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[woman speaking Mandarin]
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[all speaking Mandarin]
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[woman] "April 30, 2017.
I've been in Illinois for a week.
"University of Illinois is very beautiful,
"kind of like Sun Yat-sen University.
"I fell in love with it at first glance.
"However, I'm feeling a little anxious.
"It's the first time
"I've lived in an apartment alone.
"It's the first time I've lived independently.
"I feel a little bit lonely,
"but I still want to try.
"Pursuing a PhD requires a lot of hard work.
"The rule is simple:
Live a simple life, be effective."
[thunder rumbling]
"May 4, 2017.
"Champaign. Heavy rain.
"I eat my words.
"I broke my promise to myself.
"I missed a class yesterday.
"I'm very afraid of this loneliness.
"If I cannot do what I have planned every day,
"I won't be able to reach the final goal.
So please be calm and learn what you need to learn.
"To study,
stay foolish, stay hungry."
[birds chirping]
"May 10, 2017.
"This is the first day of our trip to Nebraska.
The first time for field work.
"My colleague Guofang and I departed at 3:00 p.m.
"The wide scenery, crop field at the highway
"are quite attractive to me.
"The color of nature, blue sky, green grass, white houses,
"naturally amazing.
"By the way, the road was also special.
"Few cars, and few people,
"only us.
"I have so many similarities with Guofang.
"We like forests.
"We love freedom.
"We are idealists.
"We face difficulties head on.
"The difference is that I may compromise.
I may want to be famous."
"June 1, 2017.
"Speaking English, morning reading, 20 minutes.
"Jogging, 30 minutes, 6:00 to 6:30.
"Study, 40 minutes.
"Breakfast, 20 minutes.
March on!"
This is part of the diary kept by Yingying Zhang
during her first six weeks in the U.S.
Her last communication that summer
was a text message exchange with an apartment rental manager.
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[speaking Mandarin]
[woman speaking Mandarin]
[bell ringing]
[reporter] Police in downstate Urbana-Champaign
are asking for help to find
a visiting scholar from China who disappeared from
the University of Illinois campus last Friday.
[reporter #2] 26-year-old Yingying Zhang has been visiting
one of the school's science departments
for the last month and was staying in university housing.
[reporter #3 speaking Mandarin]
[reporter #4 speaking Mandarin]
[reporter #5] Zhang's father, aunt, and boyfriend
arrived in Chicago this morning.
Mr. Zhang had never left China.
This is the first time he travels to the U.S.
and says he does not plan to leave
until he finds his daughter.
[woman] What's been completely impressive
is how the students have activated
in support of Yingying and her family,
and the police are doing an extraordinary job.
We fully expect her return to campus.
At this point, it's only a matter of when.
[speaking Mandarin]
[Jenny] Yingying's mother
was too distraught and sick to travel.
Instead, her sister accompanied
Yingying's father and boyfriend.
Yingying and I went to the same university in China.
When she went missing,
I was a journalism student in Illinois.
After Yingying's family arrived, I joined the volunteers
and sometimes helped the family with translation.
I also started documenting the places Yingying had been to,
and I hope one day this footage
would help them in some way.
During Yingying's short stay in the U.S.,
her colleagues Guofang and Yan
are the two people who know her most.
They brought us to the cornfield where Yingying used to work.
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[Ronggao speaking Mandarin]
[Jenny, reading] "Today was like a dream.
"The wind is like an excited crazy lady disturbing my brain.
"I feel dizzy.
"Standing on the five-meter-tall tower,
"I held in my hands things that are new to me.
"Field work costs a lot of energy
"and the results come slow.
"However, as someone learning ecology,
"how can I give up?
"Learn from Guofang as much as possible.
"No matter how tired you are,
"turn the result into papers.
Write, write, write."
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[man] We went to her apartment,
and we entered her apartment to make sure--
maybe there was a medical emergency.
I checked the airport.
I contacted hospitals.
I went out to the jail.
We couldn't locate her anywhere.
We knew that she was supposed to go to an apartment complex
to sign a lease,
and she would have needed to take a bus.
So we were able to locate the security video
of her getting on the bus near where she lived.
That was a big step in the case.
She got off that bus,
and she was supposed to get on
another bus which was gonna take her to sign the lease.
And she missed her bus.
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We have over 2,000 cameras on campus.
