We are both mothers. After his conviction and trial, the fate of Yingying Zhangs body came to light. My mothers idea of a safe space shifted with my departure, from the immediacy of our home to the territorial bounds of a homeland. The jury was not told about his death wish. Ive spoken with many friends and colleagues in physics about this case. Brendt Christensen has been convicted of the murder of 26-year-old doctoral student Yingying Zhang, whose body has never been found. 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 Steve Beckett, attorney for the Zhang family, according to ABC. 116313 (2021) [j53] view. To lure female victims into his car, Christensen claimed to be a police officer. 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 . It was labeled Government Exhibit 1A and shown on the first day of the trial. CHICAGO (WLS) -- The ABC7 I-Team on Friday obtained never-before-heard information in case of murdered University of Illinois Chinese scholar Ying Ying Zhang. Beckett said, so far, no search has begun at the landfill for Zhang's body. Zhangs family reportedly provided the first gift for the endowment. 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. The answer is no. The driver, to his credit, took me to my friends place. 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. Tragically, and horrifically, her family has not been given that closure. Im surprised, though perhaps I should not be, by how little awareness there is. Her life was swallowed by the dark currents of race, gender, and border politics. April 27, 2022. Sep 2017 - Dec 20225 years 4 months. He told authorities that he was at home around the time in question. Shell never be found.. The music starts and a dam breaks in me. 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. 10. Yingying Zhang. YingYing Zhang was a student from China who was murdered in Illinois. This greatly alarmed counselors, but they later deduced that he was not in immediate need of hospitalization. Since the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic caused by a new beta . Yingying Zhang-Zhang; Sylvia Rohlfer; Jay Rajasekera . After this, he allegedly disposed her personal items, around the Champaign-Urbana area. The potential site was alleged to be a landfill in Vermilion County, along the Illinois-Indiana border. 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. Articles Cited by Public access. And me, myself will never agree with that. He pauses after every few words and presses his lips, as if to hold back the flame rising through him. 216-228)Shanghai JiaoTong University Press (in . She was even decapitated. I stare at the slide for a very long time. 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. In a flurry of anguished messages, she told me to stop wearing high-heels so I could run faster in case of danger. He also claimed he choked Zhang for 10 minutes as she fought for her life. 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. That recording provided them with the key piece of evidence outlined in the affidavit. 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 . MRS Proceedings 1753 . Christensen stated that he brought Zhang back to his apartment, and otherwise held her in his apartment against her will, the affidavit alleges. Dated June 1, 2017, it concludes with a line in English, Life is too short to be ordinary!. 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 was convicted of kidnapping and killing Zhang at trial in June, and later was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release. She was last seen on surveillance video at her . 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. However, he soon broke down and told authorities that he had picked up an Asian girl, but she was not in his car for a long time. Yingying Zhang is from a small city in South east China called Nanping (a prefectural city in the Fujian province). Ph.D. student at Unversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Yingyings life was precious. Photo: Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette via AP. 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. On most days, its barely noticeable; then suddenly, the sharp end declares its piercing presence. People from the FBI also testified that Zhangs DNA and her blood were found inside Brendts apartment, which unmistakeably linked him to the crime. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. However, just three minutes later, the car returned, and Zhang was seen getting into it. Her phone was disabled moments later. I pretended that our discussion was an academic exercise because I could not bear the thought that in the fragile mind of my mother, who had raised me as a young widow, Yingying was me and I was her. "A lot of news coverage of . 2021 | Journal article DOI: 10. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Illinois has outlawed the death penalty, but the case was tried in federal court. 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. Facebook reminds me that I have a memory from four years ago. Citations 15. / CBS Chicago. Zhang's father said if his daughter's remains are ever found, her family plans to take her body back to China. After reviewing hours of interviews and hundreds of pages of documents on him, Im haunted by a sense of familiarity. Publications 10. h-index 3. The memorial garden for Yingying Zhang outside Campbell Hall on the UIUC campus, near where she was last seen. Murderer Brendt Allen Christensen. Yingying Zhang was a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who went . Referenced Authors. Please let us bring Yingying home," Ronggao Zhang said. Body Discovered Date Never Found. A federal jury convicted Christensen in June. its incredibly painful, Bullis said in court, according to CBS Local. Yingying Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, sobs as her husband addresses the media. This study showed . 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. The judge has denied bail for Christensen. Can we find that guys mother? she asks. 37. I find a clue in the jury notes. 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. ABC reports that Bullis testified that she Christensen seemed excited and proud when he discussed killing Zhang. All Rights Reserved. Authorities narrowed their search down to 18 four-door Saturn Astra vehicles registered in Champaign County and interviewed the owners. Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, as she was headed to sign a lease for an off-campus apartment in Urbana. In a series of surveillance videosUIUC has more than 2,000 cameras on campusshe gets on a bus. Zhang's family said they believe the best thing to do at this point is allow federal, state, and local authorities to determine the feasibility of recovering her body. The family also said they are working with the University of Illinois to create a gravesite in her memory. The investigators said that even with the information provided by Christensen, the recovery of Zhangs body will be tough. 