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grab a beer let's talk some true [Music] crime a beautiful young lady with a successful
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full life ahead of her and a young man who worked hard and loved his girl are going out together in Knoxville
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Tennessee this is not Chicago or New York where violent crime can be an everyday occurrence this is Knoxville
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and when a young couple goes out to dinner in a movie at a friend's house what could possibly go so wrong unfortun
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Ely this is a story about when pure evil randomly crossed paths with innocence January 6th 2007 Shannon
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Christian was 21 years old and a senior seeking a sociology major at the University of
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Tennessee Christopher Nome is 23 years old and was a 2002 graduate of Hall's high school and a member of the Red
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Devils baseball team the two were dating for about 2 months when they decided to go out that night
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Christopher Nome and Shannon Christian dined at a local restaurant and afterward Shannon spoke briefly with her
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father and said she and Nome were planning to visit a friend's house to watch a [Music]
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movie now let's go to 2316 Chipman Street Knoxville Tennesseee where resident 25-year-old lamus Davidson was
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broke and angry his girlfriend Daphne Sutton recently left him he had no car and he
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had no money he was a robber a thief and a drug dealer he spent six years of his
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life in prison and in January of 2007 he was on Parole for carjacking Lamarcus goes by the name
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Marcus and for the sake of Simplicity we will call him that Marcus grew up poor in a house with four other children
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their mother was pregnant with her first baby Marcus's older sister when she was
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just 14 most of the children had different fathers and different last names Marcus's little brother the talvis
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cobbins 24 years old came to Knoxville from Kentucky to stay with him he brought along a friend George Thomas and
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a girlfriend Vanessa Coleman none of the three had jobs money or vehicles cobbins and Thomas were
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homeless let's listen to lalis as he tells us his version of events that took place between New Year's Eve and January
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7th [Music] 2007 on um New Year years of 0607 me and my girlfriend and my best friend came down here to Knoxville to um
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celebrate New Year with my brother this is the first new year that he's been out
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since we were young teenagers and um I haven't seen him in years and he had went to the penitentiary for carjacking
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so I hadn't seen him and I just wanted to reunite with him and see how he was doing I had previously came down um two
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or three times before that so um when I came when me my girlfriend my best friend and his girlfriend came down here
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we spent New Years together and Stacy Lawson George's girlfriend went back and we stayed down
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here I think it was the first new year I mean the first um weekend after New Year's um a Friday I believe or Friday
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or Thursday my brother got into it with his girlfriend dapan and um he beat her up and she she
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left Saturday afternoon me and my girlfriend Vanessa was in the back room playing house I
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should say having sex or [Music] whatnot so we get done we go in the living room where G is watching a movie
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it's getting dark it's it's getting around dark my brother comes in calls me into the living room I mean into into
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the kitchen and says um hey you know this girl I've been telling you about that I want you to meet we F to go over
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here and meet her she got a sale for me or whatnot so I want you to come and meet her so I'm like all right but I
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can't how how I'm going leave you know and Vanessa's here I can't just leave Vanessa like that you like don't worry
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about it I'mma take care of that I'm just tell her we going to the store just get your shoes and your coat and come on
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so I said all right so um he tells her we're going to the store I get my coat we leave as we're walking
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out of the house out of the yard I notice e Eric Bo his car is down the street like two or three houses down the
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street he said he's going to take us over there so we get in the car as we get in the car he and E him uh my
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brother and E is telling me about this girl how cute she is and how she get money she's a hustler and they want me
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to meet her and he says he's been knowing the girl for a while cuz he used to date her um her cousin that's how he
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know the girl so I'm like all right all right so as he's telling me about the girl my brother is in the passenger seat
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and he's rolling up a wet blunt well let me explain what a wet blunt is um it's when someone PS and
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bombing floid on weed and let it dry and then roll it up in a blunt so he's rolling up a wet blunt but I didn't know
