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The apartment building where Brendt Christensen, who has been charged with kidnapping visiting scholar Yingying Zhang, lives near the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Federal jury finds Brendt Christensen guilty of kidnapping, slaying of Chinese scholar at U. of I.

June 24, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

A federal jury on Monday deliberated for less than two hours before finding Brendt Christensen guilty in the kidnapping and slaying of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017. The 12-member...

Brendt Christensen laughed while describing to his former girlfriend how he killed Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang at U. of I.: testimony

June 21, 2019 at 5:49 p.m.

Sitting on a bench at a vigil for the missing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017, Brendt Christensen grabbed his girlfriend Terra Bullis' phone and pulled up the Notepad function....

Accused U. of I. killer’s ex-girlfriend admits conflict over wearing FBI wire, ‘but I also cared about this missing person’

June 20, 2019 at 9:32 a.m.

Brendt Christensen's former girlfriend said she was scared and conflicted about wearing a FBI wire to record conversations with him following the disappearance of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in June...

Accused U. of I. killer Brendt Christensen’s online life detailed in court: ‘I don’t care how I am remembered, just that I am’

June 18, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.

In the months before Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang's disappearance in June 2017, Brendt Christensen made multiple online searches related to serial killers, visited pages dedicated to abduction fantasies and viewed...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds up a copy of his bill for a progressive income tax, as Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, right, smiles during the signing ceremony at the Thompson Center in Chicago on June 5, 2019.

If you own a car, smoke or buy gas in Illinois you will be paying more: A look at what fees and taxes state lawmakers hiked

June 4, 2019 at 7:03 a.m.

Illinoisans will be paying more for gasoline, cigarettes and annual license plate fees to help pay for the $45 billion public works plan the General Assembly passed during the final...

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Federal jury finds Brendt Christensen guilty of kidnapping, slaying of Chinese scholar at U. of I.

Brendt Christensen laughed while describing to his former girlfriend how he killed Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang at U. of I.: testimony

Accused U. of I. killer’s ex-girlfriend admits conflict over wearing FBI wire, ‘but I also cared about this missing person’

Accused U. of I. killer Brendt Christensen’s online life detailed in court: ‘I don’t care how I am remembered, just that I am’

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In opening statement, attorney admits Brendt Christensen abducted, killed Chinese scholar at University of Illinois

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If you own a car, smoke or buy gas in Illinois you will be paying more: A look at what fees and taxes state lawmakers hiked