The remains of Yingying Zhang, a Chinese scholar at University of Illinois who was murdered in 2017, could be in a landfill in central Illinois, according to multiple reports, though her body has still not been found, authorities say. A prosecutor told the court on July 5, 2017, that Christensen was recorded at a rally for Zhang by authorities and explained the characteristics of his ideal victim and, according to CNN, pointed out those in the crowd who matched them at a vigil he attended for the missing woman. The person helping authorities record Christensen was his then-girlfriend Terra Bullis. Missing Since 06/09/2017. ? or IF he was free? At present, Brendt Christensen is a federal prisoner serving his life sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Coleman II, in Florida. 43 Issue (2): 234-246. doi: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003620. However, Brendt never returned for a second counseling session like he was asked to. Now, among the familiar sight and through the familiar sound, I also see Yingying. The Terrifying Right to Remain Silent60 Days after Yingying Zhang's Disappearance. We are both mothers. The answer is no. With Zhang reported missing, there was a massive uproar in the university. It creates and reinforces a binary: us versus them, good versus evil, the deserving versus the unwanted. Christensen was accused of saying on tape: Shes gone. Around 2 pm, a CCTV camera spotted Zhang in a bus stand located directly opposite the universitys very own radio and television station. Zhang's father said if his daughter's remains are ever found, her family plans to take her body back to China. Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Calls to her cell phone went unanswered. That was the last anyone ever heard or saw from Zhang. After the trial ended and public attention moved on, Yingyings disappearance has stayed with me like a needle floating in my veins. At one point the driver had tried, but failed, to drag me out of his car. Rights of a criminal suspect were seen as obtuse hurdles inhibiting a swift conviction. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Brendt Christensen has been convicted of the murder of 26-year-old doctoral student Yingying Zhang, whose body has never been found. The strange and twisted life of Brendt Christensen: claims to have killed over 12 people already, vows Yingying Zhang's body will never be found (June, 2019) . Beckett said, after the trial, Zhang's family met with federal prosecutors on July 25, and were told what Christensen's defense attorneys had revealed about what he did with Zhang's remains. The memorial garden for Yingying Zhang outside Campbell Hall on the UIUC campus, near where she was last seen. Yingying ZHANG, Professor (Full) | Cited by 438 | of China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou | Read 47 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG . Death penalty or life in prison: What if neither leads to justice? Two ABC news teams tell the tale of two families, tragically connected by the 2017 murder of U of I scholar Yingying Zhang. Citing Authors. Thats because, not only was Christensen convicted in Zhangs death, but his lawyer revealed in court that he admits to murdering her. Brendt Christensen, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Yingying Zhangs murder, said he put her body in three separate trash bags and threw them in a dumpster. A grief stricken Lifeng Ye, second from right, the mother of slain University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang, is supported by a friend Lin Guiping and Yingying's brother Zhengyang Zhang, right . Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. After his conviction and trial, the fate of Yingying Zhangs body came to light. She knows how hard it is to raise a child. They also found evidence of a part of the car being cleaned extra thoroughly, which hinted towards Brendt hiding something. She refused to let me out of her sight, and I refused her suffocating love by leaving China as soon as I could. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says, Jupiter and Venus appear to 'kiss' in the sky, Belvidere Jeep assembly plant shut down indefinitely. The U.S. Attorney for Central Illinois, John Milhiser, as he spoke, Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, sobbed and the woman standing next to her appeared to be holding her upright. Zhang family attorney Steve Beckett said, based on information provided by federal prosecutors and attorneys for convicted killer Brendt Christensen, her body likely was taken to a landfill near Danville, Illinois, after Christensen placed her remains in three garbage bags and tossed them in a dumpster. The menacing images appear to come alive, two monsters manifesting the paucity of our moral imagination. (Feature Image Credit: ABC 20/20). (AP/AAP) Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, cried . Also part of the case that was sealed: a motion to exclude evidence of a lost Illinois State Police badge found on the roadway four days after the disappearance of Yingying Zhang. Dated June 1, 2017, it concludes with a line in English, Life is too short to be ordinary!. Court records that had been sealed during the trial of Brendt Christensen, who was convicted in her death, were just turned over to the I-Team. She was No. Christensen is serving a life prison term. By 9:24 p.m., an associate professor reported that Zhang was missing. Lifeng Ye, mother of slain University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang, cries out in grief as her husband, Ronggao Zhang, left, addresses the media after a jury found Brendt Christensen guilty . Brendt Christensen is a former Ph.D. student researcher from Champaign who was convicted by a federal jury of kidnapping in the death of Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old University of Illinois visiting scholar from China. Illinois has outlawed the death penalty, but the case was tried in federal court. Friends offered up advice in the comments below. Yingying ZHANG | Cited by 11,350 | of Tsinghua University, Beijing (TH) | Read 163 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG Murderer Brendt Allen Christensen. Yingying Zhang was a visiting scholar from China at UIUC. In my proximity to both the victim and the perpetrator, Ive felt, however presumptuously, a particular responsibility: to bear witness to the case as it unfolded, and to try to wring some sense out of this senseless tragedy. We condemn his brutal and malicious actions and we hope that he suffers the rest of his life as he made Yingying suffer in the final moments of her life., He added, We now understand that finding her may be impossible.. Follow Author. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Two months after Yingying went missing, her mother and younger brother arrived in the U.S. As seen about halfway through the film, the humble woman from Nanping weeps in the backseat of a car. Brendt Christensen, a former Ph.D. student at the same university, was convicted of Zhangs murder in 2019. After reviewing hours of interviews and hundreds of pages of documents on him, Im haunted by a sense of familiarity. According to Bullis, who testified during Christensens trial, she felt very conflicted because she still cared for Christensen, but she also cared about what had happened to Zhang. Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. Some documents remain sealed, including Christensen's medical and mental health records, and those of his entire family. Reactions: ShHolmz, altojack, MajorHoople and 8 others. In England and colonial America, as legal historian Stuart Banner writes, the death penalty circa 1700 was the equivalent of prison todaythe standard punishment for a wide range of serious crimes including arson, theft, and counterfeiting. During the eight-and-a-half hours of deliberations, they asked the judge to clarify this question on the special verdict form: By whether Christensen is likely to commit more acts of violence, did it mean IN PRISON? She played guitar and sang in a band called Cute Horse in China. Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law Schools Paul Tsai China Center and a particle physicist. On the 9 th of June 2017 a 26 year old Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois went missing. Associate Professor, Tsinghua University - Cited by 8,825 - Nanomaterials - Nanochemistry - Carbon nanotubes She is gone. I have seen this logo before. He does not have to be beaten, my mother wrote. I was too heavy! I joke with my friends. HER BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND. Beyond the immediacy of war, when is a state justified to kill? According to this unsealed motion, he was placed on suicide watch and isolated from the general population for several months. A world safe and free means that no one is left behind. My mothers idea of a safe space shifted with my departure, from the immediacy of our home to the territorial bounds of a homeland. To do this, representative systems must be strategically selected to stimulate students' motivation. During the trial, several people, including Terra Bullis, testified against Brendt. Search For Terms: I am passionate . Yingying Zhang, Clinical Social Work/Therapist, Chicago, IL, 60640, (872) 274-4302, As a first generation immigrant, I recognize the unique experience individuals face in life. Zhang was observed on video walking to an intersection and standing at a bus stop. The former girlfriend of accused killer Brendt Christensen, who recorded his alleged admission of brutally killing 26-year-old Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang, testified Wednesday that Christensen . We may be sizable in number, but we are rarely seen or heard. Christensen, a 30-year-old former doctoral student at the university, was arrested later that month and charged with her kidnapping and murder. He then confessed that he decapitated Zhangs body and disposed of the parts separately to reduce the chances of discovery. I could not move, could barely see or speak, but I was lucid. The remains sought by Yingying Zhang's family for proper burial, and whose whereabouts the killer had kept from them, may be "impossible" to retrieve By Jeff Truesdell Published on August 8, 2019 . However, Mike refused to divulge any information about the location of Zhangs remains. To her, supporting capital punishment in this case is not an abstract position; its about thinking through what true justice is for a family that has lost so much. Prisons cannot solve the problem of prevalent harm in society and are in fact part of the problem, as they perpetuate the logics of power and domination, of segregation and dehumanization, which are also the logics of patriarchy and white supremacy. WGN-TV reported that he raped and beheaded Zhang, and implied he had 12 other victims, but this was never proven. October 1, 2021, 7:30am. The U.S. Attorney's office in the Central District of Illinois said Zhang's remains have not been found. The kidnapping and murder of Yingying Zhang occurred in Urbana, Illinois on June 9, 2017, when Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen, a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. But the Zhang family understands that the authorities are still considering an attempt to locate and recover Yingyings remains.. She exited the bus and tried to flag down another one, but it continued past her without stopping. He was recorded confessing to killing her and has an online history at FetLife re . It was invaluable. Her body was never found. Investigators believe Zhang is dead . The family also said they are working with the University of Illinois to create a gravesite in her memory. The moment the page loaded, I looked away. In that split second of irrational fear, I took solace in the fact that he is behind bars. Determined to find a closure to the case, authorities decided to turn to CCTVs as a last-ditch effort to locate her. I was furious at my mother, who appeared oblivious to the cruelty and repeatedly defended the inhumane practice. She was diagnosed with Pyothorax (causes unknown). 