Man laughed while describing how he killed Chinese scholar, his ex-girlfriend testifies

PEORIA, Ill. - Sitting on a bench at a vigil for the missing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017, Brendt Christensen grabbed his girlfriend Terra Bullis' phone and pulled up the Notepad function.

One at a time, he typed four lines, deleting them after showing them to Bullis.

"It was me."

"She was number 13."

"She is gone."

"Forever."

That night, when he saw the crowd gathering for the vigil, he told Bullis "they're here for me."

Bullis wore a wire for the FBI to record a total of nine conversations with Christensen, including a lengthy