never penetrated her with your fingers any of any parts of her body with your penis not with your fingers no never had sex did you kiss her no in this video you are going to see the interview of a man who beat and decapitated a young asian woman he had lured into his car on june 9th 2017 jin ying yang was traveling off campus to an apartment complex where she was planning on signing a new lease she was running late and messaged the agent what time she should be able to arrive there was a mix-up when she tried to transfer buses and she ended up missing the one she needed to take she tried to catch another one by walking a few blocks to the next stop later security footage shows a vehicle circling chang and then stopping she is shown speaking to the driver before getting into the car the driver was brent christensen who was impersonating a police officer with zhang this was not his first time doing so it previously tried to lure graduate student emily hogan into his car but she refused and later reported the incident zhang was not so lucky christensen took her back to his apartment where he choked and stabbed her before beating her to death with a baseball bat and decapitating her i'm trying to think i've been the 24 hours and i assume the rest came at midnight that this is a priority so i assume that i get to go too fast well we're going to talk about that in a little bit we've just got a lot of questions to ask we want to get this resolved so everybody can move on with their lives so we've got that brent our system is running a little bit slower so i don't know the storm is coming in we're getting power outages okay um wow [Music] um like i said you're home my name is anthony magnero especially with the api i'm assigned here at champion and then this is eric yeah detective eric stiperson detective with uh university police okay um we are investigating the disappearance of um because we are in my offices and it's late at night i'm going to read you your advice for rights okay again this is a voluntary interview so anytime you're done we'll drive you back home that's the end of it but um just kind of given that it's late and stuff like that yeah a response precaution all right so before we ask you any questions you must understand your rights you have the right to remain silent anything you say can be used against you before you have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before you before we ask you any questions so i'm trying to read upside down you have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning if you cannot afford a lawyer one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present you have the right to stop answering questions at any time if you understand these rights if you have any questions about these rights ask now ask anytime if you do wish to talk you can sign i'll sign as a witness and i'll go from there i'm willing to answer questions it's some questions obviously i don't know yeah if i ask you a question you're like hey i don't want to answer that but i'll answer other ones yeah again christensen states that there are some questions he is unwilling to answer which implies that he has something to hide i just released a full 15 minute video about a case so graphic it would never be allowed to be published here on youtube join my patreon page right now to get instant access to that video and many more graphic cases that are too controversial to be posted here seven minutes after [Music] so [Music] i'm gonna where's my notepad here's actually thank you [Music] okay um did you bring your phone with you didn't [Music] all right i'm going to apologize ahead of time because i know that you've already spoken with my colleague joel this cheers it's like broken isn't it yeah it's yeah cool yeah i think mine is um so i know that you spoke with my colleague joel um i've i've briefly been able to talk to him we've been kind of running all over the state so if you can kind of give me a recap of what you told him i would i would appreciate it our investigation as i'm sure joel probably told you is the disappearance of this woman this young lady and the most viable tip that we had referred to a black saturn astra so that's why he came and talked to you the other day um do you remember what you told him and i'm not gonna hold you to it if there are certain details you forget uh so they came they were just checking out all of the saturn astros in the area i know it's a pretty rare car so probably a short list um yeah he asked where my wife and i were during i think it was two to three on friday and i mean i graduated a couple weeks ago so i'm looking for jobs right now so i mean i was either playing video against my computer or taking a nap now so i was unable to purchase an alloy i looked into certain things to try and see if i could get some kind of info for an alibi i sent some texts around that time but none exactly between two and three i let them come in the apartments they searched for stuff i let them come in the car they search for stuff there um that's pretty much it okay 10 minutes 15 minutes getting my info uh would you uh graduate in masters in physics in physics yes well that's very smarter than me i'm not i'm assuming that's over at the u of either yes okay um you said your wife was out of town yes the guys mentioned something about wisconsin is that correct that's correct okay you guys are originally from there or is this okay um do you know what day she was in wisconsin like late thursday