Jan. 27, 2026

Part 2 | The Knoxville Nightmare: Christa Pike & The Murder of Coleen Slemmer

Part 2 | The Knoxville Nightmare: Christa Pike & The Murder of Coleen Slemmer
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Season 9

In this episode of Unspeakable, KJ completes her look into the harrowing 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a case that shocked Knoxville and landed a teenage killer on death row. Driven by jealousy and dark obsessions, 18-year-old Christa Pike, along with her accomplices, lured Colleen into a secluded spot for what was supposed to be a peace offering—but turned into a night of unimaginable torture and brutality that led to Christa Pike being the only female on Tennessee’s Death Row.

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, kJ

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you're back with part two of this episode, and this

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will be the conclusion. So I'm pretty sure I had

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some people probably cussing me for making this a two parter,

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but you're gonna see why once I jump into this.

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So there's just a lot of story, so much story,

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so little time. So we were in Knoxville, Tennessee real quick.

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Some people said, hey, Kelly, will you please give us

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a quick recap whenever you jump into a multipart, and

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so I'm gonna do that for you. But last episode,

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if you haven't listened, please go listen. But we were

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in Tennessee. Colleen Slimmer was confirmed to be the body

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found on the edge of the university campus and the

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brutality level used to kill her was just out of

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the norm. And I know I had to say out

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of the norm, but this wasn't just someone got shot.

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I mean, this was actual hand to hand combat that

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was taken to the max and a pentagram was carved

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into her chest, which caught the attention of an officer

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who had secured the scene after the fact. So a

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girl wearing a pentagram necklace had come by and was

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asking questions, which later on a tip was called in

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which led investigators back to job Corps, which is the school,

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and that's where fellow students Krista Pike, to Darryl Ship

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and Shadala Peterson had signed out of the campus at

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the same time as Colleen, and investigators wanted to have

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a word with those students. Now, as far as connections went,

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Christa and to Darryl were boyfriend and girlfriend, while Shadala

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was just another friend of theirs that they hung out with.

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So as word spread that Colleen was dead, some other

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students would want to speak to police on their own

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and would come forward, and this would include Krista Pike's

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best friend at the school, and her name was Kim

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and Nuelu. Now Kim, I want you to know, was

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the youngest of the bunch. She was only about sixteen

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years old whenever she and Krista met, and they were

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both newbies at the job corps, so they rather quickly

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hit it off and they became inseparable, inseparable friends from

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the jump. Now Christa was, in Kim's eyes, just so

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sweet and thoughtful, and although Christa was about two years

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her senior, they got along really well. They would joke

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and they would laugh. Kim appreciated the little things that

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Christa would do, like bringing her candy just to make

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her smile. And while that may seem like nothing to adults,

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you know, when you're a teenager, it means a lot.

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They would gossip together, they would talk, but they would

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also dream and talk about things that they wanted to do.

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But all of that would have to wait for after

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class each day, which ended about three o'clock. So the

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girls would be especially excited in the afternoons because the

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policy was that from four pm to ten pm, students

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could sign out of the school and they could go

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and have their free time. So usually what the girls

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would do would be to hopple On. They had a

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free trolley in that area, and that would take them

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down to what they called the strip, and that's where

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they would just walk around and hang out, kind of

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the equivalent I guess of going to the mall. And

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you know, none of them had any money. Most of

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the kids at the school came from a low socioeconomic

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status and so they didn't have much about them in

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terms of money. So this was just a free way

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of having fun and getting to have some time away

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from the school. Now, truth be told, whenever I saw

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with my eyes that sixteen to eighteen year olds were

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out and unaccounted for from four pm to ten pm,

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that sent a bit of a shiver down my spine

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because that sounds like a long time for kids of

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that age to be out on their own, unaccounted for,

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no parents or anybody directly making sure that they're doing

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what they're supposed to be doing, and especially the ones

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that went to this school in particular. Now, why do

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I say that? And I touched on this last episode,

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but I want to go back to this real quick.

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This is one of those things that it started out

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with great intentions, but but it went to hell in

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a handbasket rather quickly. Because remember the school started out

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as a free opportunity for the less fortunate to be

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able to better themselves, even if they couldn't afford to

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go to trade school or go to college. But this

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started to attract young adults with difficult home lives and

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disciplinary issues and things of that nature. So basically stated,

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over time, this school morphed into an alternative for a

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lot of fuck up kids instead of them getting locked up.

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And it was like join job corps rather than staying

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on this bad path. And eventually you're gonna end up

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in jail if you don't make a life change. So

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eventually those troubled students overtook the more traditional students. And

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again this is not my opinion, it was backed up

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by trends of the time at the school, as well

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as other students accounts of their experiences during their time there.

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The other kids spoke on this and would validate what

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I'm telling you, and so knives and even guns were

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mentioned as being known to be carried on campus. Now,

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obviously this was against policy. The school wasn't like, hey,

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you know, bring your weaponry, let's battle, but delinquents do

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what delinquents do, and they don't give a shit about policy.

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They're gonna do what they feel they need to do,

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whether right, wrong or indifferent, to keep themselves safe. So

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while this was going on, it kind of makes you wonder, well,

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why didn't the school kick out the students when incidences

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of violence or weapons or anything like that were known

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on the low I guess at least to be carried

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by other students. Well, since this was a federally funded school,

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the more students that enrolled, the more money that you get,

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the more funding that you get. So hopefully you can

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see where things are going here. It didn't behoove the

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school to kick anybody out. They were more likely to

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take the hug a thug approach and address the situation

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and let's talk it out rather than kick the kids out. Well,

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because if they did, they lost money. So either way,

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I want to say, I don't blame the school, I

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don't blame the faculty. They were just doing the best

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they could with what they had, and you have to

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have money to run the school. So the instructors did

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continue to try to provide an amazing education to the

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students and hopefully create a somewhat productive young adult in

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the process, but the school had its fair share of

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issues with the students, and this included Christa and to Darryl.

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Now here's some background on this duo, so you know

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what police were dealing with when they went to go

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question these two about what they knew, if anything, about

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Colleen Slimmer. So Christa from the jump thought when she

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met to Daryl that he was mysterious and that he

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was dangerous and something that young girls always seem to think.

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That they contame the proverbial bad boy. That was kind

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of the essence of their relationship. But they were both

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instantly attracted to one another and they had similar interests.

