What does the cage accomplish? Ive never felt as acutely aware of my identity as a Chinese woman in the U.S. My body is a constant reminder of the many ways society renders it vulnerable. They dont. I saw the film for the first time in the fall of 2020, after a summer of protests for Black lives was met with raging police brutality. Her body has never been found. Her life was swallowed by the dark currents of race, gender, and border politics. She is gone. However, on June 29, 2017, Christensen was captured on audio recording while under law enforcement surveillance explaining how he kidnapped Zhang. In addition to this, a memorial stone with Zhangs name was placed on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Yingying ZHANG | Cited by 11,350 | of Tsinghua University, Beijing (TH) | Read 163 publications | Contact Yingying ZHANG When confirming details about Christensen, I googled his name and clicked on his LinkedIn profile. On June 29, 2017, while Christensen was under law enforcement surveillance, agents overheard him explaining that he kidnapped Zhang. Without a body, prosecutors based their case on DNA evidence found at Christensen's apartment, and the defendant's own boasting of having killed Zhang in a conversation with his girlfriend. In the just-unsealed documents was the story of a woman who claimed Christensen choked and sexually assaulted her sometime in 2012 or 2013. Beyond the immediacy of war, when is a state justified to kill? The prison, as Angela Davis and Gina Dent explained, is a border. Highly Influential Citations 1. The remains of Yingying Zhang, a Chinese scholar at University of Illinois who was murdered in 2017, could be in a landfill in central Illinois, according to multiple reports, though her body has still not been found, authorities say. My mind had filled in the rest of the plot. 29 Nov - Zhang Yingying and Wang Xiaofei's mother Zhang Lan seem to be butting heads when it comes to the mainland businessman, after the actress seemingly decided to declare that they are dating.. As reported on CTWant, the 26-year-old actress, who has been romantically linked to Wang for months and was even accused of being the third party in his previous marriage with Barbie Hsu, recently . It just adds to the tragedy, Miller said, because Zhangs family doesnt have her body back. Yingying Zhang was born in 1990 in China and by the time she was 27, she had graduated with a Master Degree and had traveled to the United States to conduct research on photosynthesis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In England and colonial America, as legal historian Stuart Banner writes, the death penalty circa 1700 was the equivalent of prison todaythe standard punishment for a wide range of serious crimes including arson, theft, and counterfeiting. Some documents remain sealed, including Christensen's medical and mental health records, and those of his entire family. Got a tip? Yingyings life was precious. CHICAGO (CBS) -- The family of slain Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang said Wednesday they now know where her body might have been dumped, but that it might be impossible to find her remains more than two years after her brutal murder. To view it as an isolated incident, an example of the dangerous few, would be to miss the underlying context and eschew collective responsibility. Yingying Zhang. Christensen's defense attorneys admitted at trial that he killed Zhang, and focused on convincing the jury to spare him from the death penalty. He then took her to his apartment, where he raped, choked, and stabbed her in his bedroom; then dragged her into the bathroom, and beat her to death with a baseball bat before decapitating her. The defense pointed to inconsistencies in her claims. Revisiting Yingyings story at this moment is not only relevant, but also necessary. She was last seen on surveillance video at her . In one of the audio recordings, according to ABC, Christensen described how Zhang fought back, saying, that it was supernatural almost how [Zhang] just didnt give up. He then claimed he attacked Zhang with a baseball bat before decapitating her. Co-Authors. The public execution, according to Michel Foucault, was not only a judicial but also a political ritual, through which the state manifested its absolute power. The case is being featured on 20/20 on November 15, 2019. The family of murdered Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang has finally learned what happened to the body of their beloved daughter. Both the darkness and the light are part of what makes us human. Zhang was a visiting scholar at the university. On the 9 th of June 2017 a 26 year old Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois went missing. Body Discovered Date Never Found. That was the last anyone ever heard or saw from Zhang. She is singing a song about youth, where time is all future, brimming with possibilities. The fund had already amassed more than $30,000 by Wednesday morning. (. By defending features in the U.S. judicial process, I was in fact defending the life I had worked so hard to achieve. He seemingly boasted about choking, sexually assaulting, and beating Zhang to death with a baseball bat. In a flurry of anguished messages, she told me to stop wearing high-heels so I could run faster in case of danger. The backdrop to her stage features a spiraling pattern in green, yellow, and white: a clock turned upside down. Just imagine a woman opening a water tank and deliberately drowning herself in it. The suspect, Brendt Christensen, pleaded not guilty and refused to give up information. Beckett planned to address the development at a news conference beginning at 3 p.m. CST, but that news conference was later postponed. Tragically, and horrifically, her family has not been given that closure. Former US doctoral student Brendt Christensen, 29, has been found guilty of the violent abduction and slaying of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017. Completely normal, perhaps a bit awkward but with no unusual vibes.. In this security video from the B-4 parking garage on North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, just after 2 p.m. Friday, Ms. Zhang is seen standing on the east side of Goodwin Avenue as a black Saturn Astra (unknown, According to the University of Illinois police. Yingying Zhang was a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who went . At present, Brendt Christensen is a federal prisoner serving his life sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Coleman II, in Florida. Weeks before, a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China went missing on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). 