The tragic case of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom shocked the community. Here’s a respectful look at the events and ...

On Jan. 7, 2007, while out on a date, Chris Newsom and Channon Christian were carjacked and taken to a small home that once stood on Chipman Street in North Knoxville.

Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Chris Newsom, 23, did not arrive at a friend’s party on January 6, 2007, and never returned home to their parents.

Family and friends of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom react as the jury announces a guilty verdict for Eric Boyd in Knox County Criminal Court on Monday, August 12, 2019.

Photo: Channon Christian, right, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom in 2006. Two other co-defendants are awaiting separate trials.

Chris Newsom, left, and Channon Christian were brutally killed in January 2007. Since then the five involved in the slayings have been sentenced to prison and new laws passed to help vicitms.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - It’s been 18 years since Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were murdered in Knoxville after police said they were kidnapped after a carjacking.

We can’t forget it.” VIDEO: Timeline of the Christian-Newsom murders Channon Christian was a 21-year-old West Knoxville resident and a senior majoring in sociology at the University of Tennessee.

Eric Dewayne Boyd has until the last week of June to make his final objections before going to trial for the torture killings of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom more than 12 years ago. Boyd ...

Newsom, 23, and Christian, 21, had been dating for about two months when they decided to go out the night of Jan 6, 2007 -- a night later reconstructed by the authorities, court documents and ...

The families of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom held memorial services Saturday at the graves of the two Knoxville torture slaying victims, marking the tenth anniversary of their deaths ...

Eleven years after the heinous deaths of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, Eric Boyd has been arraigned on charges of felony murder, first-degree murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated ...