US state set to execute first woman in over 200 years – her horrific crime revealed

With the help of Shipp and another student, Shadolla Peterson, Pike slashed Slemmer’s throat with a box cutter, struck her with a meat cleaver, carved a pentagram onto her chest, and crushed her skull with a piece of asphalt. The crime stunned investigators and the public alike.

One of the most chilling revelations emerged when Pike showed detectives a fragment of Slemmer’s skull that she had kept as a trophy. Retired detective Randy York recalled that Pike was disturbingly cheerful during questioning and demonstrated how the skull fragment fit into the wound “like a puzzle. ”