As she testified Wednesday, Terra Bullis started to tear up at points, describing her complicated relationship with a man whose attorneys have admitted killed visiting UI scholar Yingying Zhang. PEORIA — When his ex-girlfriend walked into the courtroom, Brendt Christensen looked straight ahead. As Terra Bullis walked by, he didn't make eye contact with the woman who wore a wire for the FBI and recorded him bragging in gruesome detail about how on June 9, 2017, he killed visiting University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang. read more