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當地時間6月12日上午，中國訪問學者章瑩穎被綁架致死案在美國伊利諾州皮奧裡亞聯邦法庭進行開案陳詞。辯護律師當庭指出，被告克裡斯滕森承認殺害了章瑩穎。美國聯邦助理檢察官尤金·米勒指出，案發當日，被告克裡斯滕森假扮成臥底警官，說服章瑩穎上車，並將其綁架回公寓，對其進行強暴。隨後，他在浴缸中刺傷了章瑩穎，接著使用棒球棍打破其頭部，掐其喉管約10分鐘，令其窒息，再對其實施斬首，最後棄屍他處。整個過程中，章瑩穎不斷反抗、掙扎，試圖逃命。
As a federal prosecutor on Wednesday shared with jurors grisly details of how authorities claim a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped a visiting scholar from China, then beat her to death with a baseball bat, defense attorneys intent on sparing their client a possible death penalty offered an exceptional claim: He did it.
Opening statements began in the death-penalty trial of Brendt Christensen, a case which is being closely watched in China and by Chinese students across the U.S. Christensen is accused of posing as an undercover officer to lure 26-year-old Yingying Zhang into his car on June 9, 2017, as she headed to sign a lease off campus.
A federal judge moved the trial to Peoria in central Illinois after Christensen's lawyers said pretrial publicity would have made it impossible for the 29-year-old former physics student to get a fair trial in the Champaign area, where the 45,000-student university is located. The university has more than 5,000 Chinese students, among the largest such enrollments in the nation.
Because Zhang's body was never found, the first government witnesses were called to help establish that she is, in fact, dead. Zhang's boyfriend, Xiaolin Hou, said he and Zhang planned to wed in October 2017. They talked almost every day even though he was in China, but the calls stopped after she went missing.
（來源 ：AFP)
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