The former UW Madison student and University of Illinois doctoral student is facing life in prison for the abduction, rape and killing of a scholar from China.
30 year old Brendt Christensen was convicted last month in the June, 2017 killing of Yingying Zhang. A jury took less than 90 minutes to convict him.
Prosecutors desribed Christensen raping, choking and stabbing Zhang before he beat her to death and decapitated her.