Chandra Levy D.C. Murder Case Breakthrough (Photos)
The disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy, who at age 24 went missing on April 30, 2001, is back in the headlines once again with an arrest imminent, according to sources in both Washington D.C. and California.
The Federal Bureau of Prison’s intern met Rep. Gary Condit, D-Cal. through his congressional intern and the two reportedly engaged in a romantic relationship. Her seven month internship was coming to an end and she was about to return to California when she would be graduating from the University of Southern California with a master’s degree in public administration. That all ended when she mysteriously vanished.
Condit was on the hot seat as police investigators delved into his extramarital affair and many speculated that he harmed her in order to end a relationship that could have caused him political ruin. He left Congress at the end of his term in January 2003 after losing a reelection bid in his first ever primary defeat.
Chandra’s remains were discovered on May 22, 2002 in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park. Considered one of the most high profile unsolved murders in recent years, police are reportedly ready to act on their evidence in the case – eight years after she went missing.
In July 2008 The Washington Post published a comprehensive expose after doing their own year long investigation. In Chapter 10, they revealed that a Salvadoran named Ingmar Guandique allegedly told a jailhouse informant that he had been walking the Adams Morgan neighborhood when a car pulled to the curb. Condit offered him $25,000 to kill a woman. The congressman provided him with her picture and a location where he could find her. According to the allegation, Guandique told the informant that he had killed Chandra Levy.
CNN affiliate KGO-TV is reporting that police have secured warrants and are ready to make an arrest in the case. Police told Levy’s parents, Robert and Susan Levy of Modesto, that an arrest was imminent, according to the San Francisco television station.
Susan Levy told KXTV in Sacramento, “You want justice. You want the person incarcerated. It is still painful no matter what. Your child is dead and gone. But we are glad the police are doing something and making a difference.”
We’ve provided a link to The Washington Post expose for an in depth look at the case.
More photos below.
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I believe the kudos should be going to a group of student,s who work on cold cases. They were working on this one, and mentioned not long ago that they had a suspect.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Levy,
I am so sorry about the death of your daughter. I am sure that the pain for you is still severe despite the years. I hope that if the authorities are able to show convincing evidence or proof that this man killed your lovely, intelligent daughter, that he will be killed swiftly.
As you said, Mr. Levy, at least he will be off the streets
of our great Country.
Sterling
And if Gary Conduit had anything to do with this, which sounds likely, I pray that he “fries” as well.
I hope that this case is solved and closed and that the true guilty person is punished. I wonder if the Salvadoran is here legally. We need more illegals to kill American’s….? Our jails are full of them. Chandra was in the beginning of her career and life and did not deserve this mess that befell her. I hope this helps the family find peace as much as is possible.
i wonder if this guy has a florida connection. i mean the weird hairdo is very simmliar to the picture of suspected person in photo that abducted jennifer kesse. i was trying to describe the hairstyle to someone and saw his picture in the news. looks just like it. my condolences to the levy family and it is so sad to see oxygen theives like this walk the face of earth taking and destroying the lives of those that had so much promise.
My deepest and sincerest condolences to the levy family and friends.
How absolutely atrocious!! Many people in this country just don’t understand the problems that are continuing to grow here with drugs, violent criminals from other countries that keep coming right in and harming our families, schools, childrena nd family members…our family and safety are continuously being jeopordized we have GOT to wake up and take a stand!
over 150,000 current MISSING PEOPLE/Unsolved homicides in our USA! Please see the missing persons sites I am sad to say you are NOT ALONE in your grief and anguish! Work together, network together stand together! Please don’t just forget about the important contributions you can still make to the much needed improvements in the Justice systems, in the search procedures and processes, in the law enforcement database connectons and improvements Everyone needs each other!
Your daughter and friend was a very beautiful, ambitious, but trusting person …..she was MUCH TOO YOUNG to be taken from you and from the EARTH!
Join together in your sadness, join together in your strengths… peace4the missing