home at the time listening to local news. 506 00:27:50,172 --> 00:27:53,379 And I recall them reporting what she was wearing. 507 00:27:53,379 --> 00:27:56,344 And at that time, I told my wife, and I remember this 508 00:27:56,344 --> 00:27:58,586 distinctly, telling her, I think that might be 509 00:27:58,586 --> 00:28:01,448 a girl I know from Job Corps. 510 00:28:01,517 --> 00:28:04,344 [narrator] Little is known about the body in the woods, 511 00:28:04,413 --> 00:28:06,379 including her identity. 512 00:28:06,379 --> 00:28:09,034 But the investigation is just getting started. 513 00:28:15,862 --> 00:28:18,758 [Randy] I got a radio dispatch to go to the hospital. 514 00:28:18,758 --> 00:28:20,965 They need to see me right away. 515 00:28:20,965 --> 00:28:24,793 And when I got there, they showed me the body once 516 00:28:24,793 --> 00:28:28,862 it had been cleaned, and then there it was. 517 00:28:28,931 --> 00:28:32,862 It was a big pentagram that covered her whole chest. 518 00:28:32,931 --> 00:28:35,034 It's an upside down star, and it represents 519 00:28:35,034 --> 00:28:36,241 the goat head of Satan. 520 00:28:36,241 --> 00:28:39,551 And the two up points are the horns. 521 00:28:39,620 --> 00:28:44,448 The down part is the head and nose of the goat. 522 00:28:44,517 --> 00:28:47,241 [Patricia] It just took the investigation in a whole 523 00:28:47,310 --> 00:28:52,448 different direction as far as possible assailants. 524 00:28:53,896 --> 00:28:56,965 [Randy] So I took that information. 525 00:28:56,965 --> 00:28:59,241 I alerted everyone at the station. 526 00:28:59,241 --> 00:29:01,758 Don't talk about it. Don't say nothing. 527 00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:03,241 That's going to be important. 528 00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:05,586 But if anything comes into Satanism, I want to know 529 00:29:05,586 --> 00:29:07,000 no matter what time or day. 530 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,551 And about 3:30, I got a phone call, said, 531 00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:16,172 "Randy, we just got a call from a lady out 532 00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:18,758 "of Jackson, Tennessee, 533 00:29:18,827 --> 00:29:21,275 and she's real worried about her daughter." 534 00:29:21,275 --> 00:29:24,344 I said, "Okay." 535 00:29:24,344 --> 00:29:25,758 She said, "Well, she mentioned Satanism." 536 00:29:25,827 --> 00:29:27,241 I said, "What'd she say?" 537 00:29:27,241 --> 00:29:32,551 She said that her daughter is in Job Corps 538 00:29:32,551 --> 00:29:36,068 and that she knows a bunch of kids involved in Satanism 539 00:29:36,068 --> 00:29:37,586 and she's really scared. 540 00:29:37,586 --> 00:29:39,137 [narrator] The woman's daughter is safe and sound 541 00:29:39,137 --> 00:29:41,034 in the Job Corps dorm. 542 00:29:41,034 --> 00:29:43,965 She is not tied to the murder in any way. 543 00:29:43,965 --> 00:29:46,241 But the information she provides gives 544 00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:48,172 detectives an idea. 545 00:29:48,172 --> 00:29:50,655 So I went to the Job Corps Center, and I asked 546 00:29:50,724 --> 00:29:52,448 the security guard there, I said, 547 00:29:52,517 --> 00:29:56,000 "Do you have a sign in and out sheet for students?" 548 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,379 He said, "Yes, we do." 549 00:29:57,379 --> 00:30:00,655 I said, "Will you check yesterday, about such that time 550 00:30:00,655 --> 00:30:03,448 "and see who signed out and see if any didn't sign in?" 551 00:30:03,448 --> 00:30:07,068 So he checked, and the logbook indicated that 552 00:30:07,068 --> 00:30:09,655 four people had signed out. 553 00:30:09,724 --> 00:30:13,000 It was Christa Pike, Tadaryl Shipp, and Shadolla Peterson, 554 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,586 and Colleen Slemmer. 