Knoxville Couple Cruelly Raped And Murdered
Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were on their way to a friend’s party.
This is yet another murder case, unique in its utter barbarity. The couple in Knoxville never saw it coming- neither did their family and the entire town. It sent shocks into the American city, and many still recount it as the worst crime in their city.
Couple Tortured One By One
January 6, 2007, was a Saturday, and 21-year-old Channon Christian and her 23-year-old boyfriend Christopher Newsom had planned a night out. After getting ready at a friend’s apartment, Channon stayed back to wait for her boyfriend. It was around 8 pm when Christopher arrived at the parking lot. Little could they have imagined what would happen afterwards.
The couple was attacked near Channon’s SUV and ruthlessly shoved into its backseat. After securing their hands into a biting knot, they were taken to one of the five assailant’s houses. What awaited them there was an unimaginable night of being sexually assaulted and being brutally beaten.
Later on, the Knox County Acting Medical Examiner, unfortunately, divulged details of the sexual assault. Christopher was sodomized by at least one of the assailants and then forced to walk barefoot on a…