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But I'm gonna tell you the relationship was toxic. I'm

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not even gonna pretend that this was some Romeo and

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Juliette bullshit. It wasn't. There was passionate attraction, for sure,

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but there was also fighting with that same level of

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passion and intensity. And Christa's background was rough, okay, but

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so is she Tough Times do make tough people. To

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Daryl was a thug, to put it bluntly, but he

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brought this element to the table where he would protect

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Christa at all costs, and she loved that, maybe because

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when she was younger she felt like she wasn't protected,

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maybe because she didn't have in her mind a male

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figure that had done that before. I don't know what

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was going on in her head, but I will tell

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you she loved that so much, so though, that it

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made other people wary of this couple. They were kind

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of at an arm's reach. It was those people that like,

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if you were friends with them, great, but if you weren't,

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watch out one of those situations. And casein point, I

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wanted to give you an actual example so you would

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know this wasn't me just run in my mouth. There

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was a male student at the same time that Christa

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and to Daryl were at this school and he bumped

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into Christa in the hallway while they were passing. Now

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to Darryl, without missing a beat, without even thinking twice,

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snatched that kid up and shoved him into the wall,

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and he pulled out a switchblade and he began to

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threaten to gut that boy for bumping in to Christa.

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Now Christa thought this was great. In her mind, you know,

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this is what love looks like. So she felt I

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guess again that she had this bad boy who was

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going to defend her and he had that soft spot

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in his heart for her. Now Christa's mom, why might

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she feel this way? Okay, here we go. Well, her

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mother was in and out of her life, and her

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mother was an alcoholic. It was said that her mother

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would buy alcohol before she would buy food if that

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were the choice she had to make. And she was

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also the type of woman that had boyfriends and husbands

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basically in and out of the house. Two of those

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boyfriends slash husbands that I don't have names of which

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ones did what, if anything, but allegedly two of those

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boyfriends had raped Colleen when she was younger or molested her,

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and then one of them also allegedly whipped her so

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bad with a belt that it ended up leaving scars

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on her. So a rough go for sure for Christa.

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Now to Daryl, he had been raised by his grandparents

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and again no angel whatsoever, But once his grandfather had died,

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that's whenever he stopped following societal rules altogether. So to speak,

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from what I gather, his grandfather had been the leader

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of the household growing up, and so to Darrel believed

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from that example that the male in the relationship should

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be in charge. But I feel like he misinterpreted what

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that meant. There's a difference between being a leader of

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a household and being a dominating, abusive male figure. His grandfather,

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from what I understand, was a good man married to

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his grandmother fifty something years. But to Daryl's interpretation was

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that he was going to be violent and he was

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going to be proud to be the boss. In his

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relationship with Christa, they were both very strong willed, but

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Christa would do the things that she felt would impress

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to Daryl and he the same. So, long story short,

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they were both little badasses and toxic would be the

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best word that I can use to describe this relationship.

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So when detectives began their interviews Christa's friend Kim, like

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I mentioned, she had some insight to give them about

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the night that Colleen was murdered. So while Kim had

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not left the school like those other students did that night,

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she had seen them leave, like physically watched them leave.

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And I want you to I've got to remind you

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again here Kim is sixteen. She's not up in age

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in the older twenty She's a fresh sixteen, so she

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was very scared, and now she knows that someone was dead,

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and so the fact that she did not call police

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prior to what she's about to tell them, I'm not

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going to hold it against her, but what she had

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to say was very damning. Christa had come into Kim's

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room that evening that Colleen was killed, and she told Kim, look,

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we're headed to the park. We're going to go hang out.

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And she asked Kim or Kim asked her, excuse me,

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you know, why why are y'all going to the park.

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And Christa said, we're going to smoke in the park.

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But Kim didn't want to go because there was something

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that didn't sit right with her because Christa mentioned that

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Colleen was going to go with them. Now, being a

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very good friend at the time as far as sixteen

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year olds go, Kim was not impressed by this, and

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she called her out on it, and she said, why

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would you be going to the park with Colleen? Because

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there was well known animosity between Christa and Colleen. Now,

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the reasoning is a bit juvenile, but we've got to

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share it because it's the truth. But all of this

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animosity was based around to Daryl because when Colleen had

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first arrived at the school to Daryl had a bit

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of a crush on her and thought that she was cute,

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but soon after he got with Christa. Well, Christa didn't

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like the fact that Colleen had once had to Daryl's eye,

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so she was very very open about her dislike of Colleen,

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and this is why Kim was very perplexed. Whenever she

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said that they were going to the park together to smoke,

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Kim knew in her gut this was not a good idea,

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so she decided to stay back. But as Christa left

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the room, Christa turned around and winked at her, flashed

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her a big toothy smile, and then exited the room. Well,

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a few minutes later, Kim went out on this balcony

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at the school and she watched as the group of

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those three plus Colleen left together. But she just did

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not like it. She just thought it was weird. But

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she did know that they left around eight point fifty pm,

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so Christa to Darryl Shidala and Colleen. So this now

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confirmed the detective's suspicions that other students were physically with Colleen.

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The ones that had signed out at the same time,

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so now they wanted to speak with Krista Pike. And

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the detective was pretty surprised when he first laid his

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eyes on her, because she was a small little girl

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and she looked almost like a little kid in nature.

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She was very fair complected. She had really long, thick,

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kind of bushy, curly brown hair. She wore it very

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commonly of the late eighties early nineties style, with it

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like half up in a scrunchy and real poofy. She

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didn't wear a lot of makeup or anything. Just a

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very average looking girl. And when she spoke, the detective

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was even kind of like, golly, she sounds like a

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little girl, like young okay, But there was more to

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her than what met the eye, And immediately the detective

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picked up on the fact that not only was Christa charming,

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but she was also intelligent. She was smart. So she

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explained to the detective, Oh, I grew up in North Carolina.

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My childhood had been rough. I bounced around between my

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parents and my grandparents. You know, mom drank a lot.

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She brought up the sex abuse. She also openly was

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willing to admit that her mother and her would smoke

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weed together as a pastime when she was with her

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Basically a total shit show of a home life based

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on traditional standards. Now, not surprisingly, Christa dropped out of

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high school in ninth grade, and that's whenever she moved

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to Knoxville where she joined Job Corps and she was

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specifically focusing on the nursing career or the nursing Corps

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to try to turn her life around. Now, this detective

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or well he was called a criminal investigator how everyone

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word it. His name was Randy Yorke, and he was

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the one that was assigned to the case, and based

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on the statements thus far from Christa's friends and others,

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he decided, all right, Christo, we're going to need you

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to come down to the PD for some more questioning.

