Could you believe it . Look who the kidnapper was. Oh, my god. Look, you know that we didnt bring you all the way up here to talk about video games. I needed to know where she was, like, now. And to find out, to trap him, theyre having his girlfriend wear a wire, maybe even risking your life. Im turning this thingy on. Its about 12 40. They want her to go undercover. The girlfriend is scared to death. Does this mean youre trusting me . I want to tell you. We see that he was on a group chat entitled abduction 101. It was a fetish, a fantasy. It was clear this was something he wanted to do. She started really freaking out. She fight . Champaignurbana is in the heart of champaign county. People who work hard. Have strong values. The university of illinois straddles both cities, champaign and urbana. The story itself plays out essentially on the u of i campus. From beginning to end. Its a beautiful campus. Its sprawling. Youtube was developed by two of our alums. Soybean was developed as a cash crop here at the university of illinois. So the ag roots are, no pun intended, very deep. Im a graduate of the university of illinois. It has the largest Chinese Student population in the country. Theres no other college in the u. S. That has more Chinese Students. And now if you went about campus about this time, i swear to god, youd think you were in beijing because there are so many asian students. In the spring of 2016 a new person flies in from china, joining thousands of other Chinese Students. A brilliant visiting scholar. She was 26 years old. And her name is Yingying Zhang. Yingying was a graduate student from one of the top universities in all of china. She was an academic superstar. And she had a real zest for experiencing all sorts of different things. She travels. She did volunteer work. Yingying loves singing. And she and a few friends, they formed a pop group called cute horse. And she was the lead singer in that group. Before she came to the u. S. , her friends celebrating yingyings birthday, and that party also became a Farewell Party before her journey to the u. S. She felt that the university of illinois here was one of the best places she could go in her field of environmental sciences. To get into a Research Group here at the university of illinois, you obviously have to have promise. Her intent was to begin a ph. D program here in the fall. Yingying was applying a position in our lab. She was really excited about almost everything. Its just, its a new, kind of a new world and a new life open to her. She was so new. She had only been here for a few weeks. And so she hadnt really had a chance to establish a lot of relationships. She spent lots of her time working, or doing research. She also bought a guitar. And she said she didnt have a lot of time to play it. But it just made her feel like she had a friend in her apartment. Friday, june 9th, 2017. Just a typical beautiful summer day here. During the summer, campus is a lot more empty while the students are home. Yingying went to turner hall on campus that morning of june 9th. Its just a normal day. We kind of cleaned some equipment we have been using. So around noontime, she told me she had an appointment around 1 30 p. M. To sign an apartment, the lease. So she was living on the south end of the campus. What they call the married Student Housing complex. She was looking to move to the one north apartments because it would be less expensive. And so she had set up that morning to go tour the one north apartments later that day over the lunch hour. And she said shed probably leave for two hours. And i said, yeah, it was fine. Yingying and the apartment manager had been texting each other to set up this meeting. When she doesnt show up, he texts her back and says, where are you . At around 3 30 or 4 00 p. M. , i felt a little bit strange because it shouldnt take so long. Not the kind of an employee that would just leave. No, no. She was a person who was very responsible. So they became concerned rather quickly. And they attempted to contact her. And they couldnt contact her by cell phone. After dinner i went back to the office to see if she might have been back there, but no. I thought id go to her apartment to check. Nobody, like, answered the door. So at that moment i thought something must have gone wrong. Then we went to the University Police office. So you went in physically and walked into the office . Yes, yes, yeah. And what did they say . At that time, because it was friday evening, and the police, they thought this just happened so often. Like, student went missing on weekend night. We have had missing students in the past. But theyre very rare that theyre actually, that we dont find them immediately. And then some of her colleagues that are also grad students came in and would literally sit in our front office. Do you think they were feeling you were not doing enough . I think they were just so concerned for her welfare. And they had a sense of urgency about it that she needed help and that none of this made sense. That night, then we just stayed in front of the apartment building. We stayed maybe until midnight. Still we really didnt have any clue. The newsgazette. This is mary. The next day, saturday, june the 10th, i was working here in the newsroom. And the phone rang. And it was a male friend of yingyings. And he told me, we have this missing international student. And i have to admit, i kind of rolled my eyes. As a crime reporter, we get missing persons reports quite a bit. But there was something about the way these people were conveying, we think somethings wrong, that made me say, okay, it wont hurt if we run a short story saying that the police are looking for her. There was a determination to find her. And there was that determination from campus and from law enforcement. Our officers initially went there. Her apartment was in normal condition. She didnt pack up her clothes. She didnt have a car, so i assume that she took a bus. So i basically checked with mtd buses in town here to see if she had gotten on a bus. Thats when they started looking at the cameras, the buses. And to try to figure out her last movements. We have about 2,000 cameras. So, yeah, that changed everything. Theres probably ten cameras on this bus. One there, there, here, and back there shooting every angle. Yeah. And then they discover that an exterior camera on the outside of a bus captures yingying boarding a city bus at about 1 30 p. M. Right in front of her apartment. Inside cameras show her walking toward the back and taking a seat. So she was captured on video from the bus that dropped her off. So the bus is traveling eastbound from that direction coming from the west. And she got off the bus right here at this location. Right this spot . This spot right here. So whats the next camera that we see . So she got off the bus, came over in this direction, saw another bus heading this direction. I think she was trying to flag it down. Im not sure if the bus driver saw her or not. Shes almost desperate to get that bus to stop. Yes, yeah. Based on the video, i mean, you can tell that there was a sense of urgency. Im trying to get there, sign my lease so i can have a place to stay. What happens next . I think shes stopping there to, you know, collect herself, wait on the next bus, and still kind of like maybe trying to figure out, am i going to make it in time . We noticed her standing next to a bus stop just south of university. And what was she doing . She was just standing there. Shes feeling anxious. And at that moment, something dark is on the horizon. Youre looking at somebody who has no clue what is around the corner. Wanna go to the gym . Uh, its too expensive. Actually, our Unitedhealthcare Medicare plans come with renew active, a gym membership and more, at no extra cost. 