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On the evening of January 6, 2007, 23-year-old Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr. and his 21-year-old girlfriend, Channon Christian, were carjacked from an apartment complex parking lot in Knoxville, Tennessee and taken to a rental house on Chipman Street. Christian was reportedly raped and tortured for hours after Newsom’s murder, then bound, placed in five trash bags, and left in a kitchen trash can to suffocate; her body was recovered days later after police were led to the house by a fingerprint in her abandoned vehicle.

Five people were arrested in connection with the crimes: Lemaricus Slim Davidson, Letalvis Rome Cobbins, George G Thomas, Vanessa Coleman, and Eric E Boyd. Davidson was identified at trial as the primary orchestrator. All five were convicted on state charges; Davidson received the death penalty, Cobbins and Thomas were sentenced to life without parole, Coleman received 35 years for facilitation, and Boyd was later convicted on state charges and given two consecutive life sentences.

Are there details from January 6–7, 2007, or about the Chipman Street house that anyone can add to help clarify the timeline?