Anybody seen Al?

From KnoxNews:

They wanted the 4-Runner but wound up taking the lives of a young Knox County couple in brutal fashion, court records made public Friday reveal.

"Originally the plan was to do a carjacking," a pal of fatal carjacking suspect Lemaricus Devall Davidson told a federal agent.

It's still not clear why the alleged carjacking confrontation between Channon Christian, 21, her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, 23, and brothers Davidson and Letalvis Darnell Cobbins turned fatal.

It's not even known yet where the deadly encounter began.

But it ended early Sunday morning in a seedy rental house on Chipman Street, where Christian and Newsom were forced inside at gunpoint, according to state and federal court records.

Newsom was shot, bound and his body wrapped up in bedding and set afire, according to a search warrant application drafted by Knoxville Police Department Investigator Todd Childress.

Police would find his body later that day discarded like trash along nearby railroad tracks. Two days passed before Christian's battered body was found stuffed in a trash can in the Chipman Street house where, records show, Davidson and Cobbins had been living.

Although Western Kentucky Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Rich Knighten told the News Sentinel that Christian had been held captive for "a couple of days," records unsealed by U.S. District Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley at a hearing in Knoxville Friday suggest otherwise.

Complaints prepared by a team of federal agents and prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Tracy Stone, David Jennings, Steve Cook, Mike Winck and Tracee Plowell, indicate that Christian likely was dead by Sunday evening.

And Davidson was ready to run, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Agent Rebecca A. Bobich wrote in an affidavit in which serial robber and Knoxville resident Eric Dewayne "E" Boyd is accused of being an accessory to carjacking.

"On Sunday, Boyd visited Davidson's home on Chipman (Street) in Knoxville," Bobich wrote. "Davidson indicated to Boyd that Davidson was in some sort of trouble and needed to get out of the area because things were too hot. Boyd assisted Davidson in leaving the residence by making sure no law enforcement officers were in the area."

None of the records released Friday indicate how Christian died. Her body wasn't discovered until Tuesday. Authorities have not disputed Knighten's account that she had been raped.

Here are some details of what the young couple went through:

After the couple was kidnapped Channon Christian was forced to watch while Christopher Newsom was raped had his penis cut off and was set on fire then shot several times. After that Channon was beaten and raped repeatedly and her attackers took turns urinating on her. When the animals grew tired of their "fun" they sprayed drain cleaner in her mouth (apparently to eradicate DNA evidence) then cut off her breasts then, finally killed her.

I heard about this on the G. Gordon Liddy show. He wondered where the media and activists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were. After all they expressed enormous interest in the Duke rape case with its racial component.

Where would Sharpton and the media be if the races of the victims and murderers were reversed?