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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[Howlin]

Here's a good map: Punch here

You need Acrobat Reader.

[Elenya]

I'd think his first attack was the one on Chandra

I was talking about his first "official" attack. As to whether or not he did it, it's too soon to tell with the kind of info we have. I keep wondering though how come he managed to kill Chandra who was probably trained in self defense but was unable to successfully attack the other two.

[Eva]

Random killers seldom take the time to bury the body, do they? If there is no connection between the killer and the victim, the murder has no reason to hide the body.

[SarahW]

They questioned him. I think the two other assaults may have been what triggered the park search in the first place.

But they were too effing stupid to send cadaver dogs into the ravines near the branch road jogging trail. They did send some (raw) recruits down in that area on foot to look around, but I saw film of them looking and ....felt their efforts lacking.

[Howlin]

Here is the post that went with that link:

She was found about 100 yards from the intersection of Broad Branch Road and Grant Road (about where the "W" is in the word "Western Ridge Trail" on left side of the park in the map), pretty far off from the regular trail... it seems to me that maybe she was brought into the park from the residential area off Board Branch Road and Grant Road or she was dumped close to the edge of the park so that the person who killed her could make a quick escape without having to go through the park. With a park this large why dump her body so close to the parks edge? They only reason I can think is for a quick escape or a quick and fairly easy access dumping area.

Hopefully they will be able to tell how she died and maybe they can determine if she was killed in that area or if she was brought there later.

5 posted on 5/23/02 5:19 AM Eastern by brigette

[PennsylvaniaMom]

While jogging you wear a full backback? Or a fanny pack (the little bag that fits your keys, currency and a small cell phone)?

Maybe the backpack had a more 'formal' change of clothes (a dress, sandals, etc.). Remember, she wasn't allowed to keep anything at his (Condidit's) apartment. Maybe she brought that along incase she could convince Condidit to take her 'out' one last time (before she went back to California).

[MozarkDawg]

Suicidals do not neatly pack their bags and set them by the front door in anticipation of flying home the next day. They do not get on their computer and pay for airline reservations that they know they will never use. They do not call their parents and chatter on excitedly about finally finishing school and getting their degrees

Correct -- they also don't bury themselves in shallow graves afterward ... this woman most certainly did not kill herself.

[texasbluebell]

They questioned him.

Ah, I missed that then. Well, at least they were thinking a little. But yes, the search with those cadets just following the footpaths really bothered me.

[ET(end tyranny)]

I've heard that the (partial) skull is cracked, although the cause of the crack is yet to be determined.

I hadn't heard that one. Is this relatively new? I was gone most of the morning. They should be able to determine if the crack is new or old, but if old, how old will be the question.

[SarahW]

He might have told himself he just wanted to "do" her...then killed her as a last minute change of plans. His evasion about the nature of the OTHER assaults leads me to believe he would be the kind of rapist to try to keep the body from being discovered right away - like he's trying to hide the cirme from himself as much as he is trying to hide it from discovery. I don't think he would get a shovel and dig, but he might put her in a natural depression and put branches and leaves over her.

[texasbluebell]

I just heard today about the skull fracture too. Not yesterday.

[Humbug]

Well this certainly elevates the possibility of someone other than Condit doing it and that maybe it was a random killing but still i think that possibility remains small. For one thing, this particular predator (and there is no evidence that he is even a killer) doesn't strike me as competent enough to have killed someone and then hidden the body in such a way that it wouldn't be discovered for over a year. Especially if the body had indeed been buried. I mean, what, did he walk around with a shovel or something? I guess it's possible he could have returned later with a shovel and then buried her but if he goes through all the trouble to cover up the evidence and protect himself then why would he return only a week or two later to assault another woman and not even bother killing her, but instead leave her alive and able to later identify him? Plus there is the little problem of Chandra's trail apparently ending at the curb outside her apartment. So who picked her up? And why wouldn't that person have gone to the police with this information? Unless of course that person is the guilty party. And further why hasn't Condit ever come up with a precise accounting of what he was doing that day? If i remember correctly his people initially put out incorrect info and to this day it is still vague. And besides everything he has done since the time of her death has struck me and many others as being exactly what a guilty man would do (ie, lie and throw away potential evidence) instead of of what a normal person would do in order to help find out what happened to a friend/lover.

So to me Condit remains very much the prime suspect.

[Howlin]

Ahem........am I the only one who has just yesterday heard about this Walkman? Did we hear that last summer?

[LisaFab]

At her apartment, every stitch of clothing except for a pair of sneakers was packed.

If you were going jogging before a trip, would you not leave a change of clothes upacked?

[aristeides]

This morning's Washington Post article on the discovery of the remains says: The skull, which was not complete, was cracked, although the cause was unclear. I gave a link in an earlier thread.

[Howlin]

And why would he kill her, then go back to the very place he supposedly left her body, and attack two more women, which would have drawn attention to that area.

[Howlin]

And a bag out to put your sweaty clothes in!

[aristeides]

Yes, I carry a full backpack when I jog. I like to have with me the things that I have in it.

[Crusher138]

What smells here?

Jogging with a back pack.

Why haven't we heard about this guy before?

My favorite: If you kill a young woman in a park and ditch her body nearby, are you going to go back to that same area and attack someone else? I don't think so. Most criminals, regardless of what they say in detective novels, DON'T return to the scene of the crime!

[Carolinamom]

Do you recall at the time that the DC dogs lost Chandra's scent at the curb in front of her apartment? I think I remember reading that. If so, it leads me to think that she might have stepped into a car there. Am I hallucinating this? LOL