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.”
Christa Gail Pike is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. Credit: Tennessee Department of Correction.
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.
