URBANA, Ill.—The father of a slain Chinese scholar who begged his daughter’s killer to reveal what he did with her remains said on Aug. 7 that after learning her dismembered body might be in plastic bags buried in a landfill under mounds of garbage, he understood that his family may never get to bury her back home in China.
There is “nothing we want more than to find our daughter and bring her home, (but) we understand that may be impossible,” Ronggao Zhang said through an interpreter at his family lawyer’s Urbana office. As he spoke to reporters, his wife, Lifeng Ye, sat weeping nearby, unable to bring herself to speak after just learning what had happened to the remains of her daughter, Yingying Zhang.
