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URBANA, Ill. - The FBI says the search for a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the University of Illinois is a national priority for the agency.

Jon Holloway, assistant special agent in charge of criminal investigation at the Springfield FBI office, discussed the FBI's efforts Thursday night at a campus meeting about 26-year-old Yingying Zhang's disappearance.

Holloway says updates are being regularly sent to the office of the FBI's acting director and U.S. field offices.

Zhang was last seen on a surveillance video getting into a black Saturn Astra in Urbana on the afternoon of June 9. Police have labeled the case a kidnapping but haven't ruled out other scenarios. According to the FBI, the driver of the vehicle appeared to be a white male who circled the area "prior to making contact with Zhang."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-search-for-visiting-chinese-scholar-is-agency-priority/

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It's very unfortunate she was walking around any part of Chicago alone, that was mistake number 1.  Trusting a stranger was mistake number 2.  Getting into an unknown van was mistake number 3.

Hopefully this is more benign than it looks and neither of the two are watching the news to call in everything is alright.

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An update on this...

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A man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a visiting Chinese graduate student last seen June 9 on the University of Illinois campus, the US attorney's office for Central Illinois said Friday.

Investigators with the FBI think the student, Yingying Zhang, 26, is probably dead, a news release from the attorney's office said.
Brendt Christensen, 27, of Champaign, Illinois, will face a charge of kidnapping, the news release said.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/us/chinese-scholar-disappearance-kidnapping/index.html

 

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Grad student kidnaps and murders ??not very likely

No motive at all.  This wasn't done by a stranger 

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Before Brendt Christensen allegedly kidnapped Yingying Zhang, he may have visited an online forum called “Abduction 101,” with threads called “Perfect abduction fantasy” and “planning a kidnapping,” an FBI agent said.

 

http://ktla.com/2017/07/02/man-arrested-in-chinese-grad-students-kidnapping-linked-to-abduction-fantasy-online-forum-fbi/

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Way back in the early 1970s when I was an undergrad student a freshman girl accepted a ride with a grad student she'd seen around campus. Fast forward, he kidnapped, raped and murdered her. Evil lunatics come from all areas of society, even academia. IMO we need to start really enforcing our laws. For those who do this type of thing I would favor the death penalty...or at the very least life in prison no parole (ever).

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These folks came up with a most appropriate punishment.    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337264/Bolivian-villagers-punish-rapist-murderer-burying-alive.html

 

                                                       

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No cruel and unusual punishment is allowed in the United States. I have to agree, taking a human life should only be done under the most dire of circumstances. It should be done only to remove monsters from our midst. Revenge belongs to God IMO.

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