Thread: Monsters walk among us.

WHY ISN"T THIS ON THE NEWS ??

The Unspeakable Murders of Channon and Christopher
May 16th, 2007

http://eheavenlygads.wordpress.com/2...d-christopher/


I can find no words to describe the inconceivable evil that five human beings brought against two young people, one a senior in sociology at the University of Tennessee, at the beginning of this year. I have struggled to even partially comprehend the level of attrocities, the terror committed, the pain inflicted upon two other human beings. And I remain stunned in the aftermath of verifing this tragedy is very real.

This is a story that has not hit the mainstream media and would not be noticed at all, if not for the local Knoxville press and the blogosphere at large. Like me, people across America and beyond are struggling to understand why this story has received practically no coverage when this case sincerely makes the Missouri monster, Michael Devlin, seem like a boy scout in comparison. And Devlin’s attrocities committed against two young boys will have me cheering if and when he is put to death…if I live so long to see it.

This case is much, much worse across the board.

Is the evil committed in this case too gruesome for media to report? (Doubtful.) Is it that murder has become so commonplace today that this attrocity is not even considered “news” in our wholly narcissistic society? (Perhaps.) Is it because there was no chase to cover, no developing story to grab our attention, no manifesto sent by these evils to NBC? (Undoubtedly.)

Could it be that our mainstream media has a specific agenda regarding race and hate crimes, under which this story doesn’t have a place? Is it that the two murdered young people were white and the five evil monsters who carjacked the couple, gang-raped and sodomized them, mutilated and tortured them so horribly were black thugs…and there is no Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to find this event reprehensible and scream for justice? (Inarguably.)

I join a quickly growing host of people who seek answers and absolutely demand that this story be told. And I ask you to join me in doing the same. Regardless of one’s opinion as to why this story has not received attention and far beyond the fact that the assailants are black, their hatred of humanity is terrifyingly clear for the world to see through their methods of orchestrating the ends of two innocent, young lives.

May God bless and bring comfort to the families and so many friends of Channon Christian, 21, and 23-year-old Christopher Newsom.


Be clearly warned: This post is extremely graphic.


On Saturday evening, January 6, 2007, Christopher and Channon left on a date to have dinner and find fun in Knoxville. At around 12:30 a.m., Channon called her parents and told her father that they were headed to join some friends at one of their houses, but would be home in a couple of hours.

But the couple never made it. They met the incarnations of evil.

At a location that authorities will not release, Channon and Christopher were carjacked by three black thugs. They were robbed and beaten, bound, gagged and blindfolded, and taken to a house where a young black woman only 18 years of age, was there waiting to join the party. Once at the house, Christopher was repeatedly sodomized and gang-raped by ALL four and brutally beaten, while Channon was forced to watch and listen to his screams of agony as the evil ones laughed and drooled in their joy. Then the group turned their sights to Channon and ALL four repeatedly and brutally gang-raped and sodomized her, while Christopher was forced to watch and listen helplessly.

At some point during that Sunday, it was reported the group used a box cutter to castrate Christopher, forcing Channon to watch this unbearable torture. Then he was shot three times. At some point, Christopher was soaked with gasoline and set afire, but I can find no credible information as to when or where. Christopher was wrapped up in bedsheets and/or a comfortor and taken away by one of the thugs to be dumped nearby. Police have clearly stated their belief that Christopher was dead by nightfall.

Meanwhile, the remaining four continued to rape, beat, sodomize and urinate upon Channon repeatedly, and they did so throughout Sunday and late into the night before Monday’s dawn. They sprayed a household disenfectant into her mouth and other orifices – not to poison or kill her, but to try and destroy their DNA evidence. The evils used the same box cutter to completely sever one of her breasts, apparently while she was still alive. She may have been strangled and she was certainly set afire. Then Channon was completely dismembered, her body parts thrown into trash bags. And the incarnates of evil scattered to the four winds.

When Channon and Christopher failed to return home that Sunday morning, nor could either be reached by cell phone overnight, their frantic parents notified Knoxville police and a large scale search ensued across the area.

