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The search for Yingying Zhang: Day 26 
  
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 URBANA — Brendt Christensen will be held in jail indefinitely until he goes on trial in the kidnapping of Yingying Zhang, U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric Long ruled Wednesday. 
  
 Long ordered the man accused of kidnapping the missing University of Illinois visiting scholar held without bond, calling him both a flight risk and a danger to the community because of evidence presented by assistant U.S. attorney Bryan Freres. 
  
 Among the most serious allegations laid out in the federal criminal complaint, not known publicly until Wednesday: 
  
 — While under surveillance during a Thursday vigil for Ms. Zhang outside Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Christensen allegedly explained the “characteristics of an ideal victim.” 
  
 — He was allegedly captured on a recording picking out other potential victims at that same public vigil. 
  
 — There also exists audio of Christensen describing how he kidnapped Ms. Zhang and how she "fought and resisted" when he brought her back to his Champaign apartment. 
  
 — He made a threat to the safety of another person to whom he provided incriminating information. 
  
 "The facts speak to the very danger the defendant presents to the community," Freres said. "The circumstances of the case indicate the defendant used violence." 
  
 Freres also noted that Ms. Zhang has not been found. 
  
 Long said the evidence against Christensen "seemed strong." 
  
 Christensen, 28, was represented in court by attorneys Tom and Evan Bruno. With Ms. Zhang's famly members in the courtroom, the defendant did not speak, only nodding in response to Long's questions, during a hearing that lasted about 32 minutes. 
  
 When Christensen's attorneys argued that keeping their client in the Macon County Jail, about an hour away, put them at a disadvantage, Long said: "Those issues are not for today." 
  
 Afterward, speaking outside the courthouse, Evan Bruno said Wednesday's ruling "is not surprising to us," explaining that it's not unusual for bail to be denied in a case like this. 
  
 Asked about the evidence against his client, Tom Bruno said: “Of course, it’s not really evidence at all yet. One of the first principles of the American system of justice is the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses against you. 
  
 "There was certainly no cross-examination when it’s a one-sided recitation of what the government hopes to prove. 
  
 "We’re entitled to test that evidence to see if it’s reliable.” 
  
 Christensen, 28, of Champaign, a former UI graduate student from Wisconsin, was making his second court appearance at the federal courthouse in Urbana on Wednesday afternoon. 
  
 His next court date is a preliminary hearing on July 14, unless a grand jury returns an indictment before then. Even if it does, it’s possible Christensen could be arraigned in court that day, said Sharon Paul, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office. That’s when he would officially enter a plea, she said. 
  
 Christensen was arrested Friday and charged Monday in federal court with kidnapping Zhang, who has been missing since June 9. He has been held since then in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service at the Macon County Jail. 
  
 Paul said the federal district has two grand juries that meet once a month, one in Springfield and one in Peoria. At least one is scheduled to meet before July 14, Paul said. 
  
 Christensen is accused of luring Ms. Zhang into his car as she was waiting for a bus June 9 in Urbana and then holding her hostage in his Champaign apartment. Ms. Zhang has not been seen since, and authorities said she is presumed dead. 
  
 Prosecuting the case are assistant U.S. attorneys Freres and Eugene Miller, both UI alumni. 
  
 11:45 a.m. 
  
 A University of Wisconsin physics professor who worked closely with Brendt Christensen when he was an undergraduate there was shocked to learn of his arrest on kidnapping charges, calling him a good student and "not unusual in any way." 
  
 Christensen, who faces a court hearing Wednesday afternoon in connection with the disappearance of visiting scholar Yingying Zhang, worked in Madison with Professor Matthew Herndon on experiments related to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, located in Geneva, Switzerland. 
  
 "We met weekly in order for me to direct his research. To me he seemed to be a completely typical student, not unusual in any way," Herndon said. 
  
 Herndon said Christensen was a student in his undergraduate particle physics class during the 2011-12 school year and worked as an undergraduate researcher for him in 2012-13. He was a good student and completed a thesis research project studying simulated Compact Muon Solenoid data at the Large Hadron Collider to understand the future prospects of that experiment, Herndon said. 
  
 "I'm shocked to learn of the crimes he is suspected of committing and that the evidence seems strong that he is guilty. Nothing from my experience with him would have led me to suspect that he would commit crimes of any type," Herndon said. 
  
 "My deepest sympathies lie with the victim and her family. Also, I hope there is some possibility that she may still be found unharmed," he said. 
  
 Ms. Zhang has been missing since June 9. Federal authorities say a black car she was last seen entering on that day, on her way to sign a new lease in Urbana, was Christensen's, and that they caught him on audiotape saying he had kidnapped her and held her at his apartment. 
  
 She has not been found, and authorities believe she is no longer alive. ||||| A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the suspect in the alleged kidnapping of a University of Illinois visiting scholar from China held in custody until his trial, after prosecutors revealed that the defendant had attended a vigil for the victim and was recorded describing his ideal abduction victim. 
  
 The explosive new details were revealed before a crowded courtroom at a detention hearing for Brendt Christensen, a onetime doctoral candidate in physics at the University of Illinois who is charged with abducting Yingying Zhang, 26, on June 9 near a bus stop on campus. He was arrested Friday. Zhang remains missing and is most likely dead, according to prosecutors. 
  
 Assistant U.S. Attorney Bryan Freres, in arguing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long that Christensen should stay behind bars, said the 28-year-old attended a walk and concert for Zhang at the Urbana-Champaign campus on June 29. 
  
 At the time, Christensen was under surveillance by federal authorities investigating his involvement in Zhang's disappearance, according to an affidavit filed last Friday. 
  
