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Nov 8, 2019 · Judge nixes new trial bid by Lemaricus Davidson in torture slayings of Knox couple. A judge on Friday shot down a bid for a new trial by the convicted ringleader in the January 2007 torture ...
- Jamie Satterfield
5. Channon Gail Christian, aged 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr., aged 23, were from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. They were kidnapped on the evening of January 6, 2007, when Christian's vehicle was carjacked. The couple were taken to a rental house. Both of them were raped, tortured, and murdered. [1][2][3] Four males and one female ...
- Details of The Case Were Horrific
- Five People Were Charged and Convicted
- Judge's Pill Scandal Led to Retrials
- The Case Was Steeped in Racial Tension
- The Case Led to The Passage of Two New State Laws
Christian, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee student, and her boyfriend, Newsom, 23, were heading out to a friend's birthday party on the night of Jan. 06, 2007 when they were ambushed and carjacked in the parking lot of a North Knoxville apartment complex off Washington Pike. They were taken in Christian's Toyota 4-Runner to a rental house on ...
Davidson, a known drug dealer who was on parole for carjacking at the time, is believed to have concocted the initial plan to carjack someone for money. He enlisted his brother, Letalvis Cobbins who was visiting from Kentucky; Cobbins' friend, George Thomas; and Davidson's partner-in-crime, Eric Boyd, in the plan. Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas all w...
Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner presided over the initial trials in 2009. In 2011, he resigned and pleaded guilty to official misconduct for buying pain pills from a felon on probation in his court. After it was revealed Baumgartner had been snorting painkillers on the bench and holding court while high, defendants in several h...
The victims were white. The suspects were black. Conservative commentators, white supremacists and others raised questions early on about why the five suspects were not being charged with a hate crime. Mainstream news outlets, including the News Sentinel, were accused of racial bias in their coverage. ► Christian-Newsom murders:Coverage over the ye...
The Channon Christian and Chris Newsom acts were approved by the state Legislature in 2014 to help the families of future victims avoid some of the heartache suffered by the couple's loved ones. The Channon Christian Act puts new restrictions on what criminal defendants and their attorneys can do in trying to portray a victim in a negative light be...
- Hayes Hickman
Christian was a baseball player for the Halls High School Red Devils and Channon was in her senior year of college, majoring in sociology. When the fingerprints of Lemaricus Davidson were found inside of their abandoned SUV, the police acquired a search warrant for his home and found Channon’s decomposing remains stuffed inside of a large trash can inside of the kitchen.
Aug 24, 2017 · Savaging the victims. Christian and Newsom disappeared Jan. 6, 2007, from the Washington Ridge apartment complex where Christian's best friend lived. Hours later, Newsom's body was found alongside ...
Nov 5, 2020 · A Former Detective Speaks Out on the “Brutal” Murder of Jack Rains. On the night of Jan. 6, 2007, Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, headed out for a friend’s birthday party in Knoxville, Tennessee. They never arrived. En route to the festivities, they were carjacked, tortured, raped, and killed in acts of ...
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Nov 15, 2012 · <Just-released legal documents requesting search warrants are offering new details into the investigation of the murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom. The bodies of the young Knoxville ...
