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The Murder of Channon Christian & Christopher Newsome · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it isn't about hanging out with the wrong people
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  Speaker 1: or angering a bad person. Sometimes crime and brutality can
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  Speaker 1: strike when you least expect it. In the case today,
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  Speaker 1: it struck right before a couple were headed out on
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  Speaker 1: a date for the evening. They just simply were at
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  Speaker 1: the wrong place at the wrong time, and it cost
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  Speaker 1: them their lives. This is the case of Shannon Christian
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  Speaker 1: and Christopher Newsome.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked Ingram,
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  Speaker 2: a true crime podcast. Warning.
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  Speaker 3: The following podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Ad Oh, that's a good sound.
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  Speaker 2: You need that to stay up.
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  Speaker 1: No, I need coffee to stay up. This is going
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  Speaker 1: to put me to sleep after this podcast, That's what
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  Speaker 1: it's going to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's like way past Ben's bedtime.
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  Speaker 1: It is officially ten minutes past my bedtime because it
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  Speaker 1: is ten ten pm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but your bedtime is earlier than ten. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's it's getting closer to at least nine thirty maybe nine.
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  Speaker 1: No, my bedtime is ten, but trust me, I wish
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  Speaker 1: it was eight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You love like It's just funny how adults just
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  Speaker 2: like love going to bed.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I going.
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  Speaker 2: To bed is the best, Like, it really is the best.
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  Speaker 1: I used to be like the biggest night person, and
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years it's turned around and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm more of a morning person. I Like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like getting up super early, but I like getting up
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  Speaker 1: at a decent time and going to bed nice and
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  Speaker 1: early and getting a good sleep.
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  Speaker 3: It's just oh so.
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  Speaker 2: Nice that feeling of like laying down in your bed
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  Speaker 2: for like the first time, like laying down basically probably
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  Speaker 2: for the first time that day. Yeah, it feels fucking amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It does.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can do it while scrolling on your
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  Speaker 1: phone and not dropping your phone in your face, you've won.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy, excuse me, that came out of nowhere. We
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  Speaker 3: are still recovering being sickly.
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  Speaker 2: We're very much so still recovering.
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  Speaker 1: The coughs and sniffles kind of catch us once in
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  Speaker 1: a while, but we're we're doing good. We're doing much better.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like my voice sounds a lot better than
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  Speaker 2: even the last one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely our voices come aways.
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  Speaker 1: But I did want to touch on one more thing
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  Speaker 1: before we get this episode started. We do have the
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  Speaker 1: deadfall murder Mystery event that we are hosting on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth of October. October twenty fourth for Halloween, completely
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  Speaker 1: original story written by us. We got some cool people
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  Speaker 1: who are gonna be helping us out doing some some
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  Speaker 1: NPC stuff. You go around, you talk to them, you
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  Speaker 1: solve a mystery in the nineteen twenties.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good time.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be fantastic. If you want to check out,
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  Speaker 1: the tickets for that are available on our Facebook page,
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  Speaker 1: head over there. You can follow the link and go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and purchase your tickets. But like I said, it
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  Speaker 1: is an in person event, so it's not an online thing,
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  Speaker 1: so you have to be local to us for it.
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  Speaker 2: I do think we should put a little link on
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  Speaker 2: Instagram as well. And did you already say that it's
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  Speaker 2: already half sold half sold out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fifty potent sold outs.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, well we'll probably put a post or link
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram as well. We'll try to get some then
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  Speaker 2: sold out because it's going to be epic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a good one, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I'm stoked. I just get to like drink beer and
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  Speaker 3: be all like old timey it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like murder you on a daily basis. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: no different.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're not wrong, You're not wrong. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna stop with all this. We're gonna get to
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  Speaker 1: the case. Are you ready for this case?
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  Speaker 2: No, because I a hate when you're in the wrong
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  Speaker 2: place at the wrong time. And it sounds like it
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  Speaker 2: might be kind of like relatablesh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of is. It's definitely a wrong place,
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  Speaker 1: the wrong time sort of situation. And this is a
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  Speaker 1: fairly brutal case. Okay, so I will be sparing some details,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, I will be talking about
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  Speaker 1: some some of the brutality that goes along with it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, okay, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, before we do, I feel a cough coming on.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna pause us real quick and get into the episode. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got it. We're good.
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  Speaker 2: We're good.
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  Speaker 3: We're good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get to the case. So on the evening
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  Speaker 1: of Saturday, January sixth, two thousand and seven, Christopher or
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  Speaker 1: Chris Newman and his girlfriend Shannon Christian went out together,
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  Speaker 1: unaware that it was going to be their last night alive. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Newman was twenty three born on September twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was a former
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  Speaker 1: baseball player for Hall's High School Red Devils, from which
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  Speaker 1: he graduated in two thousand and two. After high school,
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  Speaker 1: he attended Pelisippi State Technical Community College and became a
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  Speaker 1: skilled carpenter. Chris loved staying active and enjoyed a range
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  Speaker 1: of hobbies, including golf, fishing, tennis, and baseball. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: it was something that was one of his passions all
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  Speaker 1: through life, but in recent years golf had kind of
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  Speaker 1: taken a little bit more of a center stage. He
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  Speaker 1: could often be found on the golf course. If you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for him, you look on the golf course. That
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  Speaker 1: was the first place you look. But if he wasn't there,
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  Speaker 1: he might be fishing or playing tennis as well. Above all, though,
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  Speaker 1: Chris was most obsessed with spending time with Shannon, the
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  Speaker 1: woman who he was deeply in love with.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, my heart.
