DC DC - Chandra Levy, 24, Washington DC, 1 May 2001 *found deceased in 2002*

[Grainne Dhu]

I never believed it was Condit because it just didn't make sense. If he had been concerned about Chandra Levy talking about their affair, he would have paid her off in conjunction with her signing a legal contract that would revoke the (hefty) payment if she made a peep. The payment would be large enough that she would be reluctant to risk losing it. That's pretty much standard operating procedure in DC, where there are way too many very rich men in powerful positions doing stupid things on the side. I never saw anything in Condit's conduct that suggested he was substantially different from any of the other congresscritters having affairs with interns and/or people they are not married to.

I always thought it was a crime of opportunity and when Guandique's name finally rolled to the surface, well, he was an opportunistic type predator and she crossed his path in a place and at a time when he felt safe in going for it. The only thing that made me pause was that about a week after he killed Chandra Levy, he attacked another woman who used punches and kicks to scare him into breaking off the attack. If he were a serial killer in the making, after killing once, it seems unlikely to me that a few punches and kicks would be enough to deter him.

I don't think he's a serial killer, though. He's a serial rapist and I think he killed Chandra Levy by accident. As I recall, they found her jogging pants tied into a knot in the middle of the area her remains were found in. I don't think he meant to strangle her, he was just trying to control her and went too far by accident.

My theory not intended to vindicate Guandique, just to hypothesise about his state of mind and why he acted the way he did over a series of assaults on different women.

 

[LinasK]

I always thought it was Condit too !!!! That he was looking to break things off and Chandra either would go to his wife or go public with their affair.
Total crime of opportunity. Condit lied b/c he is guilty of being a sleaze who cheated on his wife with an intern, not b/c he is guilty of murder. JMO.

BBM. Exactly! Condit was thrilled when Sept. 11th happened because it took his affair off the front-page scandal news. He still lost his congressional seat.

 

[Niner]

So... am I on the wrong thread for this trial??? HELP!!!

 

[fullmoon]

I always thought Chandra was lured to the mansion in the park because it was in a very remote location and she was looking for directions on her computer to the mansion the day she went missing. Female joggers are careful not to go to very remote locations. Why would she go there? She was about to leave Washington, D.C. The guy who was arrested and convicted of her murder, Ingmar Guandique, passed a polygraph. I'm not sure he's the right guy.

 

[Grainne Dhu]

I always thought Chandra was lured to the mansion in the park because it was in a very remote location and she was looking for directions on her computer to the mansion the day she went missing. Female joggers are careful not to go to very remote locations. Why would she go there? She was about to leave Washington, D.C. The guy who was arrested and convicted of her murder, Ingmar Guandique, passed a polygraph. I'm not sure he's the right guy.

Gary Ridgway passed a polygraph and, based on that pass, law enforcement let him go, even though they had good eyewitness testimony linking him to Marie Malvar. Hey, he only killed about 10 more women after that. In other cases, every single one of the spies discovered in the last 50 years passed multiple FBI polygraphs. Not one of them was discovered by failing a polygraph. Polygraphs are woo-woo science and that's the best I can say of them.

As for why Chandra Levy went to the park that day, she'd already given up her gym membership a few days previously; her family said she was fanatical about staying in shape but if she'd been doing most of her running on a treadmill, she may not have realised that the park was not in heavy, regular use, like most parks in the DC area.

 

[Tugela]

I always thought it was Condit too !!!! That he was looking to break things off and Chandra either would go to his wife or go public with their affair.
Total crime of opportunity. Condit lied b/c he is guilty of being a sleaze who cheated on his wife with an intern, not b/c he is guilty of murder. JMO.

I never thought it was Condit. For a start, there was nothing to suggest that he had anything to do with what happened to her. He was just someone who had the bad luck of having an affair with her when she was murdered by a random stranger.

And in any case, people like him rarely resort to murder to solve a problem like that. They are much more likely to try and talk their way out of their problems, because that is what they are good at, and they have supreme confidence in their ability to resolve personal problems like that through talk. Resorting to murder would be out of character for them.

 

[rd_jfc]

I agree it wouldn't seem to be in character. However we've seen a lot of men make inconvenient women disappear since that time, was murder in character for those men? These are almost always a crime of passion, not that of the character of a murderer.
But the upcoming re-trial of Guandique is presenting the possibility of accidental death due to bondage sex, the point being that with only circumstantial evidence the circumstances point to Chandra being bound up and dead and the mistress of a man who practiced bondage sex.

 

[rd_jfc]

Gary Ridgway passed a polygraph and, based on that pass, law enforcement let him go, even though they had good eyewitness testimony linking him to Marie Malvar. Hey, he only killed about 10 more women after that. In other cases, every single one of the spies discovered in the last 50 years passed multiple FBI polygraphs. Not one of them was discovered by failing a polygraph. Polygraphs are woo-woo science and that's the best I can say of them.

