On January 7, 2007 Christopher Newsom and his girlfriend Channon Christian were carjacked, kidnapped, and held captive in a house on Chipman Street in Knoxville. Christian and Newsom were both raped, tortured and murdered. Five people were arrested in connection with the brutal murders. In October 2009 Lemaricus Davidson, the alleged ringleader, was convicted...
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Judge Richard Baumgartner has delayed the trial of Lemaricus Davidson for one week to allow additional DNA testing. The trial is now set to begin Oct. 12. Jury selection will continue. Davidson is the alleged ringleader in the January 2007 murders of University of Tennessee student Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, 23. Davidson...
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Letalvis Cobbins, 26, of Lebanon, Ky., was convicted Tuesday of murder in the brutal carjacking, rape and murder of a young Tennessee couple who were snatched while they were on a date in 2007. Cobbins is the first of four defendants charged with participating in the brutal murder of Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend,...
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