The Case of Brendt Christensen

on the afternoon of June 9 2017 26 year old environmental Sciences student Yin Ying Zhang was traveling on a bus to an off-campus apartment complex in Urbana Illinois where she was planning to sign a new lease for an apartment she was running late and sent a text message to the leasing agent to inform them that she would arrive just after 2 pm after riding on one bus she exited and tried to transfer to another yet mistakenly waited on the wrong side of a street for boarding and missed it she walked to the next bus stop a few blocks away at the corner of North Goodwin Avenue where surveillance showed that a black Saturn Astra passed her by at exactly 2 pm it then circled back around and stopped where she was waiting at 203 PM she spoke to the driver for approximately one minute and then got in the car before it drove away the leasing agent sent her a text message at approximately 238 but received no reply as the hours passed Zhang's friends aware of her errand and expecting her to return quickly grew increasingly worried and a missing person's report was filed to police at exactly 9 24 PM that night the University of Illinois helped coordinate search efforts on and around campus Yin Ying's family flew into the U.S and a reward of fifty thousand dollars was offered for information leading to her whereabouts but the local authorities received no leads it was on the 12th of June however when the FBI discovered the surveillance footage capturing Yin Yang's last known location they were unable to discern the license plate number of the vehicle from the footage yet they were able to determine that there were 18 Ford door Saturn Astra is registered to owners in the state of Illinois one of the owners was 27 year old Brent Allen Christensen a PhD student at the University of Illinois who had graduated with a master's degree in physics and who had been married for four years to his high school sweetheart Michelle zortman investigators interviewed him on June 12 and inspected his car when questioned he reportedly claimed that he did not remember what he was doing at the time of Yin Yang's disappearance but also stated he was most likely sleeping or playing video games the police took his contact information and he was released after just a nine minute interview and a five-minute inspection of his vehicle two days later upon reviewing the surveillance footage investigators observed that the car's sunroof was similar to that of christensen's but more notably that the vehicle in the surveillance had a cracked hubcap as did the vehicle of Christensen and who at that moment became the prime suspect he was called in by police in the late hours of Wednesday night June 14th requesting that he come in to discuss what they stated was an important matter regarding Yin Ying's disappearance Christensen agreed and an FBI investigator picked him up from his home and drove him to the Champaign Police Department at around 12 A.M okay um closer like I said here home my name is Anthony manganero especially with the FBI I'm a sign here at Champaign and then this is Eric yeah he's talking to Eric stylist detective with the University Police okay we are investigating The Disappearance of Miss ying yang because we are in my offices and it's late at night I'm going to read you your bicep rights okay um again this is a voluntary interview so at any time you're done we'll drive you back home that's the end of it um so I know that you spoke with my colleague Joel um I've I've briefly been able to talk to him we've been kind of running all over the state so if you can kind of give me a a recap of what you told him I would I would appreciate it um our investigation is I'm sure Joel probably told you is The Disappearance of this woman this young lady and uh it's a most viable tip that we had refer to a black Saturn Astra so that's why he came and talked to you the other day do you remember where you told him and I'm not going to hold you to it if there are certain details you forget uh so the king the suspect had just been read his rights and essentially made aware that he is now a suspect yet instead of confronting the situation and demanding why he is being put in such an uncomfortable position at such a late hour he calmly accepts and responds in a non-adversarial manner imagine yourself in his position you have nothing to do with this young woman's disappearance yet you are being hassled and even Accused by police in a passive yet blatant fashion you would most likely demand to know exactly why you were being questioned in such a manner and exhibit some form of protest or objection at the current circumstances they were just checking out all of the Saturn Astros in the area I know it's a pretty rare car so I have a blue short lists um yeah he asked where my wife and I were during I think it was two or three on Friday and I mean I graduated a couple weeks ago so I'm looking for jobs right now so I mean I was either playing video against my computer or taking an afternoon nap so I was honorable purpose in Hellboy I looked into certain things to try and see if I could get some kind of info for an alibi send some texts around that time but none exactly between two and three he stated that he was looking for texts that he may have sent during the time in question for the purpose of producing an alibi yet he was clearly unaware that police would later confirm that he was not playing video games at any point during the day in question either even when offline digital forensics are able to uncover the exact time a game was played and how long it was played for Which is far easier to determine on a computer than it is on a video game console like a Playstation or Xbox this wouldn't have completely refuted his Alibi as the suspect was smart enough to provide two possibilities