Family says task to find scholar's body daunting
The family of slain Chinese student Zhang Yingying acknowledged on Wednesday that there is little likelihood her remains will be recovered.
They spoke at a news conference in Urbana, Illinois, two weeks after learning what the man convicted of the murder of the visiting postgraduate student at the University of Illinois did with her remains two years ago.
Brendt Christensen, a former University of Illinois graduate student who was convicted of kidnapping and killing Zhang in a recently concluded trial, told his attorneys that after killing Zhang on June 9, 2017, he placed her remains in three garbage bags. Christensen said he put the bags in a garbage bin outside his Champaign apartment and later disposed of her other personal items in various trash receptacles around the area.