night early friday morning until sunday evening briefly they go over some of christensen's earlier statements he gave to a different investigator making sure their information is accurate it also comes to light that christensen is most likely very intelligent this is not necessarily helpful in pulling off a crime sometimes intelligent people overthink things and miss an obvious detail and other times they believe that no one is smart enough to catch them and they get sloppy should i look for a job or no she has a job here she's okay cool oh the job center what i'm sorry i may miss her oh no she has a job already um she was on vacation oh okay yeah okay i'm seeing some old friends up in wisconsin and so yeah yeah yeah cool all right um you mentioned that you thought you possibly sent text messages between you know the hours of two or three so you weren't able to find any um that's correct do you do you recall um any text message they sent that day or like oh yeah there were one i i actually left well i didn't they didn't look at the phone and i was trying to practice in my phone like someone sent me a text at like 1 30 i responded at like 3 45 or something like that so um there are texts around it yeah maybe not not exactly between two and three and that's why i think i was probably lying down and sleeping just because like you know especially now i'll typically do stuff in the morning for jobs play with you and like wake up respond it definitely fits okay um was that kind of pattern of kind of looking for jobs kind of having a little relaxation after graduation was that typical the entire week prior yeah pretty much okay yeah do you remember specifically if you sent any applications out online or if you visited any places throughout the week um throughout the week uh i haven't had any in-person interviews i had a phone interview on thursday and anything on friday okay do you remember if you uh sent a an email or anything on friday oh you checked okay uh was that on the email account that you yeah just mine joel said he he had an email for you yeah um it was it's just my first and last name at gmail.com okay so there's i didn't really send you an email today so okay do you have any questions for me before um [Music] why am i under suspicion is it just my car or is there anything else uh i mean that's you know a large portion uh i mean it is a very unique car um like i said our search warrant is uh is just for the car yeah so we can yeah you know look into it we can of course see what we find and of course you could also turn around and exonerate you completely i mean what a very rare car yeah um but uh how long were you at the u of i did you undergrad there as well no i did my undergrad at uw medicine oh yeah i came here in 2013. okay i was initially in the phd program but decided i didn't want phd so i just got left with the masters it um i like the campus it's all right not too bad it's all right uh do you meet your wife there no we uh actually grew up in the same hometown didn't really know each other until end of high school so we both moved to madison when i went to undergrad cool did she study years old no she did not um you have any uh questions eric yeah the uh when we were talking about uh friday uh the day in question on the night uh tonight can you remember you said you played video games all day on friday yeah is it just between the time period he's asking about or just literally all day literally all day um at the moment not really hanging out with too many people or talking to too many people my wife and the girl i talked to um she's busy my wife's up town so i was like well i'm alone today so uh yep i'm gonna do or anything i did on saturday but i mean giving a little stir crazy just decided to go for a drive on saturday but did you go out to eat or anything go any places no i didn't go out to eat uh what other vehicles you guys own we want a uh 2000 camaro as well that's right is that one primarily yours your wife it's primarily mine yeah so uh is that the car that she took on the road trip or how did she how did she go on a road trip uh the other person's car i was hurting another person so i'll typically drive the camaro um the vast majority of the time when i'm doing errands i'll take the saturn because it's um two of the high priority subjects are who had access to his cars and what he did on the day of the murder both cars will have to be taken in for a forensic search and it is very difficult to clean one well enough to hide signs of a body christensen says he played video games all day and while that isn't out of the realm of possibility it might not have been the best choice of lies not only might a witness step forward that he wasn't aware of but so many places have security footage and if he was caught on anything his story goes up in flames [Music] look you know that we didn't bring you all the way up here to talk about video games and what she had for lunch that day yep why do you think that we brought you up here because the car i own was seen picking up a girl that's missing yeah yeah so who was driving that car other than you on on friday night on friday the the night it's you're driving your car on the ninth warranty anybody else have access to that car no one has access to the car okay so how many sets of keys do we have that car dude and where were they on the friday uh one i would have had one my wife had one and hers were in wisconsin right yeah and what do you keep on that key chain you keep