The Narrative that he could have been sleeping at the time would still have credibility um I let them come in the apartments they search for stuff I let them come in the car they search for stuff there um that's pretty much it okay 10 minutes 15 minutes getting my info uh would you uh graduate in uh Masters in physics in physics yes well that's way smarter than me I'm not I'm assuming that's over at the U of I there yes okay um you said your wife was out of town yes the guys mentioned something about Wisconsin is that correct that's correct okay you guys are originally from there or is yes okay um do you know what days she was in Wisconsin um like late Thursday night early Friday morning until Sunday evening you mentioned that you thought you possibly sent text messages between you know the hours of two or three so you weren't able to find any uh that's correct do you do you recall um any text message they sent that day or like oh yeah I actually left well even they didn't look for diploma I was trying to touch this to my phone like someone sent me a text at like 1 30. I responded at like 3 45 or something like that so um there are texts around it yeah maybe not not exactly between two and three and that's why I think I was probably lying down and sleeping just because like you know especially now I'll typically do stuff in the morning look for jobs quite a few and like and let them sleep and wake up respond it definitely fits okay um was that kind of pattern of kind of looking for jobs kind of having a little relaxation after graduation was that typical the entire week prior looking for unfamiliar patterns in both the suspect and the missing person's behavior is routine procedure in a missing person's investigation the question is posed to the suspect in a delusive manner as anything he says at this point will not be taken at face value the investigators will be relying solely on forensics and witness statements to determine any shifts in behavioral patterns during the week in question yeah pretty much okay yeah um do you remember specifically if you sent any applications out online or if you visited any places on Friday throughout the week um throughout the week uh I haven't had any in-person interviews I had a phone interviews on Thursday and anything on Friday okay do you have any questions for me before um um why am I Under Suspicion is it just my car or is there anything else uh I mean that's you know a large portion I mean it is a very unique Car like I said our search warrant is uh is just for the car yeah so we can you know look into it we can of course see what we can find and of course you could also turn around and exonerate you completely I mean talking about a very rare card so um the suspect cannot be detained at this moment and has just showed the first sign of contention the first direct confrontation is yet to take place and detectives were always planned for it to be initiated by them for this reason the lead investigator switches the suspect's focus to a less confrontational matter in order to put him at ease before the first confrontation Begins the detectives want to induce anxiety in the suspect but it needs to be done at the right time to have the most advantageous effect fun uh how long were you at the UI did you undergrad there as well no I did my undergraduated medicine okay I came here in 2013. okay I was initially in the PHD program but I decided I didn't want to PhD so I was kind of left with the Masters um I like the campus it's all right not too bad it's all right uh do you meet your wife there or no we uh actually grew up in the same Hometown didn't really know each other until and the festival so we both moved from Madison Ohio to undergrad and okay do you have any uh questions Eric yeah the uh when we were talking about uh Friday um a day in question on the night all right good night can you remember you said you played video games all day on Friday yeah is it just between the time period that he's asking about or just literally all day literally all day um at the moment not really hanging out with too many people or talking to too many people my wife and the girl I talked to um she was busy my wife's out of town so it's like I'm on today so I uh yeah I do a cruise in campus or anything I did on Saturday but I mean getting a little Stir Crazy just decided to go for a drive on Saturday but did you go out to eat or anything go any places no I didn't go out to eat Whenever two investigators are conducting an interrogation they will always decide which one of them will be initiating the confrontation beforehand experienced investigators are often familiar enough with non-verbal cues that even a slight pause or look will be enough to Signal the start of the encounter look you know that we didn't bring it all the way up here let's talk about video games and when she had for lunch that day yep why do you think that we brought you up here because the car I own was in picking up a girl that's missing the confrontation is initiated in the form of a question and the suspect is put on the spot instead of responding to the confrontation with a confrontation of his own which is a common reaction for a truthful subject he tries to give a justifiable reason as to why he is being questioned without acknowledging the severity of that same element he's trying to avoid the confrontation yeah yeah so who was driving that car other than you on on Friday night Friday the 9th it's you're driving your car on the 9th orange this is anybody else have access to that car no one has access to this car okay it's how many sets of keys do we have that car dude and where were they on the Friday one I would have had one my wife would have had one and hers were in Wisconsin right yeah and what do you keep on that keychain you keep both sets of keys right