The rapist and murderer smiles after receiving a life sentence and not the death penalty
Brendt Christensen, 30, who abducted, raped and beheaded Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old student from China. He managed to ensure that his sentence was not the death penalty. The man sinically smiles at the lawyers when sentencing is handed down last Thursday.
This Illinois resident man and former University doctoral student kidnapped at a college campus bus stop, persuaded the young woman that he was an undercover cop and convinced her to sit in his car.
Yingying's disappearance occurred in June 2017 and the whereabouts of her body are still unknown. The culprit of this kidnapping was put as a suspect when it became known that he had participated in "perfect kidnapping" conversations on a BDSM fan forum.
After contacting Christensen's girlfriend, the FBI got her to collaborate and implanted a recording device in which it was possible to record the moment in which the man confesses to having kidnapped, raped, beaten with a bat and beheaded the victim.
The sentencing trial lasted five weeks in Peoria, and the defendant claimed that Yingying Zhang was the "ideal victim."
Yingying's parents wanted the person guilty of the murder to suffer at least part of the pain that events happen after the loss of their daughter and what she suffered when the attempt on her life.
Zhang's boyfriend also showed deep pain and anger upon hearing Hou Xiaolin 's sentence, and launched strong criticism of the American judicial system:
The results seem to me to say that I can kill anyone, with all sorts of cruel methods. And that I'm not going to die for it. For me, today's results encourage people to commit crimes. And I, I, I will never agree with that, "he said.
Undoubtedly, the verdict caused a commotion and they classify it as unfair this displeased many from Zhang's native country, who wonder about the safety of Chinese students who are in the American country.
