MURDERED: Yingying Zhang

On June 9, 2017 a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was waiting for a bus in broad daylight when a car stops at the bus stop, right next to her. Instead of waiting for the bus any longer, the scholar gets in the car. She would never be seen again. This is the story Yingying Zhang. Sponsor: Babbel: Babbel.com/diaries Follow us on instagram @themurderdiariespod or email us at themurderdiariespod@gmail.com Help support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mdiariespod Resources: Finding Yingying (MTV, 2020) Wire transcript: https://www.ilcd.uscourts.gov/sites/ilcd/files/Govt%20Ex%2029-TR.pdf That Chapter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J42vf5gYqdc https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/brendt-christensen-claimed-killed-12-yingying-zhang-part-67057864 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-missing-illinois-student-charges-20170630-story.html https://news.wttw.com/2019/06/12/defense-attorney-brendt-christensen-killed-yingying-zhang https://heavy.com/news/2017/07/yingying-zhang-photos-pictures-ying-facebook-pics-brendt-christensen/ https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/illinois-man-charged-with-kidnapping-chinese-scholar/ https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/11/yingying-zhang-family/ https://www.wqad.com/article/news/crime/life-is-too-short-to-be-ordinary-reads-the-final-excerpt-from-still-missing-university-of-illinois-students-diary/526-dc5b8b0b-4f07-42bb-8132-e3ecd8e78314 https://www.facebook.com/MissingPiecesNetwork/posts/update-6-30-17a-suspect-has-been-arrested-in-the-kidnapping-of-visiting-chinese-/1688633338109504/ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/06/university-discovers-solution-to-drop-in-chinese-students-insurance.html https://news.wttw.com/2019/07/18/brendt-christensen-sentenced-life-yingying-zhang-killing https://abcnews.go.com/US/trial-begins-illinois-man-missing-chinese-scholar-case/story?id=63447958 https://meaww.com/finding-yingying-documentary-film-brendt-christensen-girlfriend-lover-bdsm-terra-bullis-wire-fbi https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/2018/10/09/memorial-garden-dedicated-to--missing-scholar-yingying-zhang/ https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/11/brendt-christensen-girlfriend-terra-bullis/ https://medium.com/@grantbjork92/the-kidnapping-and-murder-of-yingying-zhang-3071b94314f3 Pronunciation resources: https://translate.google.cn/?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&text=章&op=translate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CwvkGE0kag Music Used: Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Fretless by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3777-fretless License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices