TN - Chris Newsom, 23, & Channon Christian, 21, murdered, Knoxville, 6 Jan 2007 #11

[yolorado]

Thanks for all the great updates today! I'm headed home from work but will check back in when I get home.

I still cannot believe how incredibly brutal and heartless these murders were... how can GT just sit there so EMOTIONLESS??? :furious:

He's says done it before too ... at the Chipman house. Not the kind of guy we should want on our streets.

She's on cross now. If the defense goes after her, she might get fiesty. She doesn't let herself be made "into a witness for the defense." She sparred (successfully) with defense in two prior trials.

 

[Muffet]

GT watching as they take the mannequin away in preparation for defense cross:

Defense attorney Steve Johnson, questioning Dr M:

 

[SuziQ]

Defense trying to lessen the impact of suffering by clarifying ME doesn't know if Channon unconsious or not and not how long it took her to die. JC.

 

[PrairieWind]

http://twitter.com/jamiescoop

Vaginal kicking/beating occurred fairly close to Channon's death - ME

I have long thought that the vaginal beating could indicate Vanessa Coleman. Why would a man do that. He just rapes her. But a woman, whose boy friend has just raped the girl, well she might want to inflict that damage. This was also the first I heard of the "scratching" in the area. What was that about?

 

[Muffet]

Johnson trying to say Channon might have been unconscious when placed in the can, because there were no signs of struggle to get out.

I don't know how they could expect any signs, considering how tightly she was bound all over.

 

[PrairieWind]

I wonder if the defense attorneys had to draw straws for who had to cross-exam the ME. This woman chews up attorneys for lunch. And I am an attorney.

 

[SuziQ]

OT: Jury verdict in Amanda Knox trial, to be announced at 6PM EST.

 

[dgfred]

I have long thought that the vaginal beating could indicate Vanessa Coleman. Why would a man do that. He just rapes her. But a woman, whose boy friend has just raped the girl, well she might want to inflict that damage. This was also the first I heard of the "scratching" in the area. What was that about?

I thought the exact same thing about Vanessa. :furious:

 

[Muffet]

I have long thought that the vaginal beating could indicate Vanessa Coleman. Why would a man do that. He just rapes her. But a woman, whose boy friend has just raped the girl, well she might want to inflict that damage. This was also the first I heard of the "scratching" in the area. What was that about?

She said there were scratches as in abrasions in the genitals... in a prior trial, I read that she said it was consistent with ..insertion of a wooden object.

 

[JulieR]

OT: Jury verdict in Amanda Knox trial, to be announced at 6PM EST.

Ok whats it going to be thoughts?

 

[SuziQ]

Why does this attorney care so much about DNA? His clients wasn't matched.

 

[yolorado]

I wonder if the defense attorneys had to draw straws for who had to cross-exam the ME. This woman chews up attorneys for lunch. And I am an attorney.

She's not the witness you want to annoy if you're the defense.

 

[SuziQ]

Ok whats it going to be thoughts?

Ack, I've avoided that trial. I don't trust info from any side in that case.

 

[yolorado]

I have long thought that the vaginal beating could indicate Vanessa Coleman. Why would a man do that. He just rapes her. But a woman, whose boy friend has just raped the girl, well she might want to inflict that damage. This was also the first I heard of the "scratching" in the area. What was that about?

Wvjules postulated vannessa scratching. Not a bad theory, however Dr M-P has never indicated a cause, and I don't think she's been asked.

 

[SuziQ]

http://twitter.com/jamiescoop

Defense Steve showing ME thorough in search for clues to killer I'd. Message to jurors - no link to Thomas

 

[jnTexas]

There is no way in heLLo the neighbors did not hear. I think this is the worst thing i have ever sat through. I missed the ME last time. this is so sad.

 

[SuziQ]

http://twitter.com/jamiescoop

Steve pointing out hairs found on Channon's back ID'd as either Cobbins or Davidson, not Thomas

 

[Muffet]

Why does this attorney care so much about DNA? His clients wasn't matched.

I think he wanting to say that the bleach didn't work on the other men's dna, so it can't be the explanation for the lack of GT's?

He kind of embarrassed himself pushing something they weren't denying there, too. lol

 

[SuziQ]

Jury ? was she concious or unconcious during rape......most likely

Was she gagged?......could have been, was not gagged when brought to me ofc.

ETA: paraphraising.

 

[yolorado]

Ack, I've avoided that trial. I don't trust info from any side in that case.

We were in Italy when it happened, so I started following it there. I bet she'll be convicted, but I doubt she did it. She did change her story though, never a good idea under those circumstances. The prosecutor is obsessed with Satanism and persecuted others. He's been on trial himself for misconduct.

Smart defense attorney this time in the Thomas trial. He didn't go after Dr. M-P like the two before. They both lost.