The Disappearance of Yingying Zhang

How is this a mystery? The guy was caught. He was leading vigils for her to be found.

This evil and the other monster who killed his 5 kids in SC could have been brothers who were separated at 5.

Will the tears never cease?

I actually taught her. She was pretty quiet but nice. Hope they hail that not for a long time.

How r4? She got all her degrees in China and was only in the US a month before this happened (doing research, not taking classes).

Malade!

What was his motive?

Sometimes not getting into a college would be good news. Imagine if her grades had been a little worse and she didn’t get into this school and went to UCLA instead. She could have sidestepped this whole murder thing.

Well this is horrific:

[quote]Christensen posed as an undercover officer to convince Zhang to get into his vehicle, Miller said, before taking her back to his apartment. There, he allegedly cut off her clothes and raped her before choking her for about 10 minutes, according to Miller, while Zhang continued fighting for her life.

[quote]He then took Zhang to his bathroom, where he allegedly hit her in the head with a Louisville Slugger baseball bat, splitting open her head. Christensen ultimately stabbed her and cut off her head, Miller said.

intelligent psychos are the worst

My conclusion: bdf

Poor lady.

Not really. Her family was able to afford sending her to a US university.

Not quite, r13. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in China and came to the US as a visiting scholar.

I doubt her family is dirt poor, but she also wasn't the daughter of the Chinese elite (unlike most of the Chinese undergraduates studying in the US right now).

Thanks OP. I was wondering what, where, and when about this case. The defendant appears quite guilty. I hope he gets his stones fried.

R9 This can't be his first kill. You don't get to this psychotic level from nowhere.

Was she drugged? Why would she go back to his apartment? Why didn’t she run once she got out of the car? Why would he let him cut off her clothes? Wouldn’t she fight back or try to run away? Bite him, claw him, gouge his eyes out. Now is not the time to be polite.

She did fucking fight back, r17/victim blamer extraordinaire.

So there is still no body, right? What the heck did he do with it?

R17, she also came from a very authoritarian country. The guy said he was a cop and she was likely raised to do what she’s told by law enforcement. Plus, being in a strange country.

Exactly what r20 said.

She had only been in the US about a month when this happened (and as I noted upthread, received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in China). She wasn't very familiar with the US at all.

This picture is heartbreaking -- Yingying with her parents at the train station before her departure to the US.

I was reading an update on this story on a Chinese news site (in Chinese) and went to the comments. Almost all the posters were commenting from the Mainland.

They talked about the superiority of human rights in China because in China, the perpetrator would have already been executed. More than one commented, "America is a country of demons."

It was rather ... interesting.

R22 A life for a life is still justice in most places and lest we forget, lynching was an American tradition. Besides, can this one be rehabilitated to return to a regular life? He'll probably get killed in prison if he doesn't off himself first.

The countries with the best human rights records have all eliminated the death penalty.

Funny that, r23.

R24 Best human rights = Rampant gun violence

The US had the penalty, r25.

Do learn some basic formal logic.

R26 Not in all states.

I really don't why I'm engaging, but the US still has the death penalty at the federal level r26. Individual states don't matter: even if all but one eliminated it, the US would still be considered a country with capital punishment.

And countries with best human rights records, according to Human Rights Watch -- none have the death penalty:

1. Sweden

2. Canada

3. Norway

4. Denmark

5. Netherlands

6. Finland

7. Switzerland

8. Australia

9. New Zealand

10. Austria

Dept of Justice seeks death penalty in this case despite state ban.

He’s scary.

R22, how are you able to read the Chinese?

r31 I have a very basic reading knowledge.

Also, to r27 et al: I don't know if you're trolling or are just being obtuse, but my point is, many countries can legitimately lecture the US on our human rights record.

China is not one of them.

What the hell could he have done with her body?

If she was never found, how do they know what happened? Did he confess?

At court The prosecution presented audio recordings of Brendt Christiansen (the killer) confessing to his gf about him being the killer. I think he also mentions that it is his 14th murder.

That picture of Yingying and her parents really breaks my heart. He really is a monster-

[QUOTE]If she was never found, how do they know what happened? Did he confess?

They found her blood on his mattress.

This is just reason 3,013 that I will not use ride sharing services. Only a real cab.

R9 horrific and Bundy-esque. I'm with R16, this probably wasn't his first rodeo.

R38 what do ride sharing services have to do with any of this, dumbass? He didn't pose as an Uber driver, he posed as a cop.

It’s too bad we can’t chop his head off.

Turning!

On the flip side, there is a lot of Chinese.

He was found guilty yesterday..

He was sentenced to life in prison.

I am a terrible person, but I am watching a TV crime show about this case. They pronounce her name "Yingyang" and all I can think of is the expression, "Up the yingyang." I heard it all my life and never thought it could be someone's name. Or an anti-asian slur.