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it was a wet blunt at the time so I'm just think it's a regular blunt we we smoke weed all the
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time he rolls up the blunt he Li it take a few pulls off of it and pass it to me
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I'm smoking as they're both telling me about this girl that they want me to meet so I noticed the blunt tasted kind
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of funny but I just thought it was the flavor of the cigar I didn't think it I didn't think nothing of
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[Music] it so it's it's it's around dark now it's dark now and we pulling into some
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apartments so we're riding around the apartments and we we didn't roll around about twice
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I'm like what's what's going on why y'all riding around the apartments so e like man it's been a while since I've
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been to her to her crib I got to remember which one is her crib next thing I know we pull he uh we
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pulled back in a parking spot he like that that's her apartment right up there we pulled back he puts the car in park
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but he never turns the car off he puts it in park he looks at my brother and they both jump out of the
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car they run right in front of where we just parked to this white SUV I noticed um at the SUV it was a girl sitting in a
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driver's side and a guy standing at the driver side the door is open and they're
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um hugging or kissing or something my brother and E they carjack these people and I get out of the car
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man what what what y'all doing what's going on what y'all doing they pull out he said man follow us I said man what
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what are y'all doing I'm going to go back to the house I don't want nothing to do with it y'all tripping man y'all
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tripping he like man we F to go back to the house we going back to the house just follow us you don't know where you
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going just follow us so I said man the two people that they just carjacked and kidnapped is Shannon
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Christian and Chris Nome here's Shannon Christian's father Gary Christian to Shannon and Chris that that
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Char car jack and went [Music] down you you come down your stairs and you go get in the car and you are
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cranking your car and your boyfriend gets inside the door there going to get him a little
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sugar boom there's a gun in the back of your head and some big sucker gets in your Forerunner and puts a gun on you
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just like that it's done so I get back in the car I'm and I'm not knowing what's what to do what's going
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on so I'm not familiar with Knoxville I'm said man all right I'm going follow y'all I'm going we going
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back to the house right he said yeah we going to the house just follow us I follow them back to the house they Park
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the house is here the street goes down this way they park in front of the house I pass them in the white car and Park
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like three houses down across from this girl named Ronda Dukes who buys drugs from my brother I park across the street
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from her house I start walking back up towards the house the white SUV is facing in the area that I'm coming
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from I can tell that it's movement going on inside the truck but it's dark and they don't have the light on inside the
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truck so I don't know what's going on but I can tell it's some movement going on so I walk past the the truck goes
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into the um go into the yard run up to the door boom boom boom beat on the door GI Giovani we call him G Giovanni comes
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to the door like man you beating like you the police what's going on what what's up he looked past me like oh
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that's a nice that's a nice truck nice ride who who ride it is I said man you don't even want to know man these folks
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is tripping he like what you mean I said man they just cack these people man they
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just cack these people man I don't know man they tripping man they [Music] tripping I said look forget that just go
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and get your stuff get get get a few things man we got to get up out of here I this is not the place to be right now
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we got to get up out of here where where Vanessa at man she back there as sleep so man all right we got to get up out of
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here he like man what happened I said man it don't even matter what happened we got to get up out of here so as I'm
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telling him all of that my brother walks in with the girl he he got her by her arm and he's put his hoodie over her and
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the uh the hood of the the hood is over her head her her eyes are blindfolded with a um band
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[Music] he comes in every boy comes in behind him holding the guy the girl is got
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bandana around her eyes and her hands down in front of her e comes in with the guy holding his arm I noticed the guy
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has a bandan around his around his eyes and his hands are tied behind him so I look at George
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look back them and I nodded at Jo like like go ahead and start getting your stuff so my brother looked at