And it was a telecommunicator working the midnight shift
who noticed what he believed
was her standing near a bus stop.
At that point,
it quickly went from a missing person
to a possible kidnapping.
[reporter] The search for a missing scholar
from the University of Illinois
is now expanding into Indiana.
[reporter #2] The FBI is leading the investigation,
putting billboards like this one
that's near the Indiana state fairgrounds
in places like Chicago, St. Louis, and Iowa.
[reporter #3] The FBI is also offering
a $10,000 reward
for anyone with information.
[reporter #4] Police officers we talked with say they are staying late
and coming in even on their days off because they know
that every minute counts
in a situation like they're dealing with now.
[Liqin speaking Mandarin]
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[Jenny] It was shocking to see Yingying get into that car by herself.
But I immediately recalled a similar experience I had
within the first month of my arrival in the U.S.
Just like Yingying, I was lonely and homesick.
I had a hard time adapting to the language and culture.
I felt lost in this foreign country.
Late one night, after covering a police community meeting
for a journalism class,
I was waiting at a bus stop alone.
A guy who I had seen at a meeting
and who had seemed to be associated with the police
approached me and offered me a ride.
Afraid of waiting in the dark
and trusting that he was an authority figure,
I did something I wouldn't normally do.
I got into his car.
Fortunately, I arrived home safely.
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[woman] She has just been here for six weeks.
I guess she may have the impression
that all Americans are just good.
I mean, she doesn't know the social norm.
Maybe she thinks they are just trying to be friendly,
just trying to help her.
- She didn't know a lot about the culture.
She didn't notice maybe
that person is a dangerous person.
And at that time,
she doesn't want to be late.
That's why I think she just entering the car
very quickly without hesitation.
[indistinct chatter]
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[man] They found her getting into a car,
but since that, there's no more information.
I'm just very, very worried about her safety.
- We are now more of wanting to help,
wanting to resolve the case
instead of spending our time and our effort in being worried.
[all chanting] Let's find Yingying.
Let's find Yingying...
[reporter] There're 360,000 Chinese students in the U.S.,
and because they pay full tuition and cost,
major universities have become dependent on those dollars.
[reporter #2] As much as $14 billion
in economic activity.
[reporter #3 speaking Mandarin]
[reporter #4 speaking Mandarin]
[woman] No, I don't feel safe.
If I walk out on the street, will this also happen to me?
So I actually, I stopped going out.
- My parents just tell me to don't go out at late
or just don't go out at all.
[all chanting] Let's find Yingying!
[Kimberlee] On behalf of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
I want to sincerely thank each and every one of you
for joining us this evening
in a march of hope in honor of
our colleague Yingying.
[Xiaolin] Yingying still needs your help.
She's just waiting for us every minute and every second.
I have no energy or time
to be frustrated or angry.
There's only one thought in my mind,
and that is to try everything to find her.
[applause]
[strumming guitar] Yingying loves music.
And I wrote many songs for her,
and this song is her favorite.
The name of the song is "To Dream Like Child."
[speaking Mandarin]
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[singing fades]
[Jenny, reading] "My dear Xiaolin came to visit me in Shenzhen.
"I feel weird sometimes
"because it feels like we just started dating.
"The way you spoil me and the way you look at me,
"tell me how much you adore me.
"And I like you more each passing day.
"You're fine with me being whatever I want.
"And I know you would tolerate my flaws, and even allow them.
"I have the strength to grow with you
"and to make your edges smoother.
"In dreams, we hold hand in hand
to get through this journey together."
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[reporter] Brendt Christensen, a former physics graduate student,
arrested after the 26-year-old
visiting Chinese scholar vanished.
She was last seen getting into Christensen's car at a bus stop,
taking a ride from a stranger likely because
she was running late for an appointment...
[man] I had a list of all of the Saturn Astras
that were registered to Champaign County,
as well as the surrounding areas.
And we analyzed as much video as we could find to try to
identify a license plate, to try to get something very specific
that we could zero in on a particular Saturn Astra.
That led to a discovery
that the front passenger hub cap was actually broken.
Agents discovered that a black Saturn Astra registered
to Brendt Christensen had that same cracked hub cap.
We go to Christensen's house with that search warrant
to seize that vehicle and try to talk to him.
We asked him about his whereabouts
on the day of June 9, 2017.
