This undated photo provided by the University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang. The parents of the visiting University of Illinois scholar who disappeared two years ago have arrived ...

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As a federal prosecutor on Wednesday shared with jurors grisly details of how authorities claim a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped a visiting scholar from China, then beat her ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors are building a case, partly on a bloody handprint and the responses of a cadaver-sniffing dog, that a former University of Illinois physics student killed a 26-year-old ...

(NEW YORK)– Weeks after a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign disappeared, the FBI said it believes she is dead and authorities have charged a local man with her ...

The horrific 2017 murder of still-missing YingYing Zhang continues to haunt loved ones on both sides of the world. The 26-year-old student from Nanping, part of the Fujian province of southeast China, ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A perplexed prospective juror at the trial of a former graduate student charged with kidnapping and killing a University of Illinois scholar from China said during jury selection last ...

A former University of Illinois doctoral student is facing life in prison in the abduction, rape and killing of a scholar from China after a federal jury failed to agree on a death sentence. The ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. CHICAGO • Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal courthouse Monday as the suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar ...