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Date Posted: 09:24:32 05/25/02 Sat
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Re: Chandra Levy
In reply to: 's message, "Chandra Levy" on 09:37:49 05/24/02 Fri

Police continue to search a remote area of a park where the remains of Chandra Levy were found, bringing in a device normally employed at car accidents to try to determine how the intern�s remains wound up where they were found. Police are treating the search area as a crime scene and may re-interview a man convicted of assaulting two other women in the same park shortly after Levy vanished last year. Police can�t rule it a homicide until the medical examiner gives us a manner and cause of death,� he said. �However, ... we are handling this as if it were a homicide, as we do with all our death investigations.� Investigators were using a device called a �total station� to create a computer grid of the search area. The device normally is used at traffic accidents to measure skid marks and other evidence to determine how crashes occurred, but investigators in the Levy case are using it to plot coordinates where remains and other evidence were found. For instance, the device might be able to tell police whether the body was dumped and rolled down the embankment. Police have said little about the remains, other than to say the skull was not �pristine� and the bones were scattered. Clothing including tennis shoes, a jogging bra and a sweat shirt also were found. On Thursday, Ramsey said he �wouldn�t be surprised� if Levy�s death resulted from violence, citing her age and fitness as well as the fact that her remains were found Wednesday beneath leaves and underbrush �off the beaten path� in the park. Police photo of Ingmar Guandeque, who was convicted of assaulting joggers in Rock Creek Park, the same park in Washington, D.C., where Levy�s remains were found. He is now serving a 10-year sentence. Ramsey also said that police will likely talk again to Ingmar Guandeque, who was convicted of assaulting joggers at knifepoint in the same park where Levy�s remains were found.
He said investigators interviewed Guandeque months ago after U.S. Park Police alerted them to his arrest. �He said nothing to implicate himself with her, but then again we didn�t know she was in Rock Creek Park,� Ramsey said Thursday. The first assault occurred two weeks after Levy disappeared on April 30 or May 1, 2001. Both assault victims were carrying portable stereos and wearing headphones when they were attacked, according to a statement the U.S. attorney�s office issued in February when Guandeque was sentenced.
The statement said Guandeque admitted that he grabbed both women in an attempt to steal their radios but fled when they struggled, leaving the radios behind. Police said Wednesday that they found a radio and headphones among Levy�s remains.
A Park Police spokesman, Sgt. Scott Fear, said investigators in the Levy case previously interviewed Gandeque and cleared him of any connection to the disappearance.
Investigators looking into the death of Levy, a former federal intern, also are �considering [the] possibility� of a serial killer, Washington�s deputy police chief said Thursday.
In an online chat on The Washington Post�s Web site Thursday, Washington, D.C., Deputy Chief Terrance Gainer repeated that the Levy case remained a death investigation, not a homicide probe, pending a report on the cause of death. The D.C. medical examiner told the Post that was unlikely before the end of the week.

�EXPLORING THAT POSSIBILITY�
But Gainer said in response to a question that �as far as the serial killer theory, we are still exploring that possibility and we are looking at past assaults that happened in the park.�
A lawyer for Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., who police have said had an affair with Levy, repeated Wednesday that Condit believed a serial killer could have been responsible.
Such speculation is not new, fueled by similarities between Levy�s case and two earlier slayings. Like Levy, the victims were California women in their 20s who lived near Rock Creek Park and worked in government or public policy jobs:
Christine Mirzayan, a 28-year-old National Academy of Sciences intern from San Francisco, was found raped and bludgeoned Aug. 2, 1998, in Washington�s Georgetown neighborhood.
Joyce Chiang, a 28-year-old lawyer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service from Los Angeles, was found April 1, 1999, in the Anacostia River, four months after she vanished.
Levy disappeared last spring as she was preparing to return home to Modesto, Calif., after completing an internship with the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Mirzayan lived in a dormitory on the Georgetown University campus, roughly a mile from the same general Dupont Circle area where both Chiang and Levy lived.

