Prosecutors argued on Tuesday that accused killer Brendt Christensen tried to pick up another young scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hours before Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese scholar visiting the university, went missing.
The young agriculture researcher was never seen or heard from again. Within days, investigators tracked the Saturn Astra back to Christensen. Hogan testified that she declined to get in the vehicle, and walked away, telling the jurors"he didn’t seem like a cop." On June 12, 2017, after campus police had video of Zhang getting into a black vehicle, her disappearance became a suspected kidnapping case and the FBI got involved. That same day, FBI agents and campus police approached Hogan to see if her experience and Zhang’s disappearance were connected.
When agents repeatedly questioned her on whether or not she was certain the man in the photo was the stranger she saw that day, Hogan testified that she"told them I was 60 percent sure." Multiple pictures from the apartment taken by authorities andshown in court included stains on Christensen’s mattress, a baseball bat and leather bondage straps on his bedroom floor, discarded hair from a vacuum cleaner and a knife found in his utility closet.
This man needs life in prison without parole.
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Yingying Zhang? 😀😁😂