True Crime: The Christa Pika Story

That today's true crime will be a little Christa Pike.

She'll be the first woman executed in Tennessee in nearly two decades.

Two centuries, actually.

Now...

Now, to get into who she is, her name is Christa Gayle Pike, born March 10th, 1976.

She's an American convict murderer who was incarcerated in Tennessee in 1995.

When she was 18, she murdered 19-year-old job courts classmate Colleen Simmons in Knoxville.

Pike and her two friends led Simmons into the wheel right that she was tortured and killed in 1996 when she was 20.

Pike was suggested death row.

making her one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States.

During the post-free reign period, she is said to be scheduled to be executed on September 30, 2026.

If carried out, she will be the 19th woman executed nationwide since 1976. and the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years.

Pine's sentence remains the controversy, as experts have opinionated her legal defense, failing to present migraine evidence, mitigating evidence at trial including the offense of her youth, childhood trauma, and decision-making abilities.

So she would be, if carried on, she would be the 19th woman executed nationwide since 1976.

That's the exact year that she was born.

What a coincidence.

She is 50 years of age.

She is known for torturing her classmate Collin Simmons to death, even keeping a piece of her skull that her mom had to fight with the states to get back for a proper burial.

The motivation was jealousy as Collin was dating Christina's man.

of Krista's name, and her criminal penalties was death on March 30, 1996.

She is in prison at the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, Tennessee.