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Who Killed Chandra Levy?
The Washington Post ^ | July 14, 2008 | Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham and Sylvia Moreno

Posted on 07/12/2008 9:50:46 PM PDT by RDTF

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The Chandra Levy case is the most famous unsolved murder in modern Washington, a mystery involving sex, power and secrets. At its center is a vivacious young intern who had crossed paths with a handsome, married congressman. The story triggered months of feverish worldwide media attention in 2001, before the Sept. 11 attacks shoved it aside and the investigation stalled.

The Washington Post spent a year reconstructing the disappearance of Chandra Levy and the investigation into her death. Reporters interviewed police officials, investigators and suspects, many for the first time, and obtained details about dozens of previously unknown private conversations and events, including former Rep. Gary Condit's first interview with the newspaper in seven years.

The Post's examination of the case will unfold in a 12-chapter serial and epilogue in print and online. The serial will show how the sensational nature of the media coverage quickly overwhelmed the investigation. It will expose the fleeting acts that later loomed large and will reveal undisclosed clues, meaningful and false: a DNA swab in a dark parking lot, Chandra's last computer search, a conversation with a jailhouse informant who said he had the key to the case.

In the end, the serial will reveal how an enormous effort by the D.C. police, the FBI and prosecutors was undercut by a chain of mistakes, a misdirected focus and missed opportunities that allowed a killer to escape justice.

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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: chandralevy; condidit; condit; dc; mystery
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1 posted on 07/12/2008 9:50:46 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: RDTF

Condidit


2 posted on 07/12/2008 9:59:51 PM PDT by null and void (Do/'08)
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To: RDTF
The story triggered months of feverish worldwide media attention in 2001, before the Sept. 11 attacks shoved it aside and the investigation stalled.

So Condit set up the plane hijackers to disrupt the investigation and all this time I thought it was Bush and Cheney's fault... S/

3 posted on 07/12/2008 10:01:01 PM PDT by tubebender (Why does a round pizza come in a square box?)
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To: RDTF

Ah, the old Chandra Levy case. I remember that was the hottest topic in the news, followed by overaged little leaguers and shark bite until we got hit on 9-11. Don’t know how munch involved Gary Condit is (or not) but I’ve always said that when 9-11 happened, he’d probably let out a huge sigh of relief by being bumped as the main story.


4 posted on 07/12/2008 10:02:41 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama an Anti-Christ? - B.O. Stinks! (Robert Riddle))
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To: RDTF

I don’t think Condit did it but I think he knows something. Oh, and the rumors about his personal sexual deviancies never did come out in the press. Why?

We, you know, demonstrated in Modesto every Saturday for over a year at Condit’s district office.

No, we have not forgotten Chandra Levy.


5 posted on 07/12/2008 10:03:58 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: Nowhere Man

looks like the WaPo is going to drag it out in a 12 part series

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/


6 posted on 07/12/2008 10:04:35 PM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: null and void

I always figured that condidit, too. He undeniably obstructed in the case.

He’s trash, either way.


7 posted on 07/12/2008 10:06:01 PM PDT by bannie
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To: Saundra Duffy

During the huge memorial service for the 9-11 victims Pres. Bush and his wife were there. Mr. Condit was on camera with a huge grin on his face. He knew that it would push the Levy case out of the news.


8 posted on 07/12/2008 10:09:30 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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... a misdirected focus and missed opportunities that allowed a killer to escape justice.

What? The idea that a US congressman could be so sick and evil as to kill or have killed a young woman to save his personal gravy train? Or, the ignorance and apathy about focusing on this heathen to hold him accountable for the twisted nature of the crime?

How about the fact nobody wanted or wants to know about how Condit (now ex-US congressman) or John Kasich (now ex-US congressman) and Joey Scarborough (now ex-US congressman) all exited at about the same time of the investigation, upon word that they partied together and participated in wild sex parties replete with rubber body suits and hookers and young women?

No. All that happened because of her death was an incomplete investigation and the resignation of a lying scumbag.

9 posted on 07/12/2008 10:12:06 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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Gary Condit did it but the incompetent D.C. police bungled it so badly they'll probably never prove it.

He's NO “handsome” guy. He is a creep.

10 posted on 07/12/2008 10:13:27 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: RDTF

Must be a slow time for LEFTIST news.

With all the stuff going on out there - they FEATURE THIS?

Sad. Very sad.


11 posted on 07/12/2008 10:15:20 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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Speak of the devil...... :o


12 posted on 07/12/2008 10:18:05 PM PDT by BossLady ("People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - Carl Jung)
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To: RDTF
The Chandra Levy case is the most famous unsolved murder in modern Washington...

No. That would be the Vince Foster murder. But I imagine the Washington Posthole won't be doing any 12-chapter serial and epilogue on that bungled investigation.

13 posted on 07/12/2008 10:19:10 PM PDT by DakotaGator
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To: RDTF
Seeing this is the Washington Post - any mention of Tony Snow, a conservative died? is this their form of a distraction from a wonderful man passing on?
14 posted on 07/12/2008 10:20:41 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: RDTF

12-part series? In an election year?


15 posted on 07/12/2008 10:21:33 PM PDT by July 4th
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To: nmh

yes there is a link to it on the home page

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071201621.html


16 posted on 07/12/2008 10:23:33 PM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: Grizzled Bear

“Mr. Condit was on camera with a huge grin on his face. He knew that it would push the Levy case out of the news.”

But it didn’t do him any good in the long run.


17 posted on 07/12/2008 10:25:50 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Gary Condit, of the House Intelligence Committee, escaped further investigation and exposure as a blackmailed traitor, and the resulting prosecution and prison sentence. I would say he certainly did benefit from the diversion.


18 posted on 07/12/2008 10:33:37 PM PDT by ValerieTexas
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To: RDTF

While you’re at it, find out who killed Nicole Brown Simpson since in the criminal murder trial, O.J. was found ‘not guilty’ and O.J. said he would not rest until the killer of his wife was found.


19 posted on 07/12/2008 10:40:44 PM PDT by veritas2002
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To: ValerieTexas

Gary Condit had to leave California and is now running a fast food restaurant. He’s filed a few lawsuits against some journalists, all of which have been dismissed. For a former Congressman, this is a huge letdown.


20 posted on 07/12/2008 10:48:07 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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