Man’s serial killer boast doubted in Chinese scholar case

CHICAGO (AP) — There are reasons to doubt a boast from a man charged with killing a visiting scholar from China that he killed 12 other people.
Brendt Christensen, a former University of Illinois doctoral student, claimed to be a serial killer in conversations recorded by his girlfriend, the prosecution’s star witness, who testified for a second day at Christensen’s federal trial Thursday.
Before Yingying Zhang went missing in June, 2017, Christensen spent months on the interne