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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[browardchad]

I mean one is going down and the other up, depending which side you are on when looking at it.

I was thinking the same thing, after I posted it -- I guess the opposite of "incline" is "decline" -- but not necessarily for the AP -- and, as you say, it depends on where you're standing -- or, in this case, where the jogging path is in relation to where the body was found.

[crystalk]

No, at the TOP of the steep slope, where it becomes more gentle and comes to the road at the top, from which no doubt her body was brought and dumped over the edge.

Far, far above the trails and facilities within the park itself, which in effect lies IN a sort of valley or ravine, of Rock Creek...

[Ken H]

"The math is so overwhelming [for suicide] that I'm willing to bet my own money on it."

I'll take that bet.

Let's make the stakes a donation to Free Republic and a public helping of crow on this thread.

The amount of the donation will entirely be up to the loser.

Deal?

[crystalk]

No, they werent. They were nearly 2 miles away on Beach St entrance to park.

[Katie_Colic]

One Freeper theory is he never was interested in the walkman, it was just an excuse to avoid admiting his other assualt intentions.

I'll go along with this, if for no other reason than the fact that you can get a walkman for about 9.99 now. I know, in the 1980s they warranted the status of a main Christmas or birthday present. But times have changed!

[crystalk]

animals, as far as "remains" were scattered. But remember, it was her CLOTHING and POSSESSIONS that were scattered over the area the size of a small city building-lot, in a very large forested and thicketed park.

A better question would be, how did all those clothes get off of her and away from the body? More likely they were never on it in the first place, just dumped somewhere near it to make it look like an attack on a jogger.

This body was dumped there, Chandra would never have gone back in that area with anybody, not Gary, not at all, in her life time.

[spectre]

From a woman's point of view, I would think that if Chandra entertained the idea of suicide she would have left a note to her parents, or maybe even a note explaining exactly WHY she felt it necessary to end her life.

I think an overdose of pills, in her little apartment, would be a better choice than offing herself in a public park.

So how did she kill herself? With a gun? With a knife? Threw herself down an embankment? Naahhhh, all way too messey.

She was very excited about something, because she told her Aunt she had wonderful news.

I think she went to the Park to meet Gary, maybe thought he was giving her one of his frequent flyer tickets to fly home on, and met with disaster instead.

It doesn't figure she would look up a park on her Computer so she could pick a place she wasn't familiar with to kill herself, does it?

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[aristeides]

Chris Core was faxed the story of assault victim Hailey Schilling last night by Roll Call, and read it out on the air. That's apparently what prompted all of this.

[spectre]

Katie, I'd be interested in knowing the I.Q. of the guy who attacked these two women for their "walkman". He may not have known they could be purchased cheaply and also was "mental"...if you get my drift.

We don't know squat about him, really.

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[SarahW]

I heard the exact opposite. Body in a deep ravine.

[mass55th]

I didn't dismiss them. I just found it rather strange that this guy would kill Chandra and then let the other two victims overpower him and get away without pursuing them. If his intent was to kill them, he wouldn't have allowed them to take off on him without pursuing them, especially in the frenzy of the moment. The last thing a murderer wants is a witness who can identify him. This guy would have done what he had to do to make sure that didn't happen. Did you ever hear of the Kitty Genovese case in New York City about 30 or so years ago? Her attacker (on a public street at night), came back three times to kill her. She screamed and screamed for help, but no one responded. Three times he came back to finally deliver the fatal stab wounds. I stared into the eyes of that killer, and to look at him, you'd never know he was the cold, calculating murderer that he was.

[SarahW]

THe article that tops this thread says they were jogging along the Broad Branch trail in Rock Creek Park.

I'm sure tomorrow there will be maps with stars and everything in the paper. Maybe there are right now and I haven't seen them.

Links appreciated

[stlnative]

See the maps I posted... the main trail is at the top of the slope. But her remains where found far off the trail and near the bottom of a slope. I do not live in the area at all but from seeing video and pictures, the area is slightly sloped upward towards the trail. The slope below the trail probably consists of several stepping slopes, meaning it is not one big steep slope, but several slopes that step off and down from the trail. Her remains were found very close to the residential area streets. Look at the ariel map if you look hard you can make out a trail (looks like faint white line) now look at the distance between the trail and the green star. Then look at how many house could actually fit in that area between where she was found and the trail line, by scaling it to the houses in the ariel picture.

She may have ran off the trail into the woods to escape her killer or she was later dumped in the area from the residential streets and the person who dumped her body there never even entered the park. It will all depend on the area in which they find her remains scattered over... Are they scattered from the top of the slope and down? are or they scattered over a level area on the slope?

More information needs to be released, but I do still believe that they are looking at Condit still and may be talking about this other attacker who is sitting in jail because Condit's lawyer is well aware of this guy (he may be the one releasing the information to the press about this attacker to take the public heat off Condit) and the police need to also satisfy the public that this guy sitting in jail is or is not the person who killed her. I think they already know this guy sitting in jail is not the one, but they (DC Police) have prove they did spend time considering him as the person who killed her.

[SarahW]

They didn't overpower him, once he ran away and once the victim escaped him when he relaxed and loosened his grip.

(which begs the question of how someone "lets" someone overpower them)

[bimbo]

The fact that they've found and talked to him so quickly means that they had him in mind all along.

If this guy did it, he has got to be one STUPID sob. Imagine someone killing Chandra in the park and hiding the body ... and two weeks later attack another girl in the same park ... and a few weeks after that, attack a third girl there! Incredibly stupid - more likely he had no idea Chandra's body was in the park.

[SarahW]

He wasn't after their walkmans.

[SarahW]

see my 452. Sexually motivated killers do stuff like that. They aren't normal people, and they don't carry out crimes the way normal people imagine they would.

[bimbo]

She may not have been killed in the park, but put there after the fact ... by someone who was aware that this guy was available to easily take the fall for Chandra's death?

[Howlin]

Ah, you think she committed suicide and covered herself up with a foot of brush?

[SlickWillard]

Some people mentioned it before, but it's worth repeating: What about the stench? When I was in grade school, my little league football team practiced on some town fields near a local swamp. One evening, during practice, we noticed a terrible stench in the air. A few days later, the town learned that an old drunk had wandered into the swamp and died. We kids put two and two together, and realized that it was his rotting corpse [may it rest in peace] we had smelled that evening at football practice. If Chandra died in the park, on April 30, or May 1, then her corpse [may it rest in peace] would have sat rotting through the heat and humidity of May, in Washington, DC. How could the police, and their dogs, not have smelled that stench when they searched the Park on May 15, again on May 30 [with dogs], and yet again on July 26 [at the height of DC's summer heat and humidity]?