- Is it just between the time period
he's asking about, or just literally all day?
You didn't go cruise the campus or anything?
Did you go out to eat or anything?
Go any places...
Look, you know that we didn't bring you all the way up here
to talk about video games and what you got for lunch that day.
Why do you think that we brought you up here?
So who was driving that car other than you on Friday night?
- I've got her getting into your car.
I need to know why.
- You're telling me that I didn't see you driving your car,
driving down Wright Street and turning on University,
and heading south, and then you see her standing on that corner
in that shade tree, didn't you?
That's where you first saw her.
I know that you picked her up.
I know you did.
Okay.
Did you?
Do you remember the girl's name that you picked up?
Tell us about what happened. What time of the day was that?
Okay.
[Anthony] After that interview,
he was our primary suspect.
Ultimately, forensic evidence found in Christensen's apartment
and numerous covert recordings conducted over
the next couple of weeks
gave us the evidence we needed to arrest Christensen.
[reporter] Brendt Christensen, a 27-year-old Champaign man
and former physics PhD candidate,
had been under surveillance
for nearly two weeks before his arrest.
[reporter #2] Christensen was recorded explaining
how he kidnapped Yingying Zhang, holding her at his apartment.
[reporter #3] Authorities didn't reveal how these recordings were obtained.
[reporter #4] Christensen appearing at a rally for his alleged victim
just one day before his arrest.
On his phone, investigators say they found
visits to forums on a fetish website,
including one called Abduction 101
and Planning a Kidnapping.
[reporter #3] Christensen graduated in May with a Master's degree.
[man] He was on the excellent teaching list,
so he was well-reviewed by his students.
There were no discipline issues ever reported about him.
Nobody saw this coming.
[all chanting] Justice for Yingying.
[chanting continues in distance]
- They said the crowd was really further that way.
Yeah, I see some.
Can you walk quickly?
[indistinct chatter]
[Xiaolin speaking Mandarin]
[insects chirping]
- I came prepared. I-I have waders too,
but I think this is our best bet.
So let's go this way.
I need you to stand down there and think like the suspect.
And I want you to think, where could I hide
that nobody would ever find?
- No. - Nothing?
[Christine] Look in front of you.
- [Xiaolin] Down here. - [man] Down here?
[indistinct chatter]
Yep, hold on...
[Xiaolin speaking Mandarin]
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[reporters clamoring] [cameras clicking]
- I'm one of the attorneys for Brendt Christensen,
who this afternoon pleaded not guilty
in the central district of Illinois here in Urbana
to the crime of kidnapping.
He's demanded a jury trial
and he intends to persist in his plea of not guilty.
[reporter] Are you saying that there will not be
a plea deal in your mind at any time?
Because I know she has not been found yet either.
- Well, I'm not gonna comment on how this case ends.
See, that's part of the problem,
We start jumping to conclusions
about how a case like this is gonna end,
and I think this case could go on for a year or more.
He is presumed to be innocent,
and that presumption stays with him until the very end.
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[thunderclap]
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[Jenny, reading] "Life.
"Today, I went to apply for a social security number.
"After exiting the school gate, I could hardly see anyone.
"I felt a little afraid.
"The wind was so hard,
"my umbrella couldn't keep out the rain.
"My glasses were covered with rain drops.
"My hair was dancing frenziedly with the wind.
"I am alone in this foreign country.
"There are not many people like me on the road.
"Cars were passing by, and I was thinking
"it must be very warm inside the car.
"There's nobody to ask for directions!
"I always put my faith in people to help find the way.
"It turns out that's only true in China.
"I went into a laundry, feeling warm.
"A kind elderly black lady asked me with concern,
"'Do you need help?'
"'Yes.'
"She went outside to show me the way,
"and to make sure I could find it.
"There is true love in the world.
"'Thanks so much!'
"'You're welcome baby, no worries baby!'
"My god, she was so nice.
I'm still a baby!"
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[Jenny] Two months after Yingying's disappearance,
Yingying's mother is finally well enough to come.
Yingying's brother, who stayed behind to take care of her,
is also arriving today.
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[speaking Mandarin]
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[barking]
[Xiaolin speaking Mandarin]
[Xiaolin] Today, we still cannot tell
whether she's dead or alive for 100%.
What's more, in this new country,
we're not familiar with the law, custom, and culture,
coupled with language barriers,
which makes it hard-going for us on every step.