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So when she got there, he read her her Miranda rights,

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and you know, you expected this to go into kind

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of a back and forth questioning with the teenager, but

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Christa very quickly and very matter of factly waived those

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rights to remain silent. Now, Christa was eighteen, she was

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a legal adult, so she could do that. Remember that

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because it matters in the case. And then almost immediately

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she began to recount in detail exactly what happened that

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night that Colleen was murdered. Now how detailed was she

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It took forty six pages to transcribe everything that she said. Okay,

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but I'm going to condense that obviously and not give

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you forty six pages worth. But she said, yes, Christine,

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I mean, excuse me. Colleen and I had been having

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problems for some time. But there was a difference in

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this story at this point because Christa said things had

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gotten so bad that she woke up in the middle

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of the night to find Colleen standing over her in

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her bed. Now not only was Colleen standing over her

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in this scary fashion, but she also was armed with

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a box cutter. Now this terrified Christa. But this was

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nothing new because Colleen had had it out for Christa

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from the jump. Because Colleen wanted to Darrel to be

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her boyfriend. This wasn't a secret either, according to Christa.

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She said Colleen had been running her mouth about it

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to everyone, and Christa said, I could not escape this.

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It didn't matter where I went, it didn't matter what

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what was going on. From day to day. It was constant,

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and Colleen would continue to provoke her day in and

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day out. So when asked, well, why what is this

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provocation about? I mean, obviously to Darryl, but why would

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she continue it's your boyfriend, why would she continue to

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provoke you? And Colleen's answer was actually kind of eye opening.

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She said, well, it was non stop because Colleen knew

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that if Krista was to get in any more trouble

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at job Corps, they were going to kick her out.

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And with Krista gone, if she were to be kicked out,

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then Colleen could move in on to Darryl. So Colleen

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kept on and on and on while Christa was just

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trying to tolerate it while she was on campus. But

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eventually it came to a breaking point and basically the

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group initially left the school. She said that we left

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the school, but we were going to head to Blockbuster

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and we were going to rent a movie. But during

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that trek to Blockbuster, we changed our minds because we

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had a hidden bag of marijuana that we had buried

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in Tyson Park, which is the park where Colleen's body

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was found. Now, Christa would not name anyone else that

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was with them during all of this, but the detective

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he already knew this the sign out logs told him

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what he needed to know, but Krista would not give

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out names. But at some point on their way to

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get the weed, Colleen and Christa got into an argument

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which turned physical, and Christa said, we started, you know,

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it started off with an argument. Then we began exchanging punches,

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and then at some point during the fight, Christa slammed

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Colleen's head into her knee, and this was a really

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powerful strike from of the head into the knee, she said.

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At that point she bas basically snapped. Her frustration and

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her anger from all of the torment just boiled over

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and she was able to just throw Colleen down where

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she began kicking her. And she got so mad that

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she was able to get the upper hand in the fight,

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and so she grabbed Colleen by her hair and she

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just started slamming Colleen's face into the concrete. Now she

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got the best of Colleen, she said she did. But eventually,

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during I guess a lull in the fight for them

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to catch their breath, Colleen was asking, why are you

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doing this to me? And Colleen told her or Krista

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told her, it's because you're trying to get me kicked

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out of school. So after she got the best of her,

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what happened, Well, Krista just tells the detective basically that

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Colleen laid on the ground and she cried for a

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while before she tried to get back up. Colleen got

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back up to her feet and she tried to run away,

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but someone else in the group, who was unnamed, pushed

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her back down. That other person she would only refer

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to as he. She said, he held Colleen down and

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then he cut her with a box cutter. I go,

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will you do the ma? There's only one guy that

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had signed out with them, and that would have been

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to Daryl. Now why was there a box cutter? That

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becomes the question if y'all were going to blockbuster and

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then you changed your mind to go smoke weed, well

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why is there now a box cutter involved? But she says, look,

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we all basically knew that the plan was going to

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erupt in a fight. We knew that we just had

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to get off campus. Christa said she was going to

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put her foot down and this fight was going to

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be the way that she showed Colleen she better leave

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her the hell alone. But she was scared, and so

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she brought a box cutter with her just in case

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she were to start losing the fight, and that's why

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the box cutter was there. So it was at this

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point though in the fight and after he quote unquote

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cut her, that Krista began to freak out. But Colleen

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at this point was now screaming wildly in pain, tripping

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out as you can imagine. And she said, everything just

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got way out of control and in a panic. Colleen

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screaming wildly and I'm afraid that attention was going to

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get drawn to this. Chriso wanted her to stop, and

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then she goes, oh my god. In her own head,

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she's like, oh my god, I'm going to go to prison.

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We're going to go to jail. You know. We beat

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the hell out of her, and now she's cut. So

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she saw that Colleen was bleeding. She knew that this

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was really bad. But she said that's when Colleen tried

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to get up again and run away, but Christa had

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the box cut her at that point, and she said

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she swiped at her and the box cutter put a big,

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long cut through Colleen's back. But Colleen kept trying to

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get up, but the group would not let her go.

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At this point, she said, Colleen began begging for her

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life and said, if you let me go, I will

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go home to Florida. I won't even go back to

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the school. I will go straight home to Florida, and

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I will never say a word about it. But Chrisa

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just told her to shut up, and she explained to

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the detective, look, I just wanted it all to stop.

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I told her to shut up, and she said the

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reason I wanted her to be quiet is because it's

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really hard to hurt someone when they're talking to you.

