According to news reports, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom had gone on a date at a local restaurant on Saturday, January 6, 2007, but did not return home. During their night out, the couple was “hijacked, bound and blindfolded and taken back to Lemaricus Devall ‘Slim’ Davidson’s rented house on Chipman Street.”
Christian’s parents found her abandoned Toyota 4-Runner two blocks away from the Chipman Street house the following Monday with the help of her mobile phone provider. An envelope recovered from the vehicle yielded fingerprint evidence that led police to Lemaricus Davidson and 2316 Chipman Street. When police went to the address on Tuesday, January 9, they found the home unoccupied and Christian’s body in a trash can in the kitchen.
According to the testimony of the Knox County Acting Medical Examiner at the subsequent trial of Eric Boyd, Newsom was repeatedly raped and then blindfolded, gagged, arms and feet bound and his head covered. Barefoot, he was either led or dragged outside the house to a set of nearby railroad tracks, where a gun was placed to the back of his head and fired.
He was shot twice more, once in the neck and once in the back.
His body was then set afire.
Christian’s death would come only after hours of sexual torture, medical examiner Mileusnic-Polchan testified. Christian suffered horrific injuries to her vagina, anus and mouth. She was not only raped but savaged with “an object,” the doctor testified. She was beaten in the head. Some type of chemical was poured down her throat, and her body, including her bleeding and battered genital area, likely scrubbed with the same solution - all while Christian was alive, the forensic expert said. She was then “hog-tied,” with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered tightly with a small trash bag and her body stashed inside five large trash bags before being placed inside a large trash can and covered with sheets. Christian died slowly, suffocating, the medical examiner said.
The national news media was criticized by some for not giving the crime adequate coverage because the victims were white and the suspects black, but one commentator explained that “as bad as this crime is, the apparent absence of any interest group involvement or any other ‘angle’ might also explain the lack of coverage.”
Yep..
Victim.....white
Perps....let me guess.
Translated: "we have no interest in horrific crimes blacks may perpetrate against whites."
I remember reading about this shortly after it happened, but not on any MSM site. Of course it didn’t get much media attention, even though black-on-white crime far outweighs white-on-black crime (though most crime is perpetrated on members of the same race. Still, when it’s not, the numbers are weighted towards black-on-white). But just honestly covering crime the way it happens wouldn’t advance the “racist America, racist whites” meme.
And this was a particularly disgusting and heinous example, along with the Columbia journalist student who was tortured and raped. If these weren’t hate crimes (not that I believe in that concept), nothing is.
Just compare this with the coverage of the Duke lacrosse players, and the Tawana Brawley fiascos, which never even happened!