Girlfriend wore wire on U. of I. kidnapping suspect at vigil for victim, court filing reveals
by Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune
Jan 16, 2018
3 minutes
The girlfriend of a former University of Illinois graduate student accused of kidnapping and killing a Chinese visiting scholar secretly recorded seven conversations for the FBI over two weeks, including at a campus vigil for the missing woman in June, a court filing revealed.
The motion by attorneys for Brendt Christensen seeking to suppress the recordings marked the first confirmation that a female acquaintance who was seen walking with Christensen in television news footage of the June 29 vigil was, in fact, wearing a wire for the FBI.
Federal prosecutors had previously
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