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And when I read that in the interview, I was like,

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oh my god, Like it's hard to hurt somebody in general,

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but you're right, someone's talking to you, it is harder

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to hurt them because it makes them human. Right. So

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when she went and shut up, that's when Christa began

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kicking Colleen in the face. The coldness in which Christa

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told these events to that detective of supposedly what all

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had happened, I need you to understand, is astounding. It

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was astounding. It wasn't even like it had to be

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pulled out of her mouth, and it was almost as

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if Christa was telling the story in a way that

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she thought that she was justified in everything that had

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happened in her story. But the detective did what a

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good detective does, and he just sat back in the chair,

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closed his mouth, and he just let Christa keep talking,

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and that she did so. Her fearfulness that Christa says

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she started out with in this confession that she's given

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the detective sort of morphed. The more the detective was quiet,

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the more that this conversation began to morph, because now

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Christa was almost giddy, and those are the words of

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the detective, not me, giddy at points as she was

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retelling the events from her point of view. And she

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added that at one point, Colleen said, what are y'all

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gonna do with me? And this is after she's been

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battered and cut and beat the shit out of her,

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she says, what are y'all gonna do with me? But

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at that moment, Christa said, they heard something and it

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spooked the entire group. It spooked everybody. So Christa said

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she walked away and she went to go, I guess,

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check the tree line or check the area over there

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to see what was going on, leaving Colleen on the

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ground wounded. But when she returned. Colleen was then begging her,

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still talking, saying please let us go, but Christa knew

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at that point she couldn't, and that's when she started

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slashing Colleen's throat with the box cutter, over and over

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and over. She said. Colleen continued to gasp. She even

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sat up with her throat slashed, begging, begging for them

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to stop, but another person in the group whose she

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didn't name, pushed Colleen back down. This confession was almost

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exhausting just to listen to the confession, let alone think

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about Colleen experiencing this for the entirety of the confession,

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but Christa just kept going. She said Colleen wouldn't die.

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She said, she picked up a rock she hit Colleen

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in the back of the head with it, so did

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another person in the group, so Colleen fell to the

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ground at this point, and the effects of all of

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this attack really were taking their toll on Colleen, and

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Christas said that this is a direct quote that she

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was breathing blood in and out and her body started

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just like jerking randomly, and that's when Christa and an

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unnamed person in the group each grabbed one of Colleen's

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feet and they drugger over to those bushes and trees

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left or there, then took the clothing that had been

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removed through that in the bushes and that's a wrap.

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Colleen basically died and they left. So the detectives said,

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all right, well, how long do you think this entire

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fight lasted? Y'all? Krista straight up said, thirty minutes to

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an hour. That is torture. That is torture beyond you

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know what I mean. It's one thing to be attacked,

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you get your throat cut and like, and I hate

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to I'm not minimizing it, but you know you're jugular

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or something's cut and you bleed out in seconds and

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you're dead. Thirty minutes to an hour is torture. But

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the detective was still curious, why was Colleen's shirt and

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brawl off? How did that happen? And anyone who wears

467
00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:01.799
a bra knows that those do not easily remove. I mean,

468
00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:08.839
irregular style bra has clasps and wire underneath a sports bra. Hell,

469
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:10.559
you had a damn near fight to get your own

470
00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:12.799
sports bra off, So it doesn't matter what type she

471
00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.440
was wearing, it's still as difficult to get one off.

472
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:18.920
If you're fighting, if you're thinking about ripping it off.

473
00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:21.400
And I think women will agree with me on that

474
00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:25.640
it may come up during a fight, but off that's

475
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:28.799
a little tougher. And that's when Christa said, oh no,

476
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:32.119
it wasn't ripped off. We made her take it off.

477
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.759
We directed her take off your shirt, and then we

478
00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:41.000
made her take off her bra. I guess humiliation was

479
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:45.039
part of the tactic here to humiliate her. You're being

480
00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.680
attacked by three people, and before they start cutting you

481
00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:50.920
and all of that, they hit you and they rough

482
00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:53.400
you up. Then they make you strip and humiliate. It's

483
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.759
just humiliation in front of the group, to take off

484
00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:00.759
your shirt and your own bra. And so, while the

485
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:05.640
story that's being recounted is horrible enough, it just seemed

486
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.839
that there had to be more to it. There just

487
00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.400
had to be more to it, even with the confession.

488
00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:16.640
Proving this in court is going to require more. So

489
00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:21.920
the detective couldn't help it. Notice that, you know, this

490
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.599
confession was rather callous, and while it was being given,

491
00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:28.200
he looks at Christa. He's kind of just looking at

492
00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:30.279
her up and down, and he notices that she is

493
00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:35.000
wearing a necklace. During the confession, and do you know

494
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:38.880
what was on that necklace? Of course you do. It

495
00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:42.720
was a pentagram, just like the one seen by that

496
00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:47.720
officer on the inquisitive girl at the scene the day before.

497
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.960
Christa was that girl. Krista was that girl at the scene,

498
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:57.079
feigning innocence and asking questions. And remember Knoxville, Tennessee, this

499
00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:01.200
is the Bible belt. Wearing a pentagram would have been

500
00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:06.039
so taboo that it would have been damn near unbelievable

501
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.400
that two different girls would be in the same area

502
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:13.279
at the same time, and both of them wearing that

503
00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:18.119
same necklace. It's just too good of a coincidence to

504
00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:21.519
even entertain that. But when she was asked about the

505
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:26.079
pentagram that had been cut into Colleen's chest, Christa quickly

506
00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:31.319
rebuffed and was adamant she never carved anything into anyone's chest,

507
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:38.000
no way. So detectives photographed Christa and based on that confession,

508
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:41.160
she was placed under arrest for the murder of Colleen.

509
00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:44.759
But they would also need to continue their investigation by

510
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.680
speaking with to Darryl's ship. So what did he have

511
00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:50.759
to say about this? I mean, let's really put this

512
00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:58.359
into perspective. A teenager is dead murdered and disfigured beyond recognition.

513
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.079
I get with to Daryl and he explained from the

514
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:06.039
jump that they were just going to rough up Colleen.

515
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.319
And he basically mimicked everything else that Christa had said,

516
00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:13.359
except there were some differences in the explanation of the

517
00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:20.039
fight Christa. In his explanation, Christa started it, and Christa

518
00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:24.559
made Colleen disrobe, take off her brawl on her shirt. Shadala,

519
00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:26.240
the other girl that had signed out of the school

520
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:29.519
with them, she was now brought up more than you know.

521
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:32.839
Krista wouldn't give names, but Shadala was now named and

522
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:36.480
brought up, and he said Shadala was beaten on Colleen too,

523
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:42.640
and Colleen began grabbing at Christa. And that's when Christa

524
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.440
cut Colleen. And I want to stop right there real quick.

