Suspect 'admits' killing on tape
By Zhang Ruinan and Kong Wenzheng | China Daily | Updated: 2019-06-17 07:17
On Friday, jurors in a murder trial listened to secretly recorded audio in which the defendant told his girlfriend that he killed Zhang Yingying, a Chinese scholar who has been missing for two years.
He also bragged about her being his 13th victim. No evidence has been found with relation to other murders.
On June 29, 2017, Brendt Christensen, a former graduate student at the University of Illinois accused of murdering Zhang, attended a memorial event for the missing Chinese woman. The conversation was recorded by his girlfriend, who was wearing a wire for the FBI, the Champaign News-Gazette reported.
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