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  Speaker 3: Shanning Gale.
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  Speaker 1: Christian was twenty one years old and was born on
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  Speaker 1: April twenty ninth, nineteen eighty five, in Knakadoches, Texas. I
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  Speaker 1: hope I said that right now. In nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 1: her family moved from Louisiana to Tennessee, but did a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of moving when she was younger as well.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, Shannon graduated from Farget High School in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three and was a senior at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Tennessee Knoxville, majoring in sociology. She had plans to
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  Speaker 1: graduate in December of two thousand and seven, this very year,
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  Speaker 1: looking ahead to her bright future now. Like Chris, Shannon
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  Speaker 1: had a love of golf. She grew up surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: the game, often tagging along with her dad and brother,
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  Speaker 1: until she eventually started to play the game and pick
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  Speaker 1: it up herself. Now, Chris and Shannon hadn't been dating
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  Speaker 1: for very long, it only been about two months, but
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  Speaker 1: they were already head over heels in love with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Shannon's mother described how happy her daughter was with Chris,
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  Speaker 1: and that was very clear Chris had fallen hard for Shannon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's like the kind of the honeymoon
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  Speaker 2: phase or so right. Yeah, yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 1: What the honeymoon phase, for sure. But it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: these two it hit hard, and they'd hit fast.
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  Speaker 2: Love at first sight they were meant to be.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly now, the young couple seem to have this promising
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  Speaker 1: future together, filled with love and shared interests. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: but we're here to talk about a specific night, and
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  Speaker 1: that night was on the night of January sixth, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Chris and Shannon planned to celebrate a
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  Speaker 1: friend's birthday party together that night in Knoxville. The evening
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to begin with Shannon getting ready at a
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  Speaker 1: friend's apartment, where Chris would later meet up with her.
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  Speaker 1: So after that they planned to start the night off
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  Speaker 1: with a date and grabbed dinner together, then from there
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  Speaker 1: head to their friend's birthday party for an evening of
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  Speaker 1: fun and movies. As planned, Shannon was at her friend's
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  Speaker 1: apartment preparing for the night when Chris arrived. He parked
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  Speaker 1: his truck sometime after nine pm and joined Shannon at
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  Speaker 1: her car, which was actually a Toyota of four runners,
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  Speaker 1: so it's actually actually an suv or however you want
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  Speaker 1: to describe it vehicle, I guess, and join her at
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  Speaker 1: her vehicle in the parking lot, and they planned to
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  Speaker 1: take her vehicle from the parking lot for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the evening. Ye so presumably either she had the
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  Speaker 1: nicer vehicle, had the one that was an easier on gas,
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  Speaker 1: or she was going to be dd I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of reason, but whatever reason, they're taking her
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  Speaker 1: vehicle now. In a quiet moment before they left that
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  Speaker 1: parking lot, the couple took a moment to embrace each other.
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  Speaker 1: They were holding each other in their arms lovingly, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: even sharing a few kisses back and forth. But however,
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  Speaker 1: they were completely unaware that they were being watched. In
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  Speaker 1: that moment when they were holding each other, four men
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  Speaker 1: approached the couple from the shadows.
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  Speaker 2: Four men.
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  Speaker 3: Four four.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's too verifying.
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  Speaker 3: Four okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Shannon and Chris were immediately forced into the back seat
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  Speaker 1: of Shannon's Toyota four Runner at gunpoint. Their captors tied
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  Speaker 1: their hands behind their back to restrain them and prevent
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  Speaker 1: any chance from escape. The couple were terrified and of
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  Speaker 1: course helpless. From there, they were driven to two three
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  Speaker 1: one six Chipman Street, a house that belonged to one
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  Speaker 1: of the attackers by the name of Lamarchius Davidson. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about him later.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there appeared to be no real specific reason
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  Speaker 1: why Shannon and Chris have been targeted this night. The
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  Speaker 1: attackers didn't know the couple. They were likely just simply
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  Speaker 1: chosen at random, viewed as vulnerable or easy prey in
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  Speaker 1: that very moment. And now they were at this house,
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  Speaker 1: and the nightmare intensified. Inside, a fifth person was waiting
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  Speaker 1: along with the four men who initially abducted them. There
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  Speaker 1: was now a woman present as well, making it five
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  Speaker 1: captors in total. What had begun as a seemingly opportunistic
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  Speaker 1: car jacking for these individuals quickly escalated into something more
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  Speaker 1: sinister and violent. The reason for the escalation is unclear,
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  Speaker 1: but the situation turned dark and brutal very fast. The
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  Speaker 1: captors separated both Shannon and Chris, placing them in different
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  Speaker 1: rooms within the house. It was in these separate rooms
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  Speaker 1: that the abuse would begin, marking a start of a
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  Speaker 1: very unimaginable ordeal for the young couple. The timeline of
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  Speaker 1: the falling events are a bit unclear, but Chris was
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  Speaker 1: brutally attacked in his room that he was being held in.
