We may be sizable in number, but we are rarely seen or heard. Author pages are created from data sourced from our academic publisher partnerships and public sources. According to the affidavit, authorities allege that he admitted to driving around the UI campus when he observed an Asian female with a backpack standing at a corner appearing distressed. Her phone was disabled moments later. If even one juror opposed, then the life sentence was applied. Yingying ZHANG, Professor (Full) | Cited by 438 | of China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou | Read 47 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG . Christensen is not a social, charismatic person, and so is unlikely to recruit others to commit violent acts on his behalf. Five jurors agreed with this point. Zhangs friends, too, had no idea about her whereabouts, and they were worried about the visiting student getting into trouble in an unfamiliar place. As per Zhangs family lawyers statements, the contents of the dumpster were taken to Danville, where it was compacted twice. In 1988, Democratic nominee for president Michael Dukakis would see his candidacy doomed as he answered no to this debate question: If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? He lost to George H. W. Bush, whose team ran a series of attack ads, using the likeness of one Black criminal to stoke racial fear. That alleged admission built on previous statements that Christensen made to the FBI in which he allegedly confessed that Zhang had been in his car, although he claimed she left it voluntarily, the affidavit says. April 27, 2022. Eager to clear her boyfriends name, Bullis agreed to wear a wire for the FBI and accompany her boyfriend on a memorial walk for Zhang. The suspect, Brendt Christensen, pleaded not guilty and refused to give up information. Brendt Christensen was convicted of visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang's 2017 murder. Friday the I-Team reported information that government and defense attorneys both wanted kept quiet during the trial. 15. HER BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND. Berkeley host: Professor Dan Portnoy Research Summary. The Wisconsin native had just graduated from UIUC with a masters degree in physics, after deciding that a Ph.D. was not for him. Born on December 21, 1990, in Nanping, Fujian Province, Ying Ying Zhang was a Chinese student at the University Of Illinois. The FBI approached Bullis, who was very confident about Brendts innocence. Christensen stated that he offered the Asian female a ride. ILLUSTRATION:JORDAN LEE. I felt fine the next morning, as if it were all just a dream. The same power structures undergird the institutions tasked with holding her killer accountable. 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. "If you have any humanity left in your soul, please end our torment. Shraman Mitra. My mother insisted that predators would not care for an old woman like her, though she was barely 40. Its on the T-shirt Yingying wore in a photo shortly after arriving in the U.S. Murderer Brendt Allen Christensen. And there's plenty of other news articles about . If you are interested to know more about this specific case and where Zhangs killer is now, we have got you covered. Publications 10. h-index 3. The Terrifying Right to Remain Silent60 Days after Yingying Zhang's Disappearance. Cameras show her getting into a black car and authorities identified Brendt Christensen as the suspect. Chemistry and biochemistry instructors must help students to develop the ability to visualize and manipulate 3D biomolecular structures and critically analyze them and their relationship to their functions. I was too heavy! I joke with my friends. Brendt Allen Christensen, a physics graduate student, will appear in federal court on Monday, on charges of abducting 26-year-old Yingying Zhang in June. 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.". China Central Television ran a feature: The Terrifying Right to Remain Silent60 Days after Yingying Zhangs Disappearance. The family also said they are working with the University of Illinois to create a gravesite in her memory. When Yingying Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign was thrown into chaos as people searched frantically for the visiting Chinese scholar. Over eggs and coffee, we shared our impressions of criminal justice from growing up in China and how a life for a life was presented as axiomatic. The judge confirmed that its the former. At the end of the verdict form, the jury added a mitigating factor: Mr. University of Illinois PoliceYingying Zhang. Brendt Christensen, the 29-year-old who was sentenced to life in . Tragically, and . Yingying Zhang was born on December 21, 1990 in China. Yingying Zhang. New information is expected to be provided on the search for her body in a . Attorney Steve Beckett, who represents Zhangs family, said last week that defense lawyers provided the information about Zhangs remains as part of an immunity agreement in November 2018, telling prosecutors that Zhangs body was likely in a landfill in Vermilion County in Illinois. I go back to the video and let the clock rewind. I too came to the U.S. for my Ph.D., and studied at the University of Chicago, a two-hour drive from UIUC, where many of my colleagues and friends work. Just imagine a woman opening a water tank and deliberately drowning herself in it. By 9:24 p.m., an associate professor reported that Zhang was missing. Illinois has outlawed the death penalty, but the case was tried in federal court. 