U.S. prosecutors argued on Monday that an Illinois man who raped and murdered a ...
PEORIA, Ill. - U.S. prosecutors argued on Monday that an Illinois man who raped and murdered a Chinese graduate student two years ago should be executed, and called on her heartbroken fiance and friends to tell the jury about the victim’s kind, optimistic nature.
“This was not an ordinary crime,” James Nelson, a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s capital case division, told the jury. “It was cold, cruel and calculated.” The victim’s fiance, Xiaolin Hou, told the jury the couple met while undergraduates at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China.COLLEGE FRIENDS
Another friend, Ye Cai, said when she first met Zhang in their dorm, she was struck by a “skinny, very smiley girl,” and the pair soon became close friends. She recalled Zhang was very close to her family and called them frequently. Hearing this, Zhang’s brother got up and left the courtroom in tears.
Investigators were led to Christensen through surveillance video footage captured in Urbana, 130 miles south of Chicago, that showed Zhang getting into a black car that later was traced to Christensen.Prosecutors said Christensen, a one-time master’s student at the university, took Zhang to his apartment, where she fought for her life as he bludgeoned her with a baseball bat, raped her and stabbed her in the neck before cutting off her head.
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