Rock Creek Park Predator Interviewed by Police Investigating Levy Death

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[john in missouri]

PAPER: Rock Creek Park Predator Interviewed by Police Investigating Levy Death Thu May 23 2002 12:52:01 ET

D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officials investigating the death of Washington intern Chandra Levy have interviewed a man serving a 10-year prison sentence for attacking two women in Rock Creek Park last year, ROLL CALL DAILY is planning to report on Thursday.

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D.C. Metro Police investigators have "talked to" Ingmar Guandeque, who was arrested in July 2001 after attacking two females (one in May and one in July) who were jogging along the Broad Branch trail in Rock Creek Park. Levy's decomposed body was found Wednesday along the Broad Branch trail in a heavily wooded area.

A second official close to the Levy investigation said that while Guandeque was interviewed after Levy's disappearance last year, investigators are now taking a closer look at him since the intern's body was discovered.

"Clearly there are some coincidences and links -- just because of the proximity of where he [committed his crimes]," said a source close to the investigation.

ROLL CALL's Amy Keller reports: Guandeque, who lived on the 1400 block of Somerset Place Northwest, was arrested last summer and sentenced in February 2002 to two concurrent terms of 10 years' imprisonment for a pair of assaults of female joggers in the Broad Branch section of the park.

The first attack occurred in mid-May 2001, at 6:30 p.m., about two weeks after Levy disappeared. In that case, Guandeque came upon an unnamed female jogger, attacking her from behind while brandishing a knife.

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[aristeides]

But the attacks on the two women apparently got no publicity even as a local news item here in the D.C. area. I never heard of the attacks until now. I did hear of the murder of a jogger in Montgomery Co., Maryland a year or two ago (they caught that murderer.) I was listening to a local radio talk show yesterday -- they too mentioned the Montgomery Co. case and did not mention these Rock Creek Park incidents. Apparently they didn't know about these cases either.

I wonder why Condit's people didn't think of calling attention to them? Maybe they didn't know about them either?

[Lion's Cub]

But he's a far more likely suspect than Condit

I disagree.

I don't know whether Condit killed her, or whether she was killed because she was a threat to someone else in Condit's circle. But she wasn't a random crime victim--that I am sure of.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Rock Creek Park has always been the favorite haunt of homosexuals trolling for tricks, serial or opportunistic rapists, and other dirtbag criminals who find the yuppie, liberals who use it to be easy marks to prey on. And in those rare instances where a perp is actually captured, tried and convicted (about 1% of all crimes committed), the local criminal justice system quickly releases them back into the communities from whence they came - to breed and perpetrate more crimes once again. previous poster

She would have been the FIRST victim. The others were attacked after she disappeared, not the other way around. She wouldn't have known of an attacker.

She may have been his FIRST victim, but certainly NOT the first victim in a park that has a history of dangerous activity.

[twigs]

You have a good argument about why she might have been jogging this time. I hadn't thought of that. However, how do we explain the dogs that traced her scent out the door to the corner, implying she got into a vehicle?

[kayak]

Chandra did not like jogging, I heard it reported.

I heard conflicting stories about that. One guy was telling Fox that she didn't like to jog but Fox reported that many of her friends said that she did like to jog.

For some reason the statement by that one guy is the one everyone accepts and has been most widely reported.

???

[VRWC_minion]

However, how do we explain the dogs that traced her scent out the door to the corner, implying she got into a vehicle?

Easy, all dogs are democrats.

[EggsAckley]

Very good point. With the microscope on "everything condit" last summer, surely the media would have heard of two assault victims in the very same park that was searched. As hungry as the media was for every little kibble of news about the Levy case, they would NOT have buried it.

[Belial]

A serial rapist/murderer who returns to the scene of the crime, loses in struggles with two women after he supposedly murdered Levy, and does so knowing her body is lying nearby in the woods?

It's at least somewhat possible. He may have been unnerved by Chandra's murder. Almost equally likely is a completely different murderer.

However, it's even less likely that "Condit Didit"...killing someone to cover up an affair is several steps down tinfoil lane, especially considering that Condit is a high-profile figure, who Chandra doubtless discussed with confidants.

[john in missouri]

2. However, using Occam's Razor the most likely explanation is Chandra Levy was the victim of a deranged predator.

Occam's Razor applies quite well in matters of philosophy and science, such as the question of whether God exists. However, in matters such as this one, a principle from Agatha Christie is much more apropos:

If the solution to a crime appears obvious, it is often because somebody has engineered it to appear so.

[ET(end tyranny)]

I recall seeing at least one dog in the film clip they show of the cadets searching.

[Belial]

But she wasn't a random crime victim--that I am sure of.

Wow. You know a lot more than all the investigators who do this for a career. Maybe you should apply to Scotland Yard.

[SarahW]

An easy explanation for that is that she did in fact meet someone in the park. Maybe she rode to a tryst, then went touring/jogging in the park. I think it is very likely she spoke with Condit that day, he knew her plans. I think it is not only possible but probably that they met.

And the craven fool tried to hide it. When her life was at stake. If he'd let himself take the hit to his sacrosanct "privacy" and helped the police find her and the crime scene, then he'd be running for congress this fall.

[browardchad]

On May 1, the first day w/o a membership she could have looked up local jogging paths on her computer and then left to go jog the trail.

A local jogging path, eight miles away, in a secluded area, without her cell phone? With her bags packed to go home, she suddenly got the irresistible urge to jog on a path she'd never been to before (had to look up the location on Map Quest). If that's the case, maybe she was suicidal.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

However, how do we explain the dogs that traced her scent out the door to the corner, implying she got into a vehicle?

Good point. Maybe she was jogging back. Didn't Condidit have a "no cell phone" rule?

[Belial]

However, in matters such as this one, a principle from Agatha Christie is much more apropos:

Except that Agatha Christie is fiction, of course.

[G.Mason]

"Nonsense. He bothers to put the body in a shallow grave then goes on to unsuccessfully attack two more women in the same place to draw attention to it. Right?"

There you go again.....being logical.

Now do you believe there should be an I.Q. test to vote? ;)

[Thinkin' Gal]

>>>Guandeque, who lived on the 1400 block of Somerset Place Northwest, was arrested last summer and sentenced in February 2002 to two concurrent terms of 10 years' imprisonment for a pair of assaults of female joggers in the Broad Branch section of the park.<<<

Looks like the unluckiest guy on the planet is Guandeque. Not only does he gets 10 years for assault (details at post 10) while OJ plays golf, but he may end up being the fall guy for a murder, even though the walkman was left at the scene. Pretty lame, to kill a girl for her walkman, then leave the prize behind.

[ET(end tyranny)]

2. However, using Occam's Razor the most likely explanation is Chandra Levy was the victim of a deranged predator. Perhaps she put up a tremendous struggle and he either stabbed her or strangled her to stop her from struggling or screaming. During his later attacks he may have purposely refrained from killing in an attempt to divorce himself from the Levy killing since he knew that should he be caught the body was close by.

According to the police, NO BLOOD on her clothes. If you are stabbed, you bleed, right?

[blam]

"So let me get this straight: Chandra goes on her computer and looks at the internet site for Rock Creek Park, then goes there for no other reason than so she can be voluntarily attacked by a "predator" that she doesn't even know exists?

She got on the website because she was going to meet someone there. She went there with a purpose."

Exactly! (I am wondering though why she was wearing a 'jogging bra' when it has been reported that she didn't like jogging?)

[EggsAckley]

RE: jogging bra.

They're more comfortable. Some women who don't even jog wear them.