Posted on 08/14/2013 4:17:58 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
After a radio caller made him aware of the extremely disturbing story of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian in Knoxville, Tenn., Glenn Beck researched the case and was horrified at what he found.
Though the details are hard to hear, Beck told the couple’s story in excruciating detail during his show on TheBlaze TV Tuesday. The killings occurred in 2007; however, Beck says the media failed to give the case adequate coverage due to special interests or negligence.
Newsom, 23, was a standout baseball player who was working as a carpenter. Christian was a 21-year-old student at the University of Tennessee. The happy couple had been dating for a couple months
On January 6, 2007, the couple made plans to watch a movie at a friend’s apartment, but they never made it. They would never be seen alive again.
When Christian didn’t show up for work the next morning, family members immediately grew worried and reported them missing, Beck explained.
“It turns out that the couple had made it to dinner, but when they arrived at the apartment complex where Christian’s best friends lived, they were carjacked by multiple assailants,” he said. “What followed was one of the most heinous, gruesome, senseless hate crimes, ever.”
It was at this point in the program that Beck advised parents to have their children leave the room or pause the show and watch it at a later time due to the graphic details of the story.
Newsom was gagged with a sock in his mouth, his ankles were bound with his own belt, his hands were tied behind his back, his face was covered with a bandana and his head covered with a sweatshirt that his five assailants had tied around his neck with shoestrings
He was then violently raped with an object and beaten.
“One can only imagine the horror Christopher experienced as he was then forced to walk barefoot to the nearby railroad tracks, where he was shot in the neck in the back,” Beck said solemnly. “But the shots didn’t kill him — he fell to the ground and was paralyzed.”
“That’s when the assailants stood over him, placed the gun against his head and fired, killing him execution style,” he added. Newsom was shot a total of three times.
But not even that was enough. The attackers then poured gasoline on his body and set him on fire.
Unfortunately, the horror of this tragic story is not over. Beck went on to speak of what also happened to Christian on that night.
The woman was forced into a back room of the house where she was hog-tied with a strips of fabric from a bedding set. She was brutally raped “in every possible way imaginable” for several hours as the assailants beat her viciously with several objects, including a broken chair leg.
By the time Christian was taken into the living room, the five attackers realized they had left their DNA on their victim. In an attempt to cover their tracks, they poured bleach down her throat and on her body before they wrapped her body in black garbage bags and covered her head in a plastic grocery bag.
“She was then placed in a garbage can in the kitchen of the house — all of this while she was still alive,” Beck noted.
“Channon Christian’s last minutes on earth were spent slowly suffocating in a garbage can after she had been savagely beaten and raped for hours,” he added.
Beck slammed “so-called” civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for failing to demand justice in the brutal case. He criticized the media just as harshly for failing to give the story the coverage it deserved.
Meanwhile, the pursuit of justice for the family of the victims has also been elusive.
All five suspects in the case had been charged and convicted for the crime when it was discovered that the judge had a drug addiction, allowing the killers to take advantage of the justice system.
“All but one has been repeatedly pursuing retrials and appeals,” Beck explained. “The lone female attacker had her sentence reduced by a third.”
Beck continued: “This miscarriage of justice is forcing the family to live this horror over and over and over again each time they are dragged back into a court battle.”
Real “social justice,” the host added, will only be achieved when justice is truly blind.
The five attackers are Lemaricus Davidson, Letalvis Cobbins, George Thomas, Vanessa Coleman and Eric Boyd. All of the previous state convictions, except for Coleman’s, were allowed to stand and the defendants remain in prison pending appeals. Coleman had her sentence reduced by a third after a retrial.
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I knew about it as soon as it happened. The details are so outrageous that they all should have been put to death ... slowly.
Maybe they each should have had to choose to either go the way they murdered Newsom or Christian?
OMG, that beautiful young couple. Unimaginable agony they were subjected to by those hideous evil criminals. The stomach turns.
I heard about it but not from the MSM. Think I first heard about it on FR. Horrible.
This is old news. Freepers have been discussing this for years. Not even on anyone else radar. Unless some right wing cracker sources mentions it.
Ever hear of Bob and Nancy Strait? Married for 65 years until some son of Obama raped and murdered her. He then shot the husband in the face, and he died a week later.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bobstrait/index?tab=articles
Notice the article never mentions the race of the perpetrators.
But we all know.
Thank you for posting this.
Once again I’ve come to the end of my wits with the Glenn Beck show.
He has 2 speeds:
1. He and his cohorts out-doing each other in an endless ramble of “witty” comebacks and giggling.
2. Glenn, in a somber moment.... speaking.... taking.... for.... EVER..... to .....to ummm, ...to ummm.... finish....
.... to umm, finish a sentence.... and NEVER GETTING TO THE POINT!!!
Oops... make that 3 speeds!
3. Giving us HALF the story and then telling us to subscribe to the t.v. show or buy the new book.
God Bless Glenn, but he needs help from Rush as far as radio goes.
I’ve heard of it. Never through the MSM though.
And if every American adult owned and carried a firearm, which they knew how and when to use, this never would have happened. Or, the result would have been five oxygen-wasting scumbags finally doing the planet some good, by providing months of food for thousands of lucky worms.
;-\
Beat me to it.
we in TN knew about it...
The black perps got life etc then it was discovered the judge had been druck etc during the first trial so they got another trial...
Did Back bring attention to this YEARS AGO when these two young white people were first raped and murdered ???
NO
Get lost Beck you are a ghoul...
Rest in God's Everlasting Peace.
Let’s hope Beck features one of these horrific black-on-white rape/torture/murder cases a week and pounds on them until they can NO LONGER BE IGNORED.
The media have covered this up for too damned long.
I can’t imagine Beck never knew of this story before now. And the more I read this article - the more it appears he is hyping this story for no other reason than to call attention to himself.
He IS an attention whore, dontcha know.
and the media that avoids this gets all bent out of shape about a rodeo clown.
bkmk
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