She said she was running behind, but would arrive about 2:10 p.m. At 1:35 p.m., she was observed on video boarding a public bus. But as I research this story, she appears so young to me, like a distant reminiscence. 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. A large media contingent awaiting the start of the Yingying Zhang news conference at @Beckett6Steve's office in Urbana. Co-Authors. The trial, from that moment on, was no longer about the certitude of Christensens guilt but whether he deserved to die. Dated June 1, 2017, it concludes with a line in English, Life is too short to be ordinary!. However, Brendt never returned for a second counseling session like he was asked to. He then took her to his apartment, where he raped, choked, and stabbed her in his bedroom; then dragged her into the bathroom, and beat her to death with a baseball bat before decapitating her. 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 . Christensen stated that he brought Zhang back to his apartment, and otherwise held her in his apartment against her will, the affidavit alleges. She refused to let me out of her sight, and I refused her suffocating love by leaving China as soon as I could. After nine days of trial and less than two hours of deliberations, the jury found Christensen guilty. "There is nothing in the world that we want more than to find our daughter and bring . Most sexual assaults are never reported and fewer than three percent lead to a conviction. June 16, 2021. 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. There, a young woman in a black dress and boots is shredding her voice to the beat. This detail is particularly heartbreaking as members of law enforcement are frequent perpetrators of sexual violence, especially toward women of color, but are rarely held accountable. 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. Its loss can never be repaid. April 27, 2022. After his conviction and trial, the fate of Yingying Zhangs body came to light. Associate Professor, Tsinghua University - Cited by 8,825 - Nanomaterials - Nanochemistry - Carbon nanotubes Born 12/21/1990, she grew up in the Jianyang District, Nanping City, Fujian Province, China. Initially, during interrogations, Brendt claimed to have mixed up the dates and denied meeting any Asians. 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. Authorities narrowed their search down to 18 four-door Saturn Astra vehicles registered in Champaign County and interviewed the owners. From as far as I could remember, my mothers fervid fear of my sudden vanishing filled the air around her. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. The alternative for a crime of this nature is life in prison. A new documentary, Finding Yingying, premiered at film festivals last year to critical acclaim and is now available on streaming platforms. The defense attorneys opening statement shocked everyone in the courtroom. My friends meant well. The answer is no. 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. Jul 2021; Xu Junhao; Yingying Zhang . 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 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. It was revealed that Brendt had dismembered her body and put it into separate garbage bags, which he kept outside his apartment only to be picked up by garbage trucks. YINGYING ZHANG WAS ABDUCTED AND MURDERED IN 2017. Beckett planned to address the development at a news conference beginning at 3 p.m. CST, but that news conference was later postponed. 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. 2021 | Journal article DOI: 10. Bottom: Brendt Christensen (Courtesy Macon . 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. The heart of this question is not about measuring the harms of specific conduct but mapping the contours of state authority. 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. I stare at the slide for a very long time. The Terrifying Right to Remain Silent60 Days after Yingying Zhang's Disappearance. To lure female victims into his car, Christensen claimed to be a police officer. My research interests include economic evaluations of complex (public) health interventions and personalized healthcare. Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. With trucks taking their loads to landfills across the city, authorities figured that her remains might have been spread around several landfills by the time Brendt was convicted. Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011, but Christensen was prosecuted under federal law. (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 work in in the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment (TEEHTA). 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. 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. Christensen, a 30-year-old former doctoral student at the university, was arrested later that month and charged with her kidnapping and murder. Zhang's body has not been found. ID found on disambiguation page, needs clean-up. We now understand that finding her may be impossible," he said. 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. Her remains have never been found. Joined Aug 8, 2019 Messages 18 Reaction score 210. Prosecutors said Christensen raped, choked and stabbed Zhang before beating her to death with a bat and decapitating her. He confessed to posing as an undercover police officer and picking Zhang up before bringing her back to his apartment. I could not move, could barely see or speak, but I was lucid. Ms Zhang's parents and . I am a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. According to the University of Illinois police, Zhang, a graduate student from China, disappeared on June 9, 2017. 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. They have since divorced. From Yangtze to Mars: The Fiery History of Chinas Space Program, The US Is Building Walls Around Science, and Were All Poorer for It. Photo: Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette via AP. Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, as she was headed to sign a lease for an off-campus apartment in Urbana. Cultural difference makes for a convenient excuse to validate the self and exoticize the other. Its a potent concept, appealing to our instincts. Thats because, not only was Christensen convicted in Zhangs death, but his lawyer revealed in court that he admits to murdering her. 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. Deceased/Not Found IL - Yingying Zhang, 26, Urbana, 9 June 2017 #11 *GUILTY* Thread starter liltexans; Start date Jul 2, 2017; . Its worth cannot, and should not, be measured by the extent of state-sponsored punishment exacted on the man who took it. 