Shortly after Noon that Sunday, Christopher’s body was found by a railroad worker wrapped in “a sheet or a comfortor,” laying where it had been thrown alongside some railroad tracks on the seedy east side of town. His body had been mutilated and beaten mercilessly, he had been bound with rope or bootlaces, shot three times, and his body had been badly burned using an accellerant.

When Channon could not be found overnight, a search warrant was issued to her cell phone provider and they were finally able to trace her phone signal to the nearest tower by the end of the day. Her family and police found her abandoned vehicle late Monday only about two blocks away from where Christopher’s body was found and, by the way, about two blocks from where their tortures and murders had been committed.

From the vehicle, forensic teams were able to lift a fingerprint that was a perfect match for one Lamaricus Devall Davidson, a local thug who was released in August 2006 after serving time in the state penitentiary for multiple convictions on aggravated robbery and carjacking from Madison County.

On Tuesday mid-afternoon, Police swarmed Davidson’s residence of record, a rental home he shared with his half-brother Letalvis Cobbins and Cobbins’ live-in lover, Valerie Coleman, 18. Cobbins is also a convicted felon. He was convicted on felonious third-degree attempted robbery in Queens County, New York in 2003, although I cannot ascertain if he ever spent any time behind bars.

Police found no one inside the house and the front door was open. What they did find was an unrecognizable body that had been brutalized, mutilated, dismembered and contained within five separate trash bags stuffed into a large trash can in the kitchen. The Knox County ME later identified the body as Channon Christian.

Police now began a search for Davidson and Cobbins, whom they described as “persons of interest.”

On Thursday morning, county, state and federal authorities tracked down Cobbins and George Thomas hiding out at a friend’s home in Lebanon, Kentucky. Later that afternoon, police tracked down Davidson hiding out in a vacant house in the Mechanicsville area. When police apprehended him, he began crying uncontrollably, according to a statement made by the Knox County DA.

In two separate searches of the residence (before and after Davidson’s arrest), police seized a ton of inflamatory evidence in addition to the loaded .22 pistol police recovered from Davidson’s person and a .9mm taken from Cobbins at the time of their arrests. There was a .30 caliber rifle, two empty boxes of .22 ammo, a few empty .22 casings, a 9mm magazine (with Cobbins’ fingerprints), loose .22 and .38 Special bullets, gasoline- and blood-soaked clothing, blankets and clothing fragments, hair, socks, shoes, a gun cleaning kit, several cell phones, a silver I-Pod, a near empty spray bottle of household disinfectant, two red gas cans, and a plastic bag with more hair and socks…to name merely a few of the police evidence listings.


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Soon after the initial three arrests, police began chatting with Vanessa Coleman, Cobbins’ live-in and mother of his two young children. Coleman was discovered when police raided the Lebanon, KY house to find Cobbins and Thomas. Considered a witness at first, she described to police what had happened in the house and that she had seen some of the attrocities. As is now known, she was a very active participant every step of the way of Channon’s and Christopher’s torture and demise.

Coleman was finally arrested in early February in Lebanon, Kentucky and fought extradition back to Tennessee for weeks. She’s there now, though. Unlike the other thugs, Coleman (also indigent) managed to secure representation by a private attorney, although people cannot conceive of who is paying what will be her huge legal tab. All of the attorneys are certified as being qualified to represent death penalty cases.

Meanwhile, back at the jail, Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas all coughed up blame on each other after their arrests, and Davidson provided the name of a fourth man, Eric Boyd. It was Boyd, they said, who had taken Christopher’s dead body away. Boyd was the worst one of all, they all declared. Boyd was soon picked up, as well.

To make a long and potentially confusing legal story short, there are federal and state crimes cited in this matter. Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas each face 46 charges from the Knox County Grand Jury of premeditated murder, kidnapping, rape, robbery and theft. Vanessa Coleman also faces 40 charges from Knox County of premeditated murder, kidnapping, rape, robbery and theft. There are also weapons charges involved, since Davidson and Cobbins were felons.

As you will see if you view the indictment linked below and review these statutes, these charges are vague and wide and, as such, will give a jury a great deal of room with which to convict these monsters.

Federal carjacking charges were also filed against Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas, although those charges were withdrawn. In my opinion, the reason for this is so that the state may go forward on their case and, in the event the jury fails to serve sound judgement or deliver significant sentences, the feds can then reinstate their charges under a separate trial. And the fed charges carry very hefty mandatory sentences.

