This installment details the 2017 kidnapping and murder of Yingying Zhang (December 21, 1990 - June 9, 2017) in Urbana, Illinois. Zhang was a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen (born June 30, 1989) a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. Christensen lured Zhang into his car at a bus stop on campus. He took her to his apartment where he raped and murdered her while his wife was out of town for the weekend. Christensen was arrested and convicted of her murder. In 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. |
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Title: | Kidnapped in Broad Daylight | |
Air Date: | November 9, 2023 | |
Runtime: | 60 min | |
Genres: | Crime | |
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