Private Burial For Chandra Levy

Her Remains Are Returned To Family One Year After Being Found

(CBS)  Chandra Levy, the former intern whose disappearance ended the congressional career of Gary Condit, was buried Tuesday, more than a year after her remains were discovered in a Washington, D.C., park.

The burial service was private, in marked contrast to the large public memorial service held for Levy one year ago, at Modesto Centre Plaza, in her California hometown.

About 50 people were at Tuesday's service. Judy Smith, a spokeswoman for the family, says the burial was not held until now because the medical examiner just released Levy's remains on Friday.

Levy, who had worked for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, was 24 years old when she disappeared in Washington on May 1, 2001. Her case drew national attention because of her relationship with Condit. The congressman, then 54 and married, reportedly told police that he and Levy were having an affair.

Police have not said that Condit is a suspect in Levy's death, but the months of negative publicity during the search for the young women who was once his intern was the main cause of Condit's re-election defeat in the March 2002 primary.

Levy's remains were discovered on May 22, 2002. At the time, she was wearing clothes that suggested she was going jogging when she left her apartment.

But an FBI laboratory analysis of her clothing provided no clues about her killer's identity, and an autopsy of her remains indicated her skull was fractured but did not yield enough evidence to determine how she was killed.