
Photo provided by the Macon County Sheriff's Office in Decatur, Ill.
Regardless of the outcome of accused kidnapper and killer Brendt Christensen’s criminal trial, he may face more legal action in a civil suit. Christensen was named along with two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign social workers in a lawsuit being filed by the estate of Yingying Zhang. Christensen’s attorney’s are blaming failures by the U of I mental health system for Zhang’s death.



