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Unrestorable

Episode 3 - The Trial

Unrestorable

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

3.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We learn what the jury and public didn’t know about Christa, her attorneys, and their trial strategy.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.7

On America's Crime Lab, the podcast, we're revealing the true story of the Idaho Four.

0:09.4

I was so frantic that morning and scared that the person who did this would come from me next.

0:14.6

They were struggling to identify a direction, a person of interest.

0:19.0

And I said, why wouldn't we work this case?

0:21.7

This three-part series features never-before-heard interviews about a crime that shook the nation

0:26.3

and the forensics lab that cracked the case wide open.

0:29.8

Listen to America's Crime Lab on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:37.2

It is therefore ordered that you shall be put to death by the future

0:40.7

and another prescribed by law,

0:43.4

and that you shall be transferred to custody of the warning at the Tennessee prison.

0:49.1

It took less than two hours for a jury to sentence 20-year-old Krista Pike to death.

0:55.6

And further, 12th day of January, 1997, your body shall be subjected to shot by sufficient

1:02.2

current of electricity.

1:05.1

My God, have mercy upon you.

1:07.2

January 12, 1997.

1:10.6

It wasn't just the day Krista was marked to die.

1:13.8

It was also the two-year anniversary of Colleen Slemmer's death.

1:18.1

Oh, please help my mom before I go.

1:22.2

Mr. Baker, please hold me tied to the doctor.

1:24.6

Please.

1:25.6

Let me just love my mom. Please hold me to all.

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