both sets of keys right one for the camaro or you have separate sets um i have one keychain but sometimes i take the common heart keys off of it now let's talk specifically about friday okay you went to school for how long at the envi since 2013. so you're very familiar with our campus not really i never really um talked to anyone so you're kind of a loner and you have went to loomis lab you said yes okay yeah that was my necklace okay that means the uh but specifically on that day okay when you you originally told the agents that came to your apartment that you just played video games all day long and leave the apartment yeah but it's fair to say that we know that that's not true correct why would i lie i mean i think there's some misunderstanding why we're here because like i said we're we're not just looking for a needle in a haystack i'm sorry let me take that back we are looking for a needle in a haystack but my point is you're making it sound like we're just we're we just randomly came across your vehicle of the 1400 asterisks that are in the state of illinois i have so so what would happen that day that brings us to you probably that i live in champaign i mean i've never seen one before uh in astro so okay all right well believe me when i say that the full weight and force of the fbi is going to descend on that vehicle and all that tails okay right now my primary concern and why i've been out until midnight and these guys been out to midnight every single night because we're trying to find this girl it's raining outside it's nasty she's a foreign student has only been here for a few weeks i want to find her i'm asking for help i know i i mean i've got her getting into your car i need to know why there's brent yeah i need to know why she's getting into your car and i need to know where she went if we can help her we need it done now because we need we need to move on from this it's been like six days now i don't decide sorry and you've been at the u of i for how long 30 years time and that you know what we do i work in the detectives approval at the u of i and you know what we have access to cameras do you think that we're not going to track a vehicle all over campus christensen is trying to play it cool but the mention of the cameras on campus has to be making him nervous his car has been identified and he has already admitted that only he and his wife have access we control kiosks to bus stops we can look in buses we can look in every building on the streets and you're telling me that i didn't see you driving your car on goodwin that i didn't see you driving down right street and turn it on right in front of parking where everybody pays her tickets and driving down university to goodwin and heading south and then you see her staying on that corner in that shade tree didn't you that's where you first saw her and then you turned you turned on clark and we still have cameras i've seen videos i didn't see me you've seen what we've allowed you to see can i see this stuff that you're talking about do you think that we brought you up here to show you video we want to we want to understand why you did it we don't understand why you stopped here to pick her up was it to give her a ride are you afraid to tell us that you gave her a ride maybe you want to make a couple bucks as an uber driver and she told you i had to go get i had to go sign a lease at one north and you're like oh i know where that's at i'll drop you off if you're afraid to tell us that you gave her right someplace we can work with you there but i know that you picked her up i know you did i saw you in your shirt arms fully extended where did you drop her off at she was looking for a ride she missed her bus she told you she was going one north so where did you drop her off at okay i saw her picture i don't think it was her though do you remember the girl's name that you picked up no she was talking very broken english okay tell us about what happened what time of day was that early afternoon i don't really remember okay i was just driving around um i saw a girl and she was very distressed okay so i stopped my car and looked at her okay she'd help and talked to her for a little bit how much i gave her a short ride she freaked out and got out okay that's all it was was this when you got on the north side of the railroad tracks on goodwin when you went across the university and you drove on north you let her out by the hospital or by the rover tracks or where did you let her out of i don't really remember specifics was it close to where you picked her up yeah it was relatively close it was in the residential area okay so i've never really been over there before no reason to okay when you say she freaked out what did she do did she did she start throwing things at you did she scratch you it looks like you have a scratch on your right bicep there is that from i scratched myself okay so she just freaked out so she's sitting in the front passenger seat of your vehicle okay has anybody else sat in that front passenger seat so she got out of the car probably um i'm not with me but with my wife probably i mean so other than your wife who else had the front passenger seat with you that you know um maybe a guy she's hanging out with your wife yeah okay um i i want to find this girl because i know she's alone and scared out there and we don't have any contact with her so you said he picked her up yeah you went a couple blocks away to a residential area do you remember if you went