13. A large media contingent awaiting the start of the Yingying Zhang news conference at @Beckett6Steve's office in Urbana. She refused to let me out of her sight, and I refused her suffocating love by leaving China as soon as I could. All rights reserved, WATCH: Procession Escorts Body of Fallen Chicago Officer From Hospital, Storm System Could Bring Rain, Snow, and Gusty Winds to Chicago Area Friday, Chicago Police Officer Shot and Killed on Southwest Side, Secret Service, Police Seen Investigating Business in Suburban Lisle. He also claimed he choked Zhang for 10 minutes as she fought for her life. 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. It was invaluable. She was No. Western critics point to this as another example of the countrys abysmal human rights record, while Chinese officials and prominent academics claim that the legitimacy of capital punishment is ingrained in Chinese tradition and endorsed by its people. Her remains have never been found. My friends meant well. "Due to the compaction process, Yingying's bodily remains may be very, very small in size," Beckett said. On June 29, 2017, while Christensen was under law enforcement surveillance, agents overheard him explaining that he kidnapped Zhang. Video showed her at an Urbana, Illinois, bus stop getting into a black Saturn vehicle, and, after that, she vanished without a trace. Of course Yingying's Charley Project casefile has the basics. Friends offered up advice in the comments below. My friends suggest that I was drugged. The last public execution took place in Kentucky in 1936, when 20,000 people gathered to watch the hanging of a young Black man convicted of rape. What happened to Yingying could never have happened in China, she insisted, echoing the talking points on state media that U.S. authorities were only paying attention to the case because China is strong. After moving to the U.S., I would soon realize how my body is perceived differently here and slowly learn how to navigate space with unwanted attention. ABC 20/20 brings into focus the kidnapping and murder of a Chinese scholar named Yingying Zhang who went missing on 9 June 2017. ? or IF he was free? Several lamented that while foreigners in China are showered with privileges, Chinese people overseas endure second-class status. its incredibly painful, Bullis said in court, according to CBS Local. Christensen's attorneys told prosecutors that the day after he killed Zhang, Christensen placed her body in three garbage bags, and put the bags in the dumpster outside his apartment building, Beckett said. Students grouped together to find her, while the FBI was brought on to help the local police department. Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law Schools Paul Tsai China Center and a particle physicist. 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. The public execution, according to Michel Foucault, was not only a judicial but also a political ritual, through which the state manifested its absolute power. The portion of that private landfill that was being actively used at the time was about half a football field in width, and, by the time Christensens attorneys informed authorities about the remains, they would have purportedly been covered by at least 30 feet of fill from later garbage hauling., It is evident that any attempt to recover Yingyings remains would be complicated and expensive, would require government oversight and the cooperation of the landfill owners and would have no certainty of success, said the statement. Steve Beckett of the Beckett Law Office in Urbana said Friday that Zhang's family learned from prosecutors in the case that her remains could be in a landfill in Vermillion County. Calls to her cell phone went unanswered. She played in a band and had ambitions of becoming a professor in China. Main text. She left her quaint, mountain top home town after receiving a scholarship to study at the Chinese Academy . I laugh. Clothing/Jewelry Description A pink and white flannel long-sleeved shirt over a white shirt, jeans, white shoes, and a . Three days before Christensens arrest, the Chinese government had just issued new rules aimed at curbing police abuse. By this time, Zhangs family flew in from China and helped in the search. It was labeled Government Exhibit 1A and shown on the first day of the trial. Very new to the country, Zhang still hadnt settled down properly when a devastating state of affairs snuffed out her wonderful life. He was convicted two years later. With no news of the Chinese student for several hours, university authorities decided to approach the police and file a missing person report. She is gone. The family of murdered Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang has finally learned what happened to the body of their beloved daughter. ID found on disambiguation page, needs clean-up. On Friday, June 9, Yingying left the office during lunch hour to sign a lease for a new apartment across town. Both the darkness and the light are part of what makes us human. When Yingying Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was thrown into chaos as people searched frantically for the visiting Chinese scholar. We now understand that finding her may be impossible," he said. Cultural difference makes for a convenient excuse to validate the self and exoticize the other. Now, among the familiar sight and through the familiar sound, I also see Yingying. Missing From Urbana, Illinois. (Zhang Family Photo via AP, File) PEORIA, Ill. (AP) The Latest on the trial of man charged in slaying . 