one for the Camaro or you have separate sets um I have one keychain but sometimes I take to come here with these off of it now let's talk specifically about Friday okay you went to school for how long at the U of I since 2013. since 2013. so you're very familiar with our campus not really I never really um talked to anyone so if you're kind of a loner but specifically on that day okay when you you originally told the agents that came to your apartment they just played video games all day long and leave the apartment yeah but it's fair to say that we know that that's not true correct why would I lie uh maybe there's some misunderstanding why we're here because like I said we're we're not just looking for a needle in a haystack I'm sorry let me take that back we are looking for a needle on a haystack but my point is you're making sound like we're just we're we just randomly came across your vehicle of the 1400 Astros that are in the state of Illinois I have so so what would have happened that day that brings us to you probably that I live in Champaign the suspect once again refuses to acknowledge the severity of the confrontation and offers a justifiable reason as to why he is being questioned in such a manner I mean I've never seen one before and ask her so okay well believe me when I say that the full waiting force of the FBI is going to send on that vehicle and all that Tails okay right now my primary concern and why I've been out until midnight and these guys been out to midnight every single night is we're trying to find this girl it's raining outside it's nasty she's a foreign student has only been here for a few weeks we'll find her asking for help I know I I mean I've got her getting into your car I need to know why there's bread I need to know why she's getting into your car and I need to know where she went if we can help her we need to know now because we need we need to move on from this it's been like six days now I don't understand sorry and you've been at the U of I for how long three years and then you know what we do I work in the Texas Bureau at the ufi and you know what we have access to cameras do you think that we're not going to track a vehicle all over campus we control kiosks to bus stops we can look in buses we can look in every building out on the streets and you're telling me that I didn't see you driving your car on Goodwin that I didn't see you driving down Wright Street and turning on right in front of parking where everybody pays her tickets and driving down the university to a good one and heading south and then you see her standing on that corner and that shade tree didn't you that's where you first saw her and then you turned he turned on Clark and we still have cameras I've seen the videos I didn't see me you've seen what we've allowed you to see can I see this stuff that you're talking about do you think that we brought you up here to show you video we want to we want to understand why you did it right we don't understand why you stopped through to pick her up was it to give her a ride are you afraid to tell us that you gave her a ride maybe you want to make a couple bucks as an Uber driver and she told you I had to go get it I had to go sign a lease at one North and you're like oh I know where that's at I'll drop you off if you're afraid to tell us that you gave a ride someplace we can work with you there a familiar technique that has no official name but is widely recognized and routinely put into practice the detective is essentially trying to get one foot in the door by aiming for a lower level of initial admittance he is aware the suspect is unlikely to provide an outright confession but more likely to at least acknowledge that he was driving the car that picked up the victim and even more likely to do so when afforded an exit strategy he is also given a justification as to why he has been reluctant to divulge this information up to this point you will now see the suspect start to physically Shake as his mind races back and forth as to whether to take the bait or not but I know that you picked her up I know you did I saw you in your shirt arms fully extended where did you drop her off at she was looking for a ride she had Mr bus she told you she was going to one North so where did you drop her off at another okay Saturday I can take a girl that I don't remember where okay I saw her picture I don't think it was her though do you remember the girl's name that you picked up no she was talking very broken English okay tell us about what happened what time of day was that early afternoon I don't really remember okay I was just driving around um I saw a girl and she was very distressed okay so I stopped my car and looked at her Pastor she needed help and talked to her for a little bit how much I gave her a short box and she freaked out and got out okay that's all the oil was this one you got on the north side of the rubber tracks on Goodwin when you went across the university and you drove on North we let her out by the hospital or by the railroad tracks where did you let her out at I don't really remember specifics um was it close to where you picked her up yeah it was relatively close it was in the residential area okay so I'd never really been over there before no reason to okay when you say she freaked out what did she do did she did she start throwing things at you did she scratch you it looks like you have a scratch on your right bicep there is that from I scratch myself okay so so she just freaked out so she's sitting in the front passenger seat of your vehicle okay has anybody else sat in that front passenger seat since she got out of the car probably um I'm not with me but with my wife probably I mean so other than your wife who else sat at the front passenger seat with you that you know um maybe a guy she's hanging