Deceased/Not Found IL - Yingying Zhang, 26, Urbana, 9 June 2017 #9 *Arrest*

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video shown of march
Aaron Eades on Twitter

 

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here it comes
BC's girlfriend Terra Bullis had an FBI recording device as she walked ths event with him. Here are some excerpts-- viewer discretion advised, as some of them are disturbing
He gets around to telling her "nobody knows what happened...except for me." @WCIA3

 

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Talking about #YingyingZhang) BC: "She was valiant." TB: "Did she fight? BC: "She fought more than anyone else I've ever met."

 

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IChristensen Tapes: "So I chopped her head off and I said that was the end of it." - Brendt Christensen, in his own words, describing how he killed Yingying on a secret FBI recording played just now in the courtroom. @foxillinois @wics_abc20N

I just can’t wrap my head around how casual he can be about taking somebody else’s life, I really don’t understand it. It shows an incredible lack of self awareness for himself, not to realise that someone else wouldn’t want to hear him gushing about what he did.

Usually in a murder trial, I get annoyed at people who unfairly attack the defence because of course, they have a job to do and need to give their client the best defence possible, so a mistrial can never be claimed but this logic has been severely tested by BC’s defence team. I just can’t wrap my head around trying to get the case thrown out for prejudicing the jury, after admitting in the opening statement that BC is responsible for the victim’s death. I can’t even begin to comprehend it, it’s just so bizarre.

 

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BC: "She was stronger than any victim I've ever had." Later... "Yingying is the only person that has produced evidence that lead back to me. Number 13. I've been at this since I was 19." (AaronEades)

 

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1. hristensen: "I got the bat and I hit her on the head as hard as I could and it broke her head open. At that point I didn't know if she was dead or not so I had a knife and I stabbed her in the neck and she grabbed for it." @WCIA3
   
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   Aaron Eades‏ @WCIA3Eades 2m2 minutes ago
   BC: "They (the FBI) have the bat that I hit her head with." Christensen then goes on to say he tried to choke her to death for 10 minutes
   

 

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Christensen: "I chopped her head off." Then he compared himself to Ted Bundy, saying he may be the most successful serial killer in 30 years. @WCIA3

 

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   Ben Zigterman‏ @bzigterman 5m5 minutes ago
   While walking home, he eventually opens up to his girlfriend. (4/21)
   
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   Christensen tells her this is "a night that you'll remember" and is surprised by how many people showed up. "I just wanted to see how many people were here." They're here "for me." (3/21)
   
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Aaron Eades
"I am apparently very good at this, he said." Then made it clear to TB that #YingyingZhang would never be found, that she was "gone". Also discussed potential difficulties in dealing with larger victims because there's "extra [stuff] to get rid of"
Wonder what that meant to him?

 

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"It's just my legacy," he said. (7/21) (BenZ)
Said she's the only person that has produced evidence that led back to him. "They have the bat I hit her in the head with

1. "I tried to choke her to death, but … she just didn't die." "Must've been 10 minutes." (10/21)
   
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   Ben Zigterman‏ @bzigterman 10m10 minutes ago
   "I tore her clothes off and just started doing stuff to her," he said on the tape. (9/21)
   
   
3. 1. "I had a knife and I stabbed her in the neck." He claimed she tried to grab the knife, but said that's when she died. Then "I chopped her head off." "That was the end of it." (12/21)
      
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      Ben Zigterman‏ @bzigterman 10m10 minutes ago
      He then said he carried her to his bathtub and "hit her in the head as hard as I could and it broke her head open." (
      
      
   3. 1. Bragged about getting national attention. "I didn't want to but I still did." (15/21)
         
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         Ben Zigterman‏ @bzigterman 11m11 minutes ago
         Said he wouldn't kill his girlfriend because she's too big. "It's about getting rid of 100 pounds versus 150 pounds." (14/21)
         
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         Ben Zigterman‏ @bzigterman 11m11 minutes ago
         Said he was telling her bc "I've wanted to talk about this with someone so much" and trusted her. (13/21)
         

 

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1. Repeated that she was the only person he'd told. Said he told his wife about his murder fantasies before when he was super drunk and it led her to want a divorce. (17/21)
   
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   Ben Zigterman‏ @bzigterman 11m11 minutes ago
   He was amused that the people at the vigil thanked him for being there. "It's so weird." (16/21)
   

 

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1. hile it was played, Christensen mostly looked down or at the screen ahead of him with a transcript of the conversation, making no noticeable reaction. (20/21)
   
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   Ben Zigterman‏ @bzigterman 12m12 minutes ago
   He then was picked up by his wife, and his wife accused him of being drunk, which his girlfriend confirmed, according to defense attorney Elisabeth Pollock in her cross examination. (19/21
   

 

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Wow.
Sounds like he talked to the GF about doing a murder even before he did it. She may or may not have taken him seriously at the time.

