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Rock Creek Park Predator Interviewed by Police Investigating Levy Death
Drudge ^ | 5/23/02 | Roll Call Daily/ Drudge

Posted on 05/23/2002 10:14:29 AM PDT by 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.

According to a press relea


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To: ET(end tyranny)
Couple of things. Supposedly her body was covered with about a foot of brush. The dog smelled something and was digging in the area when the skull appears. Police called, area taped off.

I don't own a dog but I don't think I would just let one randomly start digging in a public area. I'm getting conflicting info on exactly how the body was found - whether it was buried, covered or just laying there. Burying would imply an act to hide evidence, covered might.

Question. The cadets check the area last July, if not more than once. Two months, June and July. Wouldn't the heat have helped decay and wouldn't cadets smell a decaying body?

No ME either so I don't know how long a decomposing body retains its "freshness". I suppose it varies somewhat on factors like temperature, weight, presence of scavengers (vultures, maggots, etc.), hydration, etc.

I do wonder, as someone else pointed out, if there were two reports of jogger attacks in this part of the park, why wouldn't the cops have made an even more thorough search of the area when they were supposedly combing parks for evidence last summer - particularly the one park with a direct and known link to Levy (her computer records)?

For now, I'm in the "too convenient" camp of skeptics.

121 posted on 05/23/2002 11:42:25 AM PDT by Tall_Texan
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To: RetiredArmy;RooRoobird14;Howlin;Coop;Semper Paratus;swatter
Sorry, should have had my </sarcasm tag on. I find it hard to believe anybody could actually BE that unlucky - it's the statistical equivalent of winning the Irish Sweepstakes -- twice. It could happen, but it was probably rigged! (And you're all right, even if he is innocent of murder, he certainly isn't innocent in any other sense of the word.)
122 posted on 05/23/2002 11:44:32 AM PDT by justanotherfreeper
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To: Coop
Unlucky?!? He brought this whole mess completely onto himself! The scumbag intentionally lied and obstructed justice, whether or not he had anything to do with her death.

That's right. Even if DNA evidence proves this "park predator" killed Chandra, I won't feel one bit sorry for suspecting Gary Condit was involved.

The police are obligated to focus on people who LIE to them in missing persons/homicide investigations. By lying to the police, Condit forced them to make him an issue! So even if he didn't do anything intentionally to Chandra, his behavior hindered her investigation.

123 posted on 05/23/2002 11:45:32 AM PDT by Katie_Colic
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To: john in missouri
Some questions:

Did this "predator" use a car in the two assaults or did he walk to the park from his home? He lived about one block east of the park.

I question this because the body site location is not near a "jogging trail" and would appear to me to be just a drop site, after killing her somewhere else.

From the description of the body site, it was uphill from the road and was some distance from a "jogging trail". How far up the hill was it? Could a single person have dragged a body up the hill without leaving lots of evidence - crushed bushes and grass/weeds?

124 posted on 05/23/2002 11:46:35 AM PDT by jackbill
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To: ET(end tyranny)
...If you are stabbed, you bleed, right?

Not if she was a liberal. Liberals have some kind of green $hit flowing through their veins.

125 posted on 05/23/2002 11:46:39 AM PDT by SGCOS
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To: mrobison
I tend to feel the same way. Too many people have been wrongly accused and imprisoned because it was an easy way to "solve" the crime, especially when politicians or big shots are involved. Let's not make "waves" and really investigate, casting a wide net instead of focussing on one person. Sam Shepard and Richard Jewett come to mind.
126 posted on 05/23/2002 11:47:59 AM PDT by Marysecretary
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To: browardchad
A local jogging path, eight miles away, in a secluded area, without her cell phone?

Eight miles isn't that far and I never took my cell phone jogging.

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 you are working out regularly, you do get an irresistible urge to continue. Taking a jog after getting the packing done sounds reasonable.

If that's the case, maybe she was suicidal.

Apparently people jog at this park quite regularly.

127 posted on 05/23/2002 11:48:06 AM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: SarahW
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.

While I still believe Condit knows something about Levy's death, although I'm open to the suggestion that he didn't, I've always believed that he was more frighted that the police and public would discover the "other" rather than that he was associated with murder. Whatever the "mystery" is here about his nefarious deeds, they have to be dark indeed if that frightened him more than implication of murder.

128 posted on 05/23/2002 11:48:17 AM PDT by twigs
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To: freedomson
"We found the fall guy!"

