KY Woman Convicted In Tennessee Murder

{Knoxville, Tennessee}…A jury in Jackson, Tennessee has convicted Vanessa Coleman of Lebanon, Kentucky of facilitation in the 2007 rape and murder of former University of Tennessee student 21 year old Channon Christian. Coleman was convicted on 13 of 17 charges. Coleman was convicted in 2010 of facilitation in Christian's death, but a retrial was ordered for her and three other defendants after the trial judge in Knoxville acknowledged drug use during her trial. In her first trial, Coleman was acquitted of any crimes committed against Christian's boyfriend, 23 year old Christopher Newsom, who was raped and shot and his body set on fire.