I found some information on the statement Eric Boyd made to the police. This was from an article that was written at the time of his trial. They explain what he said during the taped interview which was played in court.
Boyd claims he has no personal knowledge of the slayings of the young couple, but he offered up details of the crime anyway in a videotaped statement to police played in court today.
In the interview with Knoxville Police Department Investigators Patty Tipton and Greg McKnight, Boyd insisted everything he knew about the fatal carjacking came from Davidson.
According to Boyd, Davidson, his brother and a friend needed a vehicle because they were being pursued by drug dealers to whom they owed money.
He described the Jan. 7, 2007, encounter between the carjacking suspects and slain couple as entirely random.
"They weren't able to carjack them, so they ordered them to drive," Boyd said in the statement.
"They just, I guess, a car was coming ... pushed them in right in the car because dude (Newsom) was giving girl (Christian) a kiss."
He denied being involved in the carjacking or being at the Chipman Street house following it.
Prior testimony has suggested Boyd was at the house while the couple was being held captive. He is not charged, however, in either the carjacking or the killings.
He admitted being at the Chipman Street house on Sunday when Christian was still alive. He denied seeing her or knowing she was there.
He said Davidson later explained, "They had her tied up in the back room."
He said that Davidson told him that his brother, Letalvis "Rome" Cobbins, and buddy, George "G" Thomas, gang-raped Christian.
Davidson, he said, denied raping Christian but admitted choking her. Boyd said Davidson pinned the killings on Thomas.
McKnight was skeptical.
"They had sex with her, but he choked and killed her. Does that make sense to you?" he asked Boyd in the videotaped interview.
"No, no it don't," Boyd responded.
Later in the interview, Boyd said Davidson admitted dousing Newsom with gasoline and setting his body on fire, which contradicted his earlier account that Thomas had led Newsom out of the house and shot him.
Boyd's account of his visit to the house on Sunday also proved replete with contradictions. At one point, he said he went into the living room where he could see Davidson's girlfriend in the kitchen.
He later tried to distance himself from the house, however, saying Davidson actually met him on the front porch.
Based on crime-scene photos, he would not have been able to see the kitchen from the front porch doorway.
Tipton and McKnight pressed him for an alibi. He initially insisted he could provide one with no problem. But when the investigators would seek specific information, including phone numbers or addresses for people he listed as alibi witnesses, he backed off his assertion that he could provide a specific alibi.
"Walking up and down main street of Ridgebrook (Apartments), just drinking, smoking and drinking and smoking weed, that's all I do every day," he said.
"I may go to Labor Ready occasionally so I can get a little more buzz money."
Here is the link to the full article:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/apr/14/testimony-resumes-today-fatalcarjacking-trial/
rayer: Geez it's making me anxious awaiting the verdicts, for them it must be agonizing I'm sure.
