On the night of January 6, 2007, couple, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were saying goodbye to one another as they left a friend's apartment when they were approached by a few individuals planning to steal Channon's vehicle. The carjacking then turned fatal when Christopher was tortured, raped, and shot, his body then left to burn near the railroad tracks. Channon was kept in the home of the ringleader, LeMaricus, where she was brutally raped and tortured, bleach poured down her throat and on her body to dispose of evidence, and then ultimately wrapped in trash bags and stuffed into a trash can with a broken neck, left to slowly suffocate.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqS6OFuUXe8

http://www.wbir.com/video/news/local/gary-christian-remembers-his-lost-little-girl/51-2471894?jwsource=cl

Satterfield, Jamie. (2017, January 6). Time no cure for pain in torture slayings of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Retrieved from: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/06/time-no-cure-pain-torture-slayings-channon-christian-and-christopher-newsom/96196018/

Donila, Mike. (2017, January 5). 10 years later: Remembering Christian-Newsom. Retrieved from: https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/10-years-later-remembering-christian-newsom/381967577

Gregg, Maggie. (2019, August 13). Timeline of the Channon Christian-Christian Newsom Murders. Retrieved from: https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Timeline-of-the-Channon-Christian-Christopher-Newsom-murders--513420461.html