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   On 06 Oct 2021, Rudy Canoza  posted some   
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   Horror of Christian/Newsom killings in focus: What happened on   
   Chipman Street   
      
   Six years and seven trials later, one question remains? What   
   happened on Chipman Street?   
      
   In one of Knoxville's most horrific crimes, Channon Christian,   
   21, and boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, were carjacked,   
   kidnapped, raped and slain in January 2007. Five suspects were   
   identified. One was tried federally as an accessory. Four others   
   were tried in Knox County Criminal Court.   
      
   A drug scandal involving the judge in those state court   
   proceedings would upend the convictions against two of those   
   suspects. New trials were held, the most recent of which   
   occurred last week.   
      
   More:Graphic details emerge in Christian-Newsom killings   
      
   Through it all, details of the horrors this young couple   
   suffered have eked out. But with each suspect pointing the   
   finger of blame at the other and jurors limited by law in what   
   they are allowed to know, the real story of what happened when   
   the couple were taken hostage and ultimately slain has proved   
   just as elusive as the court cases convoluted.   
      
   The News Sentinel has covered this case since its beginning.   
   With the aid of interviews, trial coverage and transcripts of   
   each defendant's statement to authorities, the newspaper can now   
   offer up a snapshot of not only what happened to these two   
   innocents but exactly who did what to them.   
      
   Setting the stage   
   Chipman Street resident Lemaricus Davidson was broke and angry.   
   His girlfriend, Daphne Sutton, had left him. He had no car and   
   no way to earn money.   
      
   "Selling dope, that's what I do," Davidson would later tell law   
   enforcement.   
      
   Law enforcers knew, however, that Davidson was not simply a drug   
   dealer. He was on parole for carjacking and, in the days leading   
   up to the abduction of Christian and Newsom, was suspected in a   
   series of robberies.   
      
   In the days before the couple's abduction, Davidson's brother   
   Letalvis Cobbins came to Knoxville from Kentucky to stay with   
   him. He brought along friend George Thomas and girlfriend   
   Vanessa Coleman.   
      
   None of the three had jobs, money or vehicles. Cobbins and   
   Thomas were homeless. Coleman had a salt-of-the-earth family to   
   turn to for help but chose not to.   
      
   Davidson grew increasingly angry over what he viewed as the   
   freeloading of his brother and his guests. He turned that anger   
   on Sutton. She left him on Jan. 5, 2007.   
      
   A day later, Davidson had concocted a plan to solve all his   
   woes. He, with help from Cobbins and a buddy, Eric Boyd, would   
   carjack someone. Cobbins insisted that he wasn't happy with the   
   idea.   
      
   "Me and my brother got to arguing because he said he was going   
   to do some crazy (expletive)," Cobbins said in an interview with   
   law enforcement. "He like, man, I'm fixing to go carjack   
   somebody, man, try and get me some money."   
      
   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 railroad tracks   
   near Chipman Street in East Knoxville. He had been raped with an   
   object and then shot three times. The final shot was delivered   
   execution style.   
      
   He had been gagged with a sock stuffed in his mouth. His ankles   
   were bound with his own belt. His hands were secured behind his   
   back. His face was wrapped in a bandanna. His head was covered   
   with a sweatshirt tied around his neck with shoestrings.   
      
   More:Timeline of key events in Christian Newsom killings   
      
   Forensic evidence showed that he had been raped in the final   
   hours of his life. He was forced to walk barefoot to the   
   railroad tracks that ran parallel to Chipman Street and shot in   
   the neck and back. As Newsom lay paralyzed on the ground, the   
   muzzle of a .22-caliber gun was placed against his covered head   
   and fired. His body would later be wrapped up in a comforter,   
   doused in gasoline and set afire.   
      
   Christian, meanwhile, was tied up inside the Chipman Street   
   house of Davidson, a stranger to her. She was repeatedly raped   
   orally, vaginally and rectally. At some point, she was savagely   
   attacked in her genital region, either kicked or beaten with an   
   object.   
      
   She suffered two blows to the head and was dragged into the   
   carpeted living room of Davidson's Chipman Street home. Bleach   
   was sprayed down her throat, an apparent effort to destroy DNA   
   evidence.   
      
   She was hogtied with strips of fabric from a bedding set. Still   
      
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