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  Speaker 1: He was sodomized and raped by at least one of
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  Speaker 1: the men, and violently assaulted as well. They used objects
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  Speaker 1: to beat to assault oh Man they did not hold
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  Speaker 1: back wow. The exact duration of the nightmare Chris and
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  Speaker 1: Shannon endured is also unknown, but in the early hours
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  Speaker 1: of Sunday morning, Chris was removed from the house after
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  Speaker 1: enduring an assault for who knows how long, and was
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  Speaker 1: taken away. His captors led him to a secluded spot
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  Speaker 1: near some railroad tracks. Chris, stripped down to just his
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  Speaker 1: shirt and his underwear, was now forced to walk barefoot
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  Speaker 1: through the dirt, his hands tightly bound behind his back.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes were covered with a bandanna so he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see where he was going, and his mouth was gagged
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  Speaker 1: with a sock stuffed in his mouth. His feet were
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  Speaker 1: also bound, though it's unclear whether this happened before or
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  Speaker 1: after he was made to walk, but Chris either way
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  Speaker 1: was marched to a location near the tracks, where his
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  Speaker 1: captors forced him to his knees. Still blindfolded and gagged,
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  Speaker 1: he knelt helplessly in the dirt, unable to defend himself.
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  Speaker 1: The assailants fired two shots at Chris. The first struck
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  Speaker 1: his neck and the second hit him in the back,
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  Speaker 1: but neither of these shots were immediately fatal. Chris lay
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  Speaker 1: on the ground in agony but still alone.
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  Speaker 2: This is just freaking brutal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Then, in a final calculated active cruelty, one of the
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  Speaker 1: assailants pressed the muzzle of the gun directly against Chris's head,
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  Speaker 1: just above his right ear, and they pulled the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: The bullet pierced his skull and severed his brain stem,
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  Speaker 1: killing Chris instantly.
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  Speaker 2: H wow. And meanwhile, his girlfriend is still at the house.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, she is still at the house.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit. I can't even just imagine what is like
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  Speaker 2: going through his head. And also the fact that this
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  Speaker 2: is like the start of a year, right, like you
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  Speaker 2: always think, and you said it was like January sixth
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  Speaker 2: or seventh or something, and you always think, like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, new Year is just like it's exciting and
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  Speaker 2: it's like full of possibility. Yeah, and this happens.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it is January sixth, and yeah. Usually people have
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to, you know, forget some of the bad
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  Speaker 1: things that happened to them in the previous year, looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the good things. And unfortunately, Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: a brutal start in.
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  Speaker 3: The year for them.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, it's still it's almost even still you're kind
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  Speaker 2: of still celebrating, like the holiday season, right, Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 2: not quite moved on yet, so yeah, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Now I did tell you that there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: brutality in this, and I am kind of cutting out
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  Speaker 1: much of the details with the brutality. Most of that
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  Speaker 1: brutality in the details that I am leaving out are
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  Speaker 1: regarding the assault in the bedroom. So it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the physical assault, the physical abuse, the sexual assault.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the things that I'm not really talking too
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  Speaker 1: much about. It's hard to get into the details because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the details are unknown. But when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to things like the autopsies, the autopsies or what
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  Speaker 1: paint the picture of the brutality that they endured within
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  Speaker 1: those walls, and it's horrendous gosh.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't even make sense though, because they were
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  Speaker 2: still I mean, I'm sure you'll get into this, but
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  Speaker 2: they were still in that parking lot, like obviously waiting
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  Speaker 2: for somebody or something, right, not really it they just
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  Speaker 2: like saw an opportunity and like went with it. Basically
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  Speaker 2: they That doesn't make I don't know, I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: that because it doesn't make sense that someone would just
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  Speaker 2: be like like they would just decide to do something
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  Speaker 2: so like peer Evil.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of how it played out. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: may have gone out with the intention of carjacking, right,
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  Speaker 1: but that's about it, and then from there it turned
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  Speaker 1: into this Wow. Okay, okay, Now there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of details in this case that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not actually talking about in this podcast. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of course, we always want to do deep
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  Speaker 1: dives and we want to talk about those details, but
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  Speaker 1: the details are mostly unknown. And we're talking about five
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  Speaker 1: assailants here. So when you're doing an investigation and you
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  Speaker 1: have five assailants, which later on will learn, of course,
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  Speaker 1: they point the finger at each other, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: actually talk about really what happened.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know.
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  Speaker 1: All we have is he said, she said, she said,
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  Speaker 1: he said, he said, he said, and it's just all
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  Speaker 1: of it's bullshit. Now, reportedly there was some potential a
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  Speaker 1: drug inducedness to their actions on why they did it.
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  Speaker 2: I had this thought because I'm just like, something isn't
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  Speaker 2: adding up here. Really.
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  Speaker 1: I did read an article about someone saying and reporting
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  Speaker 1: that there was PCP involved, but I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: if that's.
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  Speaker 3: Accurate or not.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so huh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you can do a deep dive into this case,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm telling you now, majority of the information you
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  Speaker 1: find is going to be circumstantial. It's going to be hearsay.
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  Speaker 1: That's which is so unfortunate because I could probably do
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  Speaker 1: ten episodes on this talking about all that hearsay. Right,
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  Speaker 1: But what I'm focusing on in this episode are the
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  Speaker 1: facts that we know, And one of the biggest facts
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  Speaker 1: that we know is the brutality of what these two
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  Speaker 1: went through. Like Chris was not only sodomized anally, but
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  Speaker 1: or alone, not only by the individuals but with objects.
