Jurors hear recording of suspect describing how he killed scholar from China

PEORIA, Ill. -- Jurors in a federal death-penalty trial heard secretly recorded audio Friday in which a former University of Illinois doctoral student describes to his girlfriend how he killed a visiting scholar from China, calling the 26-year-old woman “valiant” as she tried to fight back. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that the recording of Brendt...