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Channon Gail Christian, aged 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr., aged 23, were from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. They were kidnapped on the evening of January 6, 2007, when Christian's vehicle was carjacked. The couple were taken to a rental house.
24 sie 2017 · 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...
20 gru 2023 · Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a Knoxville couple, were on a date night on January 6, 2007, when they disappeared. An investigation revealed that multiple assailants carjacked,...
6 sty 2023 · Fifteen years ago today, a train conductor passing through Knoxville, Tennessee, made a shocking discovery on the railroad tracks on Ninth Avenue: the bound, burned body of 23-year-old...
4 kwi 2018 · Christian, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee student, and her boyfriend, Newsom, 23, were heading out to a friend's birthday party on the night of Jan. 06, 2007 when they were ambushed and...
1 paź 2007 · When they reached the friend's apartment complex, they were carjacked at gunpoint by three men and a woman who forced them to drive to an abandoned house where the assailants raped and murdered the young couple. The next day, police discovered Newsom's body shot and burned along city train tracks.
The brutal killings of a young Knoxville couple garnered national attention in 2007. More than 10 years after the deaths of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, the last suspect in the case is going to trial.