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. 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 political catastrophes in the first half of the 20th century brought a new urgency and understanding to human rights and the necessity of constraining state power. ABC '20/20' brings into focus the kidnapping and murder of a Chinese scholar named Yingying Zhang who went missing on 9 June 2017. A memorial stone engraved with Yingying Zhang's name in both English and Chinese on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in June 2019, two years after her disappearance. She wanted to make a difference in the world.. After her education, she planned on marrying her fianc and eventually returning to China to become a teacher. The family of murdered Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang has finally learned what happened to the body of their beloved daughter. "An attorney whos been representing the family is evidently holding a news conference this afternoon in Urbana to discuss information the government provided the family following trial based on statements Christensen made to his attorneys late last year and prior to trial," a spokesperson for the attorney's office said in a statement. On the left is a grim, gray facility with barbed wires and a watch tower. Im not trying to find excuses for what Christensen did, but to view it as an isolated incident, an example of the dangerous few, would be to miss the underlying context and eschew collective responsibility. Beyond the immediacy of war, when is a state justified to kill? MRS Proceedings 1753 . Yingying Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, sobs as her husband addresses the media. Her body never found, the family still hoping to someday bring her . I eventually regained some mobility and dialed a friend. 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. By defending features in the U.S. judicial process, I was in fact defending the life I had worked so hard to achieve. Prosecutors indicated in court filings that Christensen may have destroyed the remains. 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. Completely normal, perhaps a bit awkward but with no unusual vibes.. Rights of a criminal suspect were seen as obtuse hurdles inhibiting a swift conviction. Alpha, our German Shepherd dog, left us forever on Feb 28, 2021. Incarceration does not stop or reduce harm in society; it relocates individual harm to places outside public view and promulgates institutional harm in the name of justice. Determined to find a closure to the case, authorities decided to turn to CCTVs as a last-ditch effort to locate her. Photos of Yingying Zhang on a tree on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill. Photo: Stephen Haas/The News-Gazette via AP, This is the last entry in Yingyings journal. Sep 2017 - Dec 20225 years 4 months. While a teenager in China, I had many fraught conversations with my mother about who should run errands after dark. 1007/S11426-021 . She exited the bus and tried to flag down another one, but it continued past her without stopping. The surveillance video was provided by University of Illinois police. "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. "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. The driver, to his credit, took me to my friends place. She called the FBI after seeing Christensen's picture on television when he was arrested in June 2017. Previous research data suggested that Anemoside A3 (A3), a monomeric component of Pulsatilla Chinensis, could prevent and treat TNBC by converting M0 macrophages into M1 immunogen phenotypes. And there's plenty of other news articles about . Her accusations were never presented to the jury. Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law Schools Paul Tsai China Center and a particle physicist. The same jury who convicted him later split on the death penalty. The prison, as Angela Davis and Gina Dent explained, is a border. However, Mike refused to divulge any information about the location of Zhangs remains. The lens zonule is the elaborate system of extracellular fibers, which not only centers the lens in the eye but also plays an important role in accommodation and lens immunity, maintains the shape of the lens, and corrects spherical aberration. . I was furious at my mother, who appeared oblivious to the cruelty and repeatedly defended the inhumane practice. A black sedan circles around the block and stops in front of her. 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. I find a clue in the jury notes. 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. 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 . After the trial, media asked for access to hundreds of documents sealed during the case. 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? Facebook reminds me that I have a memory from four years ago. The U.S. Attorney's office in the Central District of Illinois said Zhang's remains have not been found. 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. 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. Im puzzled over this question to the judge, why the distinction was necessary. The apartment was off-campus, and thus, Zhang had to travel quite a bit from her university to get to it. Age 26 years old. 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. Yingying ZHANG, Professor (Full) | Cited by 438 | of China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou | Read 47 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG . In this security video from the B-4 parking garage on North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, just after 2 p.m. Friday, Ms. Zhang is seen standing on the east side of Goodwin Avenue as a black Saturn Astra (unknown, According to the University of Illinois police. Tragically, and horrifically, her family has not been given that closure. That recording provided them with the key piece of evidence outlined in the affidavit. That was just hours before Zhang was seen getting into Christensen's black Saturn Astra, the last time she was seen alive. The answer is no. I am passionate . Yingying is on stage with her band. Nanoscale thermal transport. If you are interested to know more about this specific case and where Zhangs killer is now, we have got you covered. According to News Gazette, she testified that Christensen typed the following, showed it to her, and then deleted it: It was me. 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. I pursued physics, the same discipline as her killer. Video showed her at an Urbana, Illinois, bus stop getting into a black Saturn vehicle, and, after that, she vanished without a trace. 