The Devil on Death Row

On January 12, 1995, nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer was lured into the woods near the University of Tennessee. She believed she was going to make peace with a girl who had been threatening her. Thirty to sixty minutes later, she was dead, tortured beyond recognition. A pentagram was carved into her chest. Her skull was crushed with a piece of asphalt. Her killer, eighteen-year-old Christa Pike, kept a piece of her skull as a trophy.

Pike was sentenced to death. She spent thirty years on d...