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. Body found later in a water tank at the top of the hotel, the coroner stated that she died by drowning. If Yingyings remains are ever found, we will return to take her home to China where she belongs, her father said, according to ABC 7. Reports also claim that Brendt claimed to be a serial killer, but that claim has never been substantiated and is believed to be false. One student who had Christensen as a TA wrote on Reddit, I had him 3 years ago for physics 212 TA. My mother forwarded many of these reports to me. Illinois has outlawed the death penalty, but the case was tried in federal court. After the trial ended and public attention moved on, Yingyings disappearance has stayed with me like a needle floating in my veins. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Beckett said Christensen's defense attorneys told federal prosecutors what he did with Zhang's body in November 2018, but the information was provided under a grant of immunity, so prosecutors could not disclose the information to anyone until after the trial. Brendt also had a masters in Physics but dropped out from his Ph.D. program and instead claimed that he was searching for employment. Apr 7, 2021 I work in in the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment (TEEHTA). Today, over 140 countries have abolished the death penalty by law or in practiceat times against popular support for retentionincluding every country in Europe with the exception of Belarus and nearly half of the countries in Africa. Yingying was still missing. After the trial, media asked for access to hundreds of documents sealed during the case. The case is being featured on 20/20 on November 15, 2019. "Due to the compaction process, Yingying's bodily remains may be very, very small in size," Beckett said. Beyond the immediacy of war, when is a state justified to kill? 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. (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. I had known this before, but seeing the words displayed on his page invoked an intense nausea that I doubled over. A jury convicted Christensen of all charges in her death after 90 minutes of deliberation in June. The heart of this question is not about measuring the harms of specific conduct but mapping the contours of state authority. 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) . Zhangs family reportedly provided the first gift for the endowment. First published on August 7, 2019 / 6:12 PM. Investigation Discoverys See No Evil: Far from Home chronicles the disappearance and the horrifying ordeal Zhang had to endure before her untimely death. Yingying ZHANG | Cited by 11,350 | of Tsinghua University, Beijing (TH) | Read 163 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG Her body never found, the family still hoping to someday bring her . 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.". She walks over and leans in the passenger side window. 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. At this time, they think the most prudent thing to do is to allow the authorities to handle the situation and undertake the recovery of Yingyings remains if it is feasible, according to the statement. 116313 (2021) [j53] view. Its clear from an affidavit in the case that authorities thought they had their man, but they needed more evidence to seek an arrest, especially because they did not know where Zhangs body was. Cultural difference makes for a convenient excuse to validate the self and exoticize the other. In June 2017, Yingying Zhang, a young scholar from China went missing from a bus stop near the University of Illinois.The entire encounter was caught on nearby surveillance cameras. Berkeley host: Professor Dan Portnoy Research Summary. 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 . Speaking through an interpreter at Christensen's sentencing, Zhang's father, Ronggao Zhang, appealed to him to reveal where her body is so that the family can take her remains back to China. On June 29, 2017, while Christensen was under law enforcement surveillance, agents overheard him explaining that he kidnapped Zhang. 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. Zhang was remembered as intelligent and extroverted. That was just hours before Zhang was seen getting into Christensen's black Saturn Astra, the last time she was seen alive. Christensen was found guilty on June 24, 2019, of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of lying to investigators. Zhang was a visiting scholar at the university. My mind had filled in the rest of the plot. Associate Professor, Tsinghua University - Cited by 8,825 - Nanomaterials - Nanochemistry - Carbon nanotubes 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. Ten of the 12 jurors voted for the death penalty. April 27, 2022. However, on June 29, 2017, Christensen was captured on audio recording while under law enforcement surveillance explaining how he kidnapped Zhang. Former US doctoral student Brendt Christensen, 29, has been found guilty of the violent abduction and slaying of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017. Zhangs friends, too, had no idea about her whereabouts, and they were worried about the visiting student getting into trouble in an unfamiliar place. But as I research this story, she appears so young to me, like a distant reminiscence. Christensen has never revealed what he did with Zhang's remains. The zonules may directly participate in the formation of cataract via the immune mechanism. At one point the driver had tried, but failed, to drag me out of his car. (Zhang Family Photo via AP, File) PEORIA, Ill. (AP) The Latest on the trial of man charged in slaying . Yingyings father, Ronggao ZhangIf, upon hearing this, later said, If what that man said is true, it further confirms that he is a heartless and evil person We now understand that finding (Yingying) may be impossible. After this news came to light, a memorial service was held for those grieving the death of Yingying Zhang at a church outside Champaign in August 2019. She called the FBI after seeing Christensen's picture on television when he was arrested in June 2017. 