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Prosecutors and Zhang's family had pushed for the death penalty , but a jury decision . Brendt was also ordered to pay a hefty fine of $250,000 for each conviction. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. Penculikan dan pembunuhan Yingying Zhang terjadi di Urbana, Illinois, Amerika Serikat pada tanggal 9 Juni 2017 ketika Zhang, seorang sarjana tamu di Universitas Illinois Urbana-Champaign, diculik oleh Brendt Allen Christensen, seorang warga kota Champaign dan alumni jurusan fisika di universitas yang sama. When the police searched his car, nothing stood out of the ordinary at first glance. One says that I might have had an allergic reaction, which is the version I swear to because the alternative is unthinkable. Born 12/21/1990, she grew up in the Jianyang District, Nanping City, Fujian Province, China. She loved to sing and was part of a band called Cute Horse. She arrived in the U.S. that April as a visiting scholar, her first time living abroad, and had planned to enroll in the Ph.D. program at UIUC that fall. Authorities narrowed their search down to 18 four-door Saturn Astra vehicles registered in Champaign County and interviewed the owners. Facebook reminds me that I have a memory from four years ago. It just adds to the tragedy, Miller said, because Zhangs family doesnt have her body back. Yingyings family believed that Christensen should be executed. (MORE: Man found guilty of killing visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang) Mike Christensen believes Zhang's killing could have been avoided if counselors took action then and there. So let me just say here at the outset, it will be startling for many of you to hear Brendt Christensen killed Yingying.. Im surprised, though perhaps I should not be, by how little awareness there is. Citations 15. In a flurry of anguished messages, she told me to stop wearing high-heels so I could run faster in case of danger. The International Journal of Human Resource Management Informa UK Limited 1 - 25 0958-5192 2021/08 [Refereed] An Eco-Systematic View of Cross-Sector Fintech: The Case of Alibaba and Tencent. The heart of this question is not about measuring the harms of specific conduct but mapping the contours of state authority. He told authorities that he was at home around the time in question. The horrific details of her death were made public when Brendt Christensen was caught on an audiotape, talking about how he killed Zhang and then disposed of her body, stating that her family would never find her. Zhang's family said they believe the best thing to do at this point is allow federal, state, and local authorities to determine the feasibility of recovering her body. The suspect, Brendt Christensen, pleaded not guilty and refused to give up information. The 26-year-old visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, disappeared June 9, 2017. The FBI approached Bullis, who was very confident about Brendts innocence. The song is Avril Lavignes Complicated. If I look back on the early aughts, when life revolved around school and heartbreak was about boys, Avrils voice will accompany those reels of memory. They dont. Tragically, and horrifically, her family has not been given that closure. To view it as an isolated incident, an example of the dangerous few, would be to miss the underlying context and eschew collective responsibility. Prosecutors indicated in court filings that Christensen may have destroyed the remains. Christensen is still in a downstate jail, awaiting assignment to a federal penitentiary where he will spend the rest of his life. Yingying Zhang; Liangtao Li; Jiarui Guo; Yang Zhang; Xufeng Niu; Yang Wang ; Liang Hu et al. Zhang's father said if his daughter's remains are ever found, her family plans to take her body back to China. Like her, I had grown up in a provincial city in China and clung to academic excellence as the only way out. The same jurors took less than 90 minutes to convict Christensen last month in the killing of Yingying Zhang. Christensen stated that he brought Zhang back to his apartment, and otherwise held her in his apartment against her will, the affidavit alleges. I go back to the video and let the clock rewind. New information is expected to be provided on the search for her body in a . That was just hours before Zhang was seen getting into Christensen's black Saturn Astra, the last time she was seen alive. WTTW-TVs Matt Masterson also reported on Wednesday that Christensen has not and will not file an appeal to his convictions. Last edited: Feb 8, 2021. Yingying Zhang was born in 1990 in China and by the time she was 27, she had graduated with a Master Degree and had traveled to the United States to conduct research on photosynthesis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. However, on June 29, 2017, Christensen was captured on audio recording while under law enforcement surveillance explaining how he kidnapped Zhang. To lure female victims into his car, Christensen claimed to be a police officer. It opens with a pair of photos. Beckett said the defense team for her killer, Brendt Christensen, disclosed the location of Zhang's body as part of a failed immunity agreement. One popular response claimed that the situation would have been better had Yingying been Black, Hispanic, or Muslim as these minority groups wield more political power in the U.S. than Asians, especially in a blue state like Illinois. The female entered his vehicle and attempted to show Christensen where she needed to go through her cell phone map app.. Highly Influential Citations 1. Brendt Christensen, 30, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the kidnapping and killing two years ago of 26-year-old Yingying Zhang, a student at the University of Illinois Urbana . This study showed . I am a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. After nine days of trial and less than two hours of deliberations, the jury found Christensen guilty. 