Just Felt Mean That Day: Christa Pike and the Knoxville Job Corps Murder
Colleen Slemmer could take a computer apart and put it back together, and she owned a shirt that said Computer Geek to prove it. She left Orange Park, Florida, on Halloween in 1994 for a federal job training program in Knoxville, Tennessee, so she could make computers her career. At the Knoxville Job Corps center, an 18-year-old classmate named Christa Pike decided Colleen was after her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. We follow the students who heard warnings and never went to the police, and a jacket left behind in the center’s office. Around 30 years later, this case landed back in national headlines, and Colleen’s family wants people to remember who she was. Stick around for the walk toward Tyson Park and everything that came after it.
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