out with your wife yeah okay um I don't know I don't know okay this is her well and if it's if it's fair or not again I want to find this girl because I know she's alone and scared out there and we don't have any contact with her so you said he picked her up yeah you went a couple blocks away into a residential area you remember if you went in North I went North for sure okay I mean I know yeah okay so you went North that was relatively close to me so all right to work it was relatively close to loomises she said something like turn left after a couple blocks um maybe she said something else because that's really when she started freaking out and I just want to get out of the car get out try pulling the door it's locked up my the car out of locks I'm locked up we're in the streets have do you remember no I don't remember do you remember where she was wearing no I don't what was her ethnicity you said she had trouble speaking English well sure um what was what do you think Aldi thinks she was do you think she was a grad student undergrad was she somebody else was about 20. yeah I guess it was about 20. um her hair length ish I'm here um uh I have trouble telling Asian people apart from one another sorry well you would remember this very specific though because when you pulled up to her you rolled your window down she leaned into your car so you're looking right at her face and what does she have on her face what does she have on her head you were looking right at her you don't remember us no I mean even so I taught many many semesters here and a lot of the students were Asian was she wearing glasses did she have a ball cap on the detectives continue to inquire over the missing person's appearance in the hopes that the suspect will give them an accurate response if they can ascertain that the suspect's memory is clear enough to accurately recollect what clothing an individual was wearing at a particular time it will enable them to cut through claims of a poor memory when inquiring into separate matters that occurred during that same time period if a suspect is guilty it would be in his best interest to continue to assert that he can't remember he has already stated that she was Asian and had poor English yet these General details are far easier to remember than particulars such as specific articles of clothing which detectives are now trying to trap him with she might have been wearing flashes I don't remember that so what did she tell you whenever you roll down the window and you're chatting with her you said she looked distressed um that's my stuff do you remember specifically what I thought she said to you um I asked her something on the phone um which would she say that uh she said I'm late I need to get somewhere or something like this I was not exactly out of it which is kind of like oh I'm gonna help this random person so um so she said she was running late for something yeah it was like oh okay well all right so [Music] did she say where she was trying to get to you mentioned the um with the mouse associate a meeting with her professor when I told her my name she didn't really hear it so I had to say again times her English was really bad um maybe I wasn't speaking properly either yeah we really didn't talk about much there really wasn't much said just she looked freaked out so after right so how long do you think that she was in your car for less than five minutes not luck at all there's just a few blocks and I apparently took a wrong turn compared to what she said and that was not too speaker so when you cross the railroad tracks did you turn to the left or to the right I don't remember tracks so you said you kicked her out of the car at a residential neighborhood she got out of the car right now she got out of the car she wanted to get out like that's why I let her out because she was freaking out yeah okay because you didn't understand because you she she thought you took a wrong turn yeah and something's up I don't know something like that so yeah when she tried to open the door but again it was locked because my car auto locks um obviously when I get out I'm not going to keep some of the girl I know in my car who just wanted to be in there and I don't know the girl um so they're up that was less of soccer really okay all right I mean um I would have told this earlier but I mean I'm about Saturdays foreign I don't remember exactly where it before yeah we some you were definitely driving all over campus and you're by yourself and you weren't playing video games all day so why would you tell us that why would you tell the FBI that comes to your house I'm gonna mix up the days I mean I thought I was doing it Saturday so what did you think that those two agents were at your house talking to about when they came over Friday that's why I mean Friday is a day or Friday or they're there to ask you if you picked up an Asian female and gave her a ride about Friday I mean they were asking me about Friday between two and three so I told them I mean maybe I got my days missed you know I said a little bit ago I thought I was doing this Saturday leaving bothers home oh I didn't I played video games all day Friday detective but I actually did pick up a female on Saturday you didn't feel the need to give them that information and it might be important I mean the lead investigator makes the mistake of interrupting the suspect during a direct confrontation he is understandably getting impatient and is at this moment more focused on Gathering pretext for cross-examination at a later stage all right so you go Northbound through University where do you go next do you remember I turned left so it looks like I did go past University um yeah I'm going to ask a personal question don't take it the wrong way it is um you mentioned your wife on our vacation with another friend