Web site Offers Killer's Items For Sale From Death Row

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- It's been fourteen years since the murder of Colleen Slemmer.

She is the Orange Park teenager who went to Job Corps in Tennessee. Slemmer was killed by a fellow student in January 1995.

Her mother, May Martinez, says the murder feels like it just happened because of something she spotted online. "I was actually blown away. I looked at that and it just sunk."

The memories are flooding her mind because of a web site run by a Jacksonville man. It's called Serial Killers Ink.

On it is a section in honor of Slemmer's killer, Christa Pike. A bloody handprint, which claims to be from Pike's own blood, is there. On the handprint is a pentagram. It's even signed by Pike.

"She wasn't sending me anything to sell. She was just sending me parts of her," says Eric Gein, who runs the web site.

Gein's web site showcases the killer's hair, letters written from her death row cell, even signed underwear from Pike. All the items are for sale. Some of them are being sold for more than one hundred dollars.

"The fact that someone was gonna make money on this with her name, her death, that's wrong," says Martinez.

The web site has been up and running for the last year. Gein says he and Pike struck up a relationship through the mail after the murder.

At one point, Gein says the two were even engaged. He says it wasn't a romantic relationship but more of a friendship.

"We talked about getting married. She wanted me to come up and be there for her execution and have rights to her name." Gein says he has made very little off the web site.

Pike's items rank as the fourth best-seller behind Charles Manson's. As for why Gein created the web site, "To educate people. Let people see letters. Let people see the side of people not everyone sees."

Slemmer's mother doesn't see it that way and contacted Gein. "I asked him. I need to know why you did this. This hurts the family."

Gein told us he got her emails. "It touched me. It hit home. I'm not in this to offend anybody or cause any pain."

Gein decided to take down the pictures and says they won't be back.

He also says Pike never made any money off the sales. He also says he has never sent any of the profits to an inmate.

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