525
00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:50.279
This is such victim blaming. It angers me. Because of

526
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:53.839
course Colleen began grabbing at Christa. She was trying to

527
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:57.119
defend herself, she was trying to stop this. But by

528
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:01.759
wording it that Colleen began grabbing, Christa implies that Krista

529
00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:04.720
now had to do something. She had to do something,

530
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:07.400
but she didn't because this didn't have to start from

531
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:11.319
the jump. His explanation too, was that Christa had a

532
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.440
meat cleaver with her that was never mentioned before. Christa

533
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:19.119
had a meat cleaver and Shidallah had the box cutter,

534
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:23.680
and that they both began cutting Colleen together. Now, he

535
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:26.880
did eventually admit that he tripped Colleen when she tried

536
00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:29.240
to run away one of those times, and then that's

537
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.039
when she fell. And that's when Colleen hit her head

538
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.440
on a rock. Do you hear how that wording sounds

539
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:36.960
Colleen hit her head on a rock. No fucker, you

540
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:40.720
knocked her down which resulted in her head hitting a rock.

541
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.359
Colleen didn't hit her head on a rock. The wording

542
00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:48.559
here is so minimalizing in what I am envisioning happening.

543
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:50.480
Are you building a picture in your head of this fight?

544
00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:52.640
Because I am. I could draw this out for you.

545
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:54.599
If I was an artist, I could draw it exactly

546
00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:57.640
how I envisioned. This went on and after more talking,

547
00:31:57.960 --> 00:31:59.920
he then would go, Okay, yeah, well maybe I did

548
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:03.799
cut her a few times too, Okay, dude, But then

549
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:07.119
he says, Krista made me go and check and ensure

550
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.960
that the coast was clear. Now, remember Christa says that

551
00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:12.720
they heard a noise, and she got spooked and she

552
00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:15.440
walked off. But he's saying she directed him to go

553
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:17.920
make sure the coast was clear, and when he came back,

554
00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:20.960
the assault continued, he said, but I just became really

555
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:24.400
uncomfortable with the whole situation, and I walked off. But

556
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:27.640
when I came back, Colleen's head was busted all open,

557
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:30.839
So he said. He ended up leaving before the other girls,

558
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:32.519
and he walked back to the school. It took him

559
00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:36.880
about thirty minutes. Like I said, don't buy that for

560
00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.119
a second. I think he's minimizing his part. But to

561
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:43.119
Daryl and Shadala, based on everything I've told you, we're

562
00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:48.119
both arrested in connection with Colleen Slimmer's murder. But it

563
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:51.680
doesn't end there. It can't end there. That would be

564
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:55.359
a shitty episode on my part because what did other

565
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:59.000
students have to say? And it turns out they had

566
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:01.400
a lot to say. And you're gonna want to know this,

567
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:05.480
because when the group returned back to the school without

568
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:09.240
Colleen that night, they didn't just go to bed and

569
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:13.319
keep their mouths shut. Christa went to go see her

570
00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:17.799
bestie Kim Kim and Nulu and that's where Christa began

571
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:23.079
detailing everything that had happened, telling Kim this. Now, Kim

572
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:28.200
was completely caught off guard. She was in shock, to

573
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.880
say the least, and flat out didn't know what to

574
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:32.640
do or what to say. And she really didn't know

575
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:34.680
if Christa was telling the truth or not, because this

576
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:38.119
is just out of this is just wild that that

577
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:41.640
could even be true, And she told police. Kim told

578
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:46.880
police that Christa was gleefully telling her the most horrific

579
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:49.400
story she had ever heard in her life about someone's demise,

580
00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.079
and the entire time that Christa was explaining the story

581
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:54.200
to her what she had done to Colleen, she said,

582
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:57.799
she was dancing in a circle, smiling and going la

583
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:02.000
la la la la. Think it was a joke, like

584
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:06.799
it was funny. And then she told Kim, quote unquote,

585
00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.400
the bitch wouldn't die. I cut her throat nine times,

586
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.960
but she just wouldn't die. And then Christa was even

587
00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:18.000
laughing as she recounted this to Kim. Said Colleen had

588
00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.679
been begging them to stop cutting her and beating her,

589
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.360
but instead she picked up a huge piece of asphalt

590
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:26.280
and she slammed it on Colleen's head and it broke

591
00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:31.159
it open, and then most damning, she told Kim that

592
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:37.960
a pentagram had been carved onto Colleen's forehead and her chest,

593
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:43.719
and then with pure pride. With pure pride, she said

594
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:50.800
that Colleen's brains were spilling out of her head when

595
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:55.000
they were done with her. Now sixteen year old Kim

596
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:57.800
was visibly shaken at this point. She almost fell sick.

597
00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:00.880
This was her best friend that was saying this to her.

598
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:05.880
And as Crystal left the room, she turned around, and

599
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:09.039
this is a direct quote from the from the interrogation,

600
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:12.559
she said to Kim, quote, you know I love you,

601
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.639
but if you tell anyone, I'll kill you. Two. Then

602
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:20.639
she winked and smiled and exited the room. So to

603
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.440
Daryl and Christa were now under the rest for the

604
00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:27.920
murder of Colleen, as was Sadala Peterson. Well, when to

605
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:31.679
Daryl was arrested, he too was photographed as is the norm.

606
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:35.320
And guess what he was wearing around his neck a

607
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:42.840
pentagram necklace. He also had a satanic like pen I

608
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.280
believe it was on his hat, as well as an

609
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:48.440
earring that also kind of went along with that same vibe.

610
00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:51.159
So the question now became where where there was this

611
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:54.440
two teens that were trying to be edgy and pull

612
00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:58.840
negative attention, or was there more at play here? So

613
00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:01.480
detectives go to the school and they decide that they

614
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:04.960
want to search their rooms at the school. And this

615
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:09.039
would be so eye opening that it's almost like a

616
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:14.079
movie because as they were let in, it was quickly

617
00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:18.880
apparent that there was something very dark and very sinister

618
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:24.159
at play here. And this was not just two girls

619
00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:28.599
fighting it out over a boy, no way, because to

620
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:34.800
Daryl's room had a Satanic altar set up in it,

621
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:39.679
very obvious. When they went in Christa's room, she too

622
00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:44.480
had Satanic literature and readings and materials. And so the

623
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:46.960
question is like is this for real? Like is this

624
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:49.840
for real? For real? Or is this again, like I said,

625
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.239
some kids trying to be edgy and be you know,

626
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:55.960
put fear in people. Well, yes, y'all, it was for

627
00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:59.280
real because in talking to people at the school, Krista

628
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:04.000
and to Daryl known to practice Satanism. They were known

629
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.719
to do this, the school knew about it. Christa had

630
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:10.840
even gone and gotten a devil tattoo on the left

631
00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:13.800
of her chest. So the creep factor was now through

632
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:16.760
the roof, no doubt, but that's when another student came

633
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:20.679
forward with information to share, and her name was Stephanie Wilson.