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  Speaker 1: And he was taken out of the house much sooner
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  Speaker 1: than Shannon was, so she endured the same thing over
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  Speaker 1: a great amount of time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let's move on. So once Chris was now killed,
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  Speaker 1: his body was then wrapped in a blanket on these
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  Speaker 1: train tracks, and his killers poured gasoline over his remains
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  Speaker 1: and set him on fire before leaving him to burn
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  Speaker 1: near the tracks, abandoning him to be discovered later on.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit, hey, just like no remorse whatsoever. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it makes sense that they wouldn't. They're obviously like monsters.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny, you say, the whole no remorse thing,
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  Speaker 1: because there's something I'll talk about later on. There was
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  Speaker 1: a journal that was found in an entry in this
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  Speaker 1: journal about this night. Okay, yeah, anyways, I digress.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that near the end. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Later authorities did manage to actually find a dog leash
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  Speaker 1: discarded on the hillside leading up to these railroad tracks.
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  Speaker 1: They believe this dog leash was actually used to force
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  Speaker 1: Chris to walk the path to his death, so basically
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  Speaker 1: like tethering him and if you're refused or is too slow,
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  Speaker 1: he was yanked and pulled along as a.
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  Speaker 2: Will Oh okay, this just keeps. This is just keeps.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to keep getting worse and worse very much. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that is just so degrading too, right, Like not that
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  Speaker 2: everything he endured isn't, but like being pulled to like
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  Speaker 2: your deathbed, like but with a dog leash, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's something like damn near straight out of
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  Speaker 1: a concentration camp, honestly kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, while Chris endured abuse and of course in execution,
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  Speaker 1: Shannon was subject to a much longer ordeal. Chris was
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say, put out of his misery.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: He was killed. He was killed within a few hours.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Shannon had to endure much much more time than Chris did.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: She was held captive in the north bedroom of the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: home for her most of her time in the home,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and there she would wait under the watch of the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: female perpetrator while the four males were out actually murdering
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Chris and Coltsure. So, as far as I'm aware, they
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: mostly focused on Chris initially, and once they came back
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: from killing him, that's when the focus turned onto Shannon.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And you have to wonder if like she knew that
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: they she probably, I mean, I'm sure she probably did.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Like well, she would have at least have heard the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: abuse in the room next yeah, like yeah, yeah. Now,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: once the four men did return, sole focus was now
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: on her, and the assailants brutally beat and repeatedly raped
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: her over and over again. And I want to just
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: highlight again I'm not describing it very much, but when
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: I say brutally beat and brutally raped, I mean brutal.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Her abuse was much more than simple rape. It went
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: beyond force some brutality. Basically, the assailants decided they needed
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to eventually after this attack and prolonged rape. They needed
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to rid Shannon of any of their DNA evidence that
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: they had left behind honor in her.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Gosh, these guys are disgusting pieces of shit. Oh yeah,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I mean the female too. She's not doing anything about
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: it either. I don't know if she was involved in
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: like the rape or the assaults or whatever, but still.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So they searched the house and they found bleach.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: They began pouring the bleach all over Shannon. Now this
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: includes her bleeding orifices in which she was brutally raped,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and this also includes down her throat as well. From there,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: they scrubbed the bleach vigorously all over her to try
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and ensure that this bleach did its job, killing any
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: DNA and eracing the trail.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, just like idiots though, Like idiots.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's like, it's it's unfathomable how you can
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: actually do that to a person.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: It's fucked up.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah like that. I yeah, like you would have. You
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: would just have to be on something.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I agree, like to sit here and do that to
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: a human.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Like, I'm just gonna say the same thing over and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: over because I don't know how to process the feelings
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: with this, if I'm being honest, like I'm sitting here like, yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: it's brutal, and how could you do that?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Because I literally do not know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: And it almost seems worse too when there's more than say,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: like one attack or involved, because then it almost just
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: makes you, like feel even worse about humanity because you'd think,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: out of one of those four people or five people,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I guess that one of them would stop this shit.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Well you would think.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: But then I do want to play devil's advocate in this,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: not that I agree anything with what they were doing.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I want to fucking put that out there.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: But there is that herd mentality, the mob mentality.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, we're.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Canucks fans, hockey, Vancouver Canucks fans, and we know all
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: too well about the Vancouver Canucks riot that happened.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Was it the twenty eleven I think Stanley Cup?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I think so when in Game seven we lost the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup and Vancouver.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Rioted, I just raged.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: You saw good people doing absolutely ridiculous stuff. And I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: mean maybe that maybe five is of course a lot
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: less than a mob, but if you have drugs involved,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I hear that would have been something that's going on
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: in their head that same mentality.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I like, sit here and it's hard to fathom it
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: or I would never do that. But it's so hard
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to say that when you know you're not in the situation.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I guess, but I, well, I'm very so very much
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: to think I would not.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm pretty sure both you and I and people listening,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: we're not going to be someone who's like, oh, yeah,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I'm a group of five and I'm going to just
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: join in and do these horrific things to a person. No,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: but I'm saying these these five individuals are clearly they're
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they're bad apples from the get go, and now you
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: mix drugs into it, and all it takes is one
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of them to step over that line and the others
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: like sounds like fun.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I like saved a spider the other day from a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: toilet because it was in the bowl, and I'm like,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I felt so bad for trying to get out, so
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I like put some toilet paper in there for it
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: to like get out and put it on the floor
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: like I was out somewhere. I wasn't like at home
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: or whatever, But even at home I probably still would
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: have put it outside. So I'm pretty sure, I probably
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be involved in something like this.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, anyways, we digress. We kind of got
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: off track on this one here. Now Shannon was after
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: being rubbed down and all this sort of stuff. She's
