Brent Christensen

And knowing that I was the agent who wrote that really struck me because I had to then go and be with her family.

So, sorry.

When you first heard this name, Brent Christensen, what did you think at that moment?

I didn't think it would end up like this.

While Christensen is in jail, he has multiple phone calls with his family, which are all recorded.

He tells his mother, Ellen, he had nothing to do with Ying Ying's disappearance.

Yeah.

And the truth will come out in the end.

But at the time, Christensen's family just had no idea what was actually said on that recording at the visual.

You strongly believed that he was innocent when you first heard this news.

Oh, yes.

It was not the Brent you knew.

Oh, no, Brent couldn't have done that.

That does not fall within his character at all.

As we continue to move the case forward, the defense turns over to us this March 21st counseling video.

He went to the University of Illinois Counseling Center to see what he could do to save his marriage.

He talked with an intern counselor who interviewed him for about an hour.

Mostly my alcohol and drug abuse.

It's been going on for years.

He described himself as kind of lonely, in a way, and in despair.