Killer Revealed Where He Dumped Yingying Zhang’s Remains—But Finding Her May Be ‘Impossible’
The family of murdered Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang has finally learned what happened to the body of their beloved daughter.
Brendt Christensen, the 29-year-old who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Zhang’s 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.
Christensen, a former physics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois, raped, choked, and stabbed 26-year-old Zhang before beating her with a baseball bat and decapitating her in June 2017. Zhang was a visiting scholar at the university.
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