634
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.800
Now get ready, if you don't know this story, get ready.

635
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:27.360
So Stephanie comes forward and says, look, I spoke to

636
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:32.400
Christa after the murder of Colleen had happened, and she

637
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:35.800
said that they were talking because Christa was muddy. There

638
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:37.920
was mud all over her pants, there was mud all

639
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:40.480
over her shoes. And that's when Christa said to her

640
00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:45.639
quote that ain't mudd on my shoes, that's blood. So

641
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:47.800
knowing what's happening at the crime scene and that there

642
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:50.199
was you know, mud and stuff from episode one, this

643
00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:52.960
is all lining up. Everything that's being said seems to

644
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:56.239
be legit. Well, there was an admissions employee, his name

645
00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:59.199
was mister Pollock at the school, and it turns out

646
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:03.079
that he had helped Christa on January thirteenth in his office.

647
00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:06.039
This was the day after the murder, because she had

648
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:10.320
lost her ID card. Now, when she left his office,

649
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:13.880
she forgot her black leather jacket hanging on the chair

650
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.599
where she had been sitting. And this was about four

651
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:21.239
pm on that day, the day after the murder. Well,

652
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:25.960
on Monday, the seventeenth days later, that jacket was still

653
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:29.719
on the chair in his office. But by now everyone

654
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.639
had heard that Christa had been arrested and she was

655
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:36.440
a suspect in Colleen's murder investigation. So whenever mister Pollock

656
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:38.599
saw the jacket there, he was like, oh shit. So

657
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:41.000
he didn't want anything to do with it. He plucked

658
00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:43.000
the jacket and he took it and he turned it

659
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:45.920
over to police, who did what you think they did,

660
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.159
and they searched it. They were checking the pockets. They

661
00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:51.159
were trying to see if there's anything that they could find,

662
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:54.519
but all they found was a small piece of rock

663
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.079
that they pulled out of one of the pockets. But

664
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:03.480
upon closer inspection, it didn't look like a rock. It

665
00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:07.800
really actually looked like a piece of bone. So to

666
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:11.360
be sure, they sent it back to doctor Marx at

667
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:14.800
the University of Tennessee. That's the doctor who had refurbished

668
00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:19.440
Colleen's skull originally. And as the doctor looked it over,

669
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:24.320
almost like a puzzle, he found that the piece of

670
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:28.920
bone in that pocket was bone, and it fit perfectly

671
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:33.880
into that one missing piece of skull that was missing

672
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:38.719
of Colleens. It was the one piece Christa had been

673
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:43.679
carrying it in her pocket the entire time. Now the

674
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.599
question became was it accidentally, like not accidentally, but did

675
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:50.880
it like fall into her pocket as they were fighting

676
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:54.079
and crushing her skull? Or you know, was it inadvertent

677
00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:57.519
or had she put it in her pocket? And how

678
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:02.599
would we know either way? Well, even more students came forward.

679
00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:04.599
Are you getting the feeling that Krista might have been

680
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:06.639
a tyrant at the school? And now people were getting

681
00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:08.760
to say what they wanted to say without fear. That's

682
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:11.199
how it felt to me. But they came forward with

683
00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:16.719
extremely disturbing information knowing this was in fact a piece

684
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:21.000
of skull. This could not be ignored because what happened,

685
00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:24.480
according to these students, was the following morning after Colleen

686
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:27.519
was murdered, before anyone knew that she was murdered, they

687
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:31.079
had gone to breakfast and they were eating and Kim

688
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:36.320
was talking to Christa, and Christa pulled out that piece

689
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:40.239
of bone and she said, yeah, this is a piece

690
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:43.119
of Colleen's skull from where I murdered her, and yes,

691
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:47.840
I'm eating breakfast with it. She then pulled the napkin

692
00:40:48.079 --> 00:40:51.400
from her pocket, opened it up, and she showed Stephanie

693
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:54.280
Wilson the piece of bone and told her it was

694
00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:57.239
Colleen's skull. And she added, while they were eating breakfast,

695
00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.320
Colleen's brains and blood had been pouring out when she

696
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.800
dug in there and plucked it out of the bloody brains.

697
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:09.000
It was a trophy to Christa and she was proudly

698
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:14.199
displaying it to anyone who would listen. Now, back to

699
00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:16.800
Darryl real Quick, there was some more information that he

700
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:20.280
failed to mention to investigators when he was being interrogated.

701
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.880
Things that students were now as they came forward, were

702
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:27.559
shedding a whole new light on this love triangle gone wrong,

703
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:29.480
Because what if I told you, or what if the

704
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:32.840
students told you. A few days prior to Colleen's murder

705
00:41:33.239 --> 00:41:37.199
to Daryl told another student named Kip O'Hara that he

706
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:41.559
had to make a human sacrifice because the celestial bodies

707
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:46.360
were in alignment. And during this talk to Daryl had

708
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:50.119
out a Wiji board as he was discussing the sacrifice

709
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:52.320
that he would need to make. Well, the day of

710
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:56.079
the murder was on Thursday, January twelfth, which, looking into this,

711
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:59.920
would make the following day the day that Colleen than

712
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.719
night of the night that transitioned into Friday the thirteenth,

713
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:09.760
which would be referred to as the Devil's Birthday. I

714
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:12.559
don't believe in coincidences. I don't think you should either.

715
00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:16.159
And the more police questioned students, the more they talked.

716
00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:18.880
Kim Now told them that Christa had told her in

717
00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:22.880
previous conversations she was gonna kill Colleen, but she thought

718
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.800
it was just talk, I'm gonna kill that bitch. She

719
00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:27.280
didn't think she really meant she was gonna do it.

720
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:31.719
Another student, his name was Daniel Wayland. He ran into

721
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.280
that trio off of campus the day of the murder,

722
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:39.519
and both Christa and Shidala asked him have you seen Colleen,

723
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:42.280
which he hadn't, and they said, well, when we find her,

724
00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:46.599
she's dead. All of these people coming forward with information,

725
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:50.119
but who would believe someone when they said this? Most

726
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.880
of the teenagers thought this meant a fight, not a

727
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.440
true murder. That basically everything compiled this is what investigators

728
00:42:57.480 --> 00:43:01.519
found in the death of Colleen Slimmer. Christa, to Daryl

729
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:06.480
and Shadalah all planned the murder of Colleen Slimmer ahead

730
00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:09.960
of time. They lured her out to that park. They

731
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:12.400
lured her out to that park under the guise of

732
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.840
smoking weed, and Colleen, after speaking with her mother, was

733
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:18.480
just trying to make things go well, and so she

734
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:22.519
went with them. They had been terrorizing Colleen, but she went.