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: now mostly nude other than a tank top and a sweater.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Dang.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: She was clearly bound and tied up during this event
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: and during her assault. But now at this point her
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: restraints were changed. They tied her hands and feet together
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to each other, so now she's tied up in a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: hogtide fashion.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Oh geez.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And they used like curtains and strips of bedding and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: cloth like to bind her up.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: From there, they wrapped her face tightly in a small
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: plastic trash bag and stuffed her inside several other large
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: trash bags. Shannon was bound, beaten, and barely able to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: move at this point, and they literally threw her away
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: in the trash inside the home of the kitchen and
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: covered her up with sheets.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So she like suffocated.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Then hey, well she's still alive at this point.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Oh man.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: But she laid there in her new grade as she
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: slowly suffocated. And wow, it's estimated that it took ten
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to thirteen minutes for her to die from asphyxiation.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I can hardly comprehend this, Like, this is
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: just this is just mortifying to me. Holy shit.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, when Shannon and Chris failed to show up
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: at their party, you know, the one for their their
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: friends birth, Yeah, their friends began to be a little
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: bit concerned and started calling and texting them, but they
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: received no response. Later that evening, at around eleven PM,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: two of Chris's friends went to the apartment where the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: couple had been last seen to check on them, and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: there they found Chris's truck in the parking lot, but
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Shannon's SUV nowhere to be found. At around twelve thirty
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: am on January seventh, a Waste Connections driver who was
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: working near Chipman Street noticed that the house at two
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: three one six Chipman Street was lit up and unusually
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: active for that hour of night. He saw a four
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: runner a Toyota four Runner, parked outside, sitting in the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: house's porch lights. He also later observed the very same
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: vehicle slowly driving past him. The car lingered for about
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: twenty seconds, as if the occupants were checking him out.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: The man reported seeing four black men inside the vehicle.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Another witness who lived a block away from two three
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to six to one Chipman Street, reported hearing three distinct
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: pops coming from the direction of the train tracks at
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: about a one forty five PM and pops, of course, yeah,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: were certain to be gunshots.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: And like, as this is happening, like the friends are
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: looking for them.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, it would be on.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: The same day as the witness reports came in. On
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: January seventh, at twelve twenty pm, Chris's body was found
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: near a set of railroad tracks by a Northfolk South
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Railroad employee. His body, as we known, has been set
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: on fire, which destroyed any crucial DNA evidence, So, for example,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: investigators were able to find presence of seamen inside Chris. However,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the DNA in these samples was destroyed by the fire.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Oh geez okay.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Before Chris had been found and identified, friends and family
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: were getting extremely worried. Shannon had failed to respond to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: calls for her mother and friends alike, and she now
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: didn't show up for work. The couple's family and friends
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: started searching for them, banding together to begin checking local hospitals,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: fi missing persons reports, and doing whatever they could with
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: assistance from Shannon's phone provider, they learned her phone had
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: last pinged near Cherry Street. To the families and friends
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: searched the Cherry Street area, and between one thirty am
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and two am on January eighth, Shannon's abandoned Toyota foy
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Runner was discovered.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Was it discovered in the driveway? No, okay, they had
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: moved it.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: It was at this point abandoned.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Now, the condition of her vehicle was immediately suspicious. It
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: was left nowhere near in the condition that Shannon liked
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to keep her vehicle. For starters, Several personal items were
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: missing from Shannon's vehicle, including a Teddy Bear, photographs she
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: kept in there, her phone charger in an iPod. The
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: front seat was sorry, the front seats were pushed back
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: in a way that Shannon wouldn't even be able to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: reach the pedals if she was sitting.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: In the driver's seat.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, And.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: The floorboard was covered in mud, which is very inconsistent
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: with how Shannon maintained her clean vehicle. Now, there were
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: some stickers that Shannon had on the outside of the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: windows as well, they had been removed, and inside the vehicle,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: investigators found a pack of new Port cigarettes. Neither Shannon
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: or Chris were smokers. A thorough search of the vehicle
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: gave us gave investigators all this information, but the break
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: they needed in this case also came from searching the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: vehicle fingerprints.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was like, there's got to be something left
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: in there, because it doesn't really seem like they did
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: much but that vehicle.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: They were not very careful with this vehicle whatsoever. And
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: there were fingerprints inside.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, this is good, this is good.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: So they ran these prints to the database and were
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: able to get a positive match on an individual by
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the name of Lamarquius Davidson, who lived at two three
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: one six Chipman Street, just two blocks from where Shannon's
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: car was found. You know, if you're going to abandon
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the vehicle, maybe you want to drive it farther than
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: two blocks from where you live.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I was like, you mean, douche canoe, because
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: this guy is just.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: The worst of the worst right now. On January ninth,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: when police searched too three to one six Chipman Street,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the house was empty, but inside they made a horrifying
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: discovery in the kitchen, Shannon's body stashed inside trash can gosh.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Her body was wrapped in five large garbage bags which
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: bore Davidson's fingerprints that matched in the vehicle.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Davidson's sperm was also found using a rape kit on Shannon.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: It also revealed DNA of another that of Litsalvis Colbin's.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: The search of the house revealed several of Shannon and
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Chris's personal items, including Shannon's purse, her shoes, her camera,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: photographs which had been ripped and burned, and Chris's baseball
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: cap and driver's license. These items, as well as belongings
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: from Shannon's suv, were all stuffed inside trash bags.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: This case is just disturbing the shit out of me.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: The biggest thing for me is the lack of care
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: on anything. Don't care to plan, they don't care for
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the victims, they don't care to cover tracks, They don't
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: they just don't fucking care.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: So did they What did they think that they just
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: wouldn't get caught?
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Your guess is as good as mine.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: It's just like so disturbing that you can literally just
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: be like at your vehicle about to like go for
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: dinner or whatever and then go to like a friend's
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: party and this happens. Yeah, it's just it's just beyond
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: terrifying to me.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: And now you know, I always carry a knife on me.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but still, like four dudes, it would be hard,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: It would be hard to like, especially like I'm assuming
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: they're bigger dudes. I don't know, but like, it would
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: be hard to defend yourself against four people.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: You're right, You're right, but at least you can go
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: down with a fight, you know what I mean.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Now, their key piece of evidence linking evidence that was
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: found was something that was linking the death of Chris
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to that of Shannon's. This was the discovery of shell
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: casings at the house that matched the bullets used in
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Chris's murder.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so they like picked them up from
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: the where they murdered him and brought them home. Maybe
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: are there different I'm.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Not sure if they were the same ones the bullet
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: or it was just like the same brand that matched. Okay,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I see, yeah, but it was the same shell casings
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to match the bullet. I'm just not sure if it
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: was like the shellcasing for the bullet. You know, right now,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: police soon launched a man hunt looking for the individuals
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: who resided at this address, and after tracking phone calls
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: between Davidson and a man by the name of Eric Boyd,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: investigators questioned Boyd, who eventually directed them to a vacant
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: house nearby. On January eleventh, Davidson was arrested. Police found
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Chris's size nine and a half Nike shoe sorry Nike
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: shocks shoes, and a twenty two caliber revolver at the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: residence during the arrest as well. So no matter where
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: they're going, they're just there's evidence trailing behind.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no shit now.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: During questioning, Davidson gave several conflicting accounts of what happened. Initially,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: he claimed that he had left the house on Friday
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and wasn't aware of the crimes. Later, he admitted that
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Cobins and another man named George Thomas arrived at the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: house at around ten pm on Friday or Saturday, he
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure, saying that they had carjacked a couple. Davidson
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: claimed that he saw the victims tied up in the
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: back seat, but he didn't want any involvement and left
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the left to goo smoke some weed wasn't.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: His DNA found yes in yes, yes, okay, okay.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: He said that when he returned twenty minutes later, Shannon
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: told him that she didn't want to die. David's claimed
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that he then used Shannon's vehicle to sell some drugs
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: and wiped it down afterwards, insisting he hadn't raped Shannon
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: or gone beyond the living room.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: To involve himself.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Did he like literally think that the bleach or whatever
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the hell they did would have like gotten rid of everything?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I guess, Oh, man.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: See now this is why I'm not going down a
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: large rabbit hole and much of the information on what
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: they say happened, because it's total bogus, all of it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: It's a I'm not involved, they did it. I did
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: something else, And it's just like a blatant lie, like
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: absolute blatant, Like.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: You're just a complete idiot, Like shut the fuck up.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: No one even wants to hear your voice.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I Like this is where I don't think I could,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: like being an investigator seems like a cool job, but
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: this I just think that I would just be raging,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know how you would interrogate someone without
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: just like wanting to just like fuck them up at
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: the same time for what they've done.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I know, I agree wholeheartedly, trust me now. On January eleventh,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: three individuals Littalvis Cobyan's, George Thomas, and Vanessa Coleman were
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: arrested in Lebanon, Kentucky for relations of the murder. One
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: of the police officers found a computer on them that
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: was being used to look up and follow the news
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: on the murder as it was unfolding. They also found
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a purse containing several of Shannon's belongings, including her cosmetic
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: bag and change purse, as well as her overnight bag.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And I'm not going to go into any further.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Events that any of these people talk about because it's
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: just clearly not worth our fucking time. They all pointed
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: fingers at one another, they were not involved, blah blah
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But five individuals were arrested and charged
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: within days, and they all fail criminal trials. Good so.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: On April sixteenth, two thousand and eight, Eric Boyd was
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the first among the suspects to be tried, and notably,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: he was the only one not to be charged with murder.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: He received a sentence of up to eighteen years in
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: federal prison and is currently serving his time at the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Federal Correction Institute in Yazoo City, a low security facility
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: located in Mississippi, Mississippi.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I wonder why they would have gone about not charging
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: him with Marger.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Well, it's going to be it's going to be what.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: The trigger or whatever kind of thing.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be what evidence points towards what right.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, maybe.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: It's potential maybe he sat in the vehicle and he
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: didn't even go out. I don't know much of this
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: is I couldn't find specifics on why certain things were
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: charged the way they were.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get that, but I also I feel
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: it's like you also kind of think they should all
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: have the same because they were all very much part
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: of it. But I'm sure some did more than others.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: But I'm sure some did. Yeah. Now.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: In August twenty fifth, two thousand and nine, la Talvis
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Cobins was found guilty for his role in the murder
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: of Shannon and Chris. Cobin's actually faced a potential death
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: sentence as he was convicted of first degree felony murder
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: in Shannon's case. Although he was found guilty of facilitating
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Chris's murder. He was acquitted of the charges related to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Chris's rape the following day. In August twenty six, Cobens
