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

November 29, 2025 by Nadia

Claiming a piece of Slemmer’s broken skull as a grisly trophy, Pike reportedly showed flaunted it to classmates before her arrest.

Retired detective Randy York, who worked the case, said: “During the interview, she was very giddy, laughed, very cooperative. She wanted to tell us all about it.”

He added: “She had a piece of the skull wrapped up in a napkin in her coat pocket. That’s a trophy. It showed that that piece she had fit exactly as a piece of puzzle in the skull.”

Pike was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to death. Shipp received a life sentence without the possibility of parole (earlier this year a parole board denied his bid for freedom), while Peterson, who testified against Pike and Shipp, was handed probation.