Episode 1 - Christa and Colleen
Unrestorable
iHeartPodcasts
3.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Months after two teens enroll at Knoxville’s JobCorps program, one is dead and the other is charged with murdering her.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | This is a tape recorded statement. |
| 0:10.0 | The person being interviewed is Krista, C-R-I-T-A, Gail, G-A-L-P-E-I-L-P-E. |
| 0:19.7 | This is in regards to the death of a Colleen C-O-L-E-E-N, S-L-E-E-N, S-L-E-M-E-R, who was also a job course student, |
| 0:33.3 | whose body was found on Friday, 13th, 1995. |
| 0:40.3 | Krista, will you state your full name, honey? |
| 0:43.0 | It's January 1995. |
| 0:49.1 | An 18-year-old Krista Pike is being interviewed by Knoxville, Tennessee police detective, Randy York. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, right, where are you staying right now? What are you doing? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm not still, Job Corps, Sam. |
| 1:02.5 | And how old are you? |
| 1:04.0 | I'll be 19 in March. |
| 1:06.3 | 18-year-old Krista is accused of brutally murdering a teenage girl named Colleen Slemmer. |
| 1:12.4 | They were both living at Job Corps, a residential program for troubled kids in Knoxville. |
| 1:17.2 | Krista was picked up by police soon after Colleen's body was found in the clearing of a wooded area. |
| 1:23.1 | So how did you get her to go up there? |
| 1:25.2 | I just told her that I wanted her to come to Blockbuster with me. |
| 1:29.6 | By what time? |
| 1:30.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm somewhere between 8 and 10. |
| 1:33.9 | Between 8 and 10? |
| 1:35.1 | Then what happened? |
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