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This was a black on white hate crime and the media helped 
prevent the niggers from being prosecuted for it.  The fix was 
already in to get that nigger Barack Obama elected president and 
the liberal media just could not allow some dumb niggers 
brutally killing some innocent white kids to louse it all up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/christopher-newsom-
channon-christian_n_2426358.html?ref=topbar

Friends, relatives and supporters of the family of Channon 
Christian and Christopher Newsom are marking the sixth 
anniversary of the young couple's deaths with their first public 
memorials in Tennessee.

"Until this year [the] memorial service has been contained to 
family and real close friends. This year they had a couple of 
phone calls and they were wanting to open it up to the public 
with what's all going on with the court cases and everything," 
Gary Christian, the father of Channon, told Knoxville's WATE on 
Friday.

Despite the passing of six years, the crimes continue to hang 
over the family like a toxic cloud.

Warning: Graphic Details


Newsom, 23, and Christian, 21, had been dating for about two 
months when they decided to go out the night of Jan 6, 2007 -- a 
night later reconstructed by the authorities, court documents 
and media reports. The couple had planned to catch a movie and 
visit friends.

Christian had graduated from Farragut High School and was a 
senior sociology major at the University of Tennessee. Newsom 
was a 2002 graduate of Halls High School and a member of the Red 
Devils baseball team.

On Jan. 7, it was discovered that neither Newsom nor Christian 
had returned to their respective residences. Concerned, their 
families contacted police and reported the pair missing. As 
police began to investigate the circumstances of their 
disappearances, they were notified that a railroad worker had 
discovered Newsom's body near some railroad tracks in Knoxville, 
Tenn. Christian, however, was nowhere to be found.

The following day, police obtained records from Christian's cell 
phone carrier. Using this information, investigators were able 
to trace her phone to a location on Chipman Street, not far from 
where Newsom's body was found. There, authorities found 
Christian's silver 2005 Toyota 4-Runner, but she was not with 
the vehicle.

Authorities impounded Christian's vehicle and a latent print 
examiner discovered a fingerprint inside the car that did not 
match the couple. Investigators entered the print into their 
database and were able to link it to Lemaricus Devall "Slim" 
Davidson, a then 25-year-old resident of 2316 Chipman Street.

Police obtained a search warrant and went to search for clues at 
Davidson's apartment. Davidson was not home at the time the 
warrant was executed. Investigators began a thorough search and 
were not on the scene long before they found Christian's body 
inside a kitchen trash can.

While crime scene technicians processed the house, investigators 
traced Davidson to an empty house in Knoxville. Shortly after 
Davidson�s arrest, authorities arrested Eric DeWayne Boyd, then 
34, in Knoxville, and George Geovonni Thomas, then 27; Vanessa 
Coleman, then 18; and Davidson's brother, Letalvis Cobbins, then 
24, in Lebanon, Ky.

Investigators then began to piece together what transpired on 
the night of Jan. 6 and the morning of Jan. 7, 2007.

Authorities ultimately determined that Newsom and Christian had 
dined at a local restaurant on the night of Jan. 6. Afterward, 
Christian spoke briefly with her mother and told her that she 
and Newsom were planning to visit a friend's house to watch a 
movie. Sometime after that call took place, Christian and Newsom 
were abducted from an apartment complex parking lot. Over the 
course of the next several hours, the pair was beaten, raped, 
tortured and murdered.

According to later court testimony by Knox County Acting Medical 
Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan, Newsom had been 
repeatedly sodomized with an object. His limbs were bound, he 
was gagged and blindfolded. At some point in the early morning 
hours of Jan. 7, 2007, Newsom was dragged outside to a set of 
nearby railroad tracks, where he was shot execution-style, in 
the back of his head, neck and back. His body was then set 
ablaze, Mileusnic-Polchan testified.

The medical examiner said Christian's last few hours on earth 
were also horrific and unthinkable.

The young woman, he said, was tortured for several hours and 
sustained injuries to her mouth, anus and vagina. She had been 
beaten about the head with an unknown object and raped. 
Afterward, bleach was poured over Christian's body and down her 
throat, in an apparent attempt to destroy DNA evidence. She was, 
an autopsy indicated, alive while the torture and degradations 
occurred. Christian was then hog-tied and covered with several 
bags before she was placed in a disposal bin, where she slowly 
suffocated to death, Mileusnic-Polchan testified.

In the wake of the murders, a Knox County Grand Jury handed down 
multiple indictments in the case.

Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas were indicted on 16 counts of 
felony murder growing out of rape, robbery, kidnapping and 
theft, two counts of premeditated murder, two counts of 
especially aggravated robbery, four counts of especially 
aggravated kidnapping, 20 counts of aggravated rape and two 
counts of theft.

Coleman was indicted on 12 counts of felony murder growing out 
of rape, robbery, kidnapping and theft, one count of 
premeditated murder (Christian), one count of especially 
aggravated robbery (Newsom), four counts of especially 
aggravated kidnapping, 20 counts of aggravated rape and two 
counts of theft.

Boyd was charged federally with being an accessory after the 
fact in a carjacking. He was not listed in the indictment.

In April 2008, Boyd was found guilty in federal court of being 
an accessory to a fatal carjacking and for failing to report the 
location of a known fugitive. Boyd was sentenced to 18 years in 
federal prison for his crimes. He is incarcerated at the medium-
security Federal Correctional Institution, Beckley, in West 
Virginia.

Roughly 16 months later, in August 2009, Cobbins was found 
guilty in the murders of Newsom and Christian, but was acquitted 
of Newsom's rape. Cobbins was sentenced to life without the 
possibility of parole. He is serving his sentence at the 
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn.

On October 28, 2009, Davidson was found guilty in the murders, 
but not guilty on three counts of the aggravated rape of Newsom. 
He was, however, found guilty of facilitation of rape. Davidson 
was sentenced to death. He is incarcerated at the Riverbend 
Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

Thomas was found guilty of felony murder and premeditated murder 
in December 2009. He was sentenced to life in prison without the 
possibility of parole. He is incarcerated in Nashville at the 
Charles Bass Correctional Complex.

The last defendant, Coleman, was acquitted of first degree 
murder but found guilty on lesser charges. She was sentenced to 
53 years behind bars. Coleman is serving her sentence at the 
Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville, the primary facility 
for female felons in the state.

All of the defendants, with the exception of Boyd, appealed 
their convictions. It was during this time that it was revealed 
that the presiding judge had admitted to a drug addiction. He 
was subsequently disbarred and motions were filed to grant 
retrials for Cobbins, Davidson, Thomas and Coleman. In May 2012, 
the Tennessee Supreme Court vacated the motions and the state 
convictions were permitted to stand. Despite the decision, three 
of the male defendants continue to seek retrials.

"After six years we still don't have justice for those kids," 
Newsom's father, Hugh Newsom, told WATE, in regard to the 
possibility of retrials.

"We haven't had a life in six years," Newsom added.

A public memorial for Christian will be held at 5:30 p.m. 
Monday, at Highland West Memorial Park in West Knoxville, where 
she was laid to rest. A similar memorial was held for Newsom on 
Sunday.

Christian's mother, Deena Christian, did not immediately respond 
to a request for comment from The Huffington Post on Monday.

Speaking with WATE, the families said the memorial gatherings 
give them strength.

"We just need the communities support, continuing support," Hugh 
Newsom said. "We've had it, but we still need it. Undoubtedly we 
are not through with the process yet."

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