 There, Freres said, Christensen was heard describing the characteristics of his "ideal victim" and identified people among the crowd who fit that description. Freres did not offer details of how prosecutors obtained a recording of Christensen, nor did he play any recording during the hearing. 
  
 Additionally, Freres said Christensen was heard describing how Zhang fought and resisted him while he held her against her will, and threatening someone close to the case. Freres did not specify whom Christensen threatened or what the substance of the threat was. 
  
 A financial affidavit filed July 3 lists Christensen as being unemployed, while showing that his wife made $1,800 a month. The couple paid $900 a month in rent, $100 in utilities and $150 in other costs, according to the affidavit. 
  
 "I don't see any combination of factors the court could impose to mitigate the risk of flight," Freres said. 
  
 Christensen's attorney Evan Bruno countered that his client had no criminal history. He also argued that because Christensen was being held in a jail more than an hour outside Champaign County, and unable to speak to his attorneys by phone, he was being denied his rights to assist with his defense. 
  
 Long disagreed, saying the logistic issues Bruno detailed "are simply not for today." Long also told Christensen that his lack of a criminal history would have favored him in an argument for bail "in a different case," but he pointed to the evidence of Zhang last being seen in his car and him being caught on tape detailing the alleged kidnapping as reason enough to keep him in custody. 
  
 Yingying Zhang, 26, a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, has been missing since June 9, 2017. Authorities say she is presumed dead. Brendt Christensen, 28, has been charged with kidnapping Zhang. 
  
 Christensen showed no visible reaction throughout the 25-minute hearing and did not address the court. 
  
 "We weren't surprised at the outcome of this hearing," Bruno said afterward. "In a case like this, it's not unusual for bail to be denied." 
  
 Christensen's other lawyer, Tom Bruno, discounted the prosecution's assertions. 
  
 "I would say it's not really evidence at all yet," Tom Bruno said. "One of the founding principles of the American system of justice is the right to confront and cross-examine the witnesses against you. There was certainly no cross examination when it's a one-sided recitation of what the government hopes to prove." 
  
 Hong Lei, consul general of China to Chicago, visited with Zhang's family in Champaign on July 1 and spoke to university and police authorities about the case. 
  
 "I have already spoken to (the FBI), also representing the family and spoke with them regarding these thoughts," Liu Jun, the deputy consul general who attended the hearing, said in translated remarks. "But in regards to the case, they said they have putting forth their best effort and utmost strength, spending every day and night, every minute, every second working on this case. America has America's way of doing it, including their judicial proceedings, they have their own regulations." 
  
 Macon County Sheriff's Office via AP Brendt Christensen, 28, of Champaign, Ill. Brendt Christensen, 28, of Champaign, Ill. (Macon County Sheriff's Office via AP) (Macon County Sheriff's Office via AP) 
  
 An attorney assisting Zhang's family previously said Zhang's mother and younger brother have remained home in China, and Liu said his office is helping in getting them to the United States. 
  
 "We will fully assist them to come to America as soon as possible so they will immediately know details of this case," Liu said. 
  
 A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for July 14, though if the government convenes a grand jury and secures an indictment before then, that hearing will be canceled. 
  
 Grace Wong contributed reporting. 
  
 drhodes@chicagotribune.com 
  
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 Chinese graduate student is still missing and presumed dead 
  
 Urbana, Illinois, (CNN) A man charged with kidnapping a Chinese graduate student "explained the characteristics of his ideal victim" and pointed out those in the crowd who matched them at a vigil he attended for the missing woman, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. 
  
 Suspect Brendt Christensen's comments were recorded by the FBI, which began surveillance of Christensen about a week after the June 9 abduction. It wasn't immediately clear how the recording was made. 
  
 Bryan Freres, an assistant US attorney, told a federal judge in Illinois that Christensen, 28, was also recorded explaining how he kidnapped 26-year-old Yingying Zhang. Christensen said in the recording that Zhang fought him, and that he took her back to his apartment and held her there against her will last month, according to Freres. It was not clear where that recording was made. 
  
 Freres said Christensen was also caught on an audio recording threatening someone who then provided incriminating evidence to authorities. The prosecutor said he didn't see a "combination of conditions" where Christensen was not a danger to the community. US Magistrate Judge Eric Long agreed and denied bail for Christensen, who was charged on Friday, a day after the June 29 vigil. 
  
 Long said the fact that Zhang is still missing "weighs against you." He pointed out that Christensen was seen on video driving the vehicle that Zhang climbed in. 
  
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When friends gathered last week at a vigil for missing University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang, they had no idea the man suspected of killing her was in their midst. But Brendt Christensen not only attended the June 29 event at the university's Urbana-Champaign campus while under FBI surveillance, but was recorded there describing the "characteristics of his ideal victim" for an abduction and pointing out people who fit that description, says federal prosecutor Bryan Freres, per CNN, which has a photo of Christensen among the crowd. Zhang, who authorities say got into Christensen's car at a campus bus stop on June 9, is still missing but presumed dead. Police previously said Christensen researched kidnappings online weeks before he was recorded saying he held Zhang against her will in his apartment. At last week's vigil, he also allegedly threatened the safety of an individual to whom he'd related incriminating information, reports the News-Gazette. That person went to police, reports CNN. Christensen was arrested the day after the vigil and denied bail in a hearing on Wednesday, based in part on the recordings described by prosecutors, reports the Chicago Tribune. Christensen's lawyer had argued the 28-year-old should be released because the jail in which he is held is an inconvenient distance from his lawyers' office.