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. Earlier this week, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created an endowment, called Yingyings Fund, that is aimed at helping international students during times of hardship, when they need it most, according to the funds donation page. 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. The Chinese government keeps the total number of executions per year classified. As an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Christensen worked briefly on the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest particle physics experiment where I spent over a decade of my career. Hes also accused of stabbing and choking her and comparing himself to Ted Bundy. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Race Asian. On Friday, June 9, Yingying left the office during lunch hour to sign a lease for a new apartment across town. "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. Prosecutors said Christensen raped, choked and stabbed Zhang before beating her to death with a bat and decapitating her. 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. The trial, from that moment on, was no longer about the certitude of Christensens guilt but whether he deserved to die. The remains of Yingying Zhang, a Chinese scholar at University of Illinois who was murdered in 2017, could be in a landfill in central Illinois, according to multiple reports, though her body has . The moment the page loaded, I looked away. My mother who lives in China believes that criminal suspects should be tortured till they confess, my 2017 self wrote, that innocent until proven guilty is a frightening flaw of the U.S. justice system., The post concluded with a hashtag, #help., I read the words now and am startled by the casual cruelty. (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. Yingying Zhang Zhang; Zhonghua Gao (Contributorpp. Alpha was very healthy and energetic otherwise. I watched it again this spring, when haunting images from the mass shooting in Atlanta were still in the news, and every day seemed to bring fresh reports of harassment or assault against people who look like me. Its sadly ironic that prisons are called penitentiaries or correctional facilities, while theyre designed for neither repentance nor rehabilitation but segregation and retribution. Yingyings family believed that Christensen should be executed. However, Mike refused to divulge any information about the location of Zhangs remains. Y Zhang, X Qian, Z Peng, N Yang. Its worth cannot, and should not, be measured by the extent of state-sponsored punishment exacted on the man who took it. 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. 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. 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. China Central Television ran a feature: The Terrifying Right to Remain Silent60 Days after Yingying Zhangs Disappearance. Around 2 pm, a CCTV camera spotted Zhang in a bus stand located directly opposite the universitys very own radio and television station. 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. 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. On June 9, 2017, the day Zhang went missing, she was supposed to meet a leasing agent to sign for a new apartment where she planned to stay. I felt fine the next morning, as if it were all just a dream. The menacing images appear to come alive, two monsters manifesting the paucity of our moral imagination. . Verified email at umn.edu. To be a Chinese student or scholar in the U.S. is to chart a lonely existence. However, Brendt never returned for a second counseling session like he was asked to. 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. As per Zhangs family lawyers statements, the contents of the dumpster were taken to Danville, where it was compacted twice. On June 15, 2017, Christensen was interviewed at the FBIs Champaign office. (Zhang Family Photo via AP, File) PEORIA, Ill. (AP) The Latest on the trial of man charged in slaying . The heart of this question is not about measuring the harms of specific conduct but mapping the contours of state authority. Its on the T-shirt Yingying wore in a photo shortly after arriving in the U.S. 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. 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. Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. 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. Among the hundreds of exhibits used in the trial, theres a 90-second clip. Tragically, and . The Chinese government closely followed Brendt Christensens trial, and the prosecution was determined to seek the death penalty. Zhang was observed on video walking to an intersection and standing at a bus stop. A large media contingent awaiting the start of the Yingying Zhang news conference at @Beckett6Steve's office in Urbana. Completely normal, perhaps a bit awkward but with no unusual vibes.. A new documentary, Finding Yingying, premiered at film festivals last year to critical acclaim and is now available on streaming platforms. Jul 2021; Xu Junhao; Yingying Zhang . 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. Without a body, prosecutors based their case on DNA evidence found at Christensen's apartment, and the defendant's own boasting of having killed Zhang in a conversation with his girlfriend. The case was dismissed. 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. Zhang, circa 2017; Brendt Christensen. 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Its generally estimated to be in the thousands and accounts for 80 percent or more of state executions globally. First published on August 7, 2019 / 6:12 PM. 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. Friday the I-Team reported information that government and defense attorneys both wanted kept quiet during the trial. For the closing statement at the penalty phase of the trial, Christensens defense presented a 72-page powerpoint on why his life should be spared. 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. "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. Prosecutors indicated in court filings that Christensen may have destroyed the remains. Less than 10 percent of murders and 20 percent of rapes are committed by strangers. We may be sizable in number, but we are rarely seen or heard. Three days before Christensens arrest, the Chinese government had just issued new rules aimed at curbing police abuse. The U.S. Attorney for Central Illinois, John Milhiser, as he spoke, Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, sobbed and the woman standing next to her appeared to be holding her upright. Now, among the familiar sight and through the familiar sound, I also see Yingying. At the time of my disagreement with my mother, a former Ph.D. candidate in physics at the same university had been apprehended and charged with the kidnapping and death of Yingying. She knows how hard it is to raise a child. He confessed to posing as an undercover police officer and picking Zhang up before bringing her back to his apartment. The fund had already amassed more than $30,000 by Wednesday morning. Read More: Where is Brendt Christensen Today? Its loss can never be repaid. He was arrested on June 30, his 28th birthday. How Christensen may cause harm, or be harmed, within prison walls did not appear to be of concern. Most of them would not have known the context behind my post. The black sedan that picked up Yingying was quickly identified as belonging to one Brendt Christensen. June 16, 2021. 