Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings · Envision Podcast Productions

Part 2 | The Knoxville Nightmare: Christa Pike & The Murder of Coleen Slemmer

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Krista Pike allegedly told Kim, “the bitch wouldn’t die,” after cutting Colleen Slemmer nine times.

KJ starts Part 2 with a quick recap for anyone arriving late. Then she sends the story back to Knoxville, Tennessee. Colleen Slimmer has already been confirmed as the body found on the edge of the university campus. KJ says the violence was far outside the norm. This was not just someone getting shot. It was hand-to-hand combat taken all the way. From there, the episode rewinds to the moment a box cutter came into play. One person had brought it along in case the fight started going badly. Once the cutting began, the whole scene started to fall apart. Colleen was screaming, bleeding, and trying to get away. Krista realized the situation had become something that could send her to prison. Colleen begged for her life and promised she would go back to Florida and never say a word. Krista told her to shut up. KJ lingers on Krista's own explanation that it is hard to hurt someone when they are talking to you. That line lands with a cold kind of honesty. The episode keeps pressing on how matter-of-fact Krista sounded when she described what happened to the detective. KJ does not hide how stunned she is by that coldness. She treats the case as a long chain of bad choices, not a sudden explosion, and says it was avoidable long before it turned fatal. In the end, she ties the killing to the present-day debate over Krista Pike's death sentence. The closing note is simple and sharp: people do not just snap, they simmer until they boil.

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A blunt finish that treats brutality as consequence, not spectacle.

Part 2 closes the Knoxville case with Kelly Jennings giving a blunt, matter of fact rundown of what happened in Knoxville, Tennessee, and why the violence around Colleen Slimmer hit so hard.

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You want the conclusion, the quick recap, and the full weight of a shocking true-crime story left intact.

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