555 00:30:14,586 --> 00:30:18,758 My victim was, of course, the one who didn't sign back in. 556 00:30:20,551 --> 00:30:22,034 That was Colleen Slemmer. 557 00:30:35,689 --> 00:30:38,379 [Kim] Christa had just come barreling through the door. 558 00:30:38,379 --> 00:30:42,793 The level of manic excitement, 559 00:30:42,793 --> 00:30:44,758 I had never scene. 560 00:30:44,758 --> 00:30:47,000 Just giddy, happy, 561 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,172 manic, dancing around. 562 00:30:50,172 --> 00:30:52,000 And I'm thinking, what in the hell is wrong with you? 563 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,275 Then she just unfolded. 564 00:30:54,275 --> 00:30:58,000 Christa just spilled everything that had just happened in 565 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,206 the last hour and a half. 566 00:31:00,379 --> 00:31:03,344 She said, me and Tadaryl and Shadolla just went at her. 567 00:31:03,413 --> 00:31:05,862 She kept begging... 568 00:31:07,482 --> 00:31:09,034 to please not kill her. 569 00:31:10,862 --> 00:31:12,517 And they just kept on and kept at her. 570 00:31:15,137 --> 00:31:16,793 And then Christa shows, she's like, 571 00:31:16,793 --> 00:31:17,965 "Oh, and I got a surprise!" 572 00:31:19,965 --> 00:31:23,137 She pulls this tissue out of her pocket, and it was 573 00:31:23,137 --> 00:31:24,862 a piece of skull, 574 00:31:24,931 --> 00:31:26,551 the actual bone. 575 00:31:29,482 --> 00:31:31,241 I stood there with my mouth wide open, 576 00:31:31,310 --> 00:31:34,655 not knowing what to do. What do I say? 577 00:31:34,655 --> 00:31:37,655 And then Christa's like, "OK, well, if you tell anybody, 578 00:31:37,655 --> 00:31:39,965 I'll kill you. Love you, bye." 579 00:31:41,379 --> 00:31:45,379 And I stood there for what felt like an hour, 580 00:31:45,379 --> 00:31:48,000 just standing there, 581 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,241 not saying anything, not moving, just looking at 582 00:31:50,310 --> 00:31:52,448 the door because I didn't know what to do. 583 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,275 [narrator] When police learn the body is Colleen Slemmer, 584 00:31:58,275 --> 00:32:01,758 they notify her family immediately. 585 00:32:01,758 --> 00:32:03,862 I actually didn't think it was true. 586 00:32:03,931 --> 00:32:06,655 I didn't believe it. 587 00:32:06,655 --> 00:32:08,655 No mother usually does, 588 00:32:08,724 --> 00:32:10,862 and I just thought it was a big mix-up. 589 00:32:10,862 --> 00:32:13,241 You don't have solid evidence. 590 00:32:13,241 --> 00:32:16,896 If your child dies or a family dies, you really have to see 591 00:32:16,896 --> 00:32:18,172 it to know that they're dead. 592 00:32:20,068 --> 00:32:23,068 But they wouldn't let me see her body because they said 593 00:32:23,068 --> 00:32:24,862 it was too tore up. 594 00:32:26,137 --> 00:32:29,655 I still didn't really believe it until we did 595 00:32:29,655 --> 00:32:31,206 the dental records. 596 00:32:34,172 --> 00:32:38,068 To this day, I sometimes don't believe it is her, 597 00:32:38,068 --> 00:32:40,862 but I know it is. 598 00:32:40,931 --> 00:32:42,448 It was Colleen. 599 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,551 [Patricia] Detective York brought in Christa, 600 00:32:47,551 --> 00:32:50,965 Tadaryl, and Shadolla for questioning. 601 00:32:50,965 --> 00:32:53,551 [narrator] All three are put in different rooms. 602 00:32:53,620 --> 00:32:55,724 Christa is interviewed first. 