WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2009
Arrest Near In Chandra Levy Case?
Reports: D.C. Police Eyeing Inmate In 2001 Murder Of Washington Intern
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Chandra Levy was a government intern who disappeared in 2001. Her remains were found in a Washington, D.C. park a year later. (CBS)
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Former Democratic Congressmen Gary Condit of California denied complicity in Levy's disappearance or death, but news of an affair with the 24-year-old ended his political career. (AP)
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There are reports that D.C. police have submitted evidence to the U.S. Attorney's Office in an effort to get an arrest warrant for a man identified as Ingmar Guandique.
He's behind bars, convicted of assaulting two women jogging in Washington's Rock Creek Park.
An inmate serving time with Guandique reportedly told investigators that Guandique told him he killed Levy, but Guandique is said to have told police he saw Levy in the park, but didn't harm her.
Levy was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
She was 24 when she disappeared from her D.C. apartment. Her remains were found more than a year later in Rock Creek Park by a man walking his dog.
D.C. cops were sharply criticized at the time for saying they'd searched that park, and found nothing.
Levy's disappearance has remained a mystery ever since, but it also revealed an affair with then-California Rep. Gary Condit. That cost him his seat.
For many weeks, Condit appeared to be the prime suspect in her disappearance. For months, he said little about his relationship with Levy, except for repeating over and over that he had nothing to do with her death or disappearance.
On The Early Show Saturday Edition, CBS News legal analyst Lisa Bloom speculated a jailhouse snitch, like the one cited in news accounts, could have been the source of the new evidence police are apparently using to target Guandique.
"My guess would be two things," Bloom said. "One, new statements from the suspect behind bars, possibly linking him to Chandra Levy. The other would be developments in forensic science, which has grown by leaps and bounds in the last eight years. Maybe they have something new on him ... something linking him to the remains of Chandra Levy. When her remains were found in Rock Creek Park, they were highly decomposed. ... Nevertheless, hair, bone samples, dental records, something linking him to her remains. Otherwise, it's hard to understand what could be new -- statements perhaps made behind bars to other inmates, a jailhouse confession, something of that nature."
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See all 26 CommentsPosted by srhsur
Did the consumers sign the contracts under fear of death? Where is consumer responsibility? I'm not losing my house, I didn't buy one; I knew I coudn't afford one. Too bad for me, I shoulda, woulda, coulda and I could have a house now too paid for the the bailout.
while we mourn the loss of the young Chandra in quietitude
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Posted by rnbwprsm5
blah, blah, blah, babble, babble, babble....Speak english and get to the freakin point would you....
Posted by rnbwprsm5 at 11:17 PM : Feb 21, 2009
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yeah MorphineDoll is yr other name,is it not??? cbs troll
Did you read the story, you imbecile?
RIP Chandra, no one deserves the card you got dealt.
Posted by demswin08 at 09:37 AM : Feb 21, 2009
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It was and is a high profile case and I remember it well. The consensus of opinion was that Condit did it or was involved. It is also odd that her body or skeletal remains weren%u2019t found until 13 months after she vanished making the forensics more difficult. She wasn%u2019t the type of person who might fall prey to a strange attacker. She had training was very aware.
Which leads back to perhaps it being someone she knew and was meeting. She also had expected Condit to leave his wife and if she was threatening to go public or was pregnant it would be a motive to keep her quiet.
Also, I'm pretty sure cops have more evidence than just a jailhouse snitch. A snitch by themselves isn't enough to convict someone.
I believe also this guy is a plant by Condit and others in order to give him a chance at a new bid for a seat in washington.
I am a democrat and I back my party but when a spade is a spade lets call it that. I don''t believe in the cover up of any wrong doing,and the blaming it on an innocent other.
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Posted by demswin08
Tin foil hat on a little tight this morning? One little flaw in your "theory". This doesn't change the fact Conditt had the affair with her, which is what really destroyed his career. Ol' Gar isn't suddenly going to come back 8 years later to reclaim his seat.
This was a person grooming herself for the FBI, who had worked at police departments and the Bureau of Prisons. She was trained in self-protection. She was educated about criminal behavior and high-risk situations. At night, or in any situation that seemed "off" friends said Levy would walk Mace in hand, thumb under the safety and over the trigger, just like the manual says. Much of the evidence points to her running down to meet with someone she knew well.
According to Capitol Hill interns, Condit had a quirk about wallets and ID cards. Whenever he would meet for a tryst, Condit would insist that the woman leave behind her wallet, so that if police stopped him, there would be no official record of the woman, creating plausible deniability. Whatever happened that day in May, she walked out of her apartment to meet someone she knew. Wherever she is now, someone she knows isn't talking.
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