Yingying Zhang went missing in June 2017 when police say she got into a car belonging to Brendt Christensen near the campus of the University of Illinois. She was 26 years old at the time.
Jury selection at a federal courthouse in Peoria, Illinois was expected to take a week, with hundreds questioned to pick the panel of 12 and six alternates. Prosecutors intended to introduce testimony and evidence at trial that Christensen had expressed interest in serial killers, practiced bondage and sado-masochism and had attempted to arrange a “consensual kidnapping” via a fetishist website, according to a court filing.
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