north i went north for sure okay i mean i know i'm quite comfortable yeah okay so you went north that that was relatively close to louis all right to to where it was relatively close to loomis and so on where you dropped her off or where you picked her up um where i picked her up so i'm serious when i say i was i'm pretty anti-social i pretty much just go to loomis area that parking lot and then go home okay but i knew my general narrative and i don't remember exactly where i was okay the details that the investigator has makes christensen wary and he comes up with a story about picking up a girl he doesn't know and dropping her off a short distance away in an area he is unfamiliar with it sounds implausible but the more he lies the easier it will be for them to trip him up there's a residential area i guess a little north of loomis um the same street you picked you're up from right yeah north of that place that would be good one avenue that you were on okay so and you're facing north when she gets her phone and i was like broken english she said i'm going here so she was showing your phone like a maps program yeah okay um and i saw it was north so i started driving north and she said something like turn left after a couple blocks um maybe she said something else because that's really when she started freaking out okay and [Music] someone get out of the car get out try to pull in the door it's locked because the car out of lux does it wherever the streets have do you remember no i don't remember um do you remember what she was wearing [Music] no i don't um she had a backpack uh jeans she have anything on her head was she wearing sunglasses did she had tennis shoes on or flip-flops [Music] i didn't notice flip flops or high heels or anything so it was probably normal shoes um [Music] what was her ethnicity you said she had trouble speaking english well she wasn't um what was what do you think how old do you think she was was she do you think she was a grad student undergrad well she said i guess i was about 20 okay i guess i was about 20. um her hairline is kind of here i have trouble telling asian people apart from one another sorry well you would remember this very specific though because when you pulled up to her you rolled your window down she leaned into your car so you were looking right at her face and what does she have on her face what did she have on her head you were looking right at her you don't remember no i mean even so i taught many many semesters here and a lot of the students were asian was she wearing glasses did she have a bald cap on so she might have been wearing glasses i don't remember that so what did she tell you whenever you rolled down the window and you were chatting with her you said she looked distressed um that's my stuff do you remember specifically what i thought she said to you um i always heard something phone um which would she say that uh she said i'm late i need to get somewhere something like this i was exactly out of it which is kind of like oh i'm going to help this random person um so she said she was running late for something yeah and i was like oh okay well you're right because again i'm just turning around [Music] so did she see where she was trying to get to you mentioned the [Music] um with the match she especially had a meeting with her professor so all right i don't um talking for that long and there was really much said um she like when i told her my name shouldn't hear it so i have to say again many times her english was really bad um maybe i wasn't speaking properly either and we really didn't talk about much there really wasn't much said just she looked freaked out so i've heard it right so how long do you think that she was in your car for less than five minutes not lost at all not long at all there's just a few blocks and i apparently took a wrong turn compared to what she said and that was enough to spook her so when you cross the railroad tracks did you turn to the left or to the right i don't remember railroad tracks so those are a little further up i think aren't they i didn't i mean i don't know again i don't know the area that well those are before the hospital pretty close several things have already come up that could be picked apart first christensen has described himself as fairly anti-social and doesn't interact with anyone so why has he suddenly helped a student that he doesn't even know the second discrepancy is that he noticed and can remember that she was upset but he is unable to describe fairly noticeable things such as if she was wearing sunglasses or a hat she was in the car with him so he could hardly avoid noticing at least that much detail i don't know so i mean i have no reason to go up that way because it's so if you would have turned left there after university you would have driven right by the hospital you'd have been south of the tracks and you you the very next thing you see you're behind the hotel right you see the hospital i see yeah you said you went to a residential neighborhood when you turned one she said turn left i would like to say i'm working yeah i know the area very well i don't think i drove past the hospital so i don't remember train tracks but i mean it's easy for guests so where so you said you kicked her out of the car in a residential neighborhood she got out of the car she got out of the car she wanted to get out like that's why i let her out because she was freaking out yeah and she was saying because you didn't understand because