{"id":1690,"date":"2026-10-01T18:49:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:49:37","slug":"mom-of-christa-pikes-victim-breaks-silence-after-witnessing-mess-execution-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Mom of Christa Pike\u2019s victim breaks silence after witnessing \u2018mess\u2019 execution attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martinez traveled from Florida to Nashville this week to witness the execution of Pike, who was convicted in 1996 of murdering her daughter, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, in Knoxville in 1995. Pike and her then-boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, were found to have beaten and killed Slemmer after Pike accused her of trying to steal her boyfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to NBC News in a phone interview Thursday morning, Martinez said the execution did not go as expected. \u201cThey went to try to execute her, and she didn\u2019t die,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martinez said she and other witnesses were given little information in the moment. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know anything until we got up to the office and saw the commissioner. And he said that it didn\u2019t work, that it didn\u2019t work, and she\u2019s on her way to the hospital,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LIKCGIf-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LIKCGIf-edited.jpg 675w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/LIKCGIf-edited-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martinez traveled from Florida to Nashville this week to witness the execution of Pike, who was convicted in 1996 of murdering her daughter, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, in Knoxville in 1995. Pike and her then-boyfriend,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}