Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom: What Happened to the Knoxville Couple?
In January 2007, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a Knoxville couple, were kidnapped, raped, and murdered by multiple assailants
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In January 2007, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a Knoxville couple, were kidnapped, raped, and murdered by multiple assailants
On Saturday, dozens of people rode down Lovell Road to remember the couple after they were brutally killed at 21 years old and 23 years old.
The Tennessee Supreme Court this week shot down an appeal bid by a man convicted in the 2007 torture slayings of a Knox County couple.
A Knox County jury heard Eric Boyd's case in 2019. He helped in the carjackings and killings of a couple in 2007.
Kenn Gividen of DailyKenn.com reminds us of the tragic details. On January 6, 2007, Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23 were carjacked at gunpoint by Lemaricus “Slim” Davidson, who forced them to his Knoxville, TN house. There, Davidson, along with Letalvis Cobbins, and George Thomas, aided by Eric Dewayne Boyd and Vanessa Coleman bound, gagged, and blindfolded Christopher and repeatedly sodomized him, making Channon watch. After several hours they shot his head, dragged him to nearby railroad tracks, and shot him twice more. They then poured gasoline on his body, set h...