At present, we still do not know much
about the investigation because the way the FBI works.
We totally respect their way,
but for us, this journey is too long.
I'm here and proud to tell you again,
we will not give up until we find her.
This is not only the Chinese culture and tradition,
but also Yingying's desire to be with us.
And this may be
the last desire we can fulfill for her.
[man] We work with the FBI,
the university police,
to make this replica of the diary she kept.
- Here's a sentence
in the last page and the last line.
"Life is too short to be ordinary."
[Lifeng sobbing]
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[metal scraping] [chickens clucking]
[Jenny] I don't know how to comfort Yingying's mother
when she talks about her daughter.
The trial has been delayed for over a year,
and there's no breakthrough about where Yingying is.
Worrying about her health,
the rest of the family hasn't told her much about the case.
She doesn't know English and she can't read Chinese.
Sometimes, she would ask me whether Yingying is still alive.
I would say I didn't know.
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[shattered glass clinking]
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Spending time with Yingying's parents,
I think about my parents a lot.
Think about whether it's worth it to them,
the financial and emotional sacrifice
to send me abroad.
Yingying's disappearance is a huge story in China,
as hundreds of thousands of families make the same decision,
sending their children to the U.S. at all costs
for life-changing opportunities.
[plates clattering]
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[Yangyang speaking Mandarin]
[whirring]
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[Jenny, reading] "I called Mom and Dad today.
"They are working hard.
"Dad is a truck driver now.
"It's such hard work.
"I was debating about studying abroad and getting to know
"this unknown world a moment before,
"but the reality is so cruel in front of me.
"What should I choose?
"How could I only think about myself?
"Deep down in my heart,
"having a happy and harmonious family
"is what I want the most.
"I miss my mom.
"I miss my dad.
"I hope they stay healthy forever.
"My dear brother, as long as you're not being lazy,
"I will support whatever you do.
"Remember to buy my brother books!
"So I need to make a lot of money,
"take care of myself, and empower myself,
so that I can take care of my parents and family."
[singing in Mandarin]
[singing fades]
[insects chirping]
[thud]
[wings fluttering]
- Oh!
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[Jenny, reading] "The evening glow parallels
"with a lonely duck to fly.
"The autumn river shares a scenic hue with the sky.
"Fenghuang is so beautiful!
"I'm taking my time for a few days
"to feel this small town.
"This is the Hua Mountain in Xi'an.
"I didn't dare to climb up.
"but I guess the view from top must be beautiful.
"This is my first time being in a northern city.
"Xi'an feels awesome!
"Lots of great food.
"But road here is wide and flat.
"It's too boring!
"I like our road more.
"It has freedom and life!
"How big is the world?
I want to measure the world with my feet."
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[reporter speaking Mandarin]
[cell phone ringing]
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[indistinct chatter]
[light overlapping chatter]
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[man] Going into the trial,
the prosecution team was confident
that we would convict the defendant
beyond a reasonable doubt
of kidnapping Yingying Zhang resulting in her death.
We did not know what the defense was going to be.
[man] In meetings with the prosecutor
and of course with the family,
we have discussed about every scenario
that could possibly happen.
[reporters clamoring]
But, I was surprised.
In 46 years, I had never seen that before.
- It was an opening line so shocking,
it was almost confusing.
- It isn't often when you get one of those Perry Mason moments
with a shocking revelation in court,
but we got one here today.
- The defense attorney faced the jury head-on
saying his client Brendt Christensen
killed Yingying Zhang,
but that doesn't mean he deserves the death penalty.
And while Christensen's lawyers didn't get into the gruesome
and disturbing details about how he killed her,
federal prosecutors did... [voice fading]
[Jenny] The crime was so horrific
that I could barely sit through the trial.
It was devastating and heartbreaking.
According to the prosecutor, on June 9,
Brendt Christensen was driving around the campus,
looking for a victim.
He found a student in the morning.
She didn't get into his car,
and she reported to the police.
In the afternoon,
he saw Yingying standing by herself at the bus stop.
He pretended to be a police officer.
Yingying got into his car.
He then drove back to his apartment.
In his bedroom, he tortured and sexually assaulted Yingying.
Then he carried her to the bathroom
and put her in the bathtub.
He hit as hard as he could in her head with a baseball bat,
but Yingying didn't die.
