Brendt Christensen, a former doctoral student in physics at the University of Illinois, abducted Yingying Zhang in 2017 from a bus stop. Prosecutors say he beat her to death at his off-campus apartment, decapitated her and carried her away in a large duffel bag. READ: Jury deliberates death penalty in Chinese scholar’s slayingBut prosecutors eventually rejected the idea, their filing explains, after concluding it’d be impossible to verify any details that Christensen would provide on the remains and he probably destroyed them. State and federal officials conducted widespread searches for Zhang’s remains for months to no avail, according to an FBI agent who testified at the trial. Zhang’s father, Ronggao Zhang , begged for that information again Thursday after jurors couldn’t agree on imposing the death penalty.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 20, 2019 00:33 UTC