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Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Part 2 | The Knoxville Nightmare: Christa Pike & The Murder of Coleen Slemmer

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime

4.8683 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Unspeakable, KJ completes her look into the harrowing 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a case that shocked Knoxville and landed a teenage killer on death row. Driven by jealousy and dark obsessions, 18-year-old Christa Pike, along with her accomplices, lured Colleen into a secluded spot for what was supposed to be a peace offering—but turned into a night of unimaginable torture and brutality that led to Christa Pike being the only female on Tennessee’s Death Row.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims,

0:11.4

whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real?

0:30.9

I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts.

0:34.4

Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable.

0:53.6

Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.

0:56.3

If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl.

1:02.4

Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, KJ, you're back with part two of this episode, and this will be the conclusion.

1:09.9

So I'm pretty sure I had some people probably cussing me for making this a two-parter, but you're going to see why once I jump into this.

1:11.8

So there's just a lot of story. So much story, so little time. So we were in Knoxville, Tennessee, real quick. Some people said, hey, Kelly, will you please give us a quick recap whenever you jump into a multi-parter? And so I'm going to do that for you. But last episode, if you haven't listened, please go listen. But we were in Tennessee. Colleen Slimmer was confirmed to be the body found on the edge of the university campus.

1:31.5

And the brutality level used to kill her was just out of the norm.

1:36.9

And I know I had to say out of the norm, but this wasn't just someone got shot.

1:40.2

I mean, this was actual hand-to-hand combat that was taken to the max.

1:45.7

And a pentagram was carved into her chest, which caught the attention of an officer who had secured the scene after the fact.

1:54.4

So a girl wearing a pentagram necklace had come by and was asking questions, which later on a tip was called in, which led investigators

2:03.7

back to Job Corps, which is the school. And that's where fellow students, Krista Pike to Daryl

2:10.3

Ship and Shadala Peterson, had signed out of the campus at the same time as Colleen and investigators

2:16.4

wanted to have a word with those students.

2:18.9

Now, as far as connections went, Krista and to Darrell were boyfriend and girlfriend,

2:24.9

while Shadala was just another friend of theirs that they hung out with.

2:29.4

So as word spread that Colleen was dead, some other students would want to speak to police on their own

2:37.0

and would come forward. And this would include Krista Pike's best friend at the school,

2:42.6

and her name was Kim Innualoo. Now, Kim, I want you to know, was the youngest of the bunch. She was

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