Then he got a knife.
Yingying even reached up to grab his hand
as he stabbed in her neck.
He decapitated her.
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I didn't see Yingying's family at the end of the day.
Xiaolin sent me a text message
that they didn't want to be filmed
because they were too emotional and devastated.
[man] The defense very shockingly admitted that
Brendt Christensen had committed the crime.
But for them, it wasn't about the guilt of Brendt Christensen.
It was about the death penalty.
The prosecutors were very meticulous
about presenting evidence.
And one of the most important witnesses was Terra Bullis.
[reporter] At the time of the alleged kidnapping,
Christensen was in an open marriage
with his wife Michelle
and a BDSM relationship with his girlfriend Terra Bullis.
Bullis agreed to secretly record
her conversations with Christensen.
Today, when it was his ex-girlfriend's turn to testify,
he didn't look in her direction, not once.
I think a lot of people in the community
and even a little bit of myself, if I think back to it,
like, really judged her.
Who would go to a memorial walk with him,
because she obviously knows he was somewhat involved.
Then we did know like, soon after
that she was wearing a wire that was recording him.
But still, I never thought back and thought like,
oh, maybe she didn't want to be there.
[Terra] That's been something very difficult for me.
People would say, oh, the FBI forced her,
or they manipulated her,
or maybe they were paying me to do this.
When they said, "Are you--
"We think somebody close to you
might be involved",
from the very beginning, it was me who said,
is there a way I can help?
And I felt like that the whole time,
even when it was scary.
And it was.
When he asked me to come to the vigil,
it would be about two weeks
since I had started recording him.
So he was over there on that side
when he said to meet him, um, at the top of the stairs.
[feint chanting] Let's find Yingying.
Let's find Yingying...
[chanting continues]
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It is 6:46, on Thursday, June 29th.
We're at the benefit for the walk.
And Brendt has a thing of alcohol,
and he is drinking while he's here.
When I finally met him on the steps,
he said, "These people are here for me."
[distant chanting]
Let's find Yingying!
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[chanting resumes] Let's find Yingying!
[Xiaolin] Yingying still needs your help.
She never gives up as long as there's a glimmer of hope.
So we cannot give up either.
There's only one thought in my mind,
that is to try everything to find her.
[Terra] When we came back here,
he took my phone and opened the notepad.
And he said,
"It was me."
He showed me,
and then he erased it,
and said...
"She was number 13."
And he showed me.
He erased it.
And then he said, "She is gone."
And then he showed me, and then he erased it.
And then he just typed the word "forever".
I had to sit through the whole concert
after having seen that,
knowing that I was sitting next to the person
who was responsible.
And even while we were sitting in the concert,
there were some young ladies in front of us.
And he said we should follow them after the concert.
They would be a good choice for...
for someone to do that again.
I was terrified because I realized that I had
more hours with this man,
but also that this is someone's daughter,
this is someone's sister, this is someone's girlfriend.
And I'm someone's daughter, I'm someone's sister,
I'm someone's girlfriend.
And if it were me, I would want people to try and help.
So I wanted to find her too.
And if he felt comfortable talking to me,
I just had to keep going
and I had to pretend nothing was wrong.
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[Anthony M.] One of the things Christensen told Terra
was that Yingying was his 13th victim.
The FBI investigated this,
and we have not been able to find any other victims.
But we also don't know what we don't know.
[Jacqueline] While this verdict was not surprising,
it was emotional, as we saw smiles
and a few tears in the courtroom as the judge
announced Brendt Christensen guilty as charged.
After about two hours of deliberating,
the jury convicted Christensen on all three accounts,
mainly the kidnapping resulting in the death of Yingying Zhang,
Christensen's lawyers asking jurors to keep their minds
and hearts open during the penalty phase of trial.
[Ronggao speaking Mandarin]
[Lifeng sobbing]
[muffled sobbing]
♪♪
[Jenny] Having seen how much Yingying's family had suffered,
I really hoped for the death penalty.
During the penalty phase, the defense, of course,
made their case to avoid death penalty.
One item they put into evidence was a video of the defendant
at University of Illinois counseling center.
- The defense revealed it to attempt to blame
the defendant's crime
on the University of Illinois counseling center,
or at least to suggest
that it was somehow mitigation for what he did.
