The father of a former teaching assistant at the University of Illinois who was convicted of killing a young visiting Chinese scholar said he believes his son’s actions could have been prevented if the university counselors his son spoke to had taken proper action. It makes no sense,' Mike Christensen
The father of a former teaching assistant at the University of Illinois who was convicted of killing a young visiting Chinese scholar said he believes his son’s actions could have been prevented if the university counselors his son spoke to had taken proper action.
"If, for some dumb reason, the jury found him not guilty -- juries do the weirdest things -- I would've tried to have him committed because you can't have somebody that can do something like this out in society," said Mike Christensen. He added that his son may have"schizophrenia" or"psychosis." But he has not been diagnosed with either and Christensen’s attorneys decided against using the insanity defense prior to trial. He also had no criminal record, according to investigators.
Story continuesBrendt Christensen was arrested and charged with kidnapping Zhang on June 30, 2017, roughly three weeks after Zhang was last seen on surveillance video getting into a Saturn Astra that investigators traced back to Brendt Christensen. The video showed she had been waiting at a bus stop when she got into the car.
At trial, prosecutors also presented undercover audio of Brendt Christensen from his girlfriend at the time, who became an FBI informant. He opened up to her while both attended a vigil for Yingying. In the audio, previously reported on by ABC News, Christensen is heard describing how he beat, suffocated, sexually assaulted and decapitated Zhang.
Christensen’s father specifically avoided one topic when he was interviewed by ABC News in July: the location of Zhang’s remains.
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