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me then he looks at Eric like yeah go ahead and do that I said man y'all tripping man what is y'all doing y'all
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tripping he like man whatever so as e and the guy turns to leave out of the door I leave out of the that whole
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little scene happening in the little sun room so I leave out of there going through the living room through the
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kitchen back to the back bedroom where me and Vanessa slept I went back there to wake her up George is grabbing his
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things I wake her up man Vanessa wake up um get your stuff get your clothes on we
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got to we got to we got to leave we got to get up out of here she like baby what's wrong what's going on I said
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don't worry about that just grab some of your stuff we got to get up out of here
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you know what I'm saying my brother and them they tripping they just done some [ __ ] man just just get your stuff
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together and we got don't let my brother know what you're doing we got to get up
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out of here so as I'm telling her this my brother calls me to the living room as I come in the living room I noticed
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the girl I come through the door of the living room I noticed the girl is sitting here against the wall with the
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um the hood is off of her now I noticed the blindfold is pulled down it's hanging around her neck um the the room
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the living room was dark the light was off the only light in the in the bed in the the living room was the TV from um
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the DVD the blue light shining from the TV so I couldn't really tell if her hands were still bound but to me I think
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they were I think her hands were still bound so I go into the living room what's up what's going on man you you
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what's good he like man go get me some water out of the uh out of the kitchen so I go get the water I bring it
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back to him I said man y'all tripping man y'all tripping he man no I don't don't worry about I said man y' come
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come here I gotta talk to you man you tripping you like all right hold on hold on so he gives the girl the water she
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drinks it give him give him the cup back he gives me the cup he said hold on just
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hold on I go back into the kitchen put the cup in the sink just just standing there like man it's man I don't know
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what's going on they tripping so as I'm standing there I'm starting to feel the effects of that wet blunt cuz I've never
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I never did that my brother have done it before he tried to get me to do it and I'm like if it ain't regular weed I
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don't want it so I'm I'm starting to feel real ill real sick so then he comes me into the kitchen
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like yeah what's up I said man y'all tripping man man what what is you doing man do you even know what you doing man
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don't man you tripping you like nah n i got this man I got this man don't worry about it don't worry about it I got this
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I said man how you got it man you just contact these folks and brought them back to your crib man you you tripping
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man that's dumb that's dumb that's stupid you like man I got this man I got man look here don't have the police come
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looking for me over some stuff you done did man don't like man I got the the police do get involved I take my charge
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I didn't been to the penen before it ain't nothing I take my charges I said you better I said man I think that's
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that's real that's real effed up about you know I mean how y'all got me out there man why you lie to me like that he
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like I know if I told you what we was going to do you wasn't going to come so that's the only way I can get you out
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there tell you about the girl I've been telling you about I man that's messed up
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bro I be your brother you tell me man don't worry about I got this man you sound like girl you want Pur
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[Music] makeup I walked out went back into the back bedroom where um George and Vanessa
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were he goes back into his room so I said y' y'all ready y'all got y stuff together he said um G said man this is
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crazy man this is crazy so V Vanessa said man baby what's going on you you don't look right what's going on
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I said man they gave me one of them wet blun and I I don't feel good I just want
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to get up out of here so she said what happened I started telling her what happened how they carjack the people so
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then my brother scream hey hey Rong hey Rong what y'all back there doing man y'all making me paranoid
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matter fact all everybody come in the living room everybody come in the living room I look around at them man come on
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y'all so we go in the living room my brother comes out in the living room what out back there doing y'all too
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quiet y'all too quiet you know I get paranoid when it get too quiet what's going on man we be asking you what's
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going on you the one tripping you the one cack these people n man I told you I got this man why you still tripping man
