A Love to Die for

On January 12 1995 in Knoxville Tennessee 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer went for a walk with her friend 18-year-old Christa Pike. Suddenly Christa turned on Colleen accusing her of flirting with her boyfriend. Then the words turned to shocking blows. An enraged Christa used a box knife to cut her rivals throat and a mini meat cleaver to inflict more havoc. Half-naked Colleen crawled through her own blood begging for her life. In the middle of the hour-long assault a satanic symbol was carved in the dying girls chest. And when Christa was finally done she took a piece of Colleens skull as a macabre souvenir. What were the dark forces that drove angelic faced Christa to commit such a savage murder and become the youngest woman ever to be put on Death Row? In this shocking expose of a case that stunned the nation Patricia Springer takes us through a horrifying crime scene and into the heart and mind of a murderess who killed for love-and would die for it too.