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CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors are building a case, partly on a bloody handprint and the responses of a cadaver-sniffing dog, that a former University of Illinois physics student killed a 26-year-old Chinese scholar in 2017 at his off-campus apartment.
In recent filings, prosecutors revealed more evidence that they say will help prove to jurors that Brendt Christensen kidnapped Yingying Zhang in Urbana, then killed her. Complicating their task is that Zhang’s body has never been found.
Prosecutors disclosed in a Wednesday filing that the bloody handprint was found in Christiansen’s apartment, though they haven’t said whose hand it represents.
Zhang disappeared June 9,2017, on her way to sign a lease for an off-campus apartment in Urbana, 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.
