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Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

PART 2 | ANOTHER Knoxville Nightmare

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime

4.8683 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Part Two of a Two Part Series KJ dives deep into the harrowing 2007 Knoxville murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom—a young couple whose weekend turned into a nightmare of unimaginable brutality. She unpacks the shocking details of the carjacking, torture, and killings orchestrated by a group of perpetrators in a rundown house.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims,

0:11.4

whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real?

0:30.9

I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts.

0:34.4

Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable.

0:50.4

Music unspeakable. Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.

0:54.0

If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's KJ here back with another episode of Unspeakable. What is going on with you? I know that y'all have been waiting for this part two. You sent me the messages. Release it now, release it now. y'all had to finish riding it because I was still doing more research. So I wasn't holding you up just for no reason. But we're going to jump right back into this one. I'm going to finish it up today. Now, I will give you a quick recap because people have requested that. And, hey, I want to give you exactly what you want. So quick recap in part one. Remember Shannon and Chris, they're dating.

1:29.8

They were supposed to go to a party that night, but they never showed. Family and friends became

1:34.7

upset by this, obviously alerted to the fact that, hey, they didn't show up. Where are they?

1:39.3

They began searching for them the following day. They were alerted at some point to a burning body on the

1:46.3

railroad tracks, and then it would be followed up with the fact that, oh my gosh, it's Chris.

1:51.4

And now everyone is desperately trying to find Shannon. Now, her forerunner, her vehicle,

1:57.7

it was found near Chipman Street, which was about 10 minutes from town or 10

2:03.8

minutes from where the apartment complex was that they were last seen at. And everything was missing

2:09.8

from this vehicle down to the stickers that were removed, except for one sticker that remained right

2:16.5

on the windshield, on the outside where the

2:19.9

rearview mirror would have blocked it if you were sitting on the inside. Remember that the carpets

2:25.2

were muddy inside of the car. Police were able to find Newport cigarettes that were kind of

2:30.3

crushed or used on the floor, her iPod was missing.

2:35.5

And that was something that was very special to her.

2:38.3

So while friends and family were wanting to search for Shannon, they still were asked to step back.

2:45.7

The police said, look, you've got to let us do this investigation in a controlled way.

2:50.5

We understand how desperate

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