603 00:32:57,034 --> 00:32:59,241 When I started out the interview with Christa, 604 00:32:59,310 --> 00:33:01,482 she was happy and giddy. 605 00:33:01,482 --> 00:33:04,068 I've never seen anybody like this. 606 00:33:04,068 --> 00:33:07,655 I asked her, I said, "I'm here to talk to you about 607 00:33:07,724 --> 00:33:09,034 "a body that was found." 608 00:33:09,034 --> 00:33:12,758 And then she interceded and said, "You mean Colleen?" 609 00:33:12,758 --> 00:33:15,620 I just let her talk. I just let her go. 610 00:33:17,551 --> 00:33:21,896 She said her intention was not to kill her, but once it got 611 00:33:21,896 --> 00:33:24,310 started, she knew that she had to. 612 00:33:28,034 --> 00:33:32,379 She hit her and knocked her down and it was just 613 00:33:32,379 --> 00:33:34,172 a melee after that. 614 00:33:38,172 --> 00:33:40,965 And then the other two jumped in and helped do the cutting 615 00:33:40,965 --> 00:33:44,000 and slicing stuff on the victim. 616 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,275 There was a point where they ordered her to take off 617 00:33:48,275 --> 00:33:52,448 her top part of the clothes to keep her from running off. 618 00:33:52,517 --> 00:33:56,068 And the more she talked about it, the more excited she got. 619 00:33:56,068 --> 00:33:58,344 And she was reliving what took place. 620 00:34:09,896 --> 00:34:13,000 [narrator] Christa admits that she cut Colleen's throat 621 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,344 and smashed her head with the asphalt. 622 00:34:16,413 --> 00:34:18,068 And then took the box cutter and cut out 623 00:34:18,068 --> 00:34:21,000 a piece of the skull and wrapped it up. 624 00:34:22,688 --> 00:34:25,655 She felt like Colleen was trying to take her boyfriend 625 00:34:25,655 --> 00:34:29,034 away from her, and I found nothing from anybody 626 00:34:29,034 --> 00:34:30,241 to indicate that, 627 00:34:30,241 --> 00:34:32,137 but that's what's the story she told. 628 00:34:32,137 --> 00:34:36,034 I wasn't sure I believed in the demon possessed 629 00:34:36,034 --> 00:34:40,275 till I met her, and I strictly believe 630 00:34:40,275 --> 00:34:42,551 that girl's got some kind of demon in her. 631 00:34:42,551 --> 00:34:46,757 But she didn't want to talk about Satanism. 632 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,862 [narrator] But there's someone who does. 633 00:34:52,379 --> 00:34:54,275 [Randy] Tadaryl had a pentagram necklace. 634 00:34:54,275 --> 00:34:57,379 I asked him about it, and he started telling me 635 00:34:57,379 --> 00:34:59,275 about it, and he told me that he'd been involved 636 00:34:59,275 --> 00:35:00,931 ever since he was 11 years old. 637 00:35:19,551 --> 00:35:22,586 Tadaryl, when he talked about it, he seemed 638 00:35:22,586 --> 00:35:25,344 to be honest and with me. 639 00:35:25,413 --> 00:35:28,862 He didn't seem excited or anything about it. 640 00:35:28,862 --> 00:35:31,482 He indicated that all that was an afterthought, 641 00:35:31,482 --> 00:35:33,068 that that wasn't planned. 642 00:35:44,379 --> 00:35:47,241 He thought that there was just going to be a fight between 643 00:35:47,310 --> 00:35:49,965 the girls, that they thought they were going out there 644 00:35:49,965 --> 00:35:52,758 and beat her up. 645 00:35:52,758 --> 00:35:56,965 But when it all just transpired, you either get 646 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,965 involved or you get out. 647 00:36:00,068 --> 00:36:04,000 Shadolla, she tried to play everything off as like she was 648 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,551 just there, that she didn't do anything. 649 00:36:06,551 --> 00:36:08,551 [Patricia] Shadolla was afraid of Christa. 