The US BUZZz, Los Angeles, CA (2026)

09/28/2026

SHE’S TERRIFIED OF MEN BEING IN THE ROOM WHEN SHE DIES.

Christa Pike’s attorneys are asking Tennessee to use an all-female ex*****on team when she is scheduled to be executed on September 30.

Her lawyer, Stephen Ferrell, argued that having male officers restrain Pike could increase the risk of pain and suffering and potentially violate her constitutional protections.

Why?

Her attorneys say Pike has a history of severe childhood sexual abuse.

They argue that being restrained and physically handled by men during an ex*****on could trigger that trauma in her final moments.

Pike is now 50.

She has spent nearly 30 years on Tennessee’s death row after being convicted in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

Her attorneys are also challenging Tennessee’s lethal-injection protocol, arguing that a rare blood disorder could make the procedure especially painful.

And her clemency petition asks Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence to life without parole.

If the ex*****on goes forward as scheduled, Pike would become the first woman Tennessee has executed since 1819.

After nearly three decades waiting for death, her attorneys are now fighting over something most people will never have to think about:

Who will be touching her during the final minutes of her life?

09/27/2026

SHE’S NOT ASKING TO LIVE.
SHE’S ASKING NOT TO DIE BY LETHAL INJECTION.

With just days before her scheduled September 30 ex*****on, Christa Pike’s lawyers are asking Tennessee to consider another method:

Hanging.

Her attorneys argue that Pike is terrified of lethal injection and that a medical condition could make the procedure especially painful. They have also proposed a central-line IV as an alternative.

Tennessee has not used hanging since 1913

But there is another part of this story.

Pike’s clemency petition asks Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence to life without parole.

So while her lawyers are fighting over how she could be executed, they are also asking the governor to make sure she isn’t executed at all.

Pike was 18 when 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was murdered in 1995.

Now, 31 years later, September 30 is approaching.

One woman is waiting for the state to decide whether she will live.
And, if she doesn’t, she wants a say in how she dies.

What do you think about her request?

09/27/2026

SHE’S ASKING TO BE EXECUTED BY AN ALL-WOMAN SQUAD.

Days before her scheduled ex*****on, Christa Pike has made an unusual final request.

She does not want lethal injection.

Her attorneys say Pike is terrified that the procedure could be painful, arguing that her blood disorder could make it difficult to place an IV and increase the risk of complications. Tennessee has disputed those claims.

Instead, her lawyers have asked for an all-female ex*****on squad.

It is a striking request from a woman who has spent more than 30 years on death row.

Pike was 18 when she participated in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

Now she is 50.

And with September 30 approaching, she knows exactly when the state plans to end her life.

Her attorneys say her request is also connected to the sexual abuse she says she suffered as a child, arguing that being restrained and handled by men during lethal injection could retraumatize her.

She has even previously asked the courts to allow **hanging** instead of lethal injection.

But there is another side to this story.

Colleen Slemmer never got to choose how she would die.

And now, 31 years later, Pike is fighting over how she will die.

September 30 is approaching.

Do you think a death-row inmate should have any say in the method of ex*****on?

09/26/2026

SHE DIDN’T JUST WALK AWAY.
SHE KEPT A PIECE OF HER.

After 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer was killed in 1995, Christa Pike didn’t leave empty-handed.

Investigators later found a fragment of Colleen’s skull inside the pocket of Pike’s jacket.

It wasn’t just evidence.

According to court testimony, Pike had shown the fragment to another Job Corps student and described it as a souvenir.

Decades later, Colleen’s mother, May Martinez, would ask to have her daughter’s remains returned so she could finally have them together.

When Martinez was allowed to see her daughter’s skull years later, she reportedly said:

“I know my daughter’s not going home with me.”

Colleen was 19.

Her mother has spent more than three decades living with what happened.

And now, as Christa Pike’s scheduled ex*****on approaches, that tiny fragment of bone carries a weight far greater than its size.

A daughter who never came home.
A mother who never stopped waiting.
And a piece of her daughter that was once carried away as a “souvenir.”

Some cases stay with you because of what happened.

This one stays with you because of what was left behind.

09/26/2026

SHE’S DRIVING 8 HOURS TO WATCH THE WOMAN WHO KILLED HER DAUGHTER DIE.

Not because she wants to celebrate.

Because after 31 years, May Martinez says she still has to fight for her daughter.

Her daughter, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, was murdered in Tennessee in 1995.

Now, on September 30, Christa Pike is scheduled to be executed.

And Colleen’s mother is making the 8½-hour drive to Tennessee to be there.

Think about that for a moment.

31 years of birthdays without her daughter.
31 years of holidays without her daughter.
31 years of waking up knowing Colleen should still be here.

Martinez has said there isn’t a day that goes by that she doesn’t think about Colleen.