Yes, and look how quickly the DC Keystones were able to "find" him once Chandra Levy was found, yet for a whole year they couldn't find him, either. I still refer to her as Chandra, unlike the DC coppers who prefer to use the words "it" and "body" and don't dare speak the name. After all, the sheeple might remember she was actually a real person at one time, not an "it" and still expect justice. Yep, toooo convenient, just like the robbery of the Starbucks with that gal murdered, and lo and behold, lucky robber/murderer gets the same attorney that "pretended" to defend Monica at first, you know, Vernon Jordan's friend, and then the Reno gang decided to go for the death penalty (even though they are against it, don't you know!). I knew they'd find a sucker, just didn't know they'd be so obvious and do it so quickly but hey, look what they've gotten away with so far, so why not! I'm so angry over this, and the fact they "couldn't find it" because "it" was in a more secluded, overgrown area. Wouldn't you concentrate more in an area like that, IF you were trying to find "it?" Grrrr!

129 posted on 05/23/2002 11:49:41 AM PDT by tinacart
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Pretty lame, to kill a girl for her walkman, then leave the prize behind.

It crossed my mind that the walkman was placed their after this guy was arrested but then I recalled that she apparently did own one and it was missing.

130 posted on 05/23/2002 11:49:54 AM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: twigs
They were dark indeed. Did you see Hannity last night?
131 posted on 05/23/2002 11:50:43 AM PDT by tinacart
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To: VRWC_minion; browardchad
It's not eight miles from Chandra's apartment to the site in Rock Creek Park. My estimate last night of three miles was confirmed in a column in today's Washington Post.
132 posted on 05/23/2002 11:50:43 AM PDT by aristeides
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To: VRWC_minion
Good reasoning about her known exercise routines, the terminated health club membership, and looking for jogging trails on the PC. It does put the pieces together well.

Personally, for nearly 10 years I rarely go more than 2 days without jogging. The exceptions are always outside of my control, such as being in Russia in winter, sickness, extended rainy weather. (I'm not that much of an addict.) I do run in snow, early in morning or indoors during hot weather, and parks in the spring are among my favorite places to go.

133 posted on 05/23/2002 11:51:26 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: cardinal4
Why do you think we call it "Arkancide?"
134 posted on 05/23/2002 11:51:41 AM PDT by Marysecretary
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To: tinacart
I'm just hoping that the police are being cagey with Condit. If he did have something to do with it and it's going to be a hard case to prove, maybe they want to prove that they looked at other alternatives. At least I HOPE it's something like that.
135 posted on 05/23/2002 11:51:58 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Aquinasfan
Reading a description of this guys modus operandi, he's the one. I think Condit will be ruled out as the actual killer soon.

If they don't pin it on this guy, that will be crummy bastard Condit's fault. They will need very hard forensic evidence or a confession now - with both being harder to get with a year old crime scene and skeletal remains.

I'm pretty disgusted with the DC police at this point (I wasn't up until today). They CONVICTED a guy of assaulting (small) women joggers just after her disappearance both on the same jogging trail, one of the victims being pulled into a ravine off the trail. And they didn't send cadaver dogs down into the ravines near that trail, only did a cursory foot search?!!! IDIOTS! Lame * idiots!

Here's a clue, DC, since you can't buy one. If it turns out that chandra was indeed bashed in the head, look for a connection with Mirzayan, who was also pulled into a ravine. Check and see if this guy was in jail in the interval between the murders of Mirzayan and Chandra.

The only reason he didn't kill that last jogger is that - she got away.

136 posted on 05/23/2002 11:52:01 AM PDT by SarahW
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To: aristeides; kayak; Howlin; SarahW; ~Kim4VRWC's~
The part of this story that still puzzles me is that Chandra didn't take her purse/wallet with her.

Also, what was she wearing at the time of her demise?

Do we expect it was in broad daylight? What time of day were the other two females assaulted?

137 posted on 05/23/2002 11:52:19 AM PDT by Fred Mertz
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To: SarahW
Sorry y'all, this is the guy... this is the fella [that] got her.

I wouldn't be so quick to make that conclusion. If the police knew of this guy attacking women in that park, there's no doubt they went through every square inch of that park looking for Chandra Levy. Nothing turned up. That would tell me she was put there sometime later, after her killer knew it had been searched and turned up nothing.

That's speculation, of course, but I think that's a lot more plausible than to hastily decide this other predator must have done it.

138 posted on 05/23/2002 11:53:15 AM PDT by tdadams
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To: Tall_Texan
I don't own a dog but I don't think I would just let one randomly start digging in a public area. I'm getting conflicting info on exactly how the body was found - whether it was buried, covered or just laying there. Burying would imply an act to hide evidence, covered might

On hearing this story, my 12 year old son who couldn't figure out why the guy would be "digging" for turtles in the woods. He claimed they don't burrow in the ground.

139 posted on 05/23/2002 11:54:45 AM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free
Yes. Why were her keys and cell phone at the pad with packed suitcases, along with a second unpacked pair of jogging shoes? And if she really were jogging, she would certainly have had some clean clothes to change into left unpacked

Best I've heard yet. Also, her PC revealed that she was checking out the Condit's committee schedules online, apparently trying to track him down that day.

140 posted on 05/23/2002 11:54:48 AM PDT by LisaFab
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