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Christensen also describes “doing stuff” to Zhang of a sexual nature, but adding that he was bored with it.
Christensen abruptly switches the conversation to the fact he’s hungry, and wants to find something to eat.
Bullis asks him, “Is 13 really a big number?”, referring to the number of people he claims to have killed.
“It’s bigger than Jeffrey Dahmer,” he says, “Bigger than John Wayne Gacy. I have caught the nation’s attention, apparently.”
Nelson asks Bullis what the thumping noise in the recording is. Bullis says it’s her heartbeat.
On the recording, Christensen says he once drunkenly rambled to Michelle about some of his deeds, and that she almost divorced him after he told her.
Christensen refers to Zhang, saying she’s gone forever.
“I can do this within hours,” he says, “It’s a weird thing to be really good at, but it’s true.”
In court, Bullis describes his speaking as “clinical”.
Nelson then points out that in the car ride that followed the conversation, Michelle asked if Brendt was drunk, and Bullis said he was.
Bullis says she took that to mean that he’d been drinking, but wasn’t “drunk” in the literal sense.
Bullis says she called the FBI when she got home, and says she felt devastated, and cried. She says she turned the recordings over to Special Agent Huckstadt.
Bullis says Christensen tried to contact her numerous times after he was arrested, saying she had an entire phone screen full of missed calls. She says Michelle also tried to contact her.
Bullis says she and Christensen weren’t sexually active since before June 9, 2017. She says he was focused on developments of the investigation, and that he did most of the talking between the two of them.
Bullis says the publicity from the case deeply affected her. She says she was no longer able to work in a public environment, that she sought mental health treatment, and asked the FBI for financial help after Christensen was arrested.
Bullis says she got seven or eight thousand dollars from the FBI, mostly in reimbursements for things.
“How does it feel to be testifying against him today?” Nelson asks her