10: 2021: The Vacancy Effect on Thermal Interface Resistance between Aluminum and Silicon by Molecular Dynamics. The driver, to his credit, took me to my friends place. The alternative for a crime of this nature is life in prison. The fund had already amassed more than $30,000 by Wednesday morning. Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011, but Christensen was prosecuted under federal law. On most days, its barely noticeable; then suddenly, the sharp end declares its piercing presence. Tragically, and . With no news of the Chinese student for several hours, university authorities decided to approach the police and file a missing person report. 216-228)Shanghai JiaoTong University Press (in . He even displayed a badge. Police searched her apartment and found nothing. Four days after the news broke, a post went viral on Chinese social media, If the Yingying Zhang case took place in China, with attention from the entire country, whats the probability that it would be solved within 48 hours?. Very new to the country, Zhang still hadnt settled down properly when a devastating state of affairs snuffed out her wonderful life. It was labeled Government Exhibit 1A and shown on the first day of the trial. For the closing statement at the penalty phase of the trial, Christensens defense presented a 72-page powerpoint on why his life should be spared. "We hope it will be a solemn place of reflection to all who visit, a place to remember the joy Yingying brought to her family and to everyone she met during her life," her father said. The zonules may directly participate in the formation of cataract via the immune mechanism. One of her favorite songs was The Rose, a hit in 1980 for American singer Bette Midler, reported The Chicago Tribune. Because a unanimous verdict was not reached, Christensen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Red with rage, the old man exclaims: If the U.S. does not address this case properly, well kill one or two American students in China.. Photo: Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette via AP. The judge has denied bail for Christensen. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) exhibits the characteristics of strong metastatic ability and a high recurrence rate, and M2-type macrophages play an important role in this process. 2021 | Journal article DOI: 10. 116313 (2021) [j53] view. Age 26 years old. She refused. Its worth cannot, and should not, be measured by the extent of state-sponsored punishment exacted on the man who took it. I saw the film for the first time in the fall of 2020, after a summer of protests for Black lives was met with raging police brutality. 37. Verified email at umn.edu. 2021. While the countrys Criminal Procedure Law forbids extorting confessions or collecting evidence by illegal means, the regulations contain many loopholes and are poorly enforced. Zhang's father, Ronggao Zhang, said if the information Christensen gave prosecutors is true "it further confirms that he is a heartless and evil person.". Just imagine a woman opening a water tank and deliberately drowning herself in it. The answer is no. Police noticed that the Saturn in video footage had a sunroof and cracked front passenger hubcap, as did Christensens car, alleged the affidavit. My friends meant well. Video showed her at an Urbana, Illinois, bus stop getting into a black Saturn vehicle, and, after that, she vanished without a trace. This greatly alarmed counselors, but they later deduced that he was not in immediate need of hospitalization. Five years ago in April 2017, Yingying Zhang arrived at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an international student and a visiting scholar to pursue her doctorate. Brendt claimed that he had dropped the girl off at a place that looked like a residential area, but could not pinpoint the exact location providing further cause for doubt. Christensen mengajak Zhang untuk naik . The night ended with me being helped into an Uber, where I stayed for the next three hours. Ive never felt as acutely aware of my identity as a Chinese woman in the U.S. My body is a constant reminder of the many ways society renders it vulnerable. Based on this, and other facts uncovered during the investigation of this matter, law enforcement agents believe that Ms. Zhang is no longer alive, the affidavit contends. Brendt Christensen, the 29-year-old who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Zhangs murder, informed his attorneys that after killing and decapitating Zhang, he put her body in three separate garbage bags, then disposed of those bags in the dumpster outside his Champaign, Illinois, apartment. By this time, Zhangs family flew in from China and helped in the search. Explore Scholarly Publications and Datasets in the NSF-PAR. With over 6,000 Chinese students, accounting for 12 percent of its student body, UIUC is home to the largest Chinese community among U.S. universities. CHICAGO (CBS) -- The family of slain Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang said Wednesday they now know where her body might have been dumped, but that it might be impossible to find her remains more than two years after her brutal murder. Wenbing Luo, Jian Wang, Yingying Zhang: Software Quality Evaluation Model based on Multiple Linear Regression and Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method. Yingying Zhang. Please let us bring Yingying home," Ronggao Zhang said. While a teenager in China, I had many fraught conversations with my mother about who should run errands after dark. Earlier this week, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created an endowment, called Yingyings Fund, that is aimed at helping international students during times of hardship, when they need it most, according to the funds donation page. If someone is deemed prone to violence as a free man, then hes likely to become more so in prison, where violence is the norm. Who, or what, keeps a community safe? 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