735
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:25.880
But once she got there, she realized this wasn't them

736
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.000
extending the olive branch of friendship. They were going to

737
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:32.320
attack her, and Colleen realized at some point, oh my god,

738
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:35.199
this is not good. I am deep into the woods,

739
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:37.920
I am on the edge of the University of Tennessee,

740
00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:41.719
and now I've got these three sharks circling me. Christa,

741
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.400
feeling empowered by this group that was with her and

742
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.960
fueled by rage, she began to accuse Colleen of wanting

743
00:43:48.199 --> 00:43:52.559
to Daryl. And once that accusation started, Colleen's like, no, no, no, no, no,

744
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.920
y'all got this all wrong. But they chased her down.

745
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.360
She tried to get away, they began stabbing her and

746
00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:02.400
beating her. She begged them to let her go. She

747
00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:06.880
begged them, please let me go, and they laughed at her.

748
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:11.039
They laughed at her as they brutalized her and tortured

749
00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:14.880
her for thirty minutes to an hour. The rag that

750
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.840
had been found around Colleen's neck. There's two versions of

751
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:19.760
how it got there. I'm gonna let you, the listener,

752
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:22.840
decide which one you think happened. Either Christa had it

753
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:25.599
tied in her hair, kind of like a bow, and

754
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:28.119
then she pulled it out and she stuffed it in

755
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.639
Colleen's mouth and tied it around her head so that

756
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:33.960
she couldn't speak, because that's what she said, or to

757
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:36.559
Darryl said that he found it on the ground when

758
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:38.639
he went to go see if the coast was clear.

759
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:43.000
Either way, it doesn't matter. They use it as a gag.

760
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.199
However they got it. They gagged that girl and shoved

761
00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:48.559
it in her mouth so she couldn't yell out, so

762
00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:52.679
they could continue to torture her without somebody being alerted.

763
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:58.119
They stabbed Colleen by they I'm saying, Christa at least

764
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:06.159
three hundred times, do anything three hundred times. Think about that.

765
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:08.639
And every time she would get up and she would

766
00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:12.159
try to run, they knocked her down. She would get up,

767
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:15.679
they knocked her down, They stabbed her. They were ramming

768
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:17.679
her in the head with anything heavy and hard that

769
00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:22.199
they could. And then Christa held that girl down after

770
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:26.400
she was mortally wounded severely injured. Walter Darrell carved a

771
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:30.719
pentagram in her chest for certain, and likely in her forehead,

772
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.280
which we won't know because her skull was so destroyed.

773
00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:37.559
There's no confirmation on that. And although she looked to

774
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:41.000
be dying, it was obvious to anyone that this girl

775
00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:45.119
was dying. Christa kept hitting her and kept hitting her

776
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:48.480
and kept hitting her, and Christa even bent down and

777
00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:52.920
mocked her as she was gurgling blood on the ground dying.

778
00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:56.199
She mocked her and she said, Colleen, you know who's

779
00:45:56.199 --> 00:45:59.119
doing this to you. But Colleen was never able to

780
00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:03.000
answer her. She was just making groaning noises and gurgling.

781
00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:08.519
By that point, that's per Krista Pike herself. After Colleen

782
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:11.079
was dead, they shoved her up in the woods. They

783
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:14.039
washed their hands and their shoes in a mud puddle,

784
00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:16.239
and they did that to try to cover the blood.

785
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:18.519
That's why she told that girl back at the school

786
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:22.559
that ain't that ain't mud, that's blood. And then they

787
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.599
threw out the box cutter. All of them then went

788
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.159
to a Texaco station on Cumberland Avenue where they threw

789
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:33.360
out the personal belongings they had stolen from Colleen, like

790
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:35.639
her ID cards and things like that. They just threw

791
00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:37.599
it in the trash, and then they threw out a

792
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.239
black pair of gloves that they had with them, and

793
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:43.639
then Christa went into the bathroom and she washed her hands,

794
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.559
and then she washed the brains off of the piece

795
00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:49.599
of skull that she planned to keep as a trophy.

796
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.480
An officer, by the way, did go to that Texico

797
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.519
station and sure enough he found the gloves and he

798
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:58.119
found Colleen's ID cards. Then they went back to the

799
00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:01.280
school returned the meat cleaver, which grosses me out because

800
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:05.280
I don't imagine what happened with that. And when detectives

801
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.000
did search Christa's room, they did still find those genes

802
00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:11.559
she wore covered in mud and blood. All of the

803
00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:16.320
DNA was absolutely connected through the crime lab and it

804
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:18.840
was Colleen's. There's no question as to what happened here.

805
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:22.880
Now let's talk about court real quick as I wrap

806
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.599
this up, because that was a whole fiasco that is

807
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:28.199
going to tugget your emotions so hard that I can't

808
00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:30.159
leave it out. I have to tell you this first

809
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:34.679
of all, at trial, Christa loved the attention that she

810
00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:38.599
was getting. She would wave, she would smile, she even

811
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:42.039
laughed throughout the trial. She felt like she was a celebrity.

812
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.880
She had celebrity status. People knew who she was. Absolutely

813
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:51.719
zero remorse and zero empathy. None. And at one point,

814
00:47:52.519 --> 00:47:58.280
remember this court isn't always fun. Okay, we love the

815
00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:01.679
justice aspect of it, but you're the family member, this

816
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:05.079
ain't fun. This is misery, and you have to remember this.

817
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:08.199
Colleen's mother was sitting in the courtroom during the trial,

818
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:11.719
watching that bitch laugh and smile and eat it up.

