If They Only Had Guns...Christopher Newsom, Channon Christian Remembered, 6 Years After Horrific Torture Slaying By Blacks

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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.

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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."