43 Issue (2): 234-246. doi: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003620. April 27, 2022. Determined to find a closure to the case, authorities decided to turn to CCTVs as a last-ditch effort to locate her. Four days after the news broke, a post went viral on Chinese social media, If the Yingying Zhang case took place in China, with attention from the entire country, whats the probability that it would be solved within 48 hours?. Zhang family attorney Steve Beckett said, based on information provided by federal prosecutors and attorneys for convicted killer Brendt Christensen, her body likely was taken to a landfill near Danville, Illinois, after Christensen placed her remains in three garbage bags and tossed them in a dumpster. Yangyang Cheng is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Law Schools Paul Tsai China Center and a particle physicist. With trucks taking their loads to landfills across the city, authorities figured that her remains might have been spread around several landfills by the time Brendt was convicted. Police noticed that the Saturn in video footage had a sunroof and cracked front passenger hubcap, as did Christensens car, alleged the affidavit. Y Zhang, X Qian, Z Peng, N Yang. Yingyings grandfather is sitting next to him. Christensen claimed that he drove up to the Asian female, who relayed she was late to an appointment. Federal prosecutors have said Christensen posed as an undercover officer to lure Zhang, 26, into his car on June 9, 2017. A world safe and free means that no one is left behind. She was even decapitated. Now, among the familiar sight and through the familiar sound, I also see Yingying. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. Brendt Christensen, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole in Yingying Zhangs murder, said he put her body in three separate trash bags and threw them in a dumpster. Three days before Christensens arrest, the Chinese government had just issued new rules aimed at curbing police abuse. For those opposed to the death penalty, is replacing the needle with a cage the only option? Yingying is on stage with her band. Brendt also had a masters in Physics but dropped out from his Ph.D. program and instead claimed that he was searching for employment. Beckett said, after the trial, Zhang's family met with federal prosecutors on July 25, and were told what Christensen's defense attorneys had revealed about what he did with Zhang's remains. I stare at the slide for a very long time. Christensen was found guilty on June 24, 2019, of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of lying to investigators. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Reactions: ShHolmz, altojack, MajorHoople and 8 others. Like her, I had grown up in a provincial city in China and clung to academic excellence as the only way out. I was too heavy! I joke with my friends. But I also knew the real point of tension between us in relation to this case had nothing to do with criminal procedure. Christensen's attorneys told prosecutors that the day after he killed Zhang, Christensen placed her body in three garbage bags, and put the bags in the dumpster outside his apartment building, Beckett said. Its worth cannot, and should not, be measured by the extent of state-sponsored punishment exacted on the man who took it. Please let us bring Yingying home," Ronggao Zhang said. Publications. This greatly alarmed counselors, but they later deduced that he was not in immediate need of hospitalization. First published on August 7, 2019 / 6:12 PM. Several lamented that while foreigners in China are showered with privileges, Chinese people overseas endure second-class status. Over eggs and coffee, we shared our impressions of criminal justice from growing up in China and how a life for a life was presented as axiomatic. Western critics point to this as another example of the countrys abysmal human rights record, while Chinese officials and prominent academics claim that the legitimacy of capital punishment is ingrained in Chinese tradition and endorsed by its people. And there's plenty of other news articles about . It opens with a pair of photos. Send it to The Daily Beasthere. Audio and video recordings were played for a federal jury in the murder-kidnapping trial of Brendt Christensen on Friday --- including a recording of Christensen's chilling account of how he kidnapped and murdered Yingying Zhang, a promising young environmental engineer from China in June 2017. Its sadly ironic that prisons are called penitentiaries or correctional facilities, while theyre designed for neither repentance nor rehabilitation but segregation and retribution. As per Zhangs family lawyers statements, the contents of the dumpster were taken to Danville, where it was compacted twice. He later advised, however, he must have been either sleeping or he was playing video games at his residence all day. He admitted the car belonged to him, the affidavit said. I pretended that our discussion was an academic exercise because I could not bear the thought that in the fragile mind of my mother, who had raised me as a young widow, Yingying was me and I was her. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Christensen lured Zhang into his car at a bus stop on campus posing as a police officer with the . conference about Yingying Zhang's body at Steve Beckett's . Its generally estimated to be in the thousands and accounts for 80 percent or more of state executions globally. Cultural difference makes for a convenient excuse to validate the self and exoticize the other. Sep 2017 - Dec 20225 years 4 months. Alpha was very healthy and energetic otherwise. Prosecutors and Zhang's family had pushed for the death penalty, but a jury decision on that had to be unanimous. She called Christensen a demon. Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011, but Christensen was prosecuted under federal law. (Feature Image Credit: ABC 20/20). If you are interested to know more about this specific case and where Zhangs killer is now, we have got you covered. She refused to let me out of her sight, and I refused her suffocating love by leaving China as soon as I could. Citations 15. The 26-year-old visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, disappeared June 9, 2017. Previous Articles Next Articles The Empowerment of Rural Women through Digital Entrepreneurship: A Case of Typical Villages in Qianpai Town, Guangdong Province The answer is no. With no news of the Chinese student for several hours, university authorities decided to approach the police and file a missing person report. A minute later she gets in the car and it drives off. August 7, 2019 / 6:12 PM ILLUSTRATION:JORDAN LEE. There was a trial, but it was more about whether he would get the death penalty (he didnt; he got a life sentence), than it was about guilt or innocence. Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, as she was headed to sign a lease for an off-campus apartment in Urbana. She was the first in her family to graduate from college in 2013 and to go on to finish a master's degree in 2016 in the field of agricultural sciences at . On June 9, 2017, the day Zhang went missing, she was supposed to meet a leasing agent to sign for a new apartment where she planned to stay. A large media contingent awaiting the start of the Yingying Zhang news conference at @Beckett6Steve's office in Urbana. Its a potent concept, appealing to our instincts. She was 26. The issues of racism, misogyny, and mental health crises in the sciences and in graduate school did not start with Christensen and have not vanished with his incarceration. This study showed . The defense attorneys opening statement shocked everyone in the courtroom. The only emotion I sensed during those hours of paralysis was an eerie calmness akin to closure, like I had spent my entire life treading the edge of a cliff and finally had to surrender to the air. During a follow-up investigation, authorities determined that the contents of Christensens dumpster were picked up on July 12, 2017, compacted at least twice, and taken to a private landfill near Danville, Illinois, the statement said. Paradoxically, it also offers a primal sense of security. Investigators believe Zhang is dead . When Yingying Zhang went missing on June 9, 2017, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was thrown into chaos as people searched frantically for the visiting Chinese scholar. Since then, they've likely been covered by at least 30 feet of landfill. That alleged admission built on previous statements that Christensen made to the FBI in which he allegedly confessed that Zhang had been in his car, although he claimed she left it voluntarily, the affidavit says. June 16, 2021. A federal jury convicted Christensen in June. Deceased/Not Found IL - Yingying Zhang, 26, Urbana, 9 June 2017 #11 *GUILTY* Thread starter liltexans; Start date Jul 2, 2017; . I felt fine the next morning, as if it were all just a dream. On the other hand, law enforcement also learned that Brendt was in an open marriage with Michelle Zortman while dating Terra Bullis at the same time. electronic edition via DOI; unpaywalled version; references . When she did not turn up on time for the lease signing, the agent sent her a text which went unanswered. When we turn away from the face of the condemned, were in fact refusing to look at ourselves, to confront our culpability in systems of oppression, to recognize the glimmer of humanity in the darkest corner. The strange and twisted life of Brendt Christensen: claims to have killed over 12 people already, vows Yingying Zhang's body will never be found (June, 2019) . And thus, even though they said that the FBI is probably looking into it, they did state that it would be quite challenging a process. To date, no search has been undertaken. It was invaluable. The affidavit filed after Christensens June 2017 arrest provides chilling details; it says that authorities examined Christensens phone and alleges that he accessed a website entitled Abduction 101 and sub-threads that were called things like perfect abduction fantasy and planning a kidnapping. He had also worked as a Physics class teaching assistant. On June 15, 2017, Christensen was interviewed at the FBIs Champaign office. Yingying Zhang-Zhang; Sylvia Rohlfer; Jay Rajasekera . Statement from family's lawyers: @WCIA3 pic.twitter.com/SaYqeuwE3h. He was arrested on June 30, his 28th birthday. In August 2019, Zhangs family was notified of the potential site of Zhangs remains by the prosecutors. At 2 p.m., a black Saturn Astra, driven, police say, by Christensen was observed on video passing Zhang at the bus stop and then circling back to her location, according to the affidavit. Follow Author. Prisons cannot solve the problem of prevalent harm in society and are in fact part of the problem, as they perpetuate the logics of