you she thought you took a wrong turn yeah and some thumbs up i don't know something like that so yeah when she tried to open the door but again it was locked because my car auto locks um obviously when i get out i'm not going to keep someone i barely know my car who just want to be in there i don't know the girl um so clear up that was less a sauger really okay all right um i would have told this earlier but i mean i thought it was saturday [Music] can i move this around a little thank you um guess let's start where you think you picked her up at [Music] that's a good question um well loomis lab is a good one is their springfield so this is right here um i remember driving on here um it was north of springfield so i guess i was kind of in this area maybe yeah like over here i remember being by the quad do you remember driving by [Music] wright street where the little circle k is and the big beckman institute as a landmark on a university um i don't think i drove past batman that doesn't ring a bell i've been a beckman a couple times i don't know what it looks like from the other side but i have had to go there a few times um i guess there's a circle k right over here i don't remember that's you don't remember coming up right street driving across university calming down good one you see her standing there underneath that shade tree at the bus stop you take that quick left and run a box around here now you come back up north goodwin and you pull up right next to her you talk to her for less than a minute and she gets in your car she was at my passenger side so i would go this way um again i was driving around a decent amount beforehand i don't remember exactly beforehand yeah we some you were definitely driving all over campus and you were by yourself and you weren't playing video games all day so why would you tell us that why would you tell the fbi that comes to your house i don't you didn't mess up the days i mean i thought i was doing a saturday so what did you think that those two agents were at your house talking to you about when they came over friday that's why i mean friday is a day or friday or they're there to ask you if you picked up an asian female and gave her a ride about friday i mean they were asking me about friday between two and three so i told them i mean maybe i got my days missed you know i said a little bit ago i thought i was doing this saturday but you didn't bother to tell them oh i didn't i played video games all day friday on detective but i actually did pick up a female on saturday you didn't feel the need to give them that information and it might be important i mean [Music] all right so you go northbound through university where do you go next do you remember i turned left so it looks like i did go past university um this must be the residential area the excuse of mixing up his days that christensen gives is weak even if that had been the case anyone would have mentioned picking up a person who fit the description they were searching for especially if it was in the range of a few days when they switch subjects christensen leaps at the chance to avoid trying to explain himself talking about them so i must have went past university yeah for sure so drove a little more than that so i also turned left somewhere up here into this area and that's where i would have dropped her off for sure so just for you were showing the area of hill street and was that beasley i don't know exactly where and here i was but i mean just looking at this yeah i mean if this is good when um springfield's right here i was in this area here i'm assuming this is a residential area do you remember seeing a grade school off to your right did you get that far north were you going to sell martin luther king junior high or elementary school right there i i don't know where'd you go after straight home yeah that was enough for me that day okay where did you see her walking out [Music] um she's really just standing there looking at her phone i mean i looked someone's here walking in any direction i don't think so uh i'm gonna ask a personal question don't take it the wrong way is um you mentioned your wife on vacation with another friend um you mentioned that [Music] there's another guy she hangs out with you mentioned there's another girl you hang out with do you guys have a very real relationship i have a girlfriend she has a boyfriend as well okay um some i'm starting between us as well in an unrelated way because it's not because of the relationship it's just a strength so every marriage goes through some wrong patches yeah um yeah i mean how long's after going on that stream a few months few months i mean yeah i mean i didn't tell her that like this because i was scared that i mean oh great now this is happening did she go to wisconsin with a boy or another girlfriend god how'd that make you feel when she went away for the weekend this long weekend with that guy you know yeah and it's okay that those are normal human feelings did you feel hurt well yeah but i mean she's been sincere for a while um but still she's your wife and it's tough you know even if you're in an open relationship like that where it's tough to see somebody you care about that you love to go someplace else with somebody else and not include you and i get that man is that why you're driving around campus all day pretty much all day long on friday because you missed her just trying to clear my head and come off that's understandable stir crazy i was lonely um