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Elvis Presley Enterprises is deeply saddened by the passing of Knox Phillips. Knox was our friend and we enjoyed working with him over the years and having him with us at many Graceland events. Knox, the son of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, was 9 years old when Elvis recorded “That’s All Right” at his dad’s recording studio located ...
Feb 27, 2023 · KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - The Knoxville Police Department released footage Thursday of several officers’ interaction with Lisa Edwards, the 60-year-old woman who died in custody.
1 day ago · A woman in her 30s was found dead Tuesday afternoon in a burning car near the Dr. Phillips neighborhood, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies said that they were called shortly ...
Apr 16, 2020 · Knox Phillips, the son of renowned music producer Sam Phillips and an enthusiastic ambassador of Memphis music who worked on records by Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson and John Prine during more...
- Details of The Case Were Horrific
- Five People Were Charged and Convicted
- Judge's Pill Scandal Led to Retrials
- The Case Was Steeped in Racial Tension
- The Case Led to The Passage of Two New State Laws
Christian, a 21-year-old University of Tennessee student, and her boyfriend, Newsom, 23, were heading out to a friend's birthday party on the night of Jan. 06, 2007 when they were ambushed and carjacked in the parking lot of a North Knoxville apartment complex off Washington Pike. They were taken in Christian's Toyota 4-Runner to a rental house on ...
Davidson, a known drug dealer who was on parole for carjacking at the time, is believed to have concocted the initial plan to carjack someone for money. He enlisted his brother, Letalvis Cobbins who was visiting from Kentucky; Cobbins' friend, George Thomas; and Davidson's partner-in-crime, Eric Boyd, in the plan. Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas all w...
Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner presided over the initial trials in 2009. In 2011, he resigned and pleaded guilty to official misconduct for buying pain pills from a felon on probation in his court. After it was revealed Baumgartner had been snorting painkillers on the bench and holding court while high, defendants in several h...
The victims were white. The suspects were black. Conservative commentators, white supremacists and others raised questions early on about why the five suspects were not being charged with a hate crime. Mainstream news outlets, including the News Sentinel, were accused of racial bias in their coverage. ► Christian-Newsom murders:Coverage over the ye...
The Channon Christian and Chris Newsom acts were approved by the state Legislature in 2014 to help the families of future victims avoid some of the heartache suffered by the couple's loved ones. The Channon Christian Act puts new restrictions on what criminal defendants and their attorneys can do in trying to portray a victim in a negative light be...
Oct 26, 2017 · A macabre genealogy stretches from Mme Debeinche to the reproductions of crime-scene photos that proliferate in true-crime documentaries and dramas today.
Apr 16, 2020 · MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Knox Phillips, the son of renowned music producer Sam Phillips and an enthusiastic ambassador of Memphis music who worked on records by Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson and John Prine during more than 50 years in the industry, has died. He was 74.
