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The Christian-Newsom murder case has never received much national media attention, but it touched countless Americans across the country who have not forgotten. Here’s the latest development. Keep the victims’ families in your prayers:
The man accused of being the ringleader of a carjacking that turned into the rapes and murders of a Tennessee couple was [...]

Reader Chris in Nashville e-mails:
Hi Michelle,
I am sad to report that murderer Letalvis Cobbins got life without parole (which is more likely 25 years or so, or less if state budget constraints dictate otherwise…see California’s recent decision to release nearly 200K inmates) instead of the death sentence he deserved. Channon Christian and Chris [...]

Just in this afternoon after eight days of trial against the first defendant in the Christian/Newsom kidnap/murder case. One guilty verdict down, three to go:
Jurors this morning convicted Letalvis Cobbins of first-degree murder in the torture-slaying of Knox County couple Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
The verdicts were announced before a packed crowd, including the Christian [...]

Longtime readers will remember Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, the young couple brutally murdered in a racially-charged case in Knoxville, TN in 2007. My archives on the case are here.
The trial of the first defendant Letalvis Cobbins began yesterday. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports:
Earlier this afternoon, jurors in the January 2007 slaying of a [...]

Justice delayed.

Many of you will recall the terrible murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, which I covered here extensively last year.
The first trial for the first suspected has ended with the first guilty verdict:
The first trial ends with the first guilty verdict in connection with the deaths of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23.
The [...]

Continuing to follow the Christian/Newsom murder story, local TV station VLT8 has a new video interview with the family of Chris Newsom. Watch here.

The events of January 8th, 2007 turned the lives of two families upside down…
A young couple, 21-year-old Channon Christian and 23-year-old Christopher Newsom were brutally murdered when five suspects allegedly carjacked, raped [...]

A horror story the MSM won’t tell.

A video report.

Three provocative reads:
Jack Dunphy examines the underreported murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom and the media’s inner-city crime taboos.
Heather Mac Donald tells the Truth about Black Crime Rates.
John Derbyshire weighs in with Reflections on Race Week.
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Same as it ever was. Here’s a flashback to a column I wrote in 2002 that underscores Dunphy’s point: [...]