819
00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:16.559
All the attention and photographs of bloody chunks of asphalt

820
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:19.639
and blood dripping from leaves and pools of blood, all

821
00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:23.519
of that introduced as evidence. The largest bloody piece of

822
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:28.360
asphalt and Colleen's bloody clothing was also introduced into evidence,

823
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:31.239
while her mother was forced to sit there and silently

824
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:34.840
watch this, knowing her baby girl wore that that was hers,

825
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.440
that was her blood, that was half of her DNA

826
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:41.039
all over it. But what got me was this part

827
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:50.280
Colleen's actual skull. The head was brought into the courtroom,

828
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:55.440
the skull was held up, it was passed around. Her

829
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:01.039
daughter's head was passed around as evidence. A necessary evil,

830
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:06.000
for sure, but can you imagine your baby knowing that

831
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:08.960
was your baby that you rocked and you fed, and

832
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.880
you taught to walk, and you were proud of and

833
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.880
you loved her. And that's her head. Her head is

834
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:17.880
being passed around. It's not even attached to your daughter's body, which,

835
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:20.960
by the way, her mother got no formal burial yet

836
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:23.639
of her daughter because of trial, they had to keep

837
00:49:23.679 --> 00:49:29.719
her head as evidence. Kim would come in there, and

838
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:33.079
kudos to her. Kim testified against her best friend, Christa

839
00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:37.599
because even a troubled kid knows when evil is standing

840
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:41.199
before them, and Kim wasn't having this. Kim knew it

841
00:49:41.239 --> 00:49:44.239
wasn't right. Friendship be damned. You don't do that to people.

842
00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:46.639
Kim didn't need a friend like that and she didn't

843
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:49.679
want one. Now, Shadala Peterson, I know I haven't said

844
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.679
a lot about her. She ended up turning state's evidence.

845
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:57.719
She testified at the trials against both of her accomplices.

846
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:00.519
I guess she'd call them, and because of this, she

847
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:03.159
was charged with accessory after the fact, but she was

848
00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:07.000
only given six years probation because she turned state's evidence.

849
00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:10.519
And it's one of those things where the state needed

850
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:14.199
to make sure they sunk the ringleaders now Krista and

851
00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:16.960
to Daryl will be tried separately. To Daryl was convicted

852
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:20.079
and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole,

853
00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:23.760
plus twenty five years I believe was added on there.

854
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:27.880
Krista Pike, in her trial, was found guilty and she

855
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:31.760
was sentenced to death. And y'all, it only took ninety

856
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:34.800
minutes for the jury to convict her. And guess what

857
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:38.679
that included a one hour lunch. That's how bad this was.

858
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:42.719
And on March thirtieth, nineteen ninety six, Krista Pike was

859
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.639
sent to death row. And she had been told you're

860
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:49.719
getting the electric chair, We're going to fry your ass.

861
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:52.800
And she cried in court when she realized that she

862
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:55.159
was no longer going to be free. But as soon

863
00:50:55.239 --> 00:50:58.159
as she hit the cell, she got out of pen,

864
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.000
she got out some paper and she started writing a

865
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:04.519
letter to to Daryl that basically said, can you believe

866
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:08.719
they're doing this to me? A young girl? Very aloof,

867
00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:12.159
very dismissive of it all. And when she was asked

868
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:16.679
why did you kill Colleen? Her answer direct quote was

869
00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:22.880
I had just felt mean that day. This case goes

870
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:26.000
to show that some people know no bounds when they

871
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:29.880
feel threatened, even when it is a self induced feeling

872
00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:34.760
of threat. And by the way, my Patreon members, there's

873
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:38.400
a bonus episode coming your way on this one. After

874
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:42.719
she goes to prison, y'all behind bars, whole different story.

875
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.199
You're not gonna believe this, trust me. I'm not just

876
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.480
pumping this up. Jaws are gonna drop. There's gonna be

877
00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:49.320
a bonus episode coming your way on this one. You're

878
00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:52.760
gonna want to hear it. But Colleen, this victim in

879
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:56.320
this case, she wanted to finish school and go home.

880
00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:58.880
She was trying to make something of herself. And I'm

881
00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:01.119
going to tell you to Daryl wasn't part of that plan.

882
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:06.199
Krista Pike wanted a fight and to Daryl Ship wanted

883
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:11.480
a sacrifice to Satan. And when Satanic driven evil meets

884
00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:15.360
jealousy and the sprinklesome mean girl energy on it, this

885
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:19.559
is what you get. And to anyone, anyone who thinks

886
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:24.480
the death penalty isn't just here, these are my words

887
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:30.679
to you. Krista Pike was an absolute jealous, mean girl

888
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:35.239
who took it way beyond teenage rivalry. And this wasn't

889
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:39.880
a tragedy of a misunderstood girl who had no proper raising.

890
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:44.280
This was entitlement by a person so committed to being

891
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:48.719
cruel that when the usual mean girl tools failed, things

892
00:52:48.760 --> 00:52:52.840
like gossip and humiliation and control, when those stopped working,

893
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:56.760
she escalated it. And not because she had to, and

894
00:52:56.840 --> 00:52:59.480
not because she was pushed to do it either. It

895
00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:04.719
was because she wanted to. This evidenced, and how proud

896
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:07.760
she was to share what she did and even show

897
00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:12.199
a piece of her victim's skull her trophy with joy.

898
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.960
She showed this to other students. And I cannot stand

899
00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:18.679
the court portion where the defense gets up and says

900
00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:21.760
that she quote unquote snapped, or that there are complex

901
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:28.360
emotions at play here. No fuck that, because mean didn't

902
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:33.199
become murder. Mean just ran out of social cover here.

903
00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:37.880
If anyone deserves the electric chair, it's Krista Pike. And

904
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:41.039
now there are groups trying to save her right now

905
00:53:41.079 --> 00:53:44.239
as you listen to this twenty twenty six, because she

906
00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:47.639
is up for her date with the chair, and they're

907
00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:52.239
crying that the death penalty is unjust and it's unfair. Really,

908
00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:56.480
maybe you know, we should ask Colleen about that. If

909
00:53:56.519 --> 00:54:00.599
anyone can attest to that, it's her, but oh yeah,

910
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:06.400
we can't. People don't snap, they don't. They simmer until

911
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:11.199
they boil. And this was avoidable had Christa and to

912
00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:15.840
Daryl ever been held accountable for their continuous misbehavior. But

913
00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:20.480
they weren't. Okay, they weren't because of weak parenting. They

914
00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:23.440
weren't because of hugga thug programs, and they weren't because

915
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:29.559
federal funding opportunities thwarted that. And if this ending feels uncomfortable,

916
00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:33.079
good let it, because the scariest part of this story

917
00:54:33.199 --> 00:54:36.119
isn't that she felt mean that day, it's how long

918
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:43.920
everyone let her be mean before it ever mattered. The

919
00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:44.199
end