Awe, young love can drive us to do crazy things, like steal a car, rob a bank, or murder someone we thought was trying to steal our significant other. But most people would fortunately not do any of things and either end the relationship or figure out some more mature way of handling the situation.

That would not be the case for Christa Pike and Tadaryl Shipp.

Sources:

Christa Pike: The Youngest American Woman Ever Sentenced To Death (allthatsinteresting.com)

Christa Pike | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Colleen Slemmer's Mom Wants Christa Pike, Only Woman On Tennessee's Death Row, Executed (newsweek.com)

State v. Shipp, C.C.A. No. 03C01-9711-CR-00492 | Casetext Search + Citator