um you mentioned that there's another guy she hangs out with as you mentioned there's another girl you hang out with do you guys have uh relationship okay I have a girlfriend she has a boyfriend as well okay okay um some kind of strained between us as well anything related why because it's not just their own relationship it's just a strong so every marriage goes through some rough patches yeah um yeah I mean how long has that been going on that that strain the detectives are now building a foundation for the reframing technique the fact the suspect has been going through a rocky marriage will now be afforded to him as a justification for the crimes he committed at a later stage few months a few months I mean yeah I mean I didn't tell her that like this because I was scared that I mean like right now this is happening being able to learn does she go to Wisconsin with a boy or another girlfriend guy how'd that make you feel when she went away for the weekend this long weekend with that guy yeah and it's okay those those are normal human feelings yeah you feel hurt well yeah but I mean she's just inside for a while um but still she's your wife and it's tough you know even if you're in an open relationship like that where it's tough to see somebody you care about that you love to go someplace else with somebody else and not include you and I get that man is that why you're driving around campus all day pretty much all day long on Friday because you missed her trying to clear my head you know that's understandable it's still crazy I was lonely Saturday did you talk to any other girls that day did you talk to any other girls on Saturday or did you stay home Saturday no once again days mixed up okay yeah but um when I was driving I'll I'll put it through your way then when I was driving around she was the only person I talked to okay okay fair enough do you remember what time you started driving on campus that day the suspect was driving around for over two hours before he picked up the victim which was used to assert the argument that he was premeditating and abduction do you remember driving off campus in Urbana into a residential neighborhood in Urbana if I did it wasn't that far were you in Orchard Downs where all of our married student housing is there's a large Asian community that lives out there you're driving around Orchard I did go to Orchard Downs for a little bit but there was construction so I turned back this was used to assert the argument that Not only was the abduction premeditated but he was specifically targeting a female of Asian ethnicity so you were cruising around campus a bit I'm trying to clear your head and your wife was up in Wisconsin with her boyfriend while you're cruising around you see if you're very distressed is that correct if that was hurt yeah if I recognized her I would have told the agents that came on Monday or Tuesday whenever it was that it was her okay like because I knew she was missing um I picked up an Asian girl I thought she was about 20. when she said she was distressed or you said that she looked distressed what did she say to you when you rolled your window down talked to her um she said she was late for something other than that did she tell you what what it was she had a meeting with her professor again my um my theory is that she didn't get out of the car being open with him theory is she was in her a little bit longer the lead detective is now using the same technique as the second detective used earlier to gain the initial admittance from the suspect he doesn't directly accuse the suspect of abduction but is trying to gain further admittance past what the suspect has already acknowledged being that he simply picked up and dropped off yin yang after she panicked um we have 600 Chinese students that have volunteered to look further what I can tell you is that we will find her now when we find her is up to you because you know and we know that she didn't just get out of your car so we need to know where she is now so that we can move forward from this but if you maintain that she just got out of the car and walked away it's very difficult for us to move forward were were you hoping for uh just kind of like a good trist with her or and see if you know trying to trying to pick her up and that would have been nice but [Music] do you have I'm gonna ask you a weird question and a lot of us have fetishes how would you describe your relationship with your wife are you guys into certain things do you like porn do you like um we're pretty vanilla together um but yes pretty much it we have some stuff in our apartment I mean do you have like certain types of people that you have fantasies about that you might want to hook up with you know not particularly no I said well I missed it up okay have you ever like um you do realize like everything you tell us we fact check regardless of what you tell us so like stuff like YouTube videos that you've seen regarding Asian women do you like videos of Asian women like Korean women like K-pop songs and stuff I mean maybe I like okay so I like all types of women okay that's that's the truth so I don't have an Asian fetish but something drew your eye to hurt because you see drugs you were cruising all over and if she was truly distressed I mean there was an E phone stand right behind her she could have pushed that button and got help and she didn't ask you for help per se she asked she needed to get to she was late for something yeah and that's so you offered to give her a ride mm-hmm you're a smart man you have a PhD right Masters oh you got out of the PC you're still a smart man is my point so you have to understand how technology works you think I knew that she addressed to one North how do you think I knew that one minute after getting in your car how do you think I knew that we know