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  2. On June 9, 2017, Yingying 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.

  3. Jun 24, 2019 · An Illinois jury has found a former PhD student guilty in the kidnap and murder of a Chinese student after abducting her at a bus stop. The court heard that Brendt Christensen, 29, beat...

    • How Did Yingying Zhang Die?
    • Who Killed Yingying Zhang?
    • Brendt Christensen Continues to Serve His Life Term

    Yingying Zhang was a Chinese national enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as a visiting student. She was a brilliant scholar and had won numerous laurels in China before coming to the US in April 2017, where she was supposed to stay for a year. Very new to the country, Zhang still hadn’t settled down properly when a devastati...

    Brendt Christensen, a former Ph.D. student at the same university, was convicted of Zhang’s murder in 2019. When the police began looking into black Saturn Astras around the area where Zhang was last spotted, they came across one Brendt Christensen, who owned the same kind of car. Brendt had previous mental health issues as an ABC news reportmentio...

    The Chinese government closely followed Brendt Christensen’s trial, and the prosecution was determined to seek the death penalty. During the trial, several people, including Terra Bullis, testified against Brendt. People from the FBI also said under oath that Zhang’s DNA and her blood were found inside Brendt’s apartment, which unmistakeably linked...

  4. Oct 1, 2021 · Weeks before, a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China went missing on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her name was Yingying Zhang.

    • Yangyang Cheng
  5. Oct 6, 2019 · He was found guilty in the kidnaping, torture and murder of foreign student Zhang. Christensen, 30, was sentenced to life without parole. Zhang's body has never been found.

  6. Jun 25, 2019 · It took a jury less than two hours to return a guilty verdict in Brendt Christensen’s trial for the kidnapping and murder of University of Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang. The verdict means Christensen faces either life in prison or the death penalty.

  7. Jun 25, 2019 · Christensen had been charged with kidnapping resulting in the death of Yingying Zhang, 26. The sentencing date is set for July 8, when the same jury will decide whether Christensen should...

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