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I said man you tripping man you got you got all us involved in this man you tripping man look man I said you know
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what we F to go we ain't got nothing to do with this we F to go you do do what you do we ain't going we ain't going to
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tell on you man you going to end up getting caught [Music] yourself [Music] nah nah ain't nobody going nowhere ain't
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nobody going nowhere what you mean ain't nobody going we F to go dude you ain't talking about nothing we F to go nah nah
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he pul his gun out of his pocket he he didn't point it at nobody but he just pulls it out I'm like dang bro you going
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you going to kill me now you you you pulling a gun on me you going to kill me now I'm your brother you going to kill
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me nah I ain't going to kill you I a but I'll shoot you but I ain't going to kill
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you George you know I don't like you anyway I'll shoot you and Vanessa don't make me shoot your little pretty butt so
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I'm like man y'all y y y'all sit down man y'all sit down I ain't got no choice you didn't
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pull your gun out say you going to shoot people I ain't got no choice but to sit
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down he said you damn right so I sit down he goes back into in his room he gets on the phone he's walking back and
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forth from his bedroom through the living room to the kitchen back and forth to his bedroom me um Giovani were
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sitting in the two chairs by the um by the kitchen door Vanessa she sitting on the floor crying saying she don't know
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she don't understand what's going on sitting on the floor crying I said baby it's going to be all
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right stop crying stop crying it's going to be all right so my brother has a a credit card
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in his hand he's walking back and forth through the house with a credit card in his hand
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G gets up goes into the kitchen sits at the table start rolling a blunt of weed me and Vanessa goes into the
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kitchen and sit at the table that's what we usually sit at and smoke Weg sit around the table and smoke Weg Vanessa
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here baby um smoke this blunt see if it'll make you feel better maybe it'll help you calm down I said no I I think
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it'll make it worse she said n just just just take a few pulls just calm down I said all right so I took a few PS off
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the off the blunt but it didn't do nothing to make me feel worse so as we in there smoking my
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brother comes to the kitchen door oh y'all ain't going to smoke with me I can't I can't hit the blunt I can't hit
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the blunt George handed him the blunt he takes the BL somebody F come here I need
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to holl at you anyway I look up he said not you I'm talking to G come here G let
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me holl at you right quick G look at me he gets up they go into the living room I can hear my brother saying look you
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know don't trust you so you got to do something for me to trust you you you got to do something you know I mean so I
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can trust you got to earn my trust him and George had got into it previously about a few days before that
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and um he had push G up against the wall or whatnot so I could tell G was kind of
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scared of him she was like all right all right all right so about 5 10 minutes later G and um my brother
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[Music] [Music] leave while they're gone the girl is still in my brother's room Vanessa Vanessa's um she telling me
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her stomach is hurting so she she gets up and goes to the bathroom I tell her that I'm going
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to go and check on the girl as I I go and check on the girl ask her is she okay she said ask me could
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she get some water I brought her some some water out of the refrigerator when I went into the room
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she's laying on the air mattress with her hands bound over her head she's laying on her back her hands are tied
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still St tied like this and um tied to a duffel bag full of free weights and books and stuff same thing with her with
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her feet she her ankles are tied and um it's tied to a a duffel bag it's it's tied to a duffel bag with weight and
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books in it I I untied her hands well I didn't untie her hands I untied the the string that was going to the duffel bag
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I untied it so she could sit up and drink the water I gave her the water she drunk the water like that
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she asked me what's going on I said I don't know she asked me where her boyfriend is
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I said I don't know she asked me cuz she smoke a cigarette her cigarettes and her purse
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was sitting on the bookshelf behind me I can see um a pack of red and white Marrs on the bookst
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stand I don't see why not I took a cigarette out lit it for her and gave it to her she asked me why why why were we
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doing this I told her it's not me I don't it's not me it's not me I don't have anything to do with this matter of