that you did she didn't get out of your car [Music] you need to be honest with us help us put this to rest help us bring her back to her family you can do that you can do this you can do it right now [Music] I understand if you've had dark thoughts I understand if you've been depressed I understand if you've been drinking too much at times I understand if you've had sadistic thoughts wondered what it would be like to commit an act of violence you know that temptation is out there know she got in your car you know I was there be depressed your wife just left to go on a vacation with another man I see her she gets in she's vulnerable let me find her I think I've told you okay so did she get back in your car then no did you get out of the car and follow her no or something but why not was it because of the kind of neighborhood you're in I don't know anything about that wrote so did she run away from you did she stand there no she stood there looked at her phone and I drove away were you attracted her at all [Music] she's a good looking girl did the thought cross your mind yeah the thought crossed my mind but I probably haven't won anyone I mean maybe she's into that is my point and I'm not I'm not judging you if she got in your car and she wanted to have go to another location you guys have a have some fun roll around have sex consensual sex something happens do you panic is that a possibility you sure so you're telling me you never had sex with her I never had sex with her never penetrated her with your fingers any any parts of her body with your penis not with your fingers no never had sex did you kiss her no okay are you afraid are you afraid to tell me if you did because it seems like you're you're trying to think instead of just answer the question you're trying to think about three steps forward where I'm going with it and I think I've demonstrated enough I've shared enough with you that you know that I know that you you didn't drop her off in that in that neighborhood you know that we can follow her phone okay okay so where did you drop her off at [Music] where'd you take her Brent the suspect maintained his innocence and was released without charge but was immediately placed under surveillance at the completion of this interrogation four days later the FBI reached out to his girlfriend Tara Bullis who agreed to wear a listening device and attempt to get him to open up about Yin Yang's disappearance and his potential involvement this arranged strategy turned out to be a total success and Brent Christensen was arrested on June 30th exactly two weeks after his interrogation an FBI agent testified that Brent christensen's girlfriend became a key part of the case when she agreed to record conversation she had with him and the weeks following Yin Ying Zhang's disappearance a total of nine recordings came from that at first he denied guilt and told her everything would be okay but then on June 29th after a night of drinking he described killing Zhang in detail investigators say the final recordings were made the day of a memorial walk in concert for the missing Yin Ying Zhang an event that Christensen actually attended with his then girlfriend what he didn't know is that girlfriend was wearing an FBI recording device on the walk home the two began to talk about the crime I cut her clothes off and just started doing stuff to her he said earlier in the conversation he said she was resilient I tried to choke her to death but she didn't I choked her for what must have been 10 minutes then I released her her breath I couldn't believe she was still alive Christensen said he hit Zhang in the head with a bat and stabbed her and she was still alive so he decapitated her prosecutors say the recording showed that Christensen bragged about killing 12 other people but they have no other evidence of more victims Yin Ying is the only person that has produced evidence that leads back to me number 13 He said I've been at this since I was 19. he told his girlfriend he had been wanting to talk to someone about it and he wanted to kill more people I still want to do it he said it's my Legacy and as if this has not been hard enough for Zhang's family some of them were in the courtroom today Zhang's father kept his eyes closed during that recording Christensen was mostly expressionless his defense team has tried to paint him as a man with mental health and substance abuse issues who does not deserve the death penalty the trial continues next week it's a step toward Justice for Yin Ying Zhang the man who kidnapped and killed her is guilty good evening I'm Paul cicchini and I'm Jennifer Roscoe a jury took less than two hours to convict Brent Christensen of abducting and killing Zhang and lying to the FBI about it she was last seen June 9 2017 getting into his black Saturn Astron the U of I campus Christensen faces either life in prison or the death penalty Brent Christensen the convicted killer of Chinese scholar Yin Ying Zhang will spend the rest of his life in prison because the federal jury couldn't decide if he should be sentenced to Die the judge certainly didn't mince words in his final statements CBS 2's Tara Molina is live in The Newsroom with more on that decision tonight Tara Erica and Brad this is the this is the same jury that found Christiansen guilty of kidnapping and killing Zhang they couldn't come to a unanimous decision on the death penalty and the judge certainly didn't mince his words in his final statements to Christensen he said quote vote the mercy extended to you by this jury is a testament to their Humanity not your character Brent Christensen is currently serving his sentence at the maximum security Statesville Correctional Center in Illinois despite the FBI recordings he maintains his innocence to this day the body of Yin Ying Zhang is yet to be recovered

