Brent Christensen

And so she had set up that morning to go tour the One North Apartments later that day over the lunch hour.

Ping and the apartment manager had been texting each other to set up this meeting.

When she doesn't show up, he texts her back and says, where are you?

Not the kind of an employee that would just leave.

She was a person who was very responsible.

They became concerned rather quickly, and they attempted to contact her, and they couldn't contact her by cell phone.

So you went in physically and walked into the office?

And what did they say?

We have had missing students in the past, but they're very rare that they're actually, that we don't 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 just feeling you were not doing enough?

I think they were just so concerned for welfare and they had a sense of urgency about it that she needed help and that none of this made sense.

The News Gazette, 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 Ying Ying's.

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.

There was something about the way these people were conveying, we think something's wrong, that made me say, okay, it won't hurt if we run a short story saying that the police are looking for her.

Our officers initially went there.

Her apartment was in normal condition, so she didn't pack up her clothes, and she didn't have a car, so I assumed that she took a bus.