Wow! There's another scenario I had not thought of. If he did that or impersonated LE she might not be suspicious about where he is driving. Until he does something like enter the interstate and drive east, for example. If he told her he was an Uber driver, she would be concerned when they went past the apartment she wanted to go to.
Deceased/Not Found IL - Yingying Zhang, 26, Urbana, 9 June 2017 #1 *Arrest*
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Wow! There's another scenario I had not thought of. If he did that or impersonated LE she might not be suspicious about where he is driving. Until he does something like enter the interstate and drive east, for example. If he told her he was an Uber driver, she would be concerned when they went past the apartment she wanted to go to.
I suspect there could have been a language or cultural barrier that made Yingying more vulnerable. She has been described as an intelligent, cautious 26 year old woman. I think in most circumstances she would have been unlikely to get into a stranger's vehicle.
The social media post also said the earlier incident happened at Busey and Stoughton. Yingying was abducted at Goodwin and Clark. These locations are just a few blocks from each other, pretty much in the same area. Again, the post was made before any details of the case were revealed, so it seems very likely to be true in my opinion.
I suppose this has been asked and answered, but I may have missed it. Wasn't Yingying abducted off-campus? If so, why am I reading the university police are investigating? This makes seem as though they are the lead LE here. Why not the local PD or state police? I certainly understand the university police being involved, but are they the lead agency?
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But here's the concerning part. If you look in the view released you can see that she is immediately no longer visible in the passenger seat. So whatever he did he certainly gained control of her right then bc she isn't visible after they leave where she got into the car. Unless, she was waiting for him, sunk down out of view immediately and had planned to get away. But, how long did she stand at that window b4 she opened the door?
Also, I notice a tag on the front of the vehicle. I know in Ga., Fl. and possibly many other states a vehicle tag is not required on the front, just the back. It looks like a tag to me, could be a name plate but worth a look see. Nothing we can sleuth bc we don't have access to motor vehicle record/registration once we narrowed down the states tht require tags front and back.
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This may have been posted earlier. The FAQ's on the case from the university PD. I thought the first one was interesting about the use of the term, "Kidnapping".
http://police.illinois.edu/dpsapp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/forum-faqs.pdf
http://police.illinois.edu/dpsapp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/forum-faqs.pdf
I don't think that's the case. In the video that was released on the university police's FB page, it appeared to me that you can still see Yingying's silhouette sitting upright in the passenger seat as the vehicle pulls away. The car seemed to wait a moment before it pulled away, maybe to allow her to put on her seatbelt or something.
I don't know what is involved with assaulting someone in your car, overpowering them, restraining them, disabling them, and the like, but it seems like it would be hard to do while the car is in gear and driving down the road. More than likely he drove somewhere not necessarily remote and secluded, but at least quiet with little traffic going by, put the car in park, and attacked her.
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"Give my daughter back," her father said through an interpreter today.
"Ying, be strong, Dad is waiting for you here," he said. "I hope that being a good person you will be safe forever."
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-06-22/give-my-daughter-back.html
She comes from a family of modest means. Her father has worked as a driver for an electrical company and a taxi driver in China. Her mother, who remains in China because family members say she wasn't physically or emotionally up to the task of traveling to the U.S., is a housewife.
"Because the financial situation at home is not great, (Zhang's) goal is to study hard and help the family. Her focus in college was studies," said Ye, the scholar's aunt. "She was between the classroom and the library. She also worked as a tutor so she could earn additional income."
"Ying, be strong, Dad is waiting for you here," he said. "I hope that being a good person you will be safe forever."
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2017-06-22/give-my-daughter-back.html
She comes from a family of modest means. Her father has worked as a driver for an electrical company and a taxi driver in China. Her mother, who remains in China because family members say she wasn't physically or emotionally up to the task of traveling to the U.S., is a housewife.
"Because the financial situation at home is not great, (Zhang's) goal is to study hard and help the family. Her focus in college was studies," said Ye, the scholar's aunt. "She was between the classroom and the library. She also worked as a tutor so she could earn additional income."
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JnRyan You're awesome this makes me feel better.
"There have been reports of a black sedan driving around posing as an
undercover officer and trying to lure women into his car. Is that connected?
Since Ms. Zhang disappeared, we have spoken to at least one person who reported that, and we
gathered valuable information about that encounter. At this point, we do not have information
to say definitively that it is connected, but we also cannot rule it out. It is among the scenarios
which we are investigating.
Have police identified the license plate yet?
We have used vehicle records to identify a list of people who drive that make and model vehicle,
and were speaking to people who drive that kind of vehicle."
I knew they were doing this but releasing this info gives me confidence that resolution is hopefully, near.
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"There have been reports of a black sedan driving around posing as an
undercover officer and trying to lure women into his car. Is that connected?
Since Ms. Zhang disappeared, we have spoken to at least one person who reported that, and we
gathered valuable information about that encounter. At this point, we do not have information
to say definitively that it is connected, but we also cannot rule it out. It is among the scenarios
which we are investigating.
Have police identified the license plate yet?
We have used vehicle records to identify a list of people who drive that make and model vehicle,
and were speaking to people who drive that kind of vehicle."
I knew they were doing this but releasing this info gives me confidence that resolution is hopefully, near.
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No toll roads but there are interstates, probably 15 minutes from the east side of campus if I recall correctly. I-57 leads to Chicago or southern Illinois, 74 to Bloomington-Normal and 72 to Decatur. It's a pretty straight shot to St. Louis too.
Campus is so quiet in the summer. I always found it a little creepy.
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I hope we get a morsel of additional information from this session tonight.
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Speaking of low asking prices, the owner of the craigslist listing GigTu found and I submitted to LE four days ago is "Asking 1500 or obo."
Another thing I noticed about this listing is "Please no emails. No PayPal. No western union payments." I've never used craigslist, so maybe this isn't usual, though.
Also, it doesn't say anything about how many miles it has, either, so maybe it's high, and thus the price is low.
Plus, it was posted 5 days ago, and the listing is still up, so likely not "the tip" ...:
https://newhaven.craigslist.org/cto/6181687617.html
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https://patch.com/illinois/champaig...elp-kidnapped-university-illinois-student-fbi
Though public information continues to be an important part of the investigation, detectives are pursuing hundreds of leads.
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Do you have a link for this please? Thank you!
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