Students To Reexamine Chandra Levy Case

Criminal Justice Students To Look At 2001 Washington D.C. Intern Cold Case

(CBS/AP)  Criminal justice students at a Georgia college are preparing to undertake their own investigation of the 2001 slaying in Washington of Chandra Levy, the Modesto resident whose death tainted a congressman's career.

The students at Bauder College in Atlanta also will look into the disappearance three years ago of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

Since 2005, Bauder students have studied old evidence and case files from unsolved crimes as part of the school's Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, said institute director Sheryl McCollum.

The 50 students plan to turn their findings and recommendations over to Washington police and prosecutors at the end of the term. However, they will not be graded or get course credit for their work interviewing experts associated with the two cases, preparing timelines and looking for clues in Levy's computer.

"Our motto is 'Justice delayed, not denied.' How do you just stop trying?" McCollum said.

McCollum's previous students have researched the 1996 shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas and the conviction of Wayne Williams, who was blamed for the murders of two dozen children and young men in Atlanta during the late 1970s and early '80.

Levy, 24, had just finished working as an intern for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in May 2001 when she disappeared. Her body was found in a Washington park a year later and her death ruled a homicide, but no one has been charged.

The case attracted widespread attention over allegations that Levy had been romantically involved with married U.S. Rep. Gary Condit. It was cited as the main cause of his re-election defeat in the March 2002 primary.

In the Aruba case, three young men have been questioned in Holloway's disappearance on the island, but prosecutors closed their investigation Dec. 18, saying they didn't have enough evidence to prosecute.

Levy's mother, Susan Levy, said she welcomes the renewed attention her daughter's death will receive. Most of the investigators originally involved in the case have retired or moved on to other jobs.

"It's always good to have a fresh look," she said, adding that "a lot of things still don't make sense."

McCollum's students have previously examined such cases as the 1996 shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur and the arrest of Wayne Williams, who police identified as the key suspect in more than 20 child murders in Atlanta from 1979 to 1981, reports the Modesto Bee.

The college started its Cold Case Institute in 2005.

[jvon27]

i just hope they find out what happen to her give her the same kind of love she was giving while doing her job.

[thgdriver]

Well I think one of these days someone will look up, find a skeleton wearing a parachute high in a tree, but it wont be the FBI.

[slim1h2o]

Maybe I am smarter then them but I doubt it. I do know they never tried that idea of mine.

Posted by thgdriver at 05:01 PM : Jan 02, 2008

I like your ideas,,sounds very smart.

Just more evidence of a botched invetigation.

[thgdriver]

slim1h2o

The FBI with the help of the pilots should have been able to figure the coordinates of where ol D B jumped.

Number two, they should have been able to get wind speed and wind direction in the air and on the ground for that night.

Number three, they should have tossed a dummy of D B weight out of a plane using that information, one dummy using a parachute that opens and one that don''t.

Seems they could have narrowed the search area to one square mile.

Maybe I am smarter then them but I doubt it. I do know they never tried that idea of mine.

[slim1h2o]

The FBI unwritten motto---WE ALWAYS GET OUR MAN--LOL.
Posted by thgdriver at 04:42 PM : Jan 02, 2008

Don''t you think that this is about trying save face,,after all, he made the FBI,,look foolish.

[thgdriver]

slim1h2o

The FBI unwritten motto---WE ALWAYS GET OUR MAN--LOL.

I agree, the FBI with their resources should be looking into more resent murders and or disappearances. I think it may have to do with the fact that he hijacked the plane, just one federal crime of a few he committed that day.

[thgdriver]

Somehow I knew someone on this thread would blame the president for her disappearance. How about the girl in Aruba, I am sure you can pin that on him too. LOL!

New year but the same old craap here.

[slim1h2o]

Cooper has 194,200.00 of their money thats why they don''''t. Remember 5,800.00 was found along the Columbia river. The D B Cooper story is on the front page of my daily morning paper.

Posted by thgdriver at 04:19 PM : Jan 02, 2008

It''s also here,,on CBS...and the amount of money involved,,is still chump change.. in todays money. Of course I wouldn''t turn it down:)

And the amount of time that has gone by,,,The statue of limitaions must have expired by now. So what would the point be?

[thgdriver]

slim1h2o

Ol D B Cooper has 194,200.00 of their money thats why they don''t. Remember 5,800.00 was found along the Columbia river. The D B Cooper story is on the front page of my daily morning paper.

[frankbowers]

Amen to slim1h2o, but just think the man is an outstanding republican which gw bush thought this was worth it and the FBI reminded him, gw bush, of the Party and then gw bush backed off as finding her might become an embarishment to the party. After all leave no child behind or no stone unturned to protect his buddies. Frank Bowers of Austin, TX