Brent Christensen

The defense early on admitted that Christensen had kidnapped and killed Ying Ying.

But they said because he lied about killing those 12 other victims, you can't believe all of those horrible details heard on those tapes.

He didn't do half of what he said.

It wasn't as horrendous.

I mean, sure, killing somebody is horrendous, but it wasn't as the prosecution made out.

The difference between the claim of 12 other victims and not being able to corroborate that, and thus what he did to Ying Ying, then not being truthful, it doesn't match with the evidence obtained from the apartment.

He describes hitting her in the head with a baseball bat.

We have her DNA on the baseball bat.

We have her blood, her DNA on the mattresses, on the floorboards, underneath the bed.

He knew that his wife was going to be out of town for the weekend.

Huge amounts of cleaning bed down on the drywall, going all the way down to the baseboard.

We got video of him going to a local Walmart.

He purchased large amounts of Drano.

He purchased Swiffer pads.

He purchased garbage bags.

And then that guilty verdict came, and it was for her.

It does kick it into a whole new emotional level on the part of the defense attorneys to try and spare his life.

They played videos of him blowing out his first birthday candle.

playing the piano.

They also talked about the history of mental health issues in his family.