Now she is preparing to make one final trip for the daughter she lost at just 19.

Some mothers get to drive their daughters home.

She’s driving 8½ hours to witness the final chapter of the case that took hers away.

What do you think a mother feels on a drive like that?

09/26/2026

“YOU HAVE TAKEN MY VIRGINITY AND MURDERED MY HEART.”

Those were Alleigha Botner's own words.

And today, she had to read them out loud in front of a jury.

According to her testimony, that wasn't even the strangest part of their messages.

One moment, they were talking about love.

The next, prosecutors say their conversations included discussions about Ashley, secret plans for a future together, and messages Caleb allegedly sent about wanting his wife dead.

Then came another detail that stayed with me.

Botner testified that after Ashley was killed, she searched her own name online.

She searched Ashley Flynn's name too.

Imagine that.

A relationship that once lived inside private messages...

Now being read aloud, word for word, in a murder trial.

The woman who once wrote, “You have taken my virginity and murdered my heart,” is now sitting in a courtroom reading those same words back to a jury.

Sometimes the most haunting evidence isn't a weapon.

It's a message that can never be unsent.

09/26/2026

THE MAN WHO ONCE PREACHED TO HIM IS NOW TESTIFYING AGAINST HIM.

That may have been one of the heaviest moments in Caleb Flynn's trial.

Pastor Jordan Hansen walked into the courtroom.

Not to lead a sermon.

Not to pray.

But to take an oath and testify for the state.

There was a time when this church was Caleb and Ashley's home.

They worshipped there.

They served there.

They raised their daughters there.

That pastor wasn't just another witness.

He was someone who had watched their family from a very different chapter of life.

Now they're meeting again.

Not in a sanctuary.

But in a courtroom.

One man is sitting at the defense table.

The other is sitting in the witness chair.

And somewhere between those two seats lies everything this family lost.

Ashley is gone.

Two little girls are growing up without their mother.

A church community is watching one of its own become the center of a murder trial.

Sometimes the most heartbreaking part of a trial isn't what someone says on the witness stand.

It's realizing that the people who once shared Sunday mornings together are now separated by an oath, a courtroom, and a woman who will never come home.

09/25/2026

AT 5:47 P.M., THEY WERE FIGURING OUT HOW TO DELETE THEIR MESSAGES.

Hours later, Ashley Flynn would be dead.

Alleigha Botner testified that on February 15 the night before Ashley was killed she was sending Caleb Flynn instructions on how to delete their GroupMe messages.

She also testified that Caleb had previously factory-reset his phone to conceal their relationship.

That timing is hard to ignore.

Alleigha had told the jury she ended things with Caleb in January and that they didn't speak again until February 14.

Yet by February 15, they were talking about deleting their conversations.

Then came the morning of February 16.

Alleigha said she had been housesitting at Pastor Jordan's home. Surveillance discussed in court showed her white Jeep returning shortly after midnight and remaining there until around 10 a.m.

She testified that she left around 9 a.m.

And where did she say she was going?

**TO ASHLEY'S PARENTS' HOUSE.**

The same morning Ashley's family was learning that she had been murdered.

Caleb had allegedly told Alleigha that February 16 would be the day he finally left Ashley.

Instead, Ashley was dead.

Alleigha has not been charged in connection with Ashley's murder.

But one question remains:

WHY WERE CALEB AND ALLEIGHA DISCUSSING HOW TO DELETE THEIR MESSAGES JUST HOURS BEFORE ASHLEY WAS KILLED?

Was it simply about hiding an affair?

Or does the timing raise a much bigger question?

What do you make of it?

09/25/2026

WHAT ARE THE ODDS? TWO OLE MISS STUDENTS DIE ON THE SAME DAY AND THE SAME PRODUCT IS FOUND AT BOTH SCENES.

18-year-old Aidan Hamilton was found unresponsive inside his dorm.

20-year-old Robert Strang was found dead at an off-campus home.

Different locations. Different students.

Same day. Same unsettling detail.

Investigators found packaged kratom at both locations.

Authorities are treating the deaths as separate investigations and have not confirmed that kratom played any role.

So what do you think this means?

A disturbing coincidence — or a clue investigators need to follow?

09/25/2026

HE WAS 20. THEN POLICE FOUND SOMETHING THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING.

Ole Miss junior Robert Strang was found dead at an off-campus home in Oxford, Mississippi.

Then investigators revealed a disturbing detail: the same type of retail kratom products were found at the scene where another Ole Miss student died just hours earlier.

Police say the two deaths are still being investigated separately, and they have not concluded that kratom caused either death. Autopsy and toxicology results are still pending.

Robert was a Phi Delta Theta fraternity brother from Atlanta whose family is now asking for privacy as they grieve.

Two students. One campus. A mystery that has left an entire university searching for answers.

Rest in peace, Robert. ❤️

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