Oberle
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The smiling young woman in the pic below is Yingying Zhang. She went missing for three weeks and is now presumed dead.
Details are few on what happened, but a former Ph.D. candidate (he decided to go for a Master's instead) from the same university—28-year-old Brendt Christensen—has now been arrested and charged with kidnapping. No murder charges yet, but authorities say they believe she's deceased.
The day Zhang disappeared she was riding public transit, signing a lease, and taking care of other business. She was last seen getting into Brendt's car after failing to get a bus to stop for and then waiting at a different bus stop for a bus that wasn't running that day.
Apparently he circled her for a bit before approaching her. He claimed he only offered to help "an Asian woman" because she appeared to be distressed. He said he dropped her off again soon after. This was on his second interview. In the first interview, he claimed he was "sleeping or playing video games" and had nothing to do with it.
Police surveillance generated an audio recording of him telling someone "he kidnapped Zhang, brought her back to his apartment and held her in his apartment against her will."
His electronics revealed "visits to a bondage and sadomasochism fetish website called FetLife and a forum called "Abduction 101," as well as subthreads titled “Perfect abduction fantasy” and "planning a kidnapping..."
It doesn't seem to bode well for Zhang. More info and videos at the links:
http://www.newser.com/story/245111/...cted-by-man-who-visited-kidnapping-sites.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-illinois-student-charges-20170630-story.html
Details are few on what happened, but a former Ph.D. candidate (he decided to go for a Master's instead) from the same university—28-year-old Brendt Christensen—has now been arrested and charged with kidnapping. No murder charges yet, but authorities say they believe she's deceased.
The day Zhang disappeared she was riding public transit, signing a lease, and taking care of other business. She was last seen getting into Brendt's car after failing to get a bus to stop for and then waiting at a different bus stop for a bus that wasn't running that day.
Apparently he circled her for a bit before approaching her. He claimed he only offered to help "an Asian woman" because she appeared to be distressed. He said he dropped her off again soon after. This was on his second interview. In the first interview, he claimed he was "sleeping or playing video games" and had nothing to do with it.
Police surveillance generated an audio recording of him telling someone "he kidnapped Zhang, brought her back to his apartment and held her in his apartment against her will."
His electronics revealed "visits to a bondage and sadomasochism fetish website called FetLife and a forum called "Abduction 101," as well as subthreads titled “Perfect abduction fantasy” and "planning a kidnapping..."
It doesn't seem to bode well for Zhang. More info and videos at the links:
http://www.newser.com/story/245111/...cted-by-man-who-visited-kidnapping-sites.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-illinois-student-charges-20170630-story.html