Eric Boyd, a convicted serial robber and fellow felon, was No Billed by Knox County on all the counts levied against his thug pals, but has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury as an accessory after the fact. This thug was contacted by Davidson during the wee hours of Monday morning, who described to Boyd the carjacking, tortures and murders at his house. Boyd helped Davidson to escape the area later that evening. Boyd let Davidson make a myriad of phone calls from his own cell phone and helped him break into the vacant house on Reynolds Street in the Mechanicsville neighborhood, where police later apprehended Davidson and the .22 pistol he was carrying.

The level of complete depravity of these five is horrific in itself and, at very least of the issues involved, is that this case provides a clear snapshot of the level to which our society has plunged.

Monsters walk among us.

A hearing on various pretrial motions in the cases of Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas and Coleman is scheduled for Thursday afternoon, May 17 in Knoxville.


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First and foremost, I entreat you to watch a loving and amazing benediction created by a friend of Channon Christian at YouTube. See For Channon Christian. This is the original video posted to YouTube on January 9th by FarragutAlumni. Channon was a Farragut High grad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvmmyDpzHw

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For more information, and the most astounding amount of police records made public in my memory, see the following links: Read the state’s Indictment against Davidson, Cobbins, Thomas and Coleman.

http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf.0202body_presentment.pdf


From the Knoxville News Sentinel comes This informative article. Be certain to check the right margins where a ton of information waits, including the Federal complaints filed by BATF and US Marshal agents against Davidson, Cobbins, Boyd and Thomas.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_ne...322475,00.html


From Tightrope comes this article detailing the charges and possible sentences. http://www.tightrope.cc/news/modules...rticle&sid=259

From Mark Alexander comes this compelling article regarding race issues in Murder in Black and White. I cannot possible agree more with Mr. Alexander’s assertion, “This appalling attack is more than a case study in sociopathic evil. It is also a case study in journalistic malpractice.”

And I wholly embrace the entirety of his posting, as well.

http://patriotpost.us/alexander/edition.asp?id=531


This from Newsbusters on The National Media’s Refusal to Cover White Couple’s Murder Suggests PC at Work.
http://newsbusters.org/node/12761


From Wake Up America comes this heartfelt and poignant account in A Call to Justice. (You will need to scroll down to find the article that is the second one on this page.)

http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blog...r-justice.html


And for those who, like me, find this gruesome account wholly inconceivable, Snopes has their own verification of the facts in their reporting of Newsom/Christian Murders.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.asp

Monsters is too soft of a word.

OMG I can't even imagine what these poor ppl went through I say hand them over the parents of the ppl that they tortured and killed

OMG that makes me sick to my stomach and I am actually sorry that I read it. Those people are horrific and deserve every horrible thing that fate holds in store for them.

My prayers go out to both victims families.

Oh my God. Thats all I can say.

Originally Posted by pepperpot

Monsters is too soft of a word.

ITA! My heart goes out to the victims families.

Trial Date Set for Suspects in Christian-Newsom Murders
May 17, 2007
Reporter: Gordon Boyd

Knoxville (WVLT) - Four people, charged with the deaths of a local couple were back in a Knoxville courtroom this morning. A judge set trial dates for Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, Vanessa Coleman and George Thomas.

Volunteer TV’s Gordon Boyd was in the courtroom, during this morning's emotional hearing. The silence inside the courtroom couldn't have been more tense. Victim's families and family members of two of the accused sat on opposite sides with deputies between; nine uniformed deputies and the sheriff himself standing watch.

Channon Christian’s father, Gary, was visibly angry, rocking in his seat, gripping the back of a spectator pew, fixing cold stares on Lemaricus Davidson and his brother, Letalvis Cobbins. Cobbins is set to be tried first, on May 12, 2008. Davidson a week later on May 19th.

Vanessa Coleman, Cobbins' former girlfriend faces trial three weeks after that on June 16, 2008. Sitting silently through her hearing, Coleman mouthed the words, “I love you” as she was led out.

George Thomas, the man accused of shooting Christopher Newsom and burning his body will be tried last. His trial is scheduled to begin on August 11, 2008.

Afterwards, Gary Christian told WVLT he has a clear message he wants out, and that we can expect to hear sometime this afternoon. The head of Knoxville's NAACP was also in court, the Reverend Ezra Maize says he's here to promote peace in Knoxville and Knox County, that he's spoken with both mayors, the sheriff, the police chief and the FBI about trying to ease racial tensions.

Since the murders were first reported, several white supremacist and racially focused groups have accused both prosecutors and media of covering up what they see as a racially motivated crime, planning to hold rallies this spring and early summer.

All four suspects face more than 40 charges, including first degree murder, kidnapping and rape.

They are charged in connection with the January carjacking and murder of 23-year-old Christopher Newsom and 21-year-old Channon Christian. Newsom's body was found bound and burned along some railroad tracks on 9th Avenue. Christian's body was found at a home just a few blocks away, two days later.

The Knox County District Attorney says they have not decided yet on whether to ask for the death penalty in this case.

http://www.volunteertv.com/special/h...s/7549962.html

All four suspects face more than 40 charges, including first degree murder, kidnapping and rape.

Dozens of New Charges in Double Murder Case Announced
Feb 8, 2007
Reporter: Whitney Daniel, WVLT Staff

Knoxville (WVLT) - The District Attorney General of Knox County announced the list of charges facing now five suspects in the double murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.

The District Attorney General Randy Nichols is not saying whether or not he will seek the death penalty, but he does say the state will seek conviction for all charges filed in a 24-page indictment from the Knox County Grand Jury.

Lemaricus Davidson, 25, faces a total of 46 charges. Davidson was indicted on 16 counts of Felony Murder growing out of rape, robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, 2 counts premeditated murder of Christian and Newsom, 2 counts especially aggravated robberies from Christian and Newsom, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom, and 2 counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.

Letalvis Cobbins, 24, faces a total of 46 charges. Cobbins was indicted on 16 counts of Felony Murder growing out of rape, robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, 2 counts premeditated murder of Christian and Newsom, 2 counts especially aggravated robberies from Christian and Newsom, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom, and 2 counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.

George Thomas, 24, faces a total of 46 charges. Thomas was indicted on 16 counts of Felony Murder growing out of rape, robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, 2 counts premeditated murder of Christian and Newsom, 2 counts especially aggravated robberies from Christian and Newsom, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom, and 2 counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.

Just last night, police in Lebanon, Kentucky, arrested 18-year-old Vanessa Coleman. She faces 40 Tennessee state charges. Coleman was indicted on 12 counts Felony Murder growing out of rape, robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, 1 count Premeditated Murder of Christian only, 1 count Especially Aggravated Robbery of Newsom only, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts of aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom and 2 Counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.

Eric Boyd, 24, also arrested in connection with the fatal carjacking, only faces federal charges as an accessory after the fact. He was not indicted by Knox county grand jury.

Felony Murder carries a possibility of death, life without the possibility of parole and life with parole. Especially Aggravated Robbery is a Class A felony that carries a possibility of 15 to 60 years in prison. Aggravated Rape is a Class A felony that carries a possibility of 15 to 60 years of prison.

At a news conference Thursday, Nichols commended the cooperative efforts between several departments and credits that cooperation for the fast pace this case is moving through the court system.

Nichols says he hopes to move the case to trial on the first day it's set.

The four are expected to make their first court appearance within ten to fifteen days.

This is certainly a case garnering a lot of public interest, Nichols recognizes that and says he expects all kinds of requests filed in this case, including a change of venue in order to receive a fair trial. But he says he does hope 12 Knox County jurors will be able to determine the guilt or innocence of these suspects.

http://www.volunteertv.com/special/h...s/5483316.html

The head of Knoxville's NAACP was also in court, the Reverend Ezra Maize says he's here to promote peace in Knoxville and Knox County, that he's spoken with both mayors, the sheriff, the police chief and the FBI about trying to ease racial tensions.

Where the hell was he when 4 blacks were killing 2 whites........they always freaking wanna turn it into something racial if they wanna be that way why don't they admit that EVERYONE should blame these murders no matter what color they are or what color the victims

I can't believe they are undecided about whether to go after the death sentence..........too bad the trial isn't in Texas