did you talk to any other girls that day no did you talk to any other girls on saturday or did you stay home saturday no once again days next up okay yeah i'm not trying to tell you when i was driving i'll i'll put it in fairway then when i was driving around she was the only person i talked to okay okay fair enough do you remember what time you started driving on campus that day is it early in the morning um [Music] after i ate lunch but it was an early lunch where'd you launch it did you eat this avoid no at home [Music] were you down in a research park at all before you saw her that day time research park down down by the eye hotel i'm far down um christensen describes the open marriage he has with his wife but he sounds conflicted about it as if he might not have ever truly been on board with the idea it isn't unusual for someone going through relationship problems to find a stranger and take out their hostilities on them the investigator is trying to narrow down christians root that day not only does it help to verify if christensen is being truthful but it helps to narrow down what areas to canvas for witnesses and security footage i remember exactly where i drove i wasn't just on campus but do you remember driving by the assembly hall or state farm center no i don't remember that i don't actually know oh that's where they play basketball the big basketball arena looks like a giant mushroom on the south claw and past the cemetery around there yeah so again like i i really come on campus it's it sounds kind of sad because i've been here for three and a half years now but the the big cemetery by the football field yeah yeah that uh and you're so that's kirby avenue yes i'm kirby and you're heading uh east towards urbana and kirby i would have had the baseball fields off to your right the cemetery off to your left so you had softball field baseball field off to your right then right when you got to lincoln avenue there's soccer fields off to your right i don't remember the process in some directions but i was down by the cemetery okay fair enough yep that's a key landmark yeah you don't remember where you went after you drilled past the cemetery it was no i mean it was completely random where i was driving i didn't have any kind of do you remember driving off campus in urbana into a residential neighborhood in urbana if i did it wasn't that far were you in orchard downs where all of our married student housing is there's a large asian community that lives out there you're driving around orchard i did go to ore trick downs for a little bit but there was construction so i turned back i know i went to work for dumbs because a friend of mine has an apartment there who's your friend her name is maria i uh she was a co-worker research partner of mine okay when i went here um didn't see her obviously nothing like that i was like so you came down and came down all the way through i turned them to there but again there was construction so i just left immediately because i was like just boring turn around it could be yeah um i mean i drive like this occasionally it's just to clear my head i like exploring i guess you could say um you know one of those things like i drive down springfield every single day at work there are two streets right next to it literally never seen them so you take those instead and so we do it okay and saturday was the day where i didn't i know sometimes days can be a blur so you were cruising around campus a bit trying to clear your head your wife was up in wisconsin with her boyfriend while you're cruising around you saw this evening keep your very distressed is that correct if that was her yeah i mean again i don't if i recognized her i would have told the agents that came on monday or tuesday whenever it was that was her okay light because i knew she was missing um i picked up an asian girl i thought she was about 20. so from there you went north on university she was trying to point out directions on her phone [Music] he turned left into the neighborhood she started panicking and that's all that happened when she said she was distressed or you said that she looked distressed what did what did she say to you when you rolled your window down and talked to her um she said she was late for something other than that did she tell you what what it was she said she had a meeting with her professor did she tell you where it was at yeah but i didn't understand her so so that she offered to pull up the address in her phone um and show it to you i think she did that in my car i don't remember her getting her phone outside the car and what did her phone look like was it black was it red you remember what kind it was like android or ios [Music] it wasn't my type of phone i can tell you that much um what kind you have i have a samsung model android um christensen is still trying to act like he may have picked up a different girl but the odds are so low that they almost don't bear thinking about and again he can't describe any detail about her if he knew that her phone wasn't like his then he saw it well enough to know what color and shape it was [Music] do you remember the color of the case because she showed you the map where she wanted you to take her the front of it must have been white okay turn up and look let's get into the back do you remember the did you recognize the map program it must have been we don't have something there's a couple out there i mean it looked like the one you showed me so okay yeah it didn't look