Defense lawyer admits Brendt Christensen kidnapped, killed Chinese visiting scholar

Family members of visiting Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying head to the federal courthouse building in Peoria, Illinois, the United States, on June 12, 2019. The defense attorney for Brendt Christensen admitted on Wednesday that the defendant kidnapped and killed Chinese visiting scholar Zhang Yingying in 2017, during the opening statements in the trial at a federal courthouse in Peoria, U.S. state of Illinois. (Xinhua/Wang Ping)