power and domination, of segregation and dehumanization, which are also the logics of patriarchy and white supremacy. I was terrified that he might see me from the other side of the screen, that he would find out I had visited his profile and make me his next target. Police said that, on June 9, 2017, Zhang went to UIs Turner Hall where she conducts research and then returned to her apartment for lunch. Zhang's father said if his daughter's remains are ever found, her family plans to take her body back to China. Yingyings disappearance quickly made headlines on both sides of the Pacific. To lure female victims into his car, Christensen claimed to be a police officer. The only logical explanation, as far as I can tell, is that the jurors were only thinking about violence outside prison, whether Christensen would be able to commit it himself (impossible) or persuade someone on the outside to (unlikely). In fact, the details of how Zhang died, which came out during trial, were awful. I argued that its safer for me because Im tall. Then came the break in the case: The Saturn. October 1, 2021, 7:30am. She runs after another bus but narrowly misses it. My friends suggest that I was drugged. (AP/AAP) Zhang's mother, Lifeng Ye, cried . She clutches the mic. Video showed her at an Urbana, Illinois, bus stop getting into a black Saturn vehicle, and, after that, she vanished without a trace. By the penalty phase, Christensen had already been found guilty. Japan Web Proxy Server*****Jiang Yuzhou was silent for a moment before saying: "You are still young, I can understand that you don't want to be bound by marriage early, but I think we are very suitable, if you want, we can not talk about marriage and talk about a relationship like other couples, you don't have to Just find someone to deal with."In his opinion, Gu Nai suddenly had a boyfriend . The FBI approached Bullis, who was very confident about Brendts innocence. The federal government was seeking the death penalty. Im puzzled over this question to the judge, why the distinction was necessary. During the trial, several people, including Terra Bullis, testified against Brendt. And me, myself will never agree with that. He pauses after every few words and presses his lips, as if to hold back the flame rising through him. The same jury who convicted him later split on the death penalty. University of Illinois PoliceYingying Zhang. Prosecutors indicated in court filings that Christensen may have destroyed the remains. On the left is a grim, gray facility with barbed wires and a watch tower. About. A memorial stone engraved with Yingying Zhang's name in both English and Chinese on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in June 2019, two years after her disappearance. And thus, even though they said that the FBI is probably looking into it, they did state that it would be quite challenging a process. By 9:24 p.m., an associate professor reported that Zhang was missing. Superior Unidirectional Water Transport and Mechanically Stable 3D Orthogonal Woven Fabric for Human Body Moisture and Thermal Management. After his conviction and trial, the fate of Yingying Zhangs body came to light. If someone is deemed prone to violence as a free man, then hes likely to become more so in prison, where violence is the norm. Steve Beckett, Zhangs family lawyer, Yingyings father, Ronggao ZhangIf, upon hearing this, later, In addition to this, a memorial stone with Zhangs name was placed on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1988, Democratic nominee for president Michael Dukakis would see his candidacy doomed as he answered no to this debate question: If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer? He lost to George H. W. Bush, whose team ran a series of attack ads, using the likeness of one Black criminal to stoke racial fear. The sentencing phase of the trial took place two weeks later. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get day-to-day video coverage of what's going on in China and beyond!Three years have passed since the kidnapping and mur. There were also statements from Christensen's wife at the time of the investigation in the newly unsealed records. Alpha, our German Shepherd dog, left us forever on Feb 28, 2021. Police searched her apartment and found nothing. The family also said they are working with the University of Illinois to create a gravesite in her memory. Her son should say where my daughter is., Lifeng Ye, the mother of Yingying Zhang, cries out in grief as her husband Ronggao Zhang, far left, addresses the media after a jury found Brendt Christensen guilty of her murder. Yingying Zhang was a visiting scholar from China at UIUC. (Matt Masterson / WTTW News) She exited the bus and tried to flag down another one, but it continued past her without stopping. Brendt Christensen has been convicted of the murder of 26-year-old doctoral student Yingying Zhang, whose body has never been found. (2021 Rerelease) 02.01. . Ph.D. student at Unversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities. The drive from the airport is the longest distance in the world. At 2:38 p.m,, the apartment manager sent Zhang a text message and received no response. Cruel as his act was, to cast Christensen as a uniquely-depraved individual would be to ignore all the historical and contemporary acts of mass violence, of wars, genocides, slavery, and colonization. Her body has never been found. Explore Scholarly Publications and Datasets in the NSF-PAR. YINGYING ZHANG WAS ABDUCTED AND MURDERED IN 2017. A prosecutor told the court on July 5, 2017, that Christensen was recorded at a rally for Zhang by authorities and explained the characteristics of his ideal victim and, according to CNN, pointed out those in the crowd who matched them at a vigil he attended for the missing woman. 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