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fact we're being held here under against our will just like you are the only difference is that you're tied up and
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we're not she start asking me she start asking me um would I convince him to let her go I said I'll
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try she said just please I just please she said please can you can can you just convince him to let me
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go I said I'll try she said I'll do I'll do anything just please just let me go and she she even offer the world
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[Music] sex [Music] [Music] [Music] I had her give me oral sex she gave me oril [Music]
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sex as [Music] um as I start to ejaculate I heard a noise outside and I heard Vanessa's
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flushing the toilet so I got spooked I jumped up fixed my clothes as I ejaculated he got on her
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shirt and some on her pants I fix my I fix myself I fixed my clothes I put her back like I found
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her and went back into the living room and sat down Vanessa came out of the bathroom we
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sat there on the floor just sat there looking stupid a few minutes later slim my brother George both of
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them come back they come back in George was looking crazy my brother came in went back to
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his [Music] bedroom George came in went to the back then sat back at the at the kitchen
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[Music] table um we sat back at the table all three of us me George and Vanessa sat back at the
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table about 15 to 30 minutes later my brother came and got George and they left again this time me and Vanessa just sat
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there in the living room just sat there just sat there looking stupid so my brother and him they come
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back spend about an hour and a half to two hours the first time they left they was only gone for like 45 minutes or an
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hour this time they came came back it had been an hour and a half to two hours when they come back they they both
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had on dark clothes so you can't really tell what it is but you can see a dark stain on on
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George's clothes and dark stains on my brother's clothes George went to the back and
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change clothes and um my brother changed clothes as well soon after that every boy came
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[Music] over every boy came over and um my brother came out in the living room they
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talked for a minute and the both of them went back in his in his bedroom a few minutes later my brother
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comes out say all right come on I'll take You' out to Vince house so we um we all go out and get into the issue
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UV we ride we go to the store first my brother went and got some cigarettes and some
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cigars and um we go to some apartments I said man what what you doing thought you
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taking us to vence house he was like yeah I got to check on something right quick hold on hold on so he gets out
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goost knocks on the door some girl comes to the door he talks to the girl for a minute then we get back in he get back
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in the car and we all we all go to V's crib fence wasn't there so we all came back to the
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house every boy he left the house when he came back he didn't have the guy with him so I didn't know what
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where the guy was I didn't know what what happened to him when we was younger my brother would
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always tell me stories about how him and his friend carjack somebody or whatever
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and took him to the ATM and um made them withdraw money and left them tied up somewhere but he never did
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nothing to them so my assumption was they they got the guy tied up somewhere but I didn't think they they did
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anything to him Eric leave the house we all just sit there looking stupid my brother goes back into his
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room he um my brother keeps the back the back door it got a dead bat lock that you can
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only open with a key he keeps that lock at all times he got Nails in the windows
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where you can open it but it'll only open like that [Music] far me George and Vanessa went to the
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back room talking in the back room or whatever that's the end of Saturday night going into Sunday
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[Music] morning Sunday [Music] afternoon pimping the guy named pimping that gets um drugs from my brother he
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came over to get some drugs from my brother but um I don't know if he got any or not he
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didn't come he didn't he didn't stay at the house long so I don't think he got anything time goes past time goes
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past Sunday night my brother girlfriend dapan comes over he's called on the phone told her
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to come and get her things so she comes over I didn't I didn't really I had forgot that she came over
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because I didn't really look up at her I didn't I didn't speak to her or nothing
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like that so I I forgot she even came over and what was the purpose in going back
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to the house uh he said he had clothes to give me that he got for me and I had makeup still in the house okay so your
