YINGYING ZHANG was killed for three years and has not been compensated yet. What happened to the killer now?

Brent, YINGYING ZHANG's murderer? Two years after the incident, Christensen was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in the federal district court of Illinois, which means that he will die in prison.

2065438+On June 9, 2007, Ms. YINGYING ZHANG, a Peking University student who went to the United States for an exchange, disappeared at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which caused great discussion in online media at home and abroad. According to the monitoring in the school and the memories of YINGYING ZHANG's classmates and friends, YINGYING ZHANG was still doing experiments in the school that morning. At noon 12: 30, he also returned to the student apartment to prepare lunch. At one o'clock in the afternoon, he sent a short message to the landlord to renew the lease, and there was no contact from then on. At about 9: 24 pm that day, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported YINGYING ZHANG missing to the police. At noon the next day, the US police announced the formal filing of the case.

After more than a month's investigation and evidence collection, finally on July 17, the US federal grand jury formally sued Brent? Christensen. On the afternoon of June 9th, he drove to see YINGYING ZHANG. He was in a hurry because he missed the bus. He can give her a fake ride. As the suspect is a Ph.D. student in the physics department of the school, YINGYING ZHANG may have known him before and agreed to get on the bus with the gangsters. But she didn't expect that what was waiting for her after this was a kind of inhuman cruelty.

Brent? After Christensen was arrested, he initially refused to plead guilty, and the US judicial authorities could only accuse him of kidnapping. Fortunately, his girlfriend provided a recording of their previous chat. In the recording, Brent? Christensen described his inhuman act of killing YINGYING ZHANG, and he had to admit his evil deeds to the prosecution.

Until July 20 19, two years after the murder, the jury composed of 12 people could not decide whether to make a verdict on Brent. Christensen reached an agreement on the death penalty, and according to the current laws of the United States, he will be exempted from the death penalty.