anything weird to me [Music] again my um my theories that she can get out of the car my theory is she was in there a little bit longer i'd like you to be more forthcoming with me because again i need to find where she is got her family flying over here from china it's been six days it's raining outside i need to find her we have 600 chinese students that have volunteered to look for her what i can tell you is that we will find her now when we find her is up to you because you know and we know that she didn't just get out of your car so we need to know where she is now so that we can move forward from this but if you maintain that she just got out of the car and walked away it's very difficult for us to move forward were were you hoping for um just kind of like a quick twist with her or you see you know trying to kind of pick her up i mean that would have been nice but [Music] do you have i'm gonna ask you a weird question and a lot of us have fetishes how would you describe your relationship with your wife are you guys into certain things do you like porn do you like um we're pretty vanilla together um but yeah that's pretty much it we have some stuff in our apartment i mean do you have like certain types of people that you have fantasies about that you might want to hook up with have you ever like um you do realize like everything you tell us we fact check regardless of what you tell us so like stuff like youtube videos that you've seen regarding asian women do you like videos of asian women like korean women like k-pop songs and stuff i mean maybe i like okay so i like all types of women that's that's the truth so i don't have an asian fetish but something drew your eye to her because you were cruising all over and if she was truly distressed i mean there was an e-phone stand right behind her she could have pushed that button and got help and she didn't ask you for help per se she asked she needed to get to she was late for something and that's so you offered to give her a ride now i look i've been doing this i'm 45 years old i've been policing basically since i was 21 years old young marine living out in quantico virginia i've had a gun on my belt for basically most of my adult life okay and i get that that sometimes people lie to me i don't get upset over that i'll take it personal you know a lot of times people they tell me truths and then or they basically a little bit of truth here a little bit of truth there but just to try to stay the course to make me believe that they're telling me they're being entirely truthful but you and i know that the investigator presses christensen about his possible asian fetish christensen is uneasy especially when it comes apparent that the answer is already known it is also now out on the table that they believe christensen isn't being entirely truthful and they are trying to play to his emotions here and now what we're talking about you're not being entirely true and at this point we're trying to help you we're trying to help her we're trying to help her family i don't think that you're a bad person something happened though and something got out of control and we need to know where she's at because the longer she's missing we're going to find the answers to all these questions whether we do it now or we have to do it two weeks from now but we're good we're gonna we're gonna put this behind us and everybody's gonna move forward and this is a time for you to be entirely honest with us she she her family is coming to china to look for their daughter so you do you have any sisters yeah what wouldn't wouldn't if if your sister was missing even if if it was because of you wouldn't you want to help for the closure for that family for for your loved ones you have to know you're a smart man you have a phd right master's masters oh you still got out of the pc you're still a smart man is my point so you have to understand how technology works how do you think i knew that she googled the address to one north how do you think i knew that one minute after getting in your car how do you think i knew that we know that you did she didn't get out of your [Music] car you need to be honest with us help us put this to rest help us bring her back to her family you can do that you can do that you can do it right now [Music] i understand if you've had dark thoughts i understand if you've been depressed i understand if you've been drinking too much at times i understand if you've had sadistic thoughts wondering what it would be like to commit an act of violence i know that temptation is out there i need to find her i know she got in your car you've been depressed your wife just left to go on a vacation with another man you see her she gets in she's vulnerable let me find her i think i've told you okay so did she get back in your car no did you get out of the car follow her no definitely no i didn't get on my christmas why not was it because the kind of neighborhood you were in i don't know anything about that so did she run away from you did she stand there no she stood there with your phone i drove away so i don't remember her going any direction so that's that's what it is yeah when are you sure that you left let her out of the car in the in the neighborhood are you sure you didn't let her out more towards the heart of champaign maybe close to the railroad tracks are you sure you didn't drive her further west into champagne it wasn't when you first took that left up after goodwin i don't remember how far it was