Couple sex attacked & murdered on date night, 'Pot-Mom' feeds baby pot-mac-n-cheese

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom shocked Tennessee in 2007, leading to the conviction and life prison sentences of 4 people. But now a 5th person has been indicted. Nancy Grace looks at the new charges against Eric Boyd. She is joined by lawyer Anne Bremner, private investigator Vincent Hill, psychologist Caryn Stark, Juvenile Judge Ashley Willcott, and reporter Pamela Furr. Grace also digs into the case against an Arizona mom arrested after allegedly feeding her toddler mac and cheese laced with cannabis butter. Addiction expert Dr. William Morrone and lawyer & psychologist Dr. Brian Russell join the discussion.

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0:00.0	MUSIC
0:07.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grayson serious XM Triumph channel 132.
0:17.0	I don't think that we're ever going to get true justice on this earth.
0:23.0	We had heard a report on TV about a body being found that was badly burned
0:29.0	on the railroad tracks, but never did we ever connect it to.
0:35.0	We were two blocks from where she was.
0:38.0	If that had just knocked on the door, walked the streets.
0:41.0	We don't know if we could have saved her life, but she wouldn't have sat there for two days in a trash can.
0:50.0	A crime that strikes terror into the hearts of parents across our country.
0:58.0	A wonderful, bright young couple, carjacked after a Saturday night, date night,
1:05.0	and murdered in the most horrific way you can imagine.
1:12.0	Christopher Newsom tied up, shot in the back of the head, dragged to a railway track and set on fire after a rape.
1:25.0	His girlfriend, 21-year-old University of Tennessee student Shannon,
1:30.0	her fate even more horrific.
1:34.0	Her death comes after hours of torture in which she was raped and tortured with a broken chair leg.
1:48.0	Beaton bleached poor down her throat and over her bleeding body in an attempt to cover up evidence of rape all this occurs while she is alive.
2:03.0	She's tied up with curtains and a plastic bag put over her face.
2:10.0	According to the autopsy, she was suffocated to death.
2:15.0	Nancy Grace crime stories, thank you for being with us.
2:18.0	Straight out to Pamela Furr, crime stories investigative reporter.
2:23.0	In the last hours, someone has appeared in court.
2:28.0	I want the truth of what happened that night, and I want all murderers brought to justice in this case.
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