10/06/2026
COLLEEN SLEMMER IS HER NAME!!!! We need to normalize saying the name of victims of violent crimes more than the names of their killers/abusers!! With all the news of the failed ex*****on of Pike, let's talk about what she in fact was being executed for to begin with.
Pike had told Colleen she wanted to walk to the Blockbuster Music Store. On the way, she mentioned a bag of ma*****na hidden in Tyson Park, steering the group toward the University of Tennessee’s agricultural campus. When they reached the steam plant area on the UT campus, Pike and Colleen exchanged words.
Then Pike began hitting her.
She hit Colleen. She banged her head against her knee. She threw her to the ground and kicked her repeatedly, in the face and in the side. As she slammed Colleen’s head against concrete, Colleen asked, again and again: “Why are you doing this to me?”
When Colleen threatened to report Pike to Job Corps management which would result in Pike being terminated from the program Pike kicked her harder, in the face and the side. Colleen lay on the ground and cried. Then she tried to run.
Someone else in the group caught her and pushed her back to the ground. Pike and this other person whom Pike referred to in her confession only as “he,” declining to name him, though Tadaryl Shipp was later convicted for his role held Colleen down until she stopped struggling, then dragged her to another area of the campus. There, Pike cut Colleen’s stomach with a box cutter she had brought with her.
Colleen screamed.
Pike would later tell police that she began hearing voices at this point voices telling her that she had to prevent Colleen from talking, from reporting her, from sending her to prison. She stood watching Colleen bleed. When Colleen rolled over, got to her feet, and tried to run again, Pike cut her across the back a long, deep cut that the medical examiner would later measure and catalogue.
Colleen kept trying to get up. Pike kept cutting. Colleen bargained for her life: if Pike would just let her go, she said, she would walk back to Florida without collecting a single belonging from the dormitory. She would disappear. She would never come back.
Pike told her to shut up. She told her it was harder to hurt someone who was talking.
The more Colleen talked, the more Pike kicked her in the face.
"Pike cut her throat. Once. Then again. Then again. Colleen was still talking, still trying to sit up, still begging, even as her throat was being cut. Colleen’s throat was cut six times in total across the attack. Each time she spoke, Pike cut again. The box cutter worked in combination with a miniature meat cleaver Pike had borrowed before leaving the dormitory a weapon she had deliberately carried to the scene.
Colleen tried to run one more time. Pike threw a rock at her, hitting her in the back of the head. The other person threw a rock too. Colleen fell.
Pike hit her. She hit her and kept hitting her. She found a large piece of asphalt and used that. She could hear Colleen “breathing blood in and out,” could see her body jerking with each impact, and she kept hitting. She asked Colleen, somewhere near the end: “Colleen, do you know who’s doing this to you?”
Colleen’s only response was a groan.
The attack lasted between thirty minutes and an hour. When it was over, Pike and the others dragged Colleen by her feet to a pile of debris near some trees and left her there. They scattered her clothes in the surrounding bushes."
When Colleen Pike was asked why??? She said she "just felt mean that day". Now let's image this was our daughter, our sister, our best friend. COLLEEN SLEMMER IS HER NAME!!!!
Source: "
Knoxville, Tennessee, January 12, 1995 a nineteen-year-old was lured from a Job Corps dormitory and tortured to death over the course of an hour by a peer who brought back a piece of her skull as a…
