Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And our crime junkie listeners will know that violent crime doesn't always make sense.

I mean, just last week we told you a story where one of the theories or

possibilities of the case is that someone totally random could have committed the crime with almost no motive at all.

So while some killers and other offenders can have motivations guiding their actions, we all know that others don't.

These attackers often have no real motive, no incentive. They just do violent things because they want to.

This can often lead to cases where the investigation struggles to find a suspect. And even when they do, answers can be hard to come by.

And this is without a doubt the case in Jean-Yingying's story which began unfolding in a popular college town back in 2017.

It was Friday, June 9th in 2017, when friends, acquaintances and even professors of Yingying's began to notice her absence.

She was normally a very punctual and reliable person who on this day seemed to have gone off the grid. No one could reach her by phone or by text.

And her friends at the university knew that she was planning to meet with an apartment manager that afternoon to look at getting a new place.

But that couldn't have taken all afternoon, like that should have been very short. She'd been gone several hours at this point, which was a major cause for concern.

Around 924 that night an associate professor who she was friends with reported her missing to campus police.

This led to an officer heading out to speak with Yingying's friends who all expressed worry for the missing woman.

Now this officer was able to enter Yingying's apartment and quickly discovered that Yingying wasn't home.

Surprisingly though, most of her belongings were still there so it was unlikely that she'd left voluntarily.

When the officer learns more about Yingying, he's told that she's a foreign exchange student, originally from a small city in southeastern China.

And she was the oldest of two children and she earned good grades. She was always near the top of her class.

She had hoped to become a professor when she was older.

And you know when she was young she began to express herself musically as she became a teenager. She sang. She played the guitar.

And according to this article in the Chicago Tribune, she actually played in a band whose name can be translated as Cute Horse, which is a great band name.

I love it.

Yeah, so she was just like this all around, like friendly, fun, expressive person.

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