Chilling moment fetish-lover who kidnapped student is pictured at her VIGIL where cops overheard him ‘picking out his next victim’
Brendt Christensen, 27, was also heard boasting about the abduction in Illinois describing how the girl 'fought and resisted'
THIS is the moment a fetish-freak who allegedly kidnapped a female student attended a vigil for her where he was recorded pointing out his next “ideal victim.”
Brendt Christensen, 27, was detained by the FBI over the disappearance of Chinese student Ying Ying Zhang, 26, on June 9 near Chicago in Illinois.
Zhang was last seen on CCTV getting into a black Saturn Astra, the same model of car owned by the suspect, while she waited at a bus stop.
After questioning Christensen, police believe the tragic young student is dead and that her alleged killer is too dangerous to release.
Court documents from a detention hearing for the suspect have revealed that the physics graduate was placed under surveillance for a week following Zhang’s disappearance.
Chilling images show Christensen at a rally for the missing girl, which was also attended by Zhang’s father, at the University of Illinois on June 29.
FBI investigators said that the 27-year-old was overheard pointing out students and describing "the characteristics of his ideal victim.”
Court documents show that when authorities first questioned Christensen he offered no information about Zhang, but later boasted about how the victim “fought and resisted” him while under surveillance.
Police then searched the suspect’s phone and discovered he was part of a fetish network named FetLife which attracts members of the "BDSM, Fetish & Kinky Community."
Christensen had visited a forum named “Abduction 101” and looked at threads called “Perfect abduction fantasy” and “planning a kidnapping.”
The US attorney's office statement said Christensen "made a threat to another person to whom he made incriminating statements."
It added that the suspect "has made statements about the characteristics of the ideal victim" and that he also told to an unnamed person that Zhang "fought and resisted" as he abducted her.
Zhang, who was studying photosynthesis and crop productivity, was kidnapped on her way to sign an apartment lease and had only arrived at the university in April.
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