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? Zhang was observed on video walking to an intersection and standing at a bus stop. She runs after another bus but narrowly misses it. Was her body ever found? University of Minnesota. After a mistrial, Hernandez, 56, was convicted at a second trial in 2017. In one recording, Christensen is accused of saying that Zhang fought him, and that he took her back to his apartment and held her there against her will last month, CNN reported. During a follow-up investigation, authorities determined that the contents of Christensens dumpster were picked up on July 12, 2017, compacted at least twice, and taken to a private landfill near Danville, Illinois, the statement said. 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?. Photo: Matt Dayhoff/Journal Star via AP. Cameras show her getting into a black car and authorities identified Brendt Christensen as the suspect. 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. After her education, she planned on marrying her fianc and eventually returning to China to become a teacher. One of them, a law student, noted that the presumption of innocence is a first principle and a literally foundational American value.. 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. 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. 43 Issue (2): 234-246. doi: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003620. Shes gone forever. In that split second of irrational fear, I took solace in the fact that he is behind bars. A black sedan circles around the block and stops in front of her. Less than 10 percent of murders and 20 percent of rapes are committed by strangers. That summer was a particularly low point in my strained relationship with my mother, and I had turned to social media for validation of my moral superiority. He does not have to be beaten, my mother wrote. On the other hand, the threat of sexual violence is effectively sanctioned as a condition of incarceration, and 60 percent of sexual assaults in prison or jail are committed by staff. Police searched her apartment and found nothing. Statement from family's lawyers: @WCIA3 pic.twitter.com/SaYqeuwE3h. Show more detail . Prosecutors said Christensen raped, choked and stabbed Zhang before beating her to death with a bat and decapitating her. People line up outside the federal courthouse for the first appearance of Brendt Christensen on July 3, 2017. Brendt Christensen, a former Ph.D. student at the same university, was convicted of Zhangs murder in 2019. 10: 2021: The Vacancy Effect on Thermal Interface Resistance between Aluminum and Silicon by Molecular Dynamics. 13. For me, for myself, the result today seems to tell me that I can kill anyone and I can kill anyone with any kind of cruel method and I will not need to die for it, Yingyings partner of eight years speaks to the press after the verdict. If even one juror opposed, then the life sentence was applied. Nanoscale thermal transport. I am a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. 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. According to this unsealed motion, he was placed on suicide watch and isolated from the general population for several months. Even as the family of Yingying Zhang acknowledges the near impossibility of her remains ever being found, . Yingying's body has never been found. Im one year older than Yingying. 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. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a bacterial infection that can cause severe illness, including septicaemia via blood infection, meningitis and encephalitis in the brain, and perinatal infection or abortion via . Her life was swallowed by the dark currents of race, gender, and border politics. This is based on the information given by Christensens defense lawyers. Yingying Zhang's father, Ronggao Zhang, reads a statement in Chinese outside the federal courthouse in Peoria, Illinois, on Monday, June 24, 2019, moments after a 12-person jury found Brendt Christensen guilty of her kidnapping and death. Her son should say where my daughter is., Lifeng Ye, the mother of Yingying Zhang, cries out in grief as her husband Ronggao Zhang, far left, addresses the media after a jury found Brendt Christensen guilty of her murder. 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. It creates and reinforces a binary: us versus them, good versus evil, the deserving versus the unwanted. The documentary ' Finding Yingying ,' chronicles the disappearance of Zhang and bringing her justice while capturing the devastating impact on her . Brendt Christensen has been convicted of the murder of 26-year-old doctoral student Yingying Zhang, whose body has never been found. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Powered by. On the 9 th of June 2017 a 26 year old Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois went missing. Cruel as his act was, to cast Christensen as a uniquely-depraved individual would be to ignore all the historical and contemporary acts of mass violence, of wars, genocides, slavery, and colonization. The family of murdered Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang has finally learned what happened to the body of their beloved daughter. A source close to the investigation said the landfill has not been searched. She was diagnosed with Pyothorax (causes unknown). On June 9, 2017, Yingying had left to catch a bus to go view an apartment to rent and was never seen alive again. "A lot of news coverage of . He then confessed that he decapitated Zhangs body and disposed of the parts separately to reduce the chances of discovery. As per Zhangs family lawyers statements, the contents of the dumpster were taken to Danville, where it was compacted twice. Now, among the familiar sight and through the familiar sound, I also see Yingying. Im surprised, though perhaps I should not be, by how little awareness there is. The U.S. Attorney's office in the Central District of Illinois said Zhang's remains have not been found. (Feature Image Credit: ABC 20/20). The same jurors took less than 90 minutes to convict Christensen last month in the killing of Yingying Zhang. On June 15, 2017, Christensen was interviewed at the FBIs Champaign office. Brendt Christensen, 30, kidnapped, tortured and killed U of I scholar Yingying Zhang in 2018. Y Zhang, X Qian, Z Peng, N Yang. 37. While a teenager in China, I had many fraught conversations with my mother about who should run errands after dark. 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. I stare at the slide for a very long time. . The female entered his vehicle and attempted to show Christensen where she needed to go through her cell phone map app.. Beckett said, so far, no search has begun at the landfill for Zhang's body. Brendt Christensen, the 29-year-old who was sentenced to life in . She clutches the mic. HER BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND. However, the jury was divided over the decision for the death penalty, as a result of which Brendt was awarded life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2018. 1007/S11426-021 . Since then, they've likely been covered by at least 30 feet of landfill. The menacing images appear to come alive, two monsters manifesting the paucity of our moral imagination. After reviewing hours of interviews and hundreds of pages of documents on him, Im haunted by a sense of familiarity. Referenced Authors. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. On the other hand, law enforcement also learned that Brendt was in an open marriage with Michelle Zortman while dating Terra Bullis at the same time. 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. Her remains have never been found. Every person deserves safety, but when does justice bleed into vengeance, and how may our desires for protection embolden the systems that harm us? "There is nothing in the world that we want more than to find our daughter and bring . Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law Schools Paul Tsai China Center and a particle physicist. The Terrifying Right to Remain Silent60 Days after Yingying Zhang's Disappearance. Yingyings disappearance affirmed my mothers long-held belief that a foreign country is too dangerous for a Chinese woman like me. The suspect, Brendt Christensen, pleaded not guilty and refused to give up information. 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. Citations 15. The 26-year-old visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, disappeared June 9, 2017. She knows how hard it is to raise a child. 0000-0003-3769-079X; 0000-0003-3819-5467; . She told police that her husband was a psychopath and that she was 80% certain he had kidnapped and killed the Chinese scholar. Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. . She is singing a song about youth, where time is all future, brimming with possibilities. Yingying Zhang. YingYing Zhang was a student from China who was murdered in Illinois. Highly Influential Citations 1. As the FBI listened on, Brendt revealed a terrifying truth to his girlfriend. The case was dismissed. For a woman, the most dangerous place is often the home. In August 2019, Zhangs family was notified of the potential site of Zhangs remains by the prosecutors. Beckett planned to address the development at a news conference beginning at 3 p.m. CST, but that news conference was later postponed. We now understand that finding her may be impossible," he said. Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It's June 12, 2019, two years and three days after Yingying went missing, the first day of the jury trial in the United States v. Brendt Christensen. 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. "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. 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. Very new to the country, Zhang still hadnt settled down properly when a devastating state of affairs snuffed out her wonderful life. To date, Yingying Zhang's remains have never been found. I laugh. According to ABC 7, after Christensens trial, it was revealed that he told his lawyers that he put Yingyings remains in three separate garbage bags and placed them in a dumpster outside his Champaign apartment. Authorities think Zhangs body might be in multiple landfills, but thats never been determined for sure. Alpha was very healthy and energetic otherwise. Then came the break in the case: The Saturn. Missing From Urbana, Illinois. Around 2 pm, a CCTV camera spotted Zhang in a bus stand located directly opposite the universitys very own radio and television station. One of her favorite songs was The Rose, a hit in 1980 for American singer Bette Midler, reported The Chicago Tribune. As the case progressed, public discourse in China shifted from critiquing the skills of U.S. law enforcement to questioning the logic of its justice system. With the defense already admitting that Brendt killed Zhang, the jury did not take long to find him guilty of the crime. Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. Yingying Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, sobs as her husband addresses the media. My biggest concern is that the suspect wont get a severe punishment, Yingyings father says in the film. The jury was not told about his death wish. Yingyings family believed that Christensen should be executed. Tragically, and . A journalism student at Northwestern University at the time of Yingyings disappearance, Shi had assisted in the search efforts and witnessed the familys pain from the very beginning. A woman who testified during the trial said Christensen showed her a silver sheriff's star when he asked her to get into his car. Yingying Zhang Zhang; Zhonghua Gao (Contributorpp. Video showed her at an Urbana, Illinois, bus stop getting into a black Saturn vehicle, and, after that, she vanished without a trace. (Photo by Mark Van Moer) Inset, top: Yingying Zhang (Courtesy University of Illinois Police Department). Yingying ZHANG, Professor (Full) | Cited by 438 | of China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou | Read 47 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG . Search For Terms: At 1:39 p.m., she sent a text message from her cell phone to a manager of a different apartment complex in Urbana, Illinois, where she intended to sign a lease. Yingying Zhang was a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who went . Facebook reminds me that I have a memory from four years ago. With no news of the Chinese student for several hours, university authorities decided to approach the police and file a missing person report. In 2013, Zhang graduated from Sun Yat-sen University at . 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. 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. 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. She refused. 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. ABC 20/20 brings into focus the kidnapping and murder of a Chinese scholar named Yingying Zhang who went missing on 9 June 2017. / CBS Chicago. A US former doctoral student has been spared the death penalty for kidnapping and murdering a 26-year-old Chinese scholar, prompting widespread anger in China. The backdrop to her stage features a spiraling pattern in green, yellow, and white: a clock turned upside down. To lure female victims into his car, Christensen claimed to be a police officer. . But I also knew the real point of tension between us in relation to this case had nothing to do with criminal procedure. I was furious at my mother, who appeared oblivious to the cruelty and repeatedly defended the inhumane practice. Share; . Christensen claimed that he drove up to the Asian female, who relayed she was late to an appointment. Beyond the immediacy of war, when is a state justified to kill? I pursued physics, the same discipline as her killer. 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. As I was preparing to write this essay, I spent an evening at my favorite restaurant, where I ate dinner and sipped two glasses of wine by the bar. The night ended with me being helped into an Uber, where I stayed for the next three hours. 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. Yingyings life was precious. 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. The defense was signaling to the jury that life in prison is already a very harsh sentence and sufficient punishment for this crime. The answer is no. "If you have any humanity left in your soul, please end our torment. Yingying Zhang-Zhang; Sylvia Rohlfer; Jay Rajasekera . A minute later she gets in the car and it drives off. Yingying Zhang. Its a potent concept, appealing to our instincts. The answer is no. Ive spoken with many friends and colleagues in physics about this case. At 2 p.m., a black Saturn Astra, driven, police say, by Christensen was observed on video passing Zhang at the bus stop and then circling back to her location, according to the affidavit. It has been shown that a low BCAA diet can lead to dramatic changes in metabolism, including an increase in energy expenditure, enhancement of ketogenesis, upregulation of Fgf21, and a decrease in body weight in mice (Newgard et al, 2009; Lotta et al, 2016; Cummings et al, 2018; Karusheva et al, 2019; Zhou et al, 2019; Richardson et al, 2021 . Among the hundreds of exhibits used in the trial, theres a 90-second clip. 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. There were also statements from Christensen's wife at the time of the investigation in the newly unsealed records. . Please let us bring Yingying home," Ronggao Zhang said. I download it and press play. Reactions: ShHolmz, altojack, MajorHoople and 8 others. However, theres no doubt, sadly, that Zhang is dead. October 1, 2021, 7:30am. According to Beckett, a follow-up investigation determined the dumpster where Christensen placed Yingying Zhang's body was picked up three days after her murder, and the contents were taken to a private landfill near Danville, where they were compacted at least twice. Follow Author. The Chinese government keeps the total number of executions per year classified. 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. My mother insisted that predators would not care for an old woman like her, though she was barely 40. 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. He was arrested on June 30, his 28th birthday. 2021 | Journal article DOI: 10. I am passionate . When she did not turn up on time for the lease signing, the agent sent her a text which went unanswered. She was the first in her family to graduate from college in 2013 and to go on to finish a master's degree in 2016 in the field of agricultural sciences at . 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