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A choir sings during a memorial service for Yingying Zhang, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019 at the First Baptist Church in Savoy, Ill. The family of Yingying Zhang, a Chinese scholar whose body was never recovered after her 2017 slaying gathered at a memorial service that included only her photograph and their own memories of her life. (Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette via AP)

Family of slain Chinese scholar holds memorial

By TERESA CRAWFORD and DON BABWIN - Associated Press

Yingying Zhang's father Ronggao Zhang, listens to a question during a press conference at lawyer Steve Beckett's law office on Wednesday, August 7 2019 Urbana, Ill. The father of the slain scholar who begged his daughter's killer to reveal what he did with her remains so that they could be returned to China for burial says his family now understands that recovering them may be impossible. (Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette via AP )

Slain Chinese scholar’s dad says her body may never be found

By TERESA CRAWFORD and DON BABWIN - Associated Press

Members of the Zhang family support Lifeng Ye, second from left, mother of murdered University of Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang, as attorney Zhidong Wang, foreground, translates a statement from the father, Ronggao Zhang, during a news conference, Thursday, July 18, 2019, at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Peoria, Ill. Brendt Christensen was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for Yingying Zhang's kidnapping and murder. (Matt Dayhoff/Journal Star via AP)

Slim chance of ever finding Chinese scholar’s body

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

FILE - This photo provided by the Macon County Sheriff's Office in Decatur, Ill., shows Brendt Christensen. Jurors who will decide whether the former University of Illinois doctoral student should be executed for the kidnapping and brutal slaying of a Chinese scholar are hearing about what the victim meant to those closest to her. A federal jury that last month found Christensen guilty in the killing is deciding if he should be put to death. (Macon County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Ex-Illinois student’s life spared in killing of scholar

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Ronggao Zhang, center, father of missing Yingying Zhang, listens as he joins, from left, Yingying's best friend, Yige Yang, aunt Liqin Ye and boyfriend, Xiaolin Hou, far right, for an interview at The News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill., on Thursday, June 22, 2017. The Thursday evening gathering at Altgeld Hall in Urbana comes two weeks after Yingying Zhang, 26, disappeared. (Heather Coit/The News-Gazette via AP)

Father of missing Chinese scholar: ‘Give my daughter back’

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