On Mike Pelletier, the only person so far to write a book on the Knoxville Horror

By Nicholas Stix

On Mike Pelletier, the only person so far to write a book on the Knoxville Horror David in TN writes (May 21, 2016): Nicholas, Three years ago I predicted Jamie Satterfield would not write the book. Well, she hasn’t. This morning, Saturday May 21, I emailed her asking how the book is coming. No answer. Don’t people who write books on big crime stories rush to get them into print? I couldn’t find an email address for Michael Pelletier, but discovered a mailing address: PO Box 4841 Maryville, TN 37802-4841 wednesday, june 8, 2016 at 12:37:00 p.m. edt By David in TN Nicholas, I wrote Mike Pelletier a letter and he telephoned me. We talked for about 15 minutes. He never considered trying to get a print edition published. He attended the Coleman retrial. I saw him there but thought he was a wire service stringer. We've since exchanged a few emails. Someone I know had the book on Kindle and I've been able to read it, 224 pages. Mike Pelletier's Knoxville's Endless Nightmare is written like a legal treatise or lawyer's brief. Pelletier is critical of the lawyers on both sides. He says George Thomas' attorneys were the best of the bunch. An indigent defendant got literally the best lawyers in town to represent him. Which an ordinary citizen wouldn't. Pelletier saw appellate issues everywhere. He told me the federal courts still may overturn Cobbins' and Davidson's convictions due to Judge Richard Baumgartner's malfeasance. Pelletier also thinks Coleman might have been used as a witness, which could have put Thomas on death row. Pelletier calls it a racial crime and seems to have talked extensively with the victims' families. He sees Gary Christian hovering over the trial. However with the emphasis on legalese, it's not like the book you would write on the Knoxville Horror. Friday, September 2, 2016 at 11:34:00 p.m. edt By David in TN This is an entry from nearly 10 years ago on the only book on the Knoxville Horror. It was Knoxville's Endless Nightmare, by Mike Pelletier. It's still the only book, available on Kindle only, no printed book. Jamie Satterfield left the Knoxville News-Sentinel in 2021. She wrote for a few obscure sites in East Tennessee on environmental issues. Her favorite topic was a 2007 coal ash spill After the 2019 trial and conviction of Eric Boyd, Jamie Satterfield never wrote about the Christian-Newsom trials again. She now works as an investigator for the Knox County Public Defender's office. Friday, February 6, 2026 at 10:16:00 PM EST By David in TN Another point Pelletier mentioned. After the first reports of the torture-murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, in law offices and corporate headquarters in Knoxville there was a knee-jerk reaction. "They went there to buy drugs." Knoxville's White liberals had to find a way to blame the victims. The last time I communicated with Pelletier six or seven years ago, he told me, "Nobody in Knoxville talks about the Christian-Newsom case any more." Friday, February 6, 2026 at 11:35:00 PM EST