Brent Christensen

I have probably had some form of depression ever since I was a teenager.

I don't want to live anymore.

That would be, I don't know how else to describe it.

The only person I've really interacted with outside of working is my wife.

I don't have friends.

My wife told me she wanted to separate from me.

Sunday night, I just couldn't live without her.

Christensen's wife is fed up with their relationship and wants a quote unquote open marriage.

Christensen meets Tera Bullis and then what happens next leads to a new direction for Christensen.

She is into the fetish community and she brings him into that fold.

The agents learned from examining the defendant's phone that he was on this FetLife website, which is a website that individuals with various fetishes can get on and have various discussions.

And so we see that he was on a group chat entitled Abduction 101.

And it revealed in there he was talking to a woman about something called a consensual abduction.

And he described how he was going to take her, put her in a large duffel bag, duct tape her mouth, and then put her in either the back seat or the rear of his car.

And he actually was just visiting these sites just a few times.

Overall, he contacted one other person, and that was it.

There are individuals, no doubt, who are on there who, for them, it was a fetish, a fantasy, but something they wouldn't act out.

For Brent Christensen, the large duffel bag that he discussed on the website, he actually purchased.

It was clear this was something he wanted to do.

But at Christiansen's trial, the victim's family would hear something no parent should ever have to hear.