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Colleen Slemmer was brutally murdered in January 1995

Her classmate Christa Pike was found guilty of murdering her and sentenced in 1996

Pike took a part of Slemmer's skull as souvenir

A Tennessee woman's execution date has been set three decades after she killed her classmate as an 18-year-old, carving a pentagram on the victim's chest and taking away a prt of the slain woman's skull.

The victim, Colleen Slemmer, was a Knoxville Job Corps student who was lured into a remote area by Christa Pike, who, along with her then-boyfriend, killed Slemmer in a remote area of the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus in January 1995, per the Associated Press .

After stabbing and beating Slemmer, Pike took a part of the victim's skull as souvenir.

Pike's boyfriend, then-17

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