嫌犯承认杀害章莹颖，手段十分残忍，但他还想免除死刑！

2019-06-13 11:02 作者:中国日报 0人读过 | 我要投稿

6月12日，备受关注的中国留学生章莹颖失踪一案几经波折后终于在美国伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚联邦法庭开庭，刚一开庭就有了惊人进展：

据外媒报道，被告克里斯滕森的辩护律师在开案陈词中表示，克里斯滕森承认杀害中国访问学者章莹颖。

“布伦特·克里斯滕森对章莹颖的死负责，”被告人的辩护律师乔治·塔瑟夫在开庭时表示，“是布伦特·克里斯滕森杀死了章莹颖。在庭审的这个阶段中，我们无意说或做任何事来回避或者否认他对章莹颖的死负责。”

“Brendt Christensen is responsible for the death of Yingying Zhang," said Christensen's defense attorney George Taseff as Christensen’s trial started. “Brendt Christensen killed Yingying Zhang, and nothing we say or do during this phase of the trial is intended to sidestep or deny that Brendt Christensen was responsible for the death of Yingying Zhang.”

被告律师：坚持无罪辩护的立场

被告律师表示他们在庭审上会努力为克里斯滕森避免死刑而进行辩护。

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尽管克里斯滕森承认了犯罪事实，但依然没有改变他坚持自己无罪抗辩的立场。被告律师塔瑟夫说，这是因为克里斯滕森正在“为他的生命受审”。

塔瑟夫表示他们在庭审上会努力为克里斯滕森避免死刑而进行辩护，庭审会继续下去，因为他们还有一些事实细节需要在量刑之前和检方核实。

章莹颖遭到十分残忍的折磨

在被告律师承认克里斯滕森的罪行之前，美国检方花45分钟描述了章莹颖死亡前的可怕细节，称被告的犯罪手法和作案细节令人发指，并表示章莹颖在克里斯滕森位于香槟的公寓里遭到强奸和十分残忍的折磨。

联邦检察官尤金·米勒在披露案情细节时表示克里斯滕森在把章莹颖带上车之后，把她的双手绑了起来，并带回自己的公寓，关掉了她的手机。之后对她实施了强奸，然后掐住她的颈部长约10分钟，当时章莹颖在奋力挣扎。

In detailing the crime, Federal prosecutor Eugene Miller said Christensen picked up Zhang, bound her hands and took her to his apartment and disabled her iPhone, where he raped her and choked her for 10 minutes while she fought for life.

之后，克里斯滕森带章莹颖去了浴室，在浴缸里用棒球棒击打她的头部，将她的头颅砍下，并将章莹颖抛尸到仍然未知的地点。

He then put her in a bathtub, hit her in the head with a baseball bat, breaking open her head, decapitated her and then disposed of the remains at an unknown location.

这些作案细节都是通过克里斯滕森和他女朋友的通话录音得到的。章莹颖失踪初期，FBI曾在嫌犯女友身上安装窃听装置，记录了嫌犯和女友的8次对话。这些录音也包括在为章莹颖守夜活动过程中记录的一段通话。

据称，在那次录音中，克里斯滕森说他想参加守夜活动来“看看有多少人在这里”。

“他们为我而来，”他说，并补充说章莹颖的遗体永远不会被发现，从中国来到这里希望找到她的家人将“空手而归”。

On that recording, Christensen allegedly said he wanted to attend the vigil “to see how many people are here,” he said. “They’re here for me.” He also added that Zhang’s body would never be found and that her family, who had traveled from China to help locate her, would be “leaving empty handed.”

嫌犯透露章莹颖是第十三个受害者

联邦检察官尤金·米勒还说，克里斯滕森在录音中声称章莹颖是自己手下的第十三个受害者，还吹嘘上一个此等罪行的要数美国70年代连环杀人魔泰德邦迪（Ted Bundy）。

During a recording, he said Zhang was his 13th victim and “bragged” that the last serial killer “at his level was Ted Bundy,” Miller said.

他说，克里斯滕森在案发之后彻底打扫自己公寓和作案所用的车辆，想要掩盖自己的罪行。但是调查人员在他的床垫、床的基板、干墙、地毯下面和棒球棒上都发现了血点。DNA测试结果这些血迹就是章莹颖留下的。

“他绑架了她，谋杀了她，并且掩盖了自己的罪行，”米勒说。

Miller said Christensen cleaned his apartment and vehicle extensively in an effort to cover up his crime. But investigators located blood spots on his mattress and the baseboard of his bed, as well as on drywall, underneath his carpet and on the baseball bat. DNA testing conducted on these samples matched the blood to Zhang.
“He kidnapped her, he murdered her, he covered up his crime,” Miller said.

是否死刑取决于陪审团成员

美国检方试图将克里斯滕森刻画成一个崇拜连环杀人犯，在选择章莹颖作为袭击目标的几个月前就开始计划绑架和谋杀他人的凶犯。