MRS Proceedings 1753 . Classification Endangered Missing. 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. Weeks before, a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China went missing on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). "Due to the compaction process, Yingying's bodily remains may be very, very small in size," Beckett said. 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. 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 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) . This is based on the information given by Christensens defense lawyers. Christensen, 30, abducted Zhang Yingying on campus in June 2017 before beating her to death with a baseball bat and decapitating her. Friday the I-Team reported information that government and defense attorneys both wanted kept quiet during the trial. She is wearing a gray baseball cap, a white jacket, and jeans. It was invaluable. 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. She was diagnosed with Pyothorax (causes unknown). (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. Citations 15. 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. She is gone. She was No. 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. To view it as an isolated incident, an example of the dangerous few, would be to miss the underlying context and eschew collective responsibility. (2021 Rerelease) 02.01. . Every person deserves safety, but when does justice bleed into vengeance, and how may our desires for protection embolden the systems that harm us? 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. She was even decapitated. 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.. Yingying majored in environmental engineering. The judge has denied bail for Christensen. I had known this before, but seeing the words displayed on his page invoked an intense nausea that I doubled over. I was too heavy! I joke with my friends. Small 2022 . Main text. She was 26. October 1, 2021, 7:30am. Share; . / CBS Chicago. Two days later, he put her personal belongings including her clothes, backpack, cell phone, and books into a duffel bag, and drove around the Champaign-Urbana area, throwing them in various dumpsters. She told police that her husband was a psychopath and that she was 80% certain he had kidnapped and killed the Chinese scholar. 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. Statement from family's lawyers: @WCIA3 pic.twitter.com/SaYqeuwE3h. 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. Yingyings disappearance affirmed my mothers long-held belief that a foreign country is too dangerous for a Chinese woman like me. To be a Chinese student or scholar in the U.S. is to chart a lonely existence. Prosecutors and Zhang's family had pushed for the death penalty , but a jury decision . Shell never be found.. electronic edition via DOI; unpaywalled version; references . My mothers idea of a safe space shifted with my departure, from the immediacy of our home to the territorial bounds of a homeland. However, even with massive searches and attractive cash rewards announced, the few leads the police got led to nothing. 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. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Photo: Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette via AP. Its a potent concept, appealing to our instincts. However, a few precise details matched Brendts Saturn Astra to the one seen on CCTV. YINGYING ZHANG WAS ABDUCTED AND MURDERED IN 2017. Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law Schools Paul Tsai China Center and a particle physicist. 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. 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. Christensen was found guilty on June 24, 2019, of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of lying to investigators. Its on the T-shirt Yingying wore in a photo shortly after arriving in the U.S. Nanoscale thermal transport. The black sedan that picked up Yingying was quickly identified as belonging to one Brendt Christensen. With a confession on hand, the FBI arrested Brendt Christensen and charged him with the murder of Yingying Zhang. 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. She knows how hard it is to raise a child. The federal government was seeking the death penalty. During the trial, several people, including Terra Bullis, testified against Brendt. He was recorded confessing to killing her and has an online history at FetLife re . He confessed to posing as an undercover police officer and picking Zhang up before bringing her back to his apartment. She gets off the bus. The U.S. is the only Western democracy that regularly executes people. 10: 2021: The Vacancy Effect on Thermal Interface Resistance between Aluminum and Silicon by Molecular Dynamics. Yingying Zhang Zhang; Zhonghua Gao (Contributorpp. I am a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York. Verified email at umn.edu. The investigators said that even with the information provided by Christensen, the recovery of Zhangs body will be tough. Initially, during interrogations, Brendt claimed to have mixed up the dates and denied meeting any Asians. The judge confirmed that its the former. 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 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 . Her boyfriend, Xiaolin Hou, testified that the family's only hope was that Zhang's body will be found so they can bury her in China. 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.". I pursued physics, the same discipline as her killer. Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, as she was headed to sign a lease for an off-campus apartment in Urbana. Friends offered up advice in the comments below. . He seemed like a normal physics grad student. Beyond the immediacy of war, when is a state justified to kill? She left her quaint, mountain top home town after receiving a scholarship to study at the Chinese Academy . One of them, a law student, noted that the presumption of innocence is a first principle and a literally foundational American value.. 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. Yingyings disappearance quickly made headlines on both sides of the Pacific. Zhang was observed on video walking to an intersection and standing at a bus stop. Prosecutors and Zhang's family had pushed for the death penalty, but a jury decision on that had to be unanimous. . conference about Yingying Zhang's body at Steve Beckett's . Japan Web Proxy Server*****Jiang Yuzhou was silent for a moment before saying: "You are still young, I can understand that you don't want to be bound by marriage early, but I think we are very suitable, if you want, we can not talk about marriage and talk about a relationship like other couples, you don't have to Just find someone to deal with."In his opinion, Gu Nai suddenly had a boyfriend . 