650 00:36:08,620 --> 00:36:10,000 Everyone was afraid of Christa. 651 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,241 And she just wasn't going to see that rage 652 00:36:15,310 --> 00:36:18,965 and that anger turned on her. 653 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,379 Christa was the ringleader, and it pretty 654 00:36:21,379 --> 00:36:24,551 much set in concrete that she led the pack. 655 00:36:28,793 --> 00:36:31,103 [narrator] Christa, Tadaryl and Shadolla 656 00:36:31,103 --> 00:36:32,620 are all charged with murder. 657 00:36:35,241 --> 00:36:36,758 [Amy] It was horrible. 658 00:36:36,758 --> 00:36:40,172 I couldn't believe that I knew someone that was capable of 659 00:36:40,172 --> 00:36:43,344 that, and that she lived right across the hall from me. 660 00:36:43,413 --> 00:36:45,965 Christa was a bully. She singled Colleen out. 661 00:36:45,965 --> 00:36:48,896 At the time, I chalked it up as, you know, 662 00:36:48,896 --> 00:36:50,482 catty girl behavior. 663 00:36:50,482 --> 00:36:53,551 But as a result of all that, this is what happened. 664 00:36:53,551 --> 00:36:55,344 and it just kind of hits you like a ton of bricks 665 00:36:55,413 --> 00:36:56,758 and you just feel sick. 666 00:36:58,344 --> 00:37:02,344 [Kim] It breaks my heart that she begged for her life. 667 00:37:02,413 --> 00:37:05,000 Sorry. 668 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,965 You know, what kind of creatures are you? 669 00:37:10,862 --> 00:37:13,862 [Joe] My first thoughts was it wouldn't have happened 670 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:16,482 if Christa hadn't been there, she should have been 671 00:37:16,482 --> 00:37:18,896 kicked out a long time ago. Same with Tadaryl. 672 00:37:18,896 --> 00:37:21,655 [Amy] I think her motive was just to show that 673 00:37:21,655 --> 00:37:24,000 she was bigger and badder than somebody. 674 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,965 I think she saw Colleen as a threat, and there was enough 675 00:37:27,965 --> 00:37:32,000 people there that said something, and it could have 676 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,655 been and should have been different. 677 00:37:33,724 --> 00:37:36,551 I think that it could definitely have been prevented. 678 00:37:45,137 --> 00:37:49,586 Christa was tried 14 months after Colleen was killed. 679 00:37:49,586 --> 00:37:52,241 I think the trial went about two weeks. 680 00:37:52,310 --> 00:37:55,551 [prosecutor] This is the skull from the victim 681 00:37:55,620 --> 00:37:59,482 later identified as Colleen Slemmer. 682 00:37:59,482 --> 00:38:02,896 All eyes were either on Christa or the witness stand 683 00:38:02,896 --> 00:38:05,862 or the jury box to see how the jury was taking it. 684 00:38:07,896 --> 00:38:09,344 [narrator] Christa is found guilty, 685 00:38:09,344 --> 00:38:12,379 and sentencing takes place shortly after. 686 00:38:12,379 --> 00:38:14,344 The judge asked her to stand up 687 00:38:14,413 --> 00:38:18,758 to give her the sentence-- jury's been excused. 688 00:38:27,068 --> 00:38:29,448 [Sobbing loudly] 689 00:38:34,172 --> 00:38:38,275 [narrator] But not everyone believes that justice is served. 690 00:38:38,275 --> 00:38:41,551 The just sentence would be an arm for an arm. 691 00:38:41,551 --> 00:38:44,241 Do the exact same thing she did to Colleen 692 00:38:44,310 --> 00:38:47,241 so she can feel the pain in every cut. 693 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,172 And maybe it would be good for me just to see that. 694 00:38:55,172 --> 00:38:59,137 [Amy] I was shocked when she was sentenced to death. 