Satan's Helper: The Christa Pike Story, Part 1 - Said Colleen Threatened Her First

Christa Pike's aunt remembered Christmas 1994 one way, and her mother remembered it another. To the aunt, Christa said she was scared of the Job Corps center in Knoxville: she wanted everybody to be proud of her, but people got hurt there. To her mother, she said a girl was hovering over her bed at night with a knife and that a boy named Tadaryl Shipp would protect her. She went back. On January 12, 1995, she and Shipp killed Colleen Slemmer, the girl she'd said had the knife. Satan's Helper: The Christa Pike Story is the Hidden Killers documentary on the Knoxville Job Corps murder, and chapter one is everything that came before that night.

Tony starts in Beckley, West Virginia, and follows the record. Her mother testified her daughter had been out of control since she was eight. Her father put her out of his house for the last time in 1989. A juvenile judge sent her to a training school over her own lawyer's recommendation, and an employee there found her on the hobby-room floor with other girls, chanting over a drawing of a five-pointed star in a circle. In Durham, a restaurant manager who dated her called her a little fire ball. Her aunt admitted under cross-examination that she'd once called her niece a pathological liar.

At Job Corps she wore a pentagram on a chain. Shipp, seventeen, had tried to throw another student off a bridge, by that student's account, and admitted under oath years later that he was a Gangster Disciple. Colleen Slemmer, nineteen, had come from Florida for computer training after her grandfather encouraged her to go. The day before she died, Christa told a friend she meant to kill her. Chapter two is what she did, in her own recorded words.

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