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. In fact, the details of how Zhang died, which came out during trial, were awful. However, soon, through the lenses of CCTVs, the police learned that the answer might be a lot closer to home than people thought. 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.. 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 minute later she gets in the car and it drives off. Investigators believe Zhang is dead . My biggest concern is that the suspect wont get a severe punishment, Yingyings father says in the film. The affidavit provides a detailed accounting of the last moments Zhang is seen. The same jury who convicted him later split on the death penalty. Zhang was a visiting scholar at the university. She is gone. In the previous study, we revealed that SMA/CORM2, through releasing CO induced macrophage reprogramming toward M2 polarization fulfills the anti-inflammatory effect and promotes liver regeneration (Song et al., 2021).However, besides the macrophage-mediated inflammatory process, other inflammation . 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. ILLUSTRATION:JORDAN LEE. Main text. Very new to the country, Zhang still hadnt settled down properly when a devastating state of affairs snuffed out her wonderful life. Reports also claim that Brendt claimed to be a serial killer, but that claim has never been substantiated and is believed to be false. 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. 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. Christensen stated that he offered the Asian female a ride. 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. Ms Zhang's parents and . 3.2.Expression profiles of HMGB1, and TLR4 signaling molecules during APAP-induced liver injury. 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. One says that I might have had an allergic reaction, which is the version I swear to because the alternative is unthinkable. Cultural difference makes for a convenient excuse to validate the self and exoticize the other. Yingying Zhang, 26, a visiting scholar doing research at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, went missing on June 9, 2017 in Champaign, and her body was never found . Brendt had previous mental health issues as an ABC news report mentioned that in 2017, he had admitted to having homicidal intent after conducting researches on serial killers. 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 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. Born on December 21, 1990, in Nanping, Fujian Province, Ying Ying Zhang was a Chinese student at the University Of Illinois. Police continue search for missing person, We are releasing this video as we continue our search for Yingying Zhang, missing since Friday, June 9. I argued that its safer for me because Im tall. Zhang's father said if his daughter's remains are ever found, her family plans to take her body back to China. 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. 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. Police searched her apartment and found nothing. We condemn his brutal and malicious actions and we hope that he suffers the rest of his life as he made Yingying suffer in the final moments of her life., He added, We now understand that finding her may be impossible.. Born to a working-class family in the southern city of Nanping, Yingying received her masters degree from Peking University and worked as a research assistant at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Ph.D., 2016, Xiamen University. With Zhang reported missing, there was a massive uproar in the university. In the documentary "Finding Yingying," which is now playing in virtual theaters, director Jiayan "Jenny" Shi turns the attention to Ms. Zhang and her family. By the time they provided that information, it was almost 18 months after she would have been placed in the landfill, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Eugene Miller, ABC reported. I could not move, could barely see or speak, but I was lucid. But he can be interrogated day and night until he confesses.. Because a unanimous verdict was not reached, Christensen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. "Due to the compaction process, Yingying's bodily remains may be very, very small in size," Beckett said. On the left is a grim, gray facility with barbed wires and a watch tower. August 7, 2019 / 6:12 PM The same jurors took less than 90 minutes to convict Christensen last month in the killing of Yingying 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. Associate Professor, Tsinghua University - Cited by 8,825 - Nanomaterials - Nanochemistry - Carbon nanotubes Yingying Zhang - update. 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. For those opposed to the death penalty, is replacing the needle with a cage the only option? 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. Superior Unidirectional Water Transport and Mechanically Stable 3D Orthogonal Woven Fabric for Human Body Moisture and Thermal Management. She was 26. Zhang was remembered as intelligent and extroverted. Every person deserves safety, but when does justice bleed into vengeance, and how may our desires for protection embolden the systems that harm us? As per Zhangs family lawyers statements, the contents of the dumpster were taken to Danville, where it was compacted twice. Reactions: ShHolmz, altojack, MajorHoople and 8 others. I am a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. 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). In 2017 she went missing on her way to sign a lease, and after missing a bus. On June 9, 2017, Yingying had left to catch a bus to go view an apartment to rent and was never seen alive again. When the police searched his car, nothing stood out of the ordinary at first glance. Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. A bilingual memorial service for Zhang will be held on Friday in Savoy, Illinois. Born 12/21/1990, she grew up in the Jianyang District, Nanping City, Fujian Province, China. She clutches the mic. Missing Since 06/09/2017. 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