695 00:38:59,137 --> 00:39:04,689 Gosh, you're so young at 18, and how can you really even be 696 00:39:04,689 --> 00:39:08,034 held completely responsible for something at 18? 697 00:39:08,034 --> 00:39:10,965 But at the same time, the crime was so horrible 698 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,344 and so brutal. How can you not be? 699 00:39:14,344 --> 00:39:16,137 [narrator] At his trial, Tadaryl Shipp 700 00:39:16,137 --> 00:39:19,379 is also found guilty of first-degree murder. 701 00:39:19,379 --> 00:39:22,482 Tadaryl's mom asked me to not ask for death. 702 00:39:22,482 --> 00:39:25,758 The day of the trial, I turned around and said, 703 00:39:25,758 --> 00:39:27,241 "What are you talking about?" 704 00:39:27,310 --> 00:39:30,275 Your son deserves just what she's got." 705 00:39:30,275 --> 00:39:32,586 [Patricia] Tadaryl was given a life sentence 706 00:39:32,586 --> 00:39:35,344 with the possibility of parole. 707 00:39:35,344 --> 00:39:38,655 He would have to serve at least 25 years in order to be 708 00:39:38,724 --> 00:39:40,206 eligible for parole. 709 00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:43,000 [narrator] Shadolla makes a deal in exchange 710 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,379 for testifying at Christa and Tadaryl's trials. 711 00:39:45,379 --> 00:39:49,172 She doesn't serve any prison time. 712 00:39:49,172 --> 00:39:51,482 [May] I don't know if she had anything to do with that. 713 00:39:51,482 --> 00:39:54,758 All I know is that she turned state evidence 714 00:39:54,758 --> 00:39:56,448 and she was free. 715 00:39:56,448 --> 00:39:58,965 I think karma's gonna come back to her. 716 00:40:01,758 --> 00:40:03,896 [narrator] Christa Pike awaits execution 717 00:40:03,896 --> 00:40:05,482 as the only woman on death row 718 00:40:05,482 --> 00:40:08,758 in the state of Tennessee, she has been in solitary 719 00:40:08,758 --> 00:40:11,448 confinement for over 20 years. 720 00:40:11,448 --> 00:40:14,379 I'd say Christa Pike is probably the most evil 721 00:40:14,379 --> 00:40:16,000 human being that I've ever been around. 722 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,551 The only other names that I can think of, 723 00:40:18,551 --> 00:40:24,344 of people like this are Gacy or Dahmer, 724 00:40:24,413 --> 00:40:27,241 who kept souvenirs of his human victims. 725 00:40:27,241 --> 00:40:30,344 You're talking about people who have gone to 726 00:40:30,413 --> 00:40:34,758 a really dark place-- that's not an exaggeration. 727 00:40:39,862 --> 00:40:43,034 [May] I look around my house, and... 728 00:40:43,034 --> 00:40:45,793 I still have Colleen's Christmas presents that 729 00:40:45,793 --> 00:40:48,000 she was going to get that year. 730 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,344 I still have her roller skating. 731 00:40:51,344 --> 00:40:52,724 I still have her clothes. 732 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,862 I kept everything. It's all I got. 733 00:41:02,068 --> 00:41:04,896 I will never stop telling Colleen's story 734 00:41:04,896 --> 00:41:07,172 until I get justice. 735 00:41:07,172 --> 00:41:10,344 I want them to put an end to this, 736 00:41:10,413 --> 00:41:13,931 execute her so I can start living. 737 00:41:18,241 --> 00:41:19,448 On the next Mean Girl Murders... 738 00:41:19,448 --> 00:41:22,034 They'd both really provem themselves to be 739 00:41:22,034 --> 00:41:23,482 a force to be reckoned with. 740 00:41:23,482 --> 00:41:27,965 She's turning into a harder, angrier version of herself. 741 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,620 You could see the damage that had been done to her. 742 00:41:34,172 --> 00:41:36,137 Nobody likes a sore loser.