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.
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There was Mirzayan way back in 97-98. Do you know of anyone else missing?
I would like to see them compare this guys whereabouts (where he lived, whether he was serving time) to Chiang and Mirzayan, especially Mirzayan, since she was grabbed, thrown down a ravine, assaulted sexually and killed by blows to the head)
With the incompentence of this PD, who knows?
I think it came and went and came again. Sometimes it got mentioned other times not. I think they were trying to determine if she owned one or perhaps had borrowed one and since returned it. But, it did get mentioned periodically, if I recall correctly.
Didn't I read that G. was 20 years old, or am I imagining things? If so, that would make him awfully young, not that teens don't murder at that age. Still, it's something to consider.
This guy did his deeds at 6:30pm & 7:30pm - not in the early afternoon.
Should be real easy to check - was he at work that day? at that time of day?
Now back to the reading!
To me, the whole pattern fits exactly how I think a third-rate blow-dried freak Congressman like Condit would carry out his killing. Somewhat bumbling and inept, just as he is in real life.
It's pretty obvious that one of Condit's minions knew that Chandra was coming to the area around the Klingle Mansion. She looked at it on the internet because she was (a) excited/daydreamy with anticipation of rendezvousing with Condit; and/or (b) to double-check directions. Condit's guy met her and killed her. He did a good enough job of burying the body to fend off the utterly inept DCPD, but not a good enough job to fend off a year of weather, wind, rain, and the wear and tear of Ma Nature. That year passed and there she is.
This is far and away the most likely explanation. An effort to bury the body doesn't come close to the "suspect's" MO.
Exactly, which is why I think she went there to meet someone.
Where did she usually jog?
Either she didn't or she may have jogged at an inside track at the health club she had belonged to, prior to it's termination the day before.
Now that you mention it, YES!
I've heard several reporters ask about the keys. But they didn't get an answer. At least as far as I heard. I too, wondered about someone (the perp) taking the keys and going to the apartment, but 1) they would have to have known where she lived, and 2) if its a random killer why didn't he take anything? Any money in the wallet??
Ok, I see your point. But what about this: if Chandra knew that park, I would say it would not be unusual for her to go jogging there. But what are the odds that this girl, who had looked up information on Gary Condit's website, then Klingle mansion, then went to the park just happened to be the only victim that ever got killed by him? If that's what happened, then she is the one with the really bad luck.
Totally amazing they come up with a suspect the day after Chandra is found.
The Police Chief has been left red-faced by all the attention being paid to the search he conducted, and NOW, surprize...we've got a suspect!
I never gave credence to the theory that Condit was connected politically, to some others who might be involved with the whole Chandra mess, but I'm starting to have second thoughts.
The Levy's must be furious right now!
And the Levy's are soooo rich, but Condit's wonderful friend and attorney, Mark Geragoes, wants Gary to find a White Collar job so he can pay HIM his legal fee's...LOL!
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On CNN's "Larry King Live," Geragos said his client would be exonerated. He also said he had predicted Levy would be found this month.
"Talking with Gary about a month ago, [I said] if this was the work of a serial killer, you might find that Chandra would turn up sometime in May." Geragos said the prediction was based on "prior findings" and did not explain further.
Hmmmm...
He could have hired a hitman, and said, "This is the way I want it done." Not out of the question.
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