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Lamarcius Davidsons trial I'm concluded on October twenty eight, two
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: thousand and nine, when he was found guilty of all
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: charges against him. The jury unanimously decided that Davidson should
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: be sentenced to death for four capital offenses, which included
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: two counts of first degree felony murder and two counts
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of premeditated first degree murder for the deaths of Shannon
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: and Chris. In June twenty ten, Davidson was additionally sentenced
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: to eighty years for other related crimes. These sentences were
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: ordered to be served consecutively to his death penalty sentence.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: What a winner, hey now.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: During the sentencing, Judge bug MARTERR. I believe is how
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: you say them their name described the crimes as quote
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: one of the most incredibly atrocious, cruel and humane cases
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: ever seen. In his courtroom. On December eighth, two thousand
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and nine, George Thomas was convicted on multiple accounts. The
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: jury sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: of parole for each of the four capital convictions. Vanessa
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Coleman was the last of the defendants to go to trial.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Although she was granted immunity by federal authorities for her
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: testimony in the federal case surrounding the carjacking, the state
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: courts ruled that her immunity did not extend to the
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: state level charges of murder and rape, so on May thirteenth,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: twenty ten, Coleman was acquitted a first degree murder, but
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: was found guilty of lesser charges. She was sentenced to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: fifty three years in prison on July thirtieth, twenty ten.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: During her sentencing, Shannon's father expressed his pain in the courtroom,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and he said this quote for me personally, you took
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: my baby. You took my opportunity to say yes to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a young man one day. You took away my dance
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: at her wedding, took away my chance to hold her child,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: my grandbaby.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I just got like goosebumps a couple times through that,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: like holy shit, you took away my opportunity.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Yeap.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Not only not only is he focusing on his daughter,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: but yeah, you took away my opportunity to say.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Yes yeah to a young man one day.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my, clearly Chris expecting Chris to ask his premistion.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Oh god, this is just.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: So fuck now.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I do want to mention one last piece of evidence
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: that was found during the investigation. The journal that I
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: talked about right right now. This was also recovered after
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the arrest of Thomas, sorry Thomas, Cobyn's and Coleman. And
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: an entry from the journal was on January ninth and
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: it read this quote, last night was one of a kind.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: We stayed with a crackhead. That is cool as hell.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: It snowed a little bit, but it's already melted. Let's
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: talk about adventures. I had one hell of an adventure
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: since I've been in the Big TN. It's a crazy
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: world these days, but I love the fun adventures and
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: lessons that I've learned. It's going to be a long,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: interesting year.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Seriously. Yes, this is the day after too, Hey this
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: is on the ninth or yeah, so even it's a
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: couple of days. Yeah, and thinks this is a fun adventure,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: like a life experience kind of thing. Yeah, wow, okay.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: A forensic document examiner verified that the handwriting was a
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: positive match to Coleman's handwriting. Now, that is the end
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: of the case. But it's not the end of the
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: case because lastly, there was some controversy that came up
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: in twenty eleven surrounding this whole thing. The presiding judge
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: at the time, who overseen all of their trials, had
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: stepped down to a reported opioid addiction, and long story short,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: some retrials were granted because the judge had an addiction
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: problem and could have potentially impacted the trials.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but also like so, like, I mean, these
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: people deserved what they got. Yeah, Like I hope that
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: the retrials get to make them get worse.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: In May of twenty thirteen, George Thomas was retried and
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: convicted on thirty eight charges related to the kidnapping, rape,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and murders of Shannon and Chris. On June fourth, he
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus twenty five years.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Thomas remains in cars rated serving life without the possibility
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: of parole. On November twentieth, twenty twelve, Vanessa Coleman was
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: retried and found guilty of a thirteen out of seventeen
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: counts related to the kidnapping, rape, and murder of.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Shannon and Chris.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Though she was acquitted of charges connected to Chris Newman's murders,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: her sentence was reduced to thirty five years in prison,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: down from the original fifty three bullshit. In twenty nineteen,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Eric Boyd, previously convicted of being an accessory, face new charges.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: His trial began with jury selection in August fifth, and
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: by August thirteenth, the jury found him guilty on all charges,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: including felony murder, premeditated murder, and aggravated kidnapping. Boyd was
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: sentenced to two life terms and his direct for his
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: direct involvement in the horrific crimes against Shannon Christiansen and
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Chris Newman.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Was he the one that was had gotten eighteen years
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: or something prior to.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I think me double check. I get a little bit
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: confused with which one's witch here.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: That's fair, that's fair. There was one that had gotten
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: substantially less because it kind of seemed like he wasn't
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: all that or something.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was him. He was sentenced up to eighteen years. Initially,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: he was the only one who did not get tried
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: from murder out of the.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Five, okay, but now he has.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, including felony murder and premeditated murder.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: So and that's the case of Shannon Christian and Chris Newman.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's a wild one.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is just just a bag of shit.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah you can say that again.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Sometimes cases just like have you really
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: questioning humanity? And this one does.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: And like I said, I could do ten episodes on
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: this case just with the he said she said bullshit. Yeah,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: it's funny because that's an actual song. But anyway, I digress,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: but it and it's just like reading through that, I'm like,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: are you fucking kidding me?