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Published: Tue Jun 29 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/SocialPredicament]

I guess I’m behind. JCS has a second YT account?

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I have patience for this channel. They are trying to find a safe and regular way to monetize their content and effort.

I hope that they figure it out in a way that we all can call a good deal.

[u/Angry_Walnut]

I was confused bc this came onto my YT feed last night but I didn’t see anything on this sub about it yet. Good video though. Casefile podcast did a recent episode on this case that pairs well with this imo.

[u/simplemfa]

What is this second YT channel you speak of?

[u/bacespucketee]

If you are curious about the body:

Following the trial, prosecutors revealed information about Zhang's remains that Christensen divulged through his attorneys in November 2018 under an immunity agreement. The day after he killed Zhang, Christensen claimed he put Zhang's dismembered body in three separate garbage bags which he then disposed of in the dumpster outside of his apartment. Over the next two days, Christensen claimed he disposed of Zhang's personal belongings in various dumpsters in the Champaign-Urbana area. The dumpster in which Christensen placed Zhang's remains was emptied three days later and the contents taken to a private landfill in Vermilion County, compacted at least twice, spread over an area fifty yards wide, and subsequently buried under thirty feet of garbage. Recovery of Zhang's remains would be difficult and a search for her remains has not begun

From wikipedia

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[u/BronsonJonas]

This is just reposted from the patreon. I don’t think JCS has recorded any original content in well over a year. Does anyone have any insight as to what happened to this group?

[u/FarS1GHT]

Has JCS ever commented or given a "what's going on behind the scenes" during the downtime?

[u/apwannabe2727]

Jim having a second account???😩