0000-0003-3769-079X; 0000-0003-3819-5467; . She was supposed to check out an apartment to lease and never showed up. Steve Beckett, Zhangs family lawyer said, It is evident that any attempt to recover Yingyings remains would be complicated and expensive, would require government oversight and the cooperation of the landfill owners, and would have no certainty of success(Federal investigators) described for us that at this stage, with decomposition and then compaction, the size of the remains could be smaller than a cellphone.. According to the University of Illinois police, Zhang, a graduate student from China, disappeared on June 9, 2017. At the sentencing phase of the Christensen trial, one of the aggravating factors the jury agreed with was Yingyings particular vulnerability due to her small stature and limited ability to communicate in English. Ten thousand years of civilization and were still relying on physical size for protection. The drive from the airport is the longest distance in the world. I stare at the slide for a very long time. Her name was Yingying Zhang. A black sedan circles around the block and stops in front of her. Authorities interviewed Christensen who allegedly told authorities that, between 2 and 3 p.m. on June 9, 2017, the day that Zhang disappeared, he could not initially recall his whereabouts. She walks over and leans in the passenger side window. Statement from family's lawyers: @WCIA3 pic.twitter.com/SaYqeuwE3h. Brendt Christensen, 30, kidnapped, tortured and killed U of I scholar Yingying Zhang in 2018. Ten of the 12 jurors voted for the death penalty. According to ABC News, Law enforcement believes the bags were then taken to a landfill in Danville, Illinois. But it was too late to recover her body. I feel sorry that Ive brought knowledge of this gruesome crime to people dear to me, but Ive always felt responsible for Yingyings death, that Im complicit by my profession. Days after the murder, Christensen said he put Yingyings clothing, backpack, cell phone, books and other personal items into a large duffel bag and then distributed them in dumpsters throughout the Champaign-Urbana area. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. One of them, a law student, noted that the presumption of innocence is a first principle and a literally foundational American value.. However, theres no doubt, sadly, that Zhang is dead. Police noticed that the Saturn in video footage had a sunroof and cracked front passenger hubcap, as did Christensens car, alleged the affidavit. "It is evident that any attempt to recover Yingying's remains would be complicated and expensive, would require government oversight and the cooperation of the landfill owners, and would have no certainty of success," he said. Cops are also more likely to commit domestic abuse than the general population. In 2013, Zhang graduated from Sun Yat-sen University at . When the police searched his car, nothing stood out of the ordinary at first glance. Since the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic caused by a new beta . At present, Brendt Christensen is a federal prisoner serving his life sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Coleman II, in Florida. And thus, even though they said that the FBI is probably looking into it, they did state that it would be quite challenging a process. Dated June 1, 2017, it concludes with a line in English, Life is too short to be ordinary!. 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? Federal prosecutors have said Christensen posed as an undercover officer to lure Zhang, 26, into his car on June 9, 2017. The following month, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Christensen allegedly claimed that he believed he made a wrong turn because the female became panicked. He initially claimed that he then let the female out of the vehicle in a residential area a few blocks away from where he picked her up. Yingying is on stage with her band. Yingying Zhang Zhang; Zhonghua Gao (Contributorpp. She was last seen on surveillance video at her . Yingyings life was precious. She wanted to make a difference in the world.. However, even with massive searches and attractive cash rewards announced, the few leads the police got led to nothing. Thats because Christensens attorney said during an opening statement that Christensen had killed Zhang, but disputed some of the evidence against him. Audio and video recordings were played for a federal jury in the murder-kidnapping trial of Brendt Christensen on Friday --- including a recording of Christensen's chilling account of how he kidnapped and murdered Yingying Zhang, a promising young environmental engineer from China in June 2017. We are both mothers. On most days, its barely noticeable; then suddenly, the sharp end declares its piercing presence. The attorney argued he had mental health issues and the case was essentially to set up the next phase of the trial, Christensens sentencing. 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. 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 . Age 26 years old. 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?. Forever.. 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. After reviewing hours of interviews and hundreds of pages of documents on him, Im haunted by a sense of familiarity. But he can be interrogated day and night until he confesses.. Beyond the immediacy of war, when is a state justified to kill? 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 judge has denied bail for Christensen. On the left is a grim, gray facility with barbed wires and a watch tower. Yingying Zhang is from a small city in South east China called Nanping (a prefectural city in the Fujian province). Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, as she was headed to sign a lease for an off-campus apartment in Urbana. