A former University of Illinois graduate student is set to stand trial in the 2017 disappearance and suspected killing of a visiting scholar from China.
A former University of Illinois graduate student is set to stand trial in the 2017 disappearance and suspected killing of a visiting scholar from China — a case in which the death penalty is possible and that has been closely watched in the home country of the victim, whose body hasn't been found.
Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, as she was running late to sign a lease for an off-campus apartment in Urbana, which is next to Champaign and about 140 miles southwest of Chicago. She had just missed a bus when Christensen tricked or forced her into his car, prosecutors say. Christensen told the FBI he dropped Zhang off after a few blocks.
In court filings a week before the trial, prosecutors indicated that among the evidence they want to show jurors is carpet with an apparent blood stain from Christensen's bedroom, a baseball bat that was in the bedroom and a copy of the novel"American Psycho" that they say Christensen gave to an acquaintance.
Complicating the task of prosecutors is that Zhang's body hasn't been found. They'll point to Zhang's blood in Christensen's apartment and that a cadaver-sniffing dog indicated a dead body had been there as proof that she's dead."I want to ask the mother of the suspect, please talk to her son and ask him what he did to my daughter," she said."Where is she now? I want to know the answer.
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