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Lethal injection survivor Christa Pike's former satanist boyfriend could be released in 5 years
Fox News ^ | 10/06/26 | Michael Ruiz

Posted on 10/11/2026 12:07:14 AM PDT by Libloather

As questions remain as to what happens next for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike after a botched execution attempt last week, her accomplice and former boyfriend has at least another five years before his next parole hearing in the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville.

Tadaryl Shipp, 49, was 17 years old when he, Pike and another person tortured and killed Slemmer, their classmate from a vocational school, in a crime with "satanic elements" that still haunts investigators 31 years later.

Prosecutors accused Shipp of holding Slemmer down when she tried to escape her attackers and of carving pentagrams into her chest and face.

"It was a grotesque crime scene," former Knoxville Police Chief Phil Keith told Fox News Digital last week. "It was one of the worst crime scenes I'd witnessed. and I was with the police department almost 34 years."

Shipp showed no remorse after his arrest and even fell asleep during his interrogation, Keith told Fox News Digital.

Due to his age at the time, Shipp was not eligible for the death penalty after his conviction, Keith said. He was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder and 25 years for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and is currently incarcerated at Tennessee's Northwest Correctional Complex.

According to court documents, Shipp had explored satanism as a child and investigators found "satanic paraphernalia" in his dorm room. He and Pike were said to be wearing pentagram pendants at the time of their arrests.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: boyfriend; christapike; pike; released; satanist; tennessee

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1 posted on 10/11/2026 12:07:14 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

And this all leads to some supernatural explanation as to why the attempted execution was unsuccessful. But why the heroic measures to PRESERVE the life of this condemned criminal after the failed injection?

If it were a fetus born alive after a botched abortion, it would have simply been left on the table to die.


2 posted on 10/11/2026 12:17:53 AM PDT by alloysteel (Strength to make change happen, humility to accept reality, and wisdom to know the difference.)
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To: alloysteel

Peak Stupid of Western Civilization explains why she’s still alive.

Gads, I’m glad I won’t be around for the denouement.


3 posted on 10/11/2026 12:25:59 AM PDT by kiryandil (I give up with this crew of trolls)
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To: alloysteel

What should we do?

A convicted killer gets hundreds of thousands of dollars in free health care.

It’s not supernatural.

A rope could have ended this decades ago. I can get one at the local hardware store for twenty bucks. I can even tie the knot.

Canada, I understand, has ways of ending life and they will even pay for it. Gleefully.

Ms Pike has been convicted of atrocious murder. Why is she still sucking oxygen for decades?


4 posted on 10/11/2026 1:13:09 AM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: alloysteel

“If it were a fetus born alive after a botched abortion, it would have simply been left on the table to die.”
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Well said alloysteel. Amen and Thank You !


5 posted on 10/11/2026 1:27:13 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: alloysteel

“He or she, an aborted baby, would have been left to die.”

Other than that, EXCELLENT post…


6 posted on 10/11/2026 2:58:18 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: alloysteel

“If it were a fetus born alive after a botched abortion, it would have simply been left on the table to die.”

Quite true. But the leftists are in charge of this, which includes the MSM. The leftists value criminal life, for they are voters.

The death sentence on Pike is valid. She just did not simply murder someone, she tortured another girl to death and kept skull parts as a trophy. She’s seriously sick in the head and should be shot/hung/electrocuted; or as you implied, left on that table to die.


7 posted on 10/11/2026 4:07:52 AM PDT by redfreedom (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Libloather

Looks like he went muztard in prison. Not much different than devil worship.


8 posted on 10/11/2026 5:06:21 AM PDT by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT! ABM = anything but muslim )
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To: alloysteel
And this all leads to some supernatural explanation as to why the attempted execution was unsuccessful. But why the heroic measures to PRESERVE the life of this condemned criminal after the failed injection?

I'd guess her first name caught a lot of connected wymen's attention that provided them with a basis for the only ingredient their missing, a metaphysical segment they can fit into the dream they're still working on in their underground coven.

Give them time they'll put something together. It doesn't have to make sense to everybody.

9 posted on 10/11/2026 5:49:35 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you )
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To: alloysteel

What should happen? Well, even a DEI team ought to be able to handle a pillow.


10 posted on 10/11/2026 8:30:52 AM PDT by bobbo666
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