My wife was just explaining that the body of her child is being held for evidence. Theoretically, the case would be closed after the execution and the body could be returned and buried.
I’m no expert on the case, but I could imagine the frustration of waiting for that for 30 years, only to have it yanked away minutes before.
All I’m saying is it might be bloodthirst, but it also may be just general frustration at the long, drawn-out process.
Not the body, the fragment of her skull that she broke off when she killed her.
Also it has been returned.
Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, confirmed that after sixteen years of fighting and writing letters, she had received the missing skull fragment from the state of Tennessee.
My wife was just explaining that the body of her child is being held for evidence. Theoretically, the case would be closed after the execution and the body could be returned and buried.
I’m no expert on the case, but I could imagine the frustration of waiting for that for 30 years, only to have it yanked away minutes before.
All I’m saying is it might be bloodthirst, but it also may be just general frustration at the long, drawn-out process.
Not the body, the fragment of her skull that she broke off when she killed her.
Also it has been returned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_Pike
Moving to have this as just life in prison would also accomplish this though. She could have asked for that at any point in this 30 year stretch.