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). 116313 (2021) [j53] view. 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. 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. The suspect, Brendt Christensen, pleaded not guilty and refused to give up information. Powered by. Yingying Zhang - update. The drive from the airport is the longest distance in the world. 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. At the end of the verdict form, the jury added a mitigating factor: Mr. In that split second of irrational fear, I took solace in the fact that he is behind bars. Yingying Zhang. 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 . Follow Author. As per Zhangs family lawyers statements, the contents of the dumpster were taken to Danville, where it was compacted twice. 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. Zhang was a visiting scholar at the university. In England and colonial America, as legal historian Stuart Banner writes, the death penalty circa 1700 was the equivalent of prison todaythe standard punishment for a wide range of serious crimes including arson, theft, and counterfeiting. 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. A source close to the investigation said the landfill has not been searched. Citing Authors. 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. Because a unanimous verdict was not reached, Christensen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. We are both mothers. Red with rage, the old man exclaims: If the U.S. does not address this case properly, well kill one or two American students in China.. She refused to let me out of her sight, and I refused her suffocating love by leaving China as soon as I could. ABC Murdered University of Illinois student Yingying Zhang in a family photo. Ten of the 12 jurors voted for the death penalty. posted in All, Life Thoughts on 03/22/2021 by yingying 0 Comments. ILLUSTRATION:JORDAN LEE. 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. Yingying Zhang was a Chinese national enrolled at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign as a visiting student. My mind had filled in the rest of the plot. Her life is frozen in time, while mine goes on. Court records that had been sealed during the trial of Brendt Christensen, who was convicted in her death, were just turned over to the I-Team. 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?. ABC reports that Bullis testified that she Christensen seemed excited and proud when he discussed killing Zhang. Sep 2017 - Dec 20225 years 4 months. 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. Beckett planned to address the development at a news conference beginning at 3 p.m. CST, but that news conference was later postponed. The same jurors took less than 90 minutes to convict Christensen last month in the killing of Yingying Zhang. Her body has never been found. Her life was swallowed by the dark currents of race, gender, and border politics. The documentary ' Finding Yingying ,' chronicles the disappearance of Zhang and bringing her justice while capturing the devastating impact on her . She played in a band and had ambitions of becoming a professor in China. I replay this clip and reckon that Im again at fault for over-intellectualizing. Yingyings family sued the social workers at UIUC for negligence. However, soon, through the lenses of CCTVs, the police learned that the answer might be a lot closer to home than people thought. Brendt Christensen was convicted of visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang's 2017 murder. 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. The case is being featured on 20/20 on November 15, 2019. To date, Yingying Zhang's remains have never been found. Calls to her cell phone went unanswered. Christensen, 30, was sentenced to life without parole. The defense was signaling to the jury that life in prison is already a very harsh sentence and sufficient punishment for this crime. Of course Yingying's Charley Project casefile has the basics. Who, or what, keeps a community safe? Beckett said the defense team for her killer, Brendt Christensen, disclosed the location of Zhang's body as part of a failed immunity agreement. 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. "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. 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. The I-Team has also learned that soon after Christensen's arrest, he wrote a letter saying he wanted to end his life. I download it and press play. Co-Author. However, Brendt never returned for a second counseling session like he was asked to. Growing up, she had a loving family; Her . Unfortunately, no. Zhang's father said if his daughter's remains are ever found, her family plans to take her body back to China. We share the same feelings. 13. Christensen was accused of saying on tape: Shes gone. Brendt also had a masters in Physics but dropped out from his Ph.D. program and instead claimed that he was searching for employment. 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. The FBI placed Christensen under surveillance and monitored his conversations. 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. That was just hours before Zhang was seen getting into Christensen's black Saturn Astra, the last time she was seen alive. She clutches the mic. 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 U.S. Attorney's office in the Central District of Illinois said Zhang's remains have not been found. 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.. 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. That evening, unable to reach her, Yingyings Chinese colleagues reported her missing to the police. The zonules may directly participate in the formation of cataract via the immune mechanism. Brendt Christensen, a former Ph.D. student at the same university, was convicted of Zhangs murder in 2019. 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. 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. The badge was found by a motorist about two-and-a-half miles from Christensen's apartment. Christensen is serving a life prison term. I work in in the Team for Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment (TEEHTA). Its sadly ironic that prisons are called penitentiaries or correctional facilities, while theyre designed for neither repentance nor rehabilitation but segregation and retribution. The heart of this question is not about measuring the harms of specific conduct but mapping the contours of state authority. Her accusations were never presented to the jury. YingYing Zhang was a student from China who was murdered in Illinois. Born 12/21/1990, she grew up in the Jianyang District, Nanping City, Fujian Province, China. 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. Brendt Christensen, 30, kidnapped, tortured and killed U of I scholar Yingying Zhang in 2018. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Alpha was very healthy and energetic otherwise. However, calls and texts to Zhangs phone went unanswered, and the worry heightened with time. 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. 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. This greatly alarmed counselors, but they later deduced that he was not in immediate need of hospitalization. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. She played guitar and sang in a band called Cute Horse in China. 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. Yingyings body has never been found. 43 Issue (2): 234-246. doi: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003620. 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 . Christensen, a 30-year-old former doctoral student at the university, was arrested later that month and charged with her kidnapping and murder. My research interests include economic evaluations of complex (public) health interventions and personalized healthcare. Her phone was disabled moments later. While Zhang was waiting at the bus station, cameras caught a black Saturn Astra pass her by. Two ABC news teams tell the tale of two families, tragically connected by the 2017 murder of U of I scholar Yingying Zhang. Photo: Stephen Haas/The News-Gazette via AP. Do It Right 2021' . Brendt was also ordered to pay a hefty fine of $250,000 for each conviction. Revisiting Yingyings story at this moment is not only relevant, but also necessary. (AP/AAP) Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, cried . 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. He even displayed a badge. The 26-year-old visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, disappeared June 9, 2017. Three days before Christensens arrest, the Chinese government had just issued new rules aimed at curbing police abuse. But I also knew the real point of tension between us in relation to this case had nothing to do with criminal procedure. Ive spoken with many friends and colleagues in physics about this case. Yingying was still missing. 10. At present, Brendt Christensen is a federal prisoner serving his life sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Coleman II, in Florida. 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. Yingying Zhangs remains were never found. I am passionate . Investigation Discoverys See No Evil: Far from Home chronicles the disappearance and the horrifying ordeal Zhang had to endure before her untimely death. She had previously told people she was going to sign an apartment lease and would return shortly after. Ph.D., 2016, Xiamen University. 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. Christensen, 30, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last month in the June 2017 kidnapping and killing of Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old University of Illinois graduate student who had . Determined to find a closure to the case, authorities decided to turn to CCTVs as a last-ditch effort to locate her. 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. She refused. Directed by Jiayan Jenny Shi, its a tender, intimate portrayal of a promising life cut short, a familys harrowing search for their beloved daughter on a foreign land, and their unrelenting quest for justice. In August 2019, Zhangs family was notified of the potential site of Zhangs remains by the prosecutors. After the trial ended and public attention moved on, Yingyings disappearance has stayed with me like a needle floating in my veins. The jury was not told about his death wish. Its loss can never be repaid. From Yangtze to Mars: The Fiery History of Chinas Space Program, The US Is Building Walls Around Science, and Were All Poorer for It. Zhangs friends, too, had no idea about her whereabouts, and they were worried about the visiting student getting into trouble in an unfamiliar place. There were also statements from Christensen's wife at the time of the investigation in the newly unsealed records. 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. 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. Since then, they've likely been covered by at least 30 feet of landfill. 37. Prosecutors indicated in court filings that Christensen may have destroyed the remains. A bilingual memorial service for Zhang will be held on Friday in Savoy, Illinois. 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. However, on June 29, 2017, Christensen was captured on audio recording while under law enforcement surveillance explaining how he kidnapped Zhang. 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 . Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. HER BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND. As the FBI listened on, Brendt revealed a terrifying truth to his girlfriend. Y Zhang, X Qian, Z Peng, N Yang. For a woman, the most dangerous place is often the home. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Jul 2021; Xu Junhao; Yingying Zhang . 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. The sentencing phase of the trial took place two weeks later. On June 9, 2017, Yingying had left to catch a bus to go view an apartment to rent and was never seen alive again. Alpha, our German Shepherd dog, left us forever on Feb 28, 2021. 15. Forever.. Yingying Zhang; Liangtao Li; Jiarui Guo; Yang Zhang; Xufeng Niu; Yang Wang ; Liang Hu et al. The following month, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The attorney argued he had mental health issues and the case was essentially to set up the next phase of the trial, Christensens sentencing. T. TEB Active Member. Yingying ZHANG, Professor (Full) | Cited by 438 | of China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou | Read 47 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG . April 02, 2022. It took more than two years for Christensen to be convicted. (. She runs after another bus but narrowly misses it. Berkeley host: Professor Dan Portnoy Research Summary. 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. Thus, Zhangs family continues to mourn Zhangs death without even the smallest comfort of being able to lay her body to rest. Her death was not random. 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. 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. With the defense already admitting that Brendt killed Zhang, the jury did not take long to find him guilty of the crime. Zhang's father said if his daughter's remains are ever found, her family plans to take her body back to China. Yingying Zhang (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhng Yngyng) (December 21, 1990 - June 9, 2017) was born in the city of Nanping, Fujian Province, to Ronggao Zhang and Lifeng Ye.Zhang has one younger brother, Zhengyang. 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