Slain scholar’s remains almost impossible to find: Zhang family’s lawyer

The family of Zhang Yingying, the murdered Chinese scholar in Illinois, the US, held a media conference on Wednesday, revealing the details of how the murderer disposed of Zhang’s body, thepaper.cn reported on Thursday.

Christensen, the convicted murderer, claimed that he put Zhang’s body parts into three garbage bags after killing her, and dumped the bags into the dustbin outside his apartment.

On June 12, the garbage outside Christensen’s apartment was transferred to a privately owned waste landfill. During this period, the garbage in the dustbin was compacted at least twice, which made the size of Zhang’s remains as small as the size of a cellphone at the dump site, which is half the size of a football pitch. Another nine meters of waste was then placed above it.

The information is from the statements Christensen made to federal prosecutors under an immunity agreement in November 2018, which offers the first legitimate information on Zhang’s possible location since she was last seen alive in June 2017, reported local media in Chicago.

“It is evident that any attempt to recover Yingying’s remains would be complicated and expensive, would require government oversight and the cooperation of the landfill owners, and would have no certainty of success,” said Steve Beckett, attorney of Zhang’s family.

Wang Zhidong, another attorney of Zhang’s family, said that the above information provided by Christensen still cannot be verified as Christensen had lied many times before.