Natasha Cornett

I think she stabbed her repeatedly.

Christa Pike was not impressed when Jones took a dislike to her alleged lover, Natasha Cornett.

I think Krista was in a relationship with Natasha Cornett.

And Patricia was, Patricia Jones was somebody who was a negative force in that relationship because Patricia didn't like Natasha.

And so Krista would take up for Natasha, and that's where she and Patricia would clash.

What happened is there was a fire in the prison.

one of several that had happened.

And the prison officials made the decision to take these three violent women, Patricia Jones, Natasha Cornett, Krista Gayle Pike, and put them all in the same space together.

On August 24, 2001, a fire forced prisoners out of their cells and into a recreation enclosure.

Krista was there with inmates Patricia Jones and Natasha Cornett.

Patricia testified that Krista attacked her from behind and strangled her with a shoestring until she lost consciousness.

Staff intervened and Krista was convicted on attempted first-degree murder in 2004, receiving another 25 years added to her sentence.

Now, that same year, there was another violent incident inside of the prison.

And on August 24th, 2001, Krista was in a recreation cage with Patricia Jones and Natasha Cornett.

And Natasha Cornett is from the Lily Lidd family murders, because apparently the story, you know, wasn't strange enough.

And I don't know enough about that, but I guess it's a very...

Well-known case.

She later changed her mind and relaunched the appeals.

On August 24th of 2001, at the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville, Krista attacked another inmate named Patricia Jones and tried to strangle her with a shoestring.

She nearly killed her.

Patricia was serving a life sentence herself for a 1994 murder of an elderly woman in Knoxville.

The Department of Correction believed another inmate, Natasha Cornett, helped Krista.

And if that name sounds familiar, Natasha Cornett was one of the group convicted in the 1997 Lillilid family murders in Tennessee.

If you haven't heard of this story, it happened in April of 1997 when Vidar and Delfina Lillilid were driving home to the Powell area outside of Knoxville with their two kids, six-year-old Tabitha and two-year-old Peter.

Two days later, all six of the group were caught in the Lililid stolen van trying to cross from Arizona into Mexico.

where her lawyers put forward the evidence that they said her trial jury never heard the abuse the mental illness and the failures of her original defense those hearings stretched into 2007 and 2008 a young woman growing up in front of a courtroom federal courts later denied her relief there were also dark chapters In August of 2001, while Pike was in prison, there was a fire at the Tennessee prison for women, and inmates were moved out during the evacuation.

In a confusion, a dispute broke out involving another inmate named Natasha Cornett and an inmate named Patricia Jones.

Pike wrapped a shoelace around Jones' neck and tried to strangle her.

When a correctional officer tried to pull her off, Pike told the officer that the struggle was only helping her finish.

So she launches, cancels, and relaunches her appeals, which kind of messes up the order of things a little bit.

And I say all of this because she's accused of something in here in August of 2001, where she and an inmate named Natasha Cornett, they end up being accused of attacking and attempting to strangle a fellow inmate named Patricia Jones.

With a shoestring, no less, Patricia Jones had been serving a life sentence for the 1994 murder of an 84-year-old woman named Alberta Coker in Knoxville at the time this attack occurs.

Now, Krista Pike ends up being convicted three years later in August of 2004 for attempted first-degree murder.

The...

Original investigation done by the Tennessee Department of Corrections had Natasha Cornett as being a major element of assisting in this crime.

But their investigators concluded that they did not feel like they could charge her with the attack that, by all accounts, Krista Pike perpetrated on Patricia Jones.

So she's convicted on attempted first-degree murder.