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After 9 years and Condit's fall, Levy trial begins
AP ^ | 10/17/10 | MATTHEW BARAKAT

Posted on 10/17/2010 2:00:02 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

If one person is associated with the mysterious slaying of Washington intern Chandra Levy, it isn't the man who will soon be tried on charges he murdered her. It's former California congressman Gary Condit, whose political career imploded after he was romantically linked to the woman and became the No. 1 suspect.

Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, goes on trial Monday for Levy's 2001 killing.

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


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KEYWORDS: aliens; chandralevy; garycondit; levy
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1 posted on 10/17/2010 2:00:04 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

She left her apt. WITHOUT her cell phone and wallet. IF Ingmar killed her, I’ll call Condit and apologize!! I still think his FELONIOUS BROTHER and his Sheriff Brother had something to do with it also.


2 posted on 10/17/2010 2:02:50 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I remember it like it was yesterday. Police Chief Freckles was in charge of the investigation.


3 posted on 10/17/2010 2:05:28 PM PDT by tommyboy (We'll do it live)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I didn’t even know they caught a “supposed suspect”.

I still think Condit, his brother and some other fellow had something to do with her murder.

If I recall there was a strange boat ride and cooler right after her disappearance.


4 posted on 10/17/2010 2:05:46 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

DC is in the running for the most incompetent police, the worst schools, and the most corrupt mayors in the country. (The last mayor was a bit better than usual, but failed to get re-elected.)

And they are ripe for manipulation by Democrat politicians.


5 posted on 10/17/2010 2:09:59 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Ann Archy
She left her apt. WITHOUT her cell phone and wallet.

I was a runner when I was her age and I never carried anything either. The bouncing and jiggling of whatever you have on you becomes a distraction. The only exception was if I drove somewhere to run I would lace my car key flat into my shoe laces.

That arrogant philandering jerk Condit deserves whatever befell him anyway.

6 posted on 10/17/2010 2:14:06 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Now can we forget about that old rum-runner Joe Kennedy and his progeny of philandering drunks?)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Didn’t she leave without her KEYS also???


7 posted on 10/17/2010 2:28:43 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Vendome
If I recall there was a strange boat ride and cooler right after her disappearance.

I think the boat ride and cooler was Thomas Capano after the murder of Anne Marie Fahey (during Castle's governorship - he was counsel to Castle. She was appointments secretary to then governor Carper. Yes, the same Castle who just lost to Christine O'Donnell and the same Carper who is the other Delaware Senator).

8 posted on 10/17/2010 2:29:19 PM PDT by Abby4116
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To: Kid Shelleen

Well, this certainly vindicates Condit. What are his re-election polls?


9 posted on 10/17/2010 2:39:36 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Abby4116

Maybe that’s what is was.

I was living in Centerville, DE at the time.


10 posted on 10/17/2010 2:42:41 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Poor Chandra only had ONE confidante for her affair with Condit. She had confessed to her aunt, and told her she was in love with the Congressman, and that she didn’t want to break up with him due to her upcoming return to CA when her internship ended. She was hoping and praying he would leave his wife, whom he rarely saw. The aunt knew all this, and was her ONLY confidante.

She knew that Condit was highly paranoid about being found out, and made Chandra leave all ID home when she went to meet him. Condit had even given Chandra a card with a phone number on it, for her to call, if he ever was taken ill while en flagrante, and instructed her NEVER to call the police no matter what.

The last time she had talked to Chandra, Chandra was down about her upcoming move back to CA, plus this last week also Condit’s wife was in DC in his apartment, for one of her very rare trips to the capital.

But on the day Chandra disappeared, she called her aunt and left a breathlessly excited, happy message, asking her aunt to call back soonest, as she had some fantastic news. The aunt did not call back in time.

Chandra was web surfing on her laptop in her already packed-up apartment, when she got a phone call. The last thing she surfed was directions to Rock Creek Park. She left home with no purse or ID at all.