i thought it was shortly after i don't remember like crazy specifics like that i don't know um you would remember this drive not specifics like that i like how far are you talking like a mile or two no not that far i don't think so okay so you're telling me that when we find her we're gonna find her phone is what you're telling me is that what you're telling me because when she got out of her car your car she had her phone in her hand [Music] i have no idea she had her phone yeah i don't know if you're i don't know the answer that question so well certain questions we ask you we know the answers to we're seeing if you're being truthful with us you know i ask you a question i know the answer to when you give me a different answer i know you're not being truthful with me you know um this is part of the reason why we keep asking it help us find her i appreciate your you being honest with her getting into the car it tells me that you're telling the truth because i knew the answer to that so i want to bring her back to her family [Music] the fact that christensen tells the truth when completely backed into a corner doesn't exactly make him a shining example of honesty and it doesn't mean he won't lie in areas where he feels he can get away with it but making him feel as if he is being believed at least to some extent will make him comfortable enough to keep talking what happened in that car i know she was looking for directions things went sideways that's what happened [Music] did you were you attracted to her at all [Music] she's a good looking girl did the thought cross your mind christensen answers a leading question in three two one the thought crossed my mind christensen admits to being attracted to zhang i mean maybe she's into that is my point and i'm not i'm not judging yet if she got in your car and she wanted to have go to another location you guys have a have some fun rolling roll around have sex consensual sex something happens you panic is that a possibility you sure yeah i'm sure so you're telling me you never had sex with her i never had sex with her never penetrated her with your fingers any of any parts of her body with your penis not with your fingers no that red section did you kiss her no okay are you afraid are you afraid to tell me if you did because it seems like you're you're trying to think instead of just answering the question you're trying to think about three steps forward well where i'm going with it and i think i've demonstrated enough i've shared enough with you that you know that i know that you didn't drop her off in that in that neighborhood you know that we can follow her phone okay so where did you drop her off at [Music] where'd you take your brent we need to find union tonight christensen has asked flat out what he did to her but he remains silent it is unclear why he is bothered to answer them at all and not exercise his right to an attorney the video footage of zhang entering the car led the police to christensen the sunroof appeared to be similar and on closer inspection a distinctive crack on the hubcap proved conclusively that the car belonged to christensen he was placed on continuous surveillance and a warrant was made out to search his computer cell phone and car the search of the car showed that the passenger side had been meticulously cleaned to a degree not found anywhere else in the vehicle which indicated that christensen was specifically trying to hide something several months prior christensen had used his cell phone to access a fetish website where he spent a lot of times in such forums as abduction 101 in an effort to obtain information that might lead to the discovery of zhang's body christensen's girlfriend was asked to wear a wire she agreed believing that it might exonerate him to her shock it proved the opposite christiansen bragged to her that zhang was his victim and he was a serial killer a disturbing boast but one that could not be supported christensen went on the detail how he had held zhang in his apartment against her will and how he had killed her christensen was formally indicted on july 12 2017. during his subsequent trial christensen admitted to killing zhang after the trial the fate of zhang's remains was revealed christensen had dismembered her body and put her in three separate garbage bags which he disposed of in the dumpster outside of his apartment the contents were taken to a private landfill compacted at least twice spread over an area 50 yards wide and buried under 30 feet of garbage these conditions made it virtually impossible for jang's body to be recovered for her family on june 24 2019 brent christensen was found guilty of one count of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of making false statements to the fbi it could not be unanimously agreed to sentence christensen to death and as a result he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2018 a memorial garden was erected to yin yang zhang consisting of a stone path a bench beside a weeping cherry tree and a memorial stone while not in the way that she had hoped zhang's legacy will live on in the form of an endowment fund created by her parents the yin yang fund will be used to support international students in crisis as well as their families and that's where we end this video if you like today's video then drop a line and if you want to support the channel even further you can check out my patreon link in the description below thanks for watching i'll see you in the next one