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Then they make a critical discovery on a camera at the parking garage right across the street from where she was waiting for a bus. You had no idea how to find where she went. Mmhmm. Until this. Yeah, it was like literally trying to find a needle in a haystack. So here you realize, heres the needle. Heres the needle. The camera captured her standing there. And when we watched that video further, there was a black sedan that drove by her, actually turned in front of her east, circled around the block and then pulled up next to her and stopped. And it appeared that the driver rolled down the passengers side window and i saw yingying look inside. It was a pretty eerie video to watch. As soon as the car drives up, basically, and stops right by yingying, im just thinking, like, dont get into the car. Dont get into the car. But then you see that she walks up to it. It was a discussion between yingying and the driver for about a minute. And then she eventually got in the car. She opened the passenger side door and got in, and it shut, and then just drove right off the camera. The video footage from that camera dramatically changed the scope of the investigation cause now we didnt just have a missing persons case, now we had a suspect vehicle. She got into a car with a person, whoever was driving that vehicle knew exactly what happened to her. Once she got in the car, we realized, okay, were dealing with a kidnapping here. Through that video we were trying to figure out, okay, what kind of car is this . You could not see from the distance. It got too pixelated as you came in close. You could not get a view of the driver. Could not get a view of the license plate. And so the fbi got involved. That vehicle is a very unique vehicle. It was identified as a saturn astra, which was only produced for a very short time frame and imported into the United States. Its a very rare vehicle. If it was a honda accord, toyota camry, in champaign county, i would imagine theres probably thousands of common vehicles. This car, i believe, there was only 58 in the state. There was nothing more important than determining who owned the car, whether they could make any identification of the driver, and then go talk to that person. The fbi has been treating this as a kidnapping. Campus police say Surveillance Video shows her entering a black saturn astra vehicle. The fact that the police were releasing the video gave it a renewed sense of, this is a serious situation. The posters of yingying and the car were hung up all around campus. I think students on campus were very concerned. How much fear was there amongst the other students here when this started to unfold . Everybody was kind of really, really frightened, especially the females. And just thinking about how many times you see young females, College StudentsWalking Around in the area by themselves. And i think it was a huge eyeopener. I think the biggest theory of her disappearance was that somebody did take her. I know there was big talk of, like, a sex trafficking ring. One has to think if there is someone driving around the campus scanning for potential victims that its someone from the greater community, but certainly not someone whos a student on that campus. A lot of students dont even have vehicles. It got more frightening when this british grad student named emily hogan tells police that earlier the same day that yingying went missing, a man tried to get her into his car. She said a white male in a black sedan pulled up next to her, identified himself as an Undercover Police officer and asked her to get in his car to answer a few questions about things going on in the neighborhood. Emily described seeing mirrored sunglasses and being shown a badge. She declined, and then she immediately calls the police. Do you remember, like, hearing anything like, police would have a Police Scanner or a radio. No scanner, no radio. What if you saw a picture of him . Would you be able to say that was him . Because of the sunglasses it would be tough . Emily hogan i that she posts about the encounter on facebook. This is hours before yingyings kidnapping. She warns people, dont get in a car even if they say they are police or have a badge. If yingying had just seen that post, perhaps she might never gotten picked up. It was just scary to know that somebody was out there, just driving around wanting to pick up women. [ speaking Foreign Language ] across the ocean, in china, that video of yingying getting into that black saturn is seen on chinese media. One of the people watching that was someone very, very close to yingying, her serious boyfriend xiaolin hou. I saw that video. I dont know what happened after she get into the car and i also have some bad feelings. Days went by and Nothing Happened . 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Its near the wuyi mountains, surrounded by whats known as the ninebend river. The main economy in this area is tea farming. Yingyings hometown of nanping is one of the poorer cities in the country. When i got there, the people were so nice, the family welcomed me when i came to their apartment. It was very modest, and there was no heating so when i sat down to interview them we actually had to wear our coats. The moment in june, 2017, what did you hear first, that she was missing . The family does not come with great means. The father was a driver for a small company. Mom never really got any education. She does not read and write, so she basically is a homemaker. Yingying has a younger brother dropped out of school when he was middle school aged. And hes learning to be a cook. Was she the smartest one at school . Yingying was very special. From when she was little, she enjoys studying. She was the best student in every school she went to. She was my english assistant for three years. 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