Satanic Murder And The Extreme Depravity of Christa Pike

A troubled teen finds faith in satanism. But is it redemption or mere motivation for murder?

The Mystique
7 min readOct 26, 2021
Christa Pike | Picture Credits: Knoxville news sentinel

Evil showed its true face on the eve of Friday the 13th in 1995. Four teenage students went for a walk in the desolate woods of the campus of the University of Tennessee. Three of them were practicing members of a satanic cult. The fourth, Colleen Slemmer, was a naive teen from Florida who tagged along for free weed. With Christa Pike acting like the alpha, the satanic teens ensured that Colleen never saw daylight again.

What corrupted Christa so extremely?

Christa Pike | Photo Credits: All That’s Interesting

Born in 1976, Christa Pike was brought up in a strictly Christian home by her grandmother. Her childhood was mostly spent playing in her grandfather’s slaughterhouse. While pregnant, her mother was a raging alcoholic, which had serious detrimental effects on Christa’s mental development. But she was quite an ordinary kid. That is till her grandmother’s death when Christa was just four years old. It was then that she made her first suicide attempt- at the tender age of four. After her grandmother’s…

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