Since LE are able to get phone and text records I have to wonder if this text was used to confront the GF and help convince her she needs to cooperate with LE against him.

If divulged he wanted to kidnap, and rape a victim to his wife and/or gf and they never contacted LE or FBI, then what kind of sick games are they involved in also? It is NOT normal to plan a kidnapping and think this is normal behavior.

 

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Really do need a comprehensive analysis of the tone, energy, all of it-3D to figger how much of this is credible.
10 minutes strangulation with his big hands around her petite neck?
The full vehemence of his strength on the bat that broke her cranium?
'I had a knife'
A lot of forensics were blood stains from the bedroom.. unless that came under heading of 'I did stuff to her'.
You sure did, with at least one knife... he omitted bits of the sequence(s) it appears?
Did he also have an axe for the alleged decapitation?

 

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RBBM

I understand your thoughts. I've wondered what could be done for these people as well.

I have a friend who is a psychologist, and she told me she would never take someone like BC as a patient. One might think BC is beyond saving. I just don't know.

JMVHO.

Would you want him as your patient? no way...he would stalk the psychologist! Some people belong in institutions/behind bars for a reason.

 

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Fading into nothingness is the default for most people,” Christensen told his girlfriend some time before Zhang’s disappearance, according to Miller. “Fading into nothingness is not an option. I’d rather destroy humanity than let that happen.”
The above from the transcript.
This piece discusses death penalty.

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who took the first step toward abolishing the state’s death penalty by placing a moratorium on executions in Illinois in 2000, a year after the state’s last execution, said the federal decision to hold a death penalty trial in Illinois subverted the will of the majority of the residents.

He said he opposes the death penalty on the grounds it’s impossible to ensure innocent people will never be put to death. (!!!)
Why Brendt Christensen Can be Sentenced to Death in a State That Abolished the Death Penalty

and this is when the GF should have RAN for the hills or planned slowly on leaving him. This not sane.

 

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I’m still wondering about pleading not guilty but saying he’s guilty. Is this the new defense lawyer trick? Will we start seeing more of this tactic? Is this the new normal? This loophole must be closed.

 

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Why are we having this trial, after admitted guilt? This article may explain that. We have to go through the verdict phase to get to the possible death penalty option. The prosecution was likely not willing to entertain a plea deal, so all BC can hope for is life w/o parole.

Why did Brendt Christensen admit he killed Chinese scholar Zhang at U. of I.? It might save his life.

Admitting that a defendant is guilty from the outset of a trial is a rare strategy. Here's a closer look at the approach and what Christensen's defense team might be trying to accomplish: ......------

Christensen's trial has two phases: The first, the one they're in now, is the verdict phase where jurors are hearing evidence about whether he committed the crime. If they convict him, the death penalty phase would follow.

In the penalty phase, prosecutors would present reasons why Christensen deserves to die. They likely would highlight how they believe Zhang was tortured. The defense would then present reasons why his life should be spared,

So, why not just plead guilty?
Had Christensen entered a guilty plea, a 12-person jury would still have been convened to decide whether he should or shouldn't be executed. Higher courts have determined that only juries, not judges, should determine if aggravating factors justify the death penalty.

By pleading not guilty, the defense forced the two-phase process — the verdict and death penalty phases. That bought them more time to make the case that Christensen's life should be spared,

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Why are we having thus trial, after admitted guilt? This article may explain that. We have to go through the verdict phase to get to the possible death penalty option. The prosecution was likely not willing to entertain a plea deal, so all BC can hope for is life w/o parole.

Why did Brendt Christensen admit he killed Chinese scholar Zhang at U. of I.? It might save his life.

Admitting that a defendant is guilty from the outset of a trial is a rare strategy. Here's a closer look at the approach and what Christensen's defense team might be trying to accomplish: ......------

Christensen's trial has two phases: The first, the one they're in now, is the verdict phase where jurors are hearing evidence about whether he committed the crime. If they convict him, the death penalty phase would follow.

In the penalty phase, prosecutors would present reasons why Christensen deserves to die. They likely would highlight how they believe Zhang was tortured. The defense would then present reasons why his life should be spared,

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unable to open it sadly cos Europe.