♪♪
[Jenny] I hadn't seen Yingying's mother in the courtroom.
She later told me that she was so emotional
that she was afraid of jeopardizing the trial,
so she watched the live streaming
in a separate room in the courthouse.
Yingying's father, Yangyang, and Xiaolin
all testified in the court to show how the loss of Yingying
had affected them.
Yingying's mother recorded a testimony beforehand.
[attorney] What kind of a daughter was Yingying?
[translator speaking Mandarin]
♪♪
[Jenny, reading] "All moms around the world are the same.
"I sent her a picture of my hand getting tan,
"she thought I had an allergy.
"I said no, but she thought I was lying.
"She even called Xiaolin! So annoying!
"I have to know my goal
"and then pursue it firmly and simply.
"The first year,
"study agriculture and forestry.
"The second year and third year,
"read, read, read.
"The fourth year, scale up from regional to global.
"The fifth year, publish papers
"in high-quality publications like 'Nature'.
"Go back home, build my own team,
"become an academic mogul and a good teacher.
Meanwhile, I want to have a baby."
[indistinct chatter]
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[chatter continues]
[Rob] We took a confidential vote first
and then we went around the table.
Some people were very convinced one way and the other way,
and I was basically on the fence.
Ultimately, I felt that there was no remorse exhibited
by the defendant, and I believed that
he was telling the truth
that she-- she went crazy after she realized
he was not going to the One North apartments.
And he could have made a different choice
at that point of time, he could have seen her
as a person as she fought for her life.
That was another reason
for choosing the death penalty over life in prison.
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[cameras clicking]
[Jacqueline] After eight and a half hours of deliberating,
the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
The jurors were split 10-2,
ten for death, two for life.
So by law, the court had no choice but to give a sentence
of life in prison without the possibility of release.
- For me, for myself, the result today
seems to tell me that...
I can... I can kill anyone,
and that I can kill anyone
with all kinds of cruel methods,
and I will not need to die for it.
And me, myself, will never agree with that.
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[car pulling up]
- This is a card from the court reporter
who would work in the afternoon.
- Mm-hmm. - The dark haired lady.
- Type? - Right, th--
Transcribed the testimony. - Okay.
- And so she contacted me
and asked how she could get a card to the family.
[speaking Mandarin]
[Steve] The death penalty is very, very hard to get.
In China, there are literally hundreds if not thousands
of people who are awaiting death sentences.
And you know, that can bring within its sweep,
people who are innocent.
So in America, we'd rather err the other way.
In November of 2018, Christensen's attorneys
told prosecutors what Christensen had told them
about his disposal of Yingying Zhang's body
after her murder.
Because the information came from an immunity agreement,
the statements and any evidence that could be derived from them
could not be used in Christensen's criminal trial.
The Zhang family cannot vouch for the truth of the information
but discloses to you what they have been told.
After killing Yingying Zhang, Christensen placed
her bodily remains into garbage bags.
He placed those garbage bags
in the dumpster immediately outside his apartment building.
The contents of the dumpster
were taken to a private landfill.
It was determined that by the time Christensen's attorneys
disclosed his statements to the federal authorities,
the contents of the dumpster
that contained Yingying's remains
would've been covered by at least 30 feet of fill.
It's evident that any attempt to recover Yingying's remains
would be complicated and expensive.
To date, no search has been undertaken, but the Zhang family
understands that the authorities are still considering
an attempt to locate and recover Yingying's remains.
[indistinct prayers]
♪♪
[Jenny] Yingying's family set up a meeting with Terra.
Terra had asked me if I could help her with Mandarin,
a language that she had studied in high school.
She wanted to read a letter to the family.
[deep breath]
[Xiaolin] The mom said you are brave
and you are just as kind as Yingying,
and to help others.
[crying]
♪♪
[Jenny] Yingying's family left without Yingying once again.
Yingying's father asked me to keep them updated about
the search for Yingying's remains,
and they would come back whenever it takes place.
If it ever takes place.
He also told me that they're suing U of I employees
for what he sees as negligence
on the part of the counseling center.
If they win, they hope to use the money
to continue the search.
Yingying and I both came to the U.S. for our dreams.
Now, she's here forever, her dream unfulfilled.
I wonder, if she never got into that car,
what she would be doing now?
♪♪
"Life is too short to be ordinary!"
♪♪
[children chattering]
♪♪