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Hot On The Case

The Youngest Girl On Death Row

Hot On The Case

Breanna Heim

True Crime

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this week's investigation Hot On The Case dives into the youngest women in America to be sentenced to death row. In 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike committed such a horrific crime she became the youngest girl on death row. What began as teenage jealousy inside a Job Corps dorm spiraled into a crime so shocking that even seasoned investigators were left disturbed by the details.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right now in Tennessee, there's a notorious killer sitting on death row.

0:06.0

I've never been in the presence of anyone I thought was pure evil, but to me she's pure evil.

0:12.5

This killer lured a young girl into the woods and subjected her to nearly an hour of horrific torture.

0:20.3

Beat her, kicked her, smashed her face into the ground.

0:25.1

They toyed with her. They played cat and mouse with her. They would let her get up. She would

0:28.6

beg for her life. At one point, they said that she told them, just let me go. I'll not say anything.

0:33.8

And they said, you know, we can't do that. Here is a young woman who must have gone through

0:37.6

absolute hell. And I can't imagine anybody going through that. And I can't imagine enduring that

0:45.1

as she did for that long. This killer used a blade to stab this young girl over 300 times before participating in this young girl having a

0:57.9

satanic symbol carved into her skin while she was still alive before finally killing her by using a large

1:08.1

chunk of asphalt to crush her face and then her killer took a piece of her skull

1:15.8

as a souvenir. An autopsy confirmed she was slashed repeatedly with a meat cleaver and some other

1:22.4

small cutting device, perhaps a razor blade or box opener. Authorities say she was then beaten over the head with a large chunk of asphalt from this pile.

1:30.3

When you imagine this killer, you might be thinking of the most depraved, sadistic serial killers in history.

1:39.3

Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer.

1:42.3

You would probably never believe that the crime I just described was

1:47.8

committed by a teenage girl. This is the murder of Colleen Slummer and her killer, Krista Pike,

1:56.8

the youngest girl in America to ever be sentenced to death.

2:01.8

And my name is Brianna, and I'm hot on the case.

2:12.7

Krista Pike had a very terrible, traumatic, abusive life,

2:16.6

and the turmoil really began before she was

2:19.6

ever even born. Krista was born on March 10th, 1976 in Beckley, West Virginia, to her parents,

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