Jurors listen to suspect say he killed scholar from China
PEORIA, Illinois (AP) — Jurors in a federal death-penalty trial heard secretly recorded audio Friday in which a former University of Illinois doctoral student describes to his girlfriend how he killed a visiting scholar from China, calling the 26-year-old woman "valiant" as she tried to fight back. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that the recording of Brendt Christensen was made by his girlfriend