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your intention to go back to the house was to get clothes and makeup yes when you pull up to the house what
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do you see um I saw Lamarcus standing in like the sun room and the front door was
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open and then we kept a blanket over the door going into the living room to and it was pulled back you see anybody else
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I saw lalvis sitting in a chair beside the kitchen door and he really didn't speak to me he
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just had his head down twill on his thumbs or something he didn't speak and he always spoke to me uh so you go into
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the north bedroom yes and why are you going to the north bedroom to go into the bathroom to try to get my
00:33:49
belongings okay where is Mr Davis at when you tried to go into the bedroom he started following me through there and I
00:33:56
got to the bathroom door and it was locked and I asked him if vanessa was in there okay can't tell us what he said
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okay but you tried to get into the bathroom right here yeah I assumed Vanessa was in there I could hear water
00:34:08
running and it sound like something fell into the sink or something but I didn't
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hear anybody speak and were you able to get into the bathroom no what did you do
00:34:19
then I tried to go around through the kitchen through the other bedroom to go into the bathroom and and he grabbed me
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wouldn't let me go back there okay where was Mr cins at he was still sitting in the
00:34:35
chair when he prevented when Mr Davidson prevented you from going into the kitchen what did you then do uh we
00:34:41
walked back towards the porch and that's when he gave me the clothes and what were they in in a Sears bag okay and he
00:34:49
tried to give me money I didn't take the money and that's when I left okay and the clothes that Mr Davidson gave to you
00:34:59
you discovered once you opened up the Sears bag they weren't new clothes correct yes and they certainly hadn't
00:35:06
been purchased at Westtown mall that day or the day before had they no and in fact you now know they belonged to miss
00:35:14
Christian don't you yes so wherever that ring came from Mr Davidson was giving Miss Christian's property to you Sunday
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afternoon January the 7th 2007 correct [Music] yes you made a [Music] minute Sunday
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night he um he brings the girl out of out of of his room and I noticed that she didn't have
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any clothes on from the waist down no shoes on no socks he takes her into the [Music]
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kitchen he as he has her in the kitchen me and Vanessa and George he make all of us come in the kitchen in
00:36:25
the back um you utility room make us stand there for a minute so as we're all standing
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there he um puts his hand around he puts his arm around the girl neck tries to kill her tries to choke
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her he lets her go and she falls she falls to the floor what I thinking that he's he he didn't
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kill that girl I said man what are you doing man you tripping so at this point it wasn't even
00:37:11
no talking to him he was just like a mad man he was just crazy so I'm not knowing what to
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do I'm I'm I'm feeling bad cuz I didn't got I didn't brought my my girlfriend and my best friend down here and now
00:37:27
we're all caught up in this this this this madness I don't want anything to happen
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to them I don't want anything to happened to me either so I didn't I didn't do nothing to stop it I didn't do
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anything to stop it when she when the girl was on the floor my brother waved his gun at
00:37:50
Vanessa made her come and check the girl's [Music] post and Vanessa said I I I I don't know I don't
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know I don't know so then my brother gets mad I push the gun to her head and says you better know you better check it
00:38:06
and find out you better know so Vanessa starts crying I don't know I don't know I can't tell I'm not a nurse I don't
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know what to do I don't know he look at me I said I'm not I'm not doing nothing you might as well
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shoot me right now I'm not doing nothing said man what what what he looks at me and then looks at Vanessa man well get
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this [ __ ] out of here then take her in in the other room I said so that point I'm like okay this this is our chance
00:38:38
this is our chance to escape we can get out of here so I said come on Jord we going to Liv room she n George you stay
00:38:45
in here you stay in here with me so we went in the living room and sat there Vanessa's crying I'm holding her
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telling her to stop crying my brother ties the girl up in a in in a fetal [Music]
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position so he de TI the girl up he ties the girl up put her in the in the garbage
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[Music] can Christopher nome's body was found by railroad tracks located near the Chipman
00:39:57
Street house there were three bullet wounds found on his body on January 8th 2007 Shannon Christian's Forerunner was
00:40:06
located near the Chipman street address by friends who were searching for the couple investigators with the Knoxville
00:40:13
Police Department were able to process fingerprints found inside the Forerunner the prints were identified as belonging
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to Marcus Davidson further investigation revealed Davidson had a residence at 23
00:40:26
16 Chipman Street on January 9th 2007 entry was made to the Chipman Street house via a search warrant and 5 minutes
00:40:36
later Shannon Christian's body was found in a trash can this would ultimately lead to the arrest of five suspects in
00:40:45
this case the Five Arrested are George Thomas lalis cobbins Marcus Davidson Vanessa Coleman and Eric B void
00:40:57