216-228)Shanghai JiaoTong University Press (in . When she did not turn up on time for the lease signing, the agent sent her a text which went unanswered. 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. Christensen was found guilty on June 24, 2019, of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of lying to investigators. 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. Publications. 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?. 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.. First published on August 7, 2019 / 6:12 PM. By this time, Zhangs family flew in from China and helped in the search. 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. (Matt Masterson / WTTW News) Brendt also had a masters in Physics but dropped out from his Ph.D. program and instead claimed that he was searching for employment. 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. Unfortunately, no. The Wisconsin native had just graduated from UIUC with a masters degree in physics, after deciding that a Ph.D. was not for him. 0000-0003-3769-079X; 0000-0003-3819-5467; . Several lamented that while foreigners in China are showered with privileges, Chinese people overseas endure second-class status. Christensen was convicted of kidnapping and killing Zhang at trial in June, and later was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. 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. 37. 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. University of Illinois PoliceYingying Zhang. Citations 15. I argued that its safer for me because Im tall. While Zhang was waiting at the bus station, cameras caught a black Saturn Astra pass her by. ABC reports that Bullis testified that she Christensen seemed excited and proud when he discussed killing Zhang. Author pages are created from data sourced from our academic publisher partnerships and public sources. 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. The badge was found by a motorist about two-and-a-half miles from Christensen's apartment. Sex Female. 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. Prosecutor Eugene Miller alleged that Zhangs blood was found on a bat that Christensen used to strike Zhang, as well as in other places in his apartment, according to WTTW-TV. . Her life is frozen in time, while mine goes on. "If you have any humanity left in your soul, please end our torment. Apr 7, 2021 (Feature Image Credit: ABC 20/20). Claim Author Page. 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. 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. 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. Height and Weight 5'0 - 5'8, 110 - 140 pounds. Christensen is serving a life prison term. He does not have to be beaten, my mother wrote. (. Growing up, she had a loving family; Her . Yingying's body has never been found. 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. Referenced Authors. On June 9, 2017, Yingying had left to catch a bus to go view an apartment to rent and was never seen alive again. We share the same feelings. Brendt Christensen, a former Ph.D. student at the same university, was convicted of Zhangs murder in 2019. To view it as an isolated incident, an example of the dangerous few, would be to miss the underlying context and eschew collective responsibility. I was terrified that he might see me from the other side of the screen, that he would find out I had visited his profile and make me his next target. I had known this before, but seeing the words displayed on his page invoked an intense nausea that I doubled over. Calls to her cell phone went unanswered. the use of decision analytic models in cost . The jury was not told about his death wish. 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. Yingying Zhang was a Chinese national enrolled at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign as a visiting student. There were also statements from Christensen's wife at the time of the investigation in the newly unsealed records. posted in All, Life Thoughts on 03/22/2021 by yingying 0 Comments. 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. The Chinese government closely followed Brendt Christensens trial, and the prosecution was determined to seek the death penalty. Missing From Urbana, Illinois. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Read More: Where is Brendt Christensen Today? She was observed speaking with the driver through the passenger window for about one minute, before entering the car. For those opposed to the death penalty, is replacing the needle with a cage the only option? My biggest concern is that the suspect wont get a severe punishment, Yingyings father says in the film. 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. He then confessed that he decapitated Zhangs body and disposed of the parts separately to reduce the chances of discovery. She knows how hard it is to raise a child. 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. Born on December 21, 1990, in Nanping, Fujian Province, Ying Ying Zhang was a Chinese student at the University Of Illinois. 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. WTTW-TVs Matt Masterson also reported on Wednesday that Christensen has not and will not file an appeal to his convictions. We were the same age. 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 . He was convicted two years later. After reviewing hours of interviews and hundreds of pages of documents on him, Im haunted by a sense of familiarity. Photo: Matt Dayhoff/Journal Star via AP. Because a unanimous verdict was not reached, Christensen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Reactions: ShHolmz, altojack, MajorHoople and 8 others. The attorney argued he had mental health issues and the case was essentially to set up the next phase of the trial, Christensens sentencing. It took more than two years for Christensen to be convicted. 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 . The only logical explanation, as far as I can tell, is that the jurors were only thinking about violence outside prison, whether Christensen would be able to commit it himself (impossible) or persuade someone on the outside to (unlikely). Given the size of the landfill, the amount of time that has passed, and the amount of additional garbage since dumped in the landfill, Beckett said any attempt to find the body would be very costly. 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. That was the last anyone ever heard or saw from Zhang. Christensen was found guilty on June 24, 2019, of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of lying to investigators. 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