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Christa Pike's classmate makes allegation about act death row inmate allegedly did to victim's brain
A classmate of murderer Christa Pike has made some major allegations about the disgusting act she inflicted on her victim's brain.
Pike, 50, was convicted in 1995 of the murder of her college classmate Colleen Slemmer, after luring her into a wooded area where she tortured and eventually killed her.
Now, one of her classmates at the time of the murder has branded Pike, who recently survived two attempts of lethal injection, 'evil' after detailing disturbing boasts Pike made about the murder - and what she planned to do with her victim's brain.
Christa Pike wanted to 'eat her breakfast' with victim's skull
Rita Morris, a former classmate of Christa Pike, has laid out some disturbing allegations about Pike's conduct after the murder.
Namely, Morris alleges that following her murder of Slemmer, Pike bragged to her classmates that she wanted to eat her breakfast with pieces of her victim's brain and skull.
"She was bragging about it," Morris told The Sun on Sunday.
"It was like a trophy for her. And as well as a piece of skull, she had a piece of her brain. She said she was going to eat it with her eggs in the morning."
Morris went on to say that Pike had been jealous of Slemmer and mistakenly believed that her eventual victim was attracted to her boyfriend at the time - which proved to be the impetus for her violent murder.
Talking about her former classmate, Morris said Pike 'deserves no sympathy' and that 'she's just as evil as when I knew her.'
What happened to Christa Pike after her botched execution?
Christa Pike was set to become the first woman executed in the state of Tennessee in over 200 years for her murder of Colleen Slemmer.
Pike had been a prisoner on death row for over 30 years since her initial arrest and had all of her pleas overturned.
However, on the day of her execution, Pike was given two doses of a barbital injection which should have proved fatal, but survived them both.
She was taken to hospital, initially in a critical condition, but has now regained the ability to walk and talk.
According to Pike's legal team, she has now been transferred back to the women's prison where she was held for the past 30 years.
A cloud now hangs over the decision if Pike will be executed once more, or if she has earned a reprieve.
The Tennessee Department of Correction has yet to comment publicly on the botched execution and what, precisely, went wrong.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Pike is the first prisoner to survive after a lethal injection was administered.