As for why Chandra Levy went to the park that day, she'd already given up her gym membership a few days previously; her family said she was fanatical about staying in shape but if she'd been doing most of her running on a treadmill, she may not have realised that the park was not in heavy, regular use, like most parks in the DC area.

Re: the polygraphs, Guandique and a cellmate early on in his incarceration, I think 2001 timeframe, were given polygraphs when the cellmate said he confessed to Chandra's murder. At the time, Guandique passed and the cellmate failed. LE and a Washington Post reporter later got it reportaed as "inconclusive' because that wasn't convenient for them.

Re: park, Chandra had 30 days remaining on her club membership, she had a half hour discussion with the club manager about it previous evening when she gave notice. The manager also testified as Guandique's first trial that she didn't even run on a treadmill in the gym. That isn't how she exercised. And she never exercised outdoors, much less took up running the day she disappeared to run into a forest and off a horse trail on a path to nowhere.

Bottom line. When a woman's body is dumped in remote woods, that doesn't mean she took up jogging that day.

Re: a comment on my book. The book is available to read online, just google it, I'm assuming by this time that anyone interested in the case has run across it.

thanks

 

[jackiemarlow]

Charges dropped against man accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy

District prosecutors have dropped charges against the man who had been accused in the murder of Chandra Levy, saying in light of new information it has concluded it can “no longer prove the murder case.”

Prosecutors did not detail what that information is, saying only that it was received in the past week. The suspect, Ingmar Guandique, was set to go to trial in October.

Levy was a 24-year-old intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared May 1, 2001. The case gained national attention because police investigators at first looked closely at former California congressman Gary A. Condit, with whom Levy had an affair. Authorities later ruled him out as a suspect.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f36630-54ee-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html

 

[MamaJoJo]

Charges dropped against man accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy



https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f36630-54ee-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html

Wow! I always thought Guandique was a bit too convenient. What did LE uncover this week?

ETA:
For those of us who like a trashier read...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3713295/Man-convicted-Chandra-Levys-death-wont-retried.html

 

[pittsburghgirl]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/charges-dismissed-man-convicted-chandra-levy-murder/story?id=40964440

The U.S. Attorney's office said today it will not proceed with the retrial, saying that “recent unforeseen developments that were investigated over the past week led to this decision."

What "recent unforeseen developments"? Like DNA? Like the snitch admitting he lied? Who killed this woman? I'm not sure it was Condit but sheesh.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Jul 28 2016, 3:29 pm ET

Prosecutors Drop Murder Charge Against Man Accused of Killing Chandra Levy

by Pete Williams

Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to drop the case against Ingmar Guandique, the man accused of murdering federal government intern Chandra Levy in 2001.

"In the interests of justice and based on recent unforeseen developments that were investigated over the past week, the Office moved to dismiss the case charging Ingmar Guandique with the May 2001 murder of Chandra Levy. The Office has concluded that it can no longer prove the murder case against Mr. Guandique beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly, the Office will not proceed with the retrial of Mr. Guandique," said a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, D.C.

Guandique was tried and convicted of Levy's murder in 2010 and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He was granted a new trial last year after his lawyers said a key witness lied to the jury. Guandique has been in prison for attacks on other women...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...inst-man-accused-killing-chandra-levy-n618991

 

[Trident]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/charges-dismissed-man-convicted-chandra-levy-murder/story?id=40964440



What "recent unforeseen developments"? Like DNA? Like the snitch admitting he lied? Who killed this woman? I'm not sure it was Condit but sheesh.

My feelings exactly. Condit was the first thing to hit my mind.

 

[Openminded]

I definitely thought it was Condit from the beginning -- and have never changed my mind.

I'll be interested to hear what's new.

 

[i.b.nora]

I never ever thought it was Guandique.

And, I have always thought Condit had something to do with it. Maybe time will still tell.

 

[SophieRose]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...hp_hp-more-top-stories_no-name:homepage/story

Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, has been jailed awaiting retrial. After his release, he will be handed over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where he faces removal proceedings.

 

[SophieRose]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/us/charges-dropped-in-chandra-levy-murder

Levy's mother, Susan Levy, told CNN she was "totally in a state of shock."

"I am sick to my stomach and am having trauma and grief all over again," she said.

Levy had no comment when asked what the government told her about dropping the charges but hopes prosecutors will "put the information out there."

"We all want our truth," she said. "I want to make sure we find out the truth. My husband and I hope that justice is found for our family."

 

[passionflower]

I feel so bad for the family reliving all this again.

 

[1&2&3]

Hmmm, my only shock is the government admitting a mistake was made with the arrest of the wrong person while Condit is still alive.

Amazing how "unforeseen developments" came to light when it was known that Condit's testimony on the stand did not match his words to the police. His refusal to answer questions was very telling to me and pointed to guilty at the time.

What is going to happen now with the "unforeseen developments"?

 

[x_files]

I definitely thought it was Condit from the beginning -- and have never changed my mind.

I'll be interested to hear what's new.

He had the motive.