章瑩穎事件最新進展,罪犯女友曾協助FBI

The girlfriend of a man accused of killing a Chinese graduate student wore a wire for two weeks to help police catch him, it has been revealed.

克里斯滕森被控告殺害中國研究生章瑩穎，據報道，其女友在攜帶監聽設備兩週後協助警方抓捕了克里斯滕森。

Brendt Christensen, 28, is accused of kidnapping and killing scholar Yingying Zhang after allegedly kidnapping her on June 9 last year.

去年6月9日，28歲的布倫特·克里斯滕森綁架了章瑩穎，被控告綁架和故意殺人罪。

She vanished after telling friends she was going to sign an apartment lease near the University of Illinois where she was studying.

章瑩穎就讀於伊利諾伊大學，消失前剛告訴朋友她要去學校附近簽訂租房合同。

For weeks, police suspected Christensen but had no evidence to arrest him.

警方連續數週將懷疑目標鎖定克里斯滕森，只是苦於沒有證據。

In court on Tuesday, his lawyers however revealed that his girlfriend, who he was filmed attending a vigil to help find Zhang after she went missing, wore a wire to record hours of their conversations in the weeks which followed her disappearance.

週二，克里斯滕森的律師團在法庭上表示，有監控記錄了克里斯滕森和女友一同守過夜，協助尋找當事人，並公開了克里斯滕森和女友在章瑩穎消失後幾週數小時的談話錄音。

Among the conversations was one in which Christensen allegedly confessed to the killing and described how Zhang, 26, fought back when he attacked her.

在錄音中，克里斯滕森承認殺害了章瑩穎，並詳細敘述了26歲的受害者在受到攻擊後進行了抵抗。

He is also said to have described his 'perfect victim' by pointing them out in the crowd at the vigil where he was filmed walking hand in hand with the woman.

克里斯滕森還表示，守夜的時候他在人羣中挑出了“理想受害者”，也是在守夜中，有監控拍到他和女友手牽着手走在路上。

Christensen's lawyers did not reveal how the FBI contacted his girlfriend.

克里斯滕森的律師沒有詳細說過美國聯邦調查局聯絡他女朋友的方式。

They pleaded with a judge to not allow the taped conversations into evidence at his trial, claiming the girlfriend was pressured into wearing the wire because she feared charges herself.

但是律師團請求法官不要將錄音作爲審判時的證據，表示其女友是迫於壓力才協助監聽，並不想引火上身。

On one occasion, she was apparently so nervous about wearing it in front of him that she fainted, his lawyers claimed.

律師團表示，克里斯滕森的女友曾因在嫌疑人面前戴着監聽設備過於緊張，以致昏倒。

Christensen also allegedly tried to lure another student into his car on the day Zhang went missing.

據稱，章瑩穎消失當天，克里斯滕森還試圖誘騙另一位學生上車。

That student told investigators that he pretended he was a cop to try to get her into his vehicle. She identified him through photographs shown to her by police.

那位學生告訴調查人員，當天克里斯滕森假裝是警察，誘騙她上車，警方向她出示照片後，她表示此人就是克里斯滕森。

Zhang's body has never been found. Her death shocked her relatives in China who believed she would be safe in the small campus town where she spent most of her time.

警方尚未發現章瑩穎的屍體。章的家人難以相信她已死亡，堅信章仍在某個小鎮上好好活着。

Christensen is also married. It is not clear if he and his wife, who has not been identified, are estranged.

克里斯滕森已婚，妻子身份尚不明確，兩人是否還有聯繫仍有待調查。

His lawyers are asking for his trial to be moved to Chicago, claiming the case was so high profile that he has no chance of a fair trial.

克里斯滕森律師團要求在芝加哥進行審批，說這件案子聲勢太大，會影響審判的公平性。

Zhang's family traveled to the US from her native China after she disappeared.

章消失後，其家人從中國前往美國。

Her grieving father was still in the country in November last year after authorities said she was presumed dead.

去年11月，官方宣佈章死亡後，其父仍留在美國，悲痛欲絕。

He walked the route to her apartment from campus every day, he said, because it gave him comfort.

每天，章父都要從學校走到章瑩穎住處，他說這樣心裏舒服些。

At the time, her mother said: 'We don't know where she is, and I don't know how to spend the rest of my life without my daughter.

章的母親說：“我們不知道瑩穎在哪，我也不知道沒了女兒往後要怎麼活。”

'I can't really sleep well at night. I often dream of my daughter, and she's right there with me.

“晚上睡不好，老是夢見我們家瑩穎和我在一塊兒。”

'I want to ask the mother of the suspect, please talk to her son and ask him what he did to my daughter. Where is she now? I want to know the answer.'

“我想拜託嫌疑人的母親，能不能和她兒子聊聊，到底把我閨女怎麼了，我閨女現在在哪？我就想知道她在哪兒。”

The FBI previously said they had obtained 'audio surveillance' from the vigil which Christensen attended.

聯邦調查局此前表示他們已經拿到了克里斯滕森守夜時的“錄音記錄”。

They did not disclose that it was recorded by his girlfriend.

但調查局並未透露記錄來自克里斯滕森的女友。

He is charged with kidnapping resulting in death, which carries the potential of the death penalty on conviction.

克里斯滕森目前被指控綁架導致受害者死亡，可能會被判處死刑。