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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The defense has rested in the trial of Lemaricus Davidson, the man investigators say was the leader in the torture deaths of a young Knoxville couple.

University of Tennessee student Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, were kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered in January 2007.

The couple was on a Saturday night date when prosecutors say they were jumped by several gun-wielding assailants, taken to Davidson's house and over the next several hours raped, beaten and killed.

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NEW YORK - Crimesider has obtained Leah Ignagni's mug shot, which was taken by Nashville police after she was arrested for three drug charges on Aug. 24, 2009, according to affidavits on the Nashville Criminal Court Clerk Web site.

Police say Ignagni was dating former NFL star Steve McNair, who was found dead with another lover, 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, who they believe killed the married quarterback then herself due to mounting financial pressure and the recent discovery that she wasn't the only one sleeping with McNair.

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NEW YORK - Crimesider has just unearthed arrest records for Leah Ignagni, murdered NFL star Steve McNair's other-other-woman.

Igagni, 25, was arrested in August on three drug charges, two of which are felonies, after police conducted a sting operation and executed a search warrant on her home.

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NEW YORK - Last night Nashville police released the name of Leah Ignagni, slain former NFL great Steve McNair's possible second girlfriend.

Sahel Kazemi, the woman who had been carrying on a relationship with McNair, allegedly shot and killed McNair and then herself on July 4, 2009. Ignagni told police that a woman in the same model car that Kazemi owned had been following her a few weeks prior to McNair's murder, according to a revised police case summary released Monday, Oct. 19.

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NEW YORK - Sahel Kazemi, a sexy young waitress, shot her boyfriend, NFL star Steve McNair, four times, killing him, and then turned the gun on herself, Nashville police say.

But is that the full story? How exactly did a waitress, who had never owned a firearm, suddenly wind up with a loaded, black-market 9mm pistol just one day before the killing?

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NEW YORK - Four days after the shooting death of former NFL star Steve McNair, police delivered their verdict on the Fourth of July killing: it was a murder- suicide. McNair's jilted girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, 20, shot the former quarterback four times inside his rented Nashville condo, then turned the gun on herself, authorities said.

Now, a CBS News exclusive is raising questions about the police findings, and whether Kazemi was really intent on taking both their lives, as police believe.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NFL star Steve McNair, who died in a murder-suicide with his mistress at a Nashville condo, helped pay for a different apartment occupied by another woman, court and utility records show.

Authorities said McNair was shot by 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi on July 4 before she shot herself. Friends said Kazemi suspected McNair was having a second affair with another young woman. McNair was also married.

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JACKSON, Miss. - Even though he left no will, Steve McNair's entire immediate family has been provided for under instructions the slain former NFL quarterback left before his death, his agent said Wednesday.

McNair's wife, Mechelle, is not trying to exclude McNair's mother and two children he had with other women, his agent, James “Bus” Cook, told The Associated Press.

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OREGON CITY, Ore. - Their prayers to save their dying daughter went unanswered. But an Oregon jury has shown mercy on an Oregon couple on trial for using prayer instead of medicine in their failed attempt to save their 15-month-old girl.

Carl Worthington was convicted of criminal mistreatment Thursday, a misdemeanor punishable by no more than a year in jail. His wife, Raylene Worthington, walked free.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Authorities say former NFL star Steve McNair had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when his girlfriend shot him to death.

Tennessee Assistant Medical Examiner Feng Li said Monday that a toxicology report also showed a trace amount of marijuana in the body of Sahel Kazemi.

Police say the 20-year-old Kazemi shot McNair July 4 in a Nashville condo before killing herself.

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