Christa Pike was ruthless, almost giddy while being interrogated about twisted murder, police chief recalls

Christa Pike was “ruthless, without any remorse, almost giddy” when describing to cops how she committed the brutal murder which landed her on death row, according to the police chief who handled her case.Pike, 50, made headlines around the world when she became the first ever inmate in the US to survive lethal injection on Sept.30 in Tennessee.She was sentenced to death for the sadistic killing of her 19-year-old Job Corps classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in Jan.

1995, in Knoxville.Former Knoxville chief of police Phil Keith was asked in a new documentary by The Post on Pike’s horrific crime what it had been like to see her in the interrogation room.“I heard somebody that was ruthless, without any remorse, almost giddy,”  Keith recalled.“You know, she was describing what took place, like, almost the sense that she was bragging about it.”Pike lured Slemmer to her death in a fit of jealousy because she suspected the victim wanted to steal her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp.The pair took Slemmer to an isolated area of the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus, while Pike’s friend acted as lookout, and tortured her with a meat cleaver and box cutter and cut a pentagram into her chest.At the end of the half-hour-long ordeal, Pike bashed Slemmer’s head in with a large chunk of asphalt and then kept a piece of her skull as a souvenir.Former Knoxville top cop Keith said that the scene was so shocking that even veteran detectives working the case were stunned by what they found.“I was accustomed to seeing that kind of gore, if you will, but the brutality was different,” he told The Post.“You know, the visual scene of it, it was so shocking, and I could tell, when I first walked up – there’s two seasoned guys there, they got 50 or 60 years of homicide investigations under their belt, and I could tell, looking at their eyes and just their expressions, that they were disgusted with what they saw.”Pike was rushed to hospital after survivi...