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Like what's the point of that?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, my semen was literally found in this person's orifice,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I didn't even do anything.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I just wasn't in.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I went and smoked weed because I didn't want to
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: be a part of it.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Was it?
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: What me?
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Fuck?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah that song wasn't me, shaggy yeah wow.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: But they caught me with the murder. Wasn't me?
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Fuck?
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Just like a bunch of idiots, a bunch of like
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: nasty motherfucker fuckers like it just that you can't even
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: describe these people.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I think like, if you're a longtime listener, you know,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I like to play Devil's advocate and I already kind
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: of talked about that with the mob mentality earlier, the
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Devil's advocacy thing on that. But I, for the life
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: of me, cannot put myself into their mindset. It makes
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: zero sense. Nothing that they did made any sense, because
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: there's there's time where I'm like, Okay, you know what,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: this guy did this horrific thing. It's it's sexually driven
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and you know what, maybe he's a predator, maybe he's
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: a pedophile, and you know what, he's born and had
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: these things when he was younger, and it correlates through
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: his life and it put him there. We can see
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: these steps through someone's life and it like not that
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: it's okay to do these things, but we see why.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: There is no we see why.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing, and no we're remorse either Nope, not a
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: single fuck given. So that doesn't make any sense either.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: It just makes you think that they're complete monsters and
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: they've done bad shit prior to or you know, we're
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: going to do more or something.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, they probably would have done more if they got
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: away with that. I can only imagine what would have
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: been next for them.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and you said that they might have been
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: on some sort of drug, right, Yeah, I think I
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: don't have no idea what life the effects of that
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: drug would do to a person.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: No, I think it's a PCP, which if i'm if
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not mistake, I think it's a hallucinogenic PCP effects.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Let see what Google has to say, because I don't
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: know my drugs. PCP may cause hallucinations, distorted perception of sound,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: and violent behavior.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: So I'm just kind of thinking like they're probably almost
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: having an outer body experience of sorts.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: But then you think later on, I don't know, later
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: on you think you realize what the fuck did I
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: just do?
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: What did I do? Yeah?
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Like coming down, you're like, oh my god, what the
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: fuck happened? Like I killed someone? But no, instead they're
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: writing in a journal being like what an adventure.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this year is going to be amazing because it
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: started so great. Oh gosh.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so fuck these douche canoes. I can say that
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I honestly can't say I remember one of their names.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: In my head, I was just like, Okay, Douice Canoe one, two, three,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: four or five.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: That's pretty much how they should be remembered if I'm
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: being honest.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: So hopefully you guys got through that one. Like I said,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: if you guys want to do a deep dive on this,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I don't. There's times where I'm like, yeah, I recommend
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: doing a deep dive because it is worth it. This
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: one's not worth it. It's just it's ridiculous.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: It's a joke.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: What these people say, what they claim happened, their defense,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: It wasn't me, all of it. It's a fucking joke.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: So it's not worth a deep dive. Fuck these people.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think it would be either. No.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: So yeah, So I'm a little angry over this case.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I know this case is very maddening. I'm not gonna lie.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: But if you guys want to check out our socials,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: we're gonna stop talking about this one because we're just
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: gonna move on at this point. If you want to
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: check our socials all that stuff, it's in the description
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: of this podcast. If you want to give us a review,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: we had appreciate that we are an indie podcast, produced ourselves,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: written ourselves, researched ourselves, you name it.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: It's all us. That's it. It's us.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, well done until next week, I guess.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Right, until next week on Tuesday. And the Halloween is
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: coming soon.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: The Halloween. The Halloween serves the title the Halloween.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Well well Halloween Week, right.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I was going through our our itinerary for this month,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I finished selecting all the cases with
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: with your approval and some of the stuff we talked about,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: we we have quite the list.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: A month it's gonna be it's gonna be a month
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: and a half.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be wild.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: And I know we've already had a couple of messages recently,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: and we had someone talking about it on Patreon today
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: or I guess when you're listening to this now, it was yesterday,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: But I digress. Yes, Three Urban Legends is back again
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: this year as well. Yeah, we're gonna try keep going
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: as long as we can, as long as I can
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: find Urban Legends that are not the same ten ones
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: repeated over and over.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: But honestly, if you did do ones from like the
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: first Halloween week, I probably wouldn't remember them.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: You probably would you think I think you would.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, maybe a come back to me.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Who knows, I think you would. Anyways, we uh we
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: appreciate you guys being here. Thank you very much and
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: uh until Tuesday. Until next time, stay wicked.