Christa Pike was a difficult child from the start. She had an incorrigible nature about her and by the time she was a teenager, she was completely out of control. By 1995, she was in Knoxville, Tennessee, enrolled in Job Corps, for computer programming, having dropped out of high school the year before. Christa seemed to be doing well there except she had an “issue” with one girl, who Christa claimed had a thing for her boyfriend, Tadaryl. One day, after “just feeling mean”, Christa formulated a plan to get rid of her problem, once and for all.