April 07, 2022

MURDERED: Yingying Zhang

30 minutes

On June 9, 2017 a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was waiting for a bus in broad daylight when a car stops at the bus stop, right next to her. Instead of waiting for the bus any longer, the scholar gets in the car. She would never be seen again. This is the story Yingying Zhang.

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Resources:

Finding Yingying (MTV, 2020)

Wire transcript: https://www.ilcd.uscourts.gov/sites/ilcd/files/Govt%20Ex%2029-TR.pdf

That Chapter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J42vf5gYqdc

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/brendt-christensen-claimed-killed-12-yingying-zhang-part-67057864

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-missing-illinois-student-charges-20170630-story.html

https://news.wttw.com/2019/06/12/defense-attorney-brendt-christensen-killed-yingying-zhang

https://heavy.com/news/2017/07/yingying-zhang-photos-pictures-ying-facebook-pics-brendt-christensen/

https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/illinois-man-charged-with-kidnapping-chinese-scholar/

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/11/yingying-zhang-family/

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/crime/life-is-too-short-to-be-ordinary-reads-the-final-excerpt-from-still-missing-university-of-illinois-students-diary/526-dc5b8b0b-4f07-42bb-8132-e3ecd8e78314

https://www.facebook.com/MissingPiecesNetwork/posts/update-6-30-17a-suspect-has-been-arrested-in-the-kidnapping-of-visiting-chinese-/1688633338109504/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/06/university-discovers-solution-to-drop-in-chinese-students-insurance.html

https://news.wttw.com/2019/07/18/brendt-christensen-sentenced-life-yingying-zhang-killing

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trial-begins-illinois-man-missing-chinese-scholar-case/story?id=63447958

https://meaww.com/finding-yingying-documentary-film-brendt-christensen-girlfriend-lover-bdsm-terra-bullis-wire-fbi

https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/2018/10/09/memorial-garden-dedicated-to--missing-scholar-yingying-zhang/

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/11/brendt-christensen-girlfriend-terra-bullis/

https://medium.com/@grantbjork92/the-kidnapping-and-murder-of-yingying-zhang-3071b94314f3

Pronunciation resources:

https://translate.google.cn/?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&text=章&op=translate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CwvkGE0kag

Music Used:

Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne

Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Fretless by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3777-fretless

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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