Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period.
She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of a classmate she committed at age 18.
Pike lived a troubled life and dropped out of high school.
She joined the Job Corps, a government program aimed at helping low-income youth by offering vocational training and career skills, and attended the now-closed Job Corps center in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Pike began dating a man a year her junior named Tadaryl Shipp.
Together, they developed interest in the occult and devil worship.