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. Yet historically, the Middle Kingdom was not any more punitive than its Western counterparts, and recent surveys show a two-thirds support rate for the death penalty in China, roughly the same as those from the U.S. over the same time period. She refused. Yingying Zhangs remains were never found. With Zhang reported missing, there was a massive uproar in the university. We were the same age. He seemed like a normal physics grad student. 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. Investigators believe Zhang is dead . Yingying Zhang was known as a compassionate, talented, joyous, and intelligent woman. Beckett said the defense team for her killer, Brendt Christensen, disclosed the location of Zhang's body as part of a failed immunity agreement. The investigators said that even with the information provided by Christensen, the recovery of Zhangs body will be tough. Christensen is still in a downstate jail, awaiting assignment to a federal penitentiary where he will spend the rest of his life. Authorities narrowed their search down to 18 four-door Saturn Astra vehicles registered in Champaign County and interviewed the owners. With a confession on hand, the FBI arrested Brendt Christensen and charged him with the murder of Yingying Zhang. The defense was signaling to the jury that life in prison is already a very harsh sentence and sufficient punishment for this crime. At one point the driver had tried, but failed, to drag me out of his car. Follow Author. 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 . I also recommend this Washington Post article, which links to a partial transcript of the trial. Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. The defense attorneys opening statement shocked everyone in the courtroom. Steve Beckett, Zhangs family lawyer, Yingyings father, Ronggao ZhangIf, upon hearing this, later, In addition to this, a memorial stone with Zhangs name was placed on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Most sexual assaults are never reported and fewer than three percent lead to a conviction. Who, or what, keeps a community safe? . Copyright 2023 WLS-TV. Even as the family of Yingying Zhang acknowledges the near impossibility of her remains ever being found, . Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get day-to-day video coverage of what's going on in China and beyond!Three years have passed since the kidnapping and mur. the use of decision analytic models in cost . Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. Share; . Show more detail . While capital punishment has little effect in deterring criminal behavior, in the era of mass incarceration, vocal support of the death penalty has become an effective tool for elected officials, including judges and prosecutors, to signal their tough stance on crime, hence appealing to the nations racist impulses and the publics thirst for vengeance. "The Zhang family reports this as information they have received and cannot vouch for its truth," he said in a statement. Police said that, on June 9, 2017, Zhang went to UIs Turner Hall where she conducts research and then returned to her apartment for lunch. As per Zhangs family lawyers statements, the contents of the dumpster were taken to Danville, where it was compacted twice. The night ended with me being helped into an Uber, where I stayed for the next three hours. 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. 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. In one of the audio recordings, according to ABC, Christensen described how Zhang fought back, saying, that it was supernatural almost how [Zhang] just didnt give up. He then claimed he attacked Zhang with a baseball bat before decapitating her. Yingyings disappearance quickly made headlines on both sides of the Pacific. According to this unsealed motion, he was placed on suicide watch and isolated from the general population for several months. After a mistrial, Hernandez, 56, was convicted at a second trial in 2017. Yingying Zhang was a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who went . Referenced Authors. There was a trial, but it was more about whether he would get the death penalty (he didnt; he got a life sentence), than it was about guilt or innocence. . WGN-TV reported that he raped and beheaded Zhang, and implied he had 12 other victims, but this was never proven. Yingying Zhang. Reactions: ShHolmz, altojack, MajorHoople and 8 others. 216-228)Shanghai JiaoTong University Press (in . (Feature Image Credit: ABC 20/20). U. of I. The issues of racism, misogyny, and mental health crises in the sciences and in graduate school did not start with Christensen and have not vanished with his incarceration. Christensen was found guilty on June 24, 2019, of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of lying to investigators. The trial, from that moment on, was no longer about the certitude of Christensens guilt but whether he deserved to die. As the information was provided under immunity, prosecutors were not able to use or communicate that information to anyoneincluding her familyduring the criminal trial, according to a statement from the Zhang family released on Wednesday morning. Her disappearance was big news in China as well as the United States as the Urbana-Champaign community mobilized to find the promising young environmental engineer who was researching crop production. Having seen how much Yingyings family has suffered, Shi, the director, narrates in the film, I really hoped for the death penalty. We met for breakfast in Chicago and I asked about this statement. 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 . 24, 2019, of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of lying to investigators news! 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