Brendt Christensen, who was found guilty of murdering University of Illinois student Yingying Zhang, has revealed where he dumped her body after he killed her. He told his attorneys that one day after killing Zhang, he put her body in three different garbage bags and threw them in the dumpster outside his apartment in Champaign Illinois, according to The Daily Beast. After, he took her cellphone, clothes, and other items and disposed of them in different dumpsters around the area. Christensen faced the death penalty but was sentenced to life in prison in July of this year for murdering Zhang.

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Zhang’s father, Ronggao Zhang said, “If what that man said is true, it further confirms that he is a heartless and evil person. We condemn his brutal and malicious actions and we hope that he suffers the rest of his life as he made Yingying suffered in the final moments of her life.

“We now understand that finding (Yingying) may be impossible.”

Christensen revealed what he did to Zhang’s remains in November of 2018 under an “immunity agreement.” The prosecution and the defense reached the deal but the prosecution was not permitted to release that information until after the trial concluded. A week after Christensen was sentenced, Yingying Zhang’s family was notified of the information.

Investigators believe that Zhang’s remains were removed during trash collection from the dumpster three days after she was murdered. Her body was dropped off at a landfill in Vermilion County in Illinois. The area where she was dumped is 50 yards wide and 30 feet deep full of trash. Because of the amount of garbage and possible hazardous materials, she might never be recovered. Additionally, what is left of Zhang might be “smaller than a cellphone” due to “decomposition and then compaction,” according to Zhang’s family lawyer Steve Beckett.

“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,” according to a statement from the Zhang family. “To date, no search has been undertaken. But the Zhang family understands that the authorities are still considering an attempt to locate and recover Yingying’s remains.”

Yingying Zhang arrived to the United States from China to attend the University of Illinois. Three months after she arrived, she was murdered on June 9, 2017. On that day, Brendt Christensen approached her in his car and pretended to be a police officer. He kidnapped her and took her to his apartment where he raped, stabbed, and beat her to death with a bat before decapitating her.