HOW WAS BODY MISSED?
Gainer and other D.C. police officials, meanwhile, vigorously defended themselves Thursday against charges that Levy�s body should have been discovered earlier.
In his chat on the Post Web site, Gainer said that while investigators last summer searched the general area of the park where Levy was found, a review of the map of the search area showed that they did not examine �that precise location.�
Ramsey said the brush where the remains were found and the size of the park worked against the searchers.
�The reality is that Rock Creek Park is 1,700 acres and, unlike a typical urban park that is just flatland and trees, this is an urban forest,� Ramsey said. �It�s very possible to miss a body or anything in Rock Creek Park.�

DR. ROBERT & SUSAN LEVY

These two residents of Modesto, Calif., have been vocal in their search to find their missing daughter, Chandra, giving scores of interviews and making several trips to Washington. The Levys charge that Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., lied to them when he initially denied that he was romantically involved with their daughter and suspect the congressman has not revealed all the information he knows about the case.

CHANDRA LEVY

The 24-year-old was in Washington to serve as an intern with the federal Bureau of Prisons. A 1998 undergraduate in journalism at California State University, San Francisco, she completed her internship and was headed back to California to receive a masters' degree from the University of Southern California when she was last seen April 30, at her gym. A search of her apartment turned up her packed luggage, jewelry, credit cards and $30 in cash. Only her keys were missing. She had previously worked as an intern for California Gov. Gray Davis and the Modesto Bee, her local newspaper.

GARY CONDIT

A conservative Democrat, Condit represents much of the Central Valley of California, which includes the Levys' hometown. After insisting in statements and through staffers that he and Levy were just "good friends," Condit told police in his third interview that the two had been involved in a romatic relationship. Washington, D.C., police continue to say that Condit is not a suspect in Levy's disappearance, but federal authorities are investigating whether he may have obstructed justice or encouraged perjury in the investigation. He lost a bid for an eighth term in California's March primary election.

CAROLYN CONDIT

As a congressman's wife, Carolyn Condit spent most of her time in California, rarely visiting Washington, D.C., but she was in town on the day Chandra Levy is believed to have disappeared. FBI agents and D.C. police interviewed Carolyn Condit, hoping she might be able to shed some light on what happened to Levy. Karen Matthews, a friend of the congressman's wife, told NBC News: "She is an extremely sensitive, nice lady and I am sure she will cooperate as much as she can." The Condits married when Gary Condit was 19. Even amid intense media attention, residents in Condit�s California district told The Washington Post that Carolyn Condit kept to her normal routine, shopping and running errands.

D.C. POLICE

The police force has taken a lead role in probing Chandra Levy's disappearance. They have searched her apartment and questioned over 100 witnesses, including Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif. A key coordinator in the case has been Executive Asst. Police Chief Terrance Gainer, who has met with the Levys to update them on the case. The police consider this a missing persons case, though they have used a grand jury to collect evidence. No criminal charges have been filed.

CONDIT MAY BE QUESTIONED
D.C. medical examiner Jonathan Arden used dental records Wednesday to confirm the identification of Levy, whose intimate relationship with Condit turned her case into a national story.
Condit had been among the people questioned by police, and �there may be a need to talk again,� Ramsey said. But he emphasized that no decision had been made.
Condit, who is married and has two adult children, failed to tell investigators that he was having an affair with Levy until the third time they interviewed him, more than two months after Levy vanished, police sources have said.
Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif.
Condit, who lost his primary bid for re-election in March as a result of the avalanche of unfavorable publicity that resulted from the Levy case, repeatedly denied any involvement in her disappearance, and police consistently said he was not considered a suspect. Levy�s parents have said they believe Condit has not revealed all he knows about the case, but they have stopped short of accusing him of complicity in the disappearance. A D.C. Superior Court grand jury is looking into Levy�s disappearance and allegations of obstruction of justice against Condit and others.

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