Had she gotten a call from Condit, in which he told her he had exciting news for her, maybe that he would be asking for a divorce, and to meet him in a certain deserted area of the park?

We will never know.

Condit had no alibi; instead, he faked a timeline for that day, actually using appointments from a different day. He was known for never missing a House vote in years; one day during the investigation he missed about 5 votes. This was the day that TV and news were broadcasting his photo in connection with the missing girl.

He received a page message from one of his mistresses, a flight attendant who trysted with him when she had a layover in DC. He was afraid she would go to the police or press, so he found the nearest phone to call her back. This phone was in a McDonald’s in a rural area of Luray, VA. What he was doing there is anyone’s guess. He had never missed a vote, but spending the day in Luray was more important to him than voting, for some reason.

Now, from the flight attendant’s story, we know what was said in that call. She had indeed seen him on the news, and called him first to find out what happened. While he did tell her on that call from the McDonald’s that he was in some kind of trouble, he calmed her down and made her feel he was not involved with the girl’s disappearance, and bought her silence for a while.

On another day, the day his Congressional office was being searched by authorities, he and his top aide were seen in a different VA city somewhat far from DC, and Condit or the aide stepped out of the car to drop a fast food bag into a street garbage can. A bystander called this in, and the bag ended up containing an expensive watch given to Condit by yet another woman, a watch so unique that it was easily traced back to the jeweler who sold it.

One of the top acts of suspicion from Condit was when Chandra’s parents in CA became very worried that she was not responding to any of their calls or emails. She was due to return home and they had not heard her travel plans, and now they simply couldn’t reach her, even with desperate messages. The aunt at this point did spill the beans to her sister / inlaws that Chandra was seeing Condit. They hated to phone this married man at home in CA with his wife, but they had no choice. They could not locate their daughter.

They asked Condit if he knew anything about where she might be. He suggested that maybe she was on a train coming across the country. They knew that she would have been in contact even on a train. They asked him to contact the local authorities in DC and help search for her. He said that he would. I believe he did not do so far DAYS (if I recall correctly). The police already knew everything before he made his attempt to assuage the fearful parents.

And of course he at first did not admit knowing her, then he had to cough up that he was mentoring her, or she was a friend, and finally he had to admit that he was having an affair.

Condit had the time, the money, and the motive to make the lovelorn intern disappear.


11 posted on 10/17/2010 2:47:48 PM PDT by Yaelle ( I donated double. We need FR running smoothly this fall. Join me.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Thanks for posting.

Ah... the good old days.


12 posted on 10/17/2010 2:50:35 PM PDT by Balata ( Before: Reagan- Bob Hope, Johnnie Cash : Now; Obama- No Hope, and No Cash)
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To: Brilliant

Condit was defeated in the Dem primary for renomination in 2002.


13 posted on 10/17/2010 3:02:34 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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And who was Condit’s best friend back in the day ?

Oh, John Kasich.

You are judged by the company you keep.

Now where have I heard that before ?

I always wondered, since they partied together, did they share secrets ?


14 posted on 10/17/2010 3:04:39 PM PDT by Jacktown
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http://www.observer.com/node/44953


15 posted on 10/17/2010 3:05:19 PM PDT by Jacktown
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To: All

http://www.observer.com/node/44953


16 posted on 10/17/2010 3:05:31 PM PDT by Jacktown
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To: Kid Shelleen

None of this matters. AP has already tried him and found him not guilty.


17 posted on 10/17/2010 3:15:15 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yeah, I know that. I was just being facetious.


18 posted on 10/17/2010 3:20:59 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

It’s too bad he wasn’t renominated. That was a sure pick-up for us that year if he had been...


19 posted on 10/17/2010 3:44:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Ann Archy

Plenty of my female running partners leave keys at home or in their car when they head out.


20 posted on 10/17/2010 4:01:09 PM PDT by rwilson99
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