Christa Pike

“I was a mentally ill 18-year-old kid. It took me numerous years to even realise the gravity of what I’d done. Even more to accept how many lives I affected. I took the life of someone’s child, sister, friend. It sickens me now to think I had the ability to commit such a crime,”

Christa Pike · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-01

Pike said in a statement expressing remorse for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer.

“put the brakes on”

Christa Pike · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-01

Pike said in her clemency petition that she killed Slemmer in a frenzied attack when she could not stop.