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  • Clerk's office releases 155 pages of TBI investigation of former judge Richard Baumgartner

    12/02/2011 3:48:15 PM PST · by libstripper · 3 replies
    Knmoxville News Sentinel ^ | Dec 2, 2011 | News Sentinel Staff
    The Knox County Criminal Court Clerk today released 155 pages of the TBI’s investigative report of former judge Richard Baumgartner. The redacted version outlines in more detail information that Special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood used Thursday to award new trials to the convicted killers of University of Tennessee student Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, in January 2007.
  • Gary Christian: 'He deserves to die' (Rapist/Torturer/Murderer gets life-out in a few months?)

    08/29/2009 10:19:04 AM PDT · by past_present · 43 replies · 1,237+ views
    KnowNews ^ | 8-27-09 | Matt Lakin
    "The jury let us down," said Chris Newsom's mother, Mary. "They've let Channon and Chris down. We were hoping for the death penalty. But we're the ones under the death sentence. We had to look at those pictures. We have to live with this for the rest of our lives.". They saw the photos of their children's bodies, the closeups of the fatal injuries, the bullets pulled from Newsom's body and the trash can where Christian died. "You saw it and I saw it," said Christian's father, Gary. "The jury saw it. They know what he did. He deserves to...
  • Rumors, talk circulate in wake of slayings (Christian Newsome Murders)

    05/31/2007 3:12:28 AM PDT · by moneyrunner · 36 replies · 1,799+ views
    Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 5/27/07 | MILLETE BIRHANEMASKEL
    Gerald Wiggins grieved when he heard about the slayings of 21-year-old Channon Christian and 23-year-old Christopher Newsom. But to learn later that the suspects are black brought a whole different level of hurt. Crimes committed by black people, he said, are always made to look worse. And with that comes "the smirk of, 'Well, that's what we expect from blacks,' " Wiggins said Friday while getting his hair cut at Gam's Hair Fashions on University Avenue. [snip] There is much to discuss: The trials are under way. Protests are announced. And a plethora of misinformation continues to circulate. Among the...