ultimately all five of these individuals would claim some form of involvement in
00:41:02
the brutal rape beatings and torture of both of these individuals that lasted hours and unfortunately in Christian's
00:41:12
case days they would all turn on each other they would admit some involvement but
00:41:18
they all kind of removed themselves as being the ring leader or the one ultimately responsible for what happened
00:41:25
to both of these individuals and I know that we played lat talis's version of the events for you I want to be clear on
00:41:33
something here that is not exactly how this all went down while he paints a nice picture of him not having a lot of
00:41:42
involvement in this case if you review the statements given by the other suspects his involvement is heightened
00:41:50
in all of those other statements all the suspects were scheduled to be tried separately on
00:41:57
April 16th 2008 Eric Boyd was found guilty in federal court of being an accessory to a fatal carjacking and for
00:42:06
failure to report the location of a known fugitive Boyd was the only suspect not charged with murder he was sentenced
00:42:15
to the maximum of 18 years in federal prison he is incarcerated at a low Security federal prison in Mississippi
00:42:23
on August 25th 2009 lalis cobbins was found guilty of the murders of Shannon Christian and Christopher Nome cobbins
00:42:32
faced the possibility of the death penalty because he was convicted of first-degree felony murder in the case
00:42:39
of Christian he was found guilty of facilitation of murder for Nome cins was sentenced to life without parole on
00:42:48
October 28th 2009 lamus Davidson was found guilty the jurors unanimously found Davidson should receive the death
00:42:57
penalty for his two first-degree felony murder charges and the two premeditated first-degree murders of Christian and
00:43:06
Nome in June 2010 Davidson was sentenced to 80 years for other charges related to
00:43:12
the murders the date for his execution has not yet been set but know this Tennessee is pretty slow when it comes
00:43:19
to killing those that deserve to die for their crimes Billy Ray IR was the last person in Tennessee to be executed and
00:43:27
spent 32 years on death row the next man that is scheduled to die is David Earl Miller who has been on death row waiting
00:43:35
for the reaper since 1982 his date with death is right around the corner December 11th 2018 so
00:43:43
hopefully this is his last turkey dinner on December 8th 2009 George Thomas was found guilty on multiple counts the jury
00:43:53
returned a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole on each of four Capital convictions the
00:44:00
convictions of Boyd cobbins Davidson and Thomas left Vanessa Coleman as the last
00:44:06
defendant to face trial she was granted immunity by federal authorities for Testimony in the federal case on the
00:44:12
carjacking but the state courts ruled that the Federal grant of immunity could not extend to the state charges on
00:44:19
murder and rape on May 13 2010 Coleman was acquitted of first-degree murder but found guilty on lesser charges on July
00:44:28
30th she was sentenced to 53 years behind bars in October of 2011 the presiding judge at the original trial
00:44:37
Richard bumgardner was disbarred after an investigation revealed that he had illegally purchased prescription pain
00:44:44
pills from a convicted felon under his supervision he had admitted to being addicted to drugs and was accused by a
00:44:51
woman of trading legal favors for sex during breaks and Court sessions these actions were held to have impaired his
00:44:58
ability to conduct trials during his final two years on the bench and compromised all trials he held during
00:45:04
this time in December of 2011 a judge John Blackwood ruled that bumgardner was impaired and granted new trials to
00:45:13
Davidson cobbins Thomas and Coleman in May of 2012 the Tennesse Supreme Court vacated that ruling and allowed the
00:45:23
original convictions to stand further legal maneuvering eventually resulted in retrials for Thomas and Coleman but not
00:45:30
for cobbins and Davidson facing the same charges as in her first trial on November 20th 2012 Vanessa Coleman was
00:45:39
convicted by a jury of facilitation of aggravated kidnapping rape and murder of Shannon Christian but not of Christopher
00:45:46
Nome Blackwood sentenced Coleman to 35 years in prison on February 1st 2013 minus credit for time already served
00:45:55
Vanessa Coleman the the only female charged and convicted in the crimes is held at the Tennessee Prison for Women
00:46:01
in Nashville Coleman was eligible for parole in 2017 and her sentence is to end no later
00:46:09
than 2042 in August 2014 the families of the victims were notified that with good
00:46:16
behavior Coleman sentence could be reduced by 16 days per month of incarceration making her eligible for
00:46:24
parole consideration at the hearing Coleman was denied parole and her next parole consideration date is set for
00:46:31
December 2020 on May 17th 2013 the retrial of George Thomas ended in the verdict of
00:46:39
guilty on all counts he was resentenced to life in prison but with the possibility of parole after 51 years in
00:46:47
June 2013 judge Curts sentenced George Thomas to two life sentences for the murders and 25 years for the rape so to
00:46:56
put it short and not so sweet Thomas is serving 123 Years to Life Eric Boyd was eligible for release in the year of
00:47:06
2022 but on March 20th 2018 11 years after the conclusion of the original litigation a Knox County grand jury
00:47:15
returned a 36count indictment charging Eric Boyd with first degree felony murder first degree premeditated murder
00:47:24
especially aggravated Rob especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape Boyd was transported from a federal
00:47:32
Correction Institute and booked into Knox County jail and held on $1 million Bond his new trial is scheduled to start
00:47:41
on January 3rd 2019 with motions hearings on December 5th 2018 the house at 2316 Chipman Street
00:47:51
was bought by Waste Connections a national garbage collection company that had a Depot on the next lot Waste
00:47:59
Connections demolished the house in October of 2008 and the house was replaced with a Memorial dedicated to
00:48:06
Nome and Christian in 2008 a golf tournament and Memorial Foundation were established in Shannon Christian's
00:48:13
memory to provide a scholarship to the University of Tennessee a little league baseball tournament and nome's honor was
00:48:21
held at the Halls Community Park in 2008 and 2009 a Memorial Scholarship is given annually
00:48:29
in his name to a graduating halls High School baseball [Music] player we would like to thank everybody
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