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This sounds like hopeful news. I'm so glad they are being careful with not releasing information. I hope she can return to her home safe and alive!!
the closest encounter with this incident was that bicyclist and the white car behind astra, looks like something drew his attention over that direction. he probably saw something happened there. I'm wondering if he's come forward yet or FBI found him. he's certainly a uiuc student.
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This is really good news. I think they have a POI or are very close to one. They're really working this case, extensively. Idk if they normally send out reports to that many field offices especially the director on all of their cases. But, I feel like this tells us they really are tracking those Astras in multiple jurisdictions, among many other things. Thank goodess.FBI has made search for missing UI scholar a top priority
Holloways said updates on the case are sent a minimum of two times a day to the office of the acting director of the FBI in Washington, D.C.
"We are not where we were when this investigation started. We are not even close," he said.
And updates on Zhang are being regularly sent to all 56 FBI field offices around the country.
Holloway explained why details on the case have been withheld from the public so far.
"There are going to be a lot of questions about the investigation that I cannot answer. Anything I say here will be heard by the abductor," he said. "It would jeopardize our efforts to locate her and to bring her abductor to justice."
Holloway said that, when authorities get evidence, the FBI will make sure that they have "rock-solid chain of custody."
Do they have a list of inmates for the arresting agency on their website? This could be easy to figure out who it is that committed 1 of the impersonations. God I hope there are not numerous LE impersonators in the same vacinity. And here in lies the problem if we start posting this person if we found out who is that going to hurt the investigation and is it a websleuth violation? But it's been referred to in many MSM articles, the impersonation bit.OK I found it here: https://illinois.edu/lb/files/2017/06/19/61649.pdf
On the daily crime log, it says that on 6/9 at 9:20 a.m. there was an incident reported where someone was falsely impersonating a peace officer.
The location was Busey and Stoughton, and the recorded time of the call was at 9:29 a.m.
That was the same location as the one claimed by the girl on social media on 6/11--before this log would have been available, and before the footage of Yingying's abduction was released.
I think the girl's claims on social media are verified. That case is listed as "pending".
But here is something interesting...
Two days later on 6/11 at 10:38 p.m., there was another reported incident of someone impersonating a peace officer at Washington and Neal streets. The police report says "ARREST".
There are no other reports in the last two months of anyone else trying to impersonate a peace officer at the UI campus.
So the question is...are these cases related? Has the perp been sitting in jail for the last two weeks and that's why police said there isn't an immediate danger to the public? Was he arrested in the last few days and they are holding him while they investigate more? What is going on here?
This case is quite frankly baffling. It appears a kidnapping occurred in broad daylight on a college campus. Because of this, we arrive at my first thought: the brazenness of this crime is incredible. Moreover, the suspect did not utilize physical violence.
She's a petite foreign student, only in the country a month. Has probably only been around colleagues/associates that have obviously have her best interests in mind. Gets out on the sidewalk alone, in a major metropolitan area without U.S. specific street smarts and is immediately spotted by someone looking for exactly that type of target. He most likely utilized (IMO) at least the threat of physical violence.
Doesn't seem too farfetched to me. Will agree that it's odd the vehicle hasn't been tracked down.
Statistically, a true stranger based kidnapping would be incredibly far fetched. This wasn't a case involving alcohol, from what I know. She wasn't last seen at a bar leaving with an unknown male. She didn't pack her belongings and suddenly leave town, it would appear. Kidnappings and abductions are some of the most rare felonious offenses. Toss in the time of day and location? Yes, it is an anomaly for a university affiliate to be kidnapped by a stranger in the middle of an afternoon
Statistically, a true stranger based kidnapping would be incredibly far fetched. This wasn't a case involving alcohol, from what I know. She wasn't last seen at a bar leaving with an unknown male. She didn't pack her belongings and suddenly leave town, it would appear. Kidnappings and abductions are some of the most rare felonious offenses. Toss in the time of day and location? Yes, it is an anomaly for a university affiliate to be kidnapped by a stranger in the middle of an afternoon.
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I think this person has harmed other women before and there are other previous victims out there.
Any appeal for dashcam footage from any vehicles that may have been in the area around that time - We see a couple of vehicles pass in the cctv.
I hate to bring up Ted Bundy but approaching a vulnerable young college student in the middle of the day and posing as an authority figure isn't unheard of. I've traveled fairly extensively worldwide alone and even with a military background it can be a dodgy proposition negotiating the local mores and simply trying to get from point A to B in the course of normal business.
That's speaking as a mature, adult male. This girl was an obvious target who shouldn't have been out there alone riding public transit. Unfortunately we in the U.S. have a much lower standard for civil order than the media would lead our visitors to believe.
I agree. As a woman, I am very uncomfortable using public transportation alone in an area foreign to me. I don't agree that she shouldn't have been riding alone, but I do think she should have been given a lot more information and instruction on stranger danger in the US.I hate to bring up Ted Bundy but approaching a vulnerable young college student in the middle of the day and posing as an authority figure isn't unheard of. I've traveled fairly extensively worldwide alone and even with a military background it can be a dodgy proposition negotiating the local mores and simply trying to get from point A to B in the course of normal business.
That's speaking as a mature, adult male. This girl was an obvious target who shouldn't have been out there alone riding public transit. Unfortunately we in the U.S. have a much lower standard for civil order than the media would lead our visitors to believe.