The episode chronicles the harrowing 2017 disappearance and murder of Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, and the intense investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of her kidnapper, Brent Christensen, a fellow graduate student. D
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