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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[Arleigh]

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!

Actually, you're wrong. I served on our county grand jury for 3 months. One of the things they taught us was to consider a crime's "MO." Evidently, most criminals are so stupid that once they hit upon a plan that works, they stick with it. So, for example, if they rob a Wendy's and get away with a good haul, they'll drive past a McDonalds and a Burger King looking for another Wendy's....

[terilyn]

Thanks for that info! I hadn't ever seen him on TV, only heard him.

[Howlin]

Lots of people around on a lot of threads today, all claiming to have the "answers".......nobody seems to be producing though. Go figure.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I'm inclined to decline to opine as I lazily recline.

[stlnative]

A better graphic of the area... The blues star is the area where her remains where found. If you look at this map you will see a black curvey dotted line to the right of the blue star that shows the marked foot trail that loops around. It is pretty far off from where she was found.
Everything in red is the residential area, green is the park.

[bimbo]

In light of this, I would say, yes, she got in a car if the trail ended at the corner.

Let's follow your thought a little further ... If the car was a cab, the cab driver would have come forward with info, wouldn't he? As far as I know, no cab driver info exists. If the car was not a cab, it would have been driven by SOMEONE SHE KNEW, wouldn't it? I mean: she didn't hitch-hike, did she? If it was driven by someone she knew, why didn't that person come forward with information - unless he/she drove Chandra away with bad intent? Who could that be?

[Bonaparte]

" All of her clothes were NOT packed. There were some left hanging in her closet and some of her toiletries were not packed, they were still in her bathroom, thus the speculation that the bags that were packed and by her door were from a return visit to Condit's condo."

I've done a fair amount of traveling. The day before I intend to catch my train or plane, I pack up everything except what I will need to wear or use that night (such as pj's and toiletries) and what I will need to wear or use the next morning after I shower and before I check out. Then I pack up those remaining items just before I go down to the front desk to turn in my key and settle up. It would make sense that Chandra, living in an apartment, rather than a hotel room, would have other things left out as well, such as the blanket. She probably got the apartment "immaculately clean" because she wanted to get her cleaning deposit returned to her. Money was a consideration. That's why she supposedly opted to take a train rather than a plane.

Your thoughts about the men walking their dogs are intriguing. I don't know what to make of it, but there could be something there.

[JLS]

Is that a perimeter road around the park? It appears that either Grant or Broad are the closest roads and the body is pretty close to both. Maybe the Grant approach is less steep. Anyway it certainly has the look of a dump job? Lure her to the Mansion, kill her and dump her. It does not have the look of an attack in the part from that map.

[terilyn]

Good points, but one flaw. Chandra did not have a ticket - either by plane or train - as of the time she disappeared. She told her landlord she planned to be out about May 5th I believe. So it would have been 4-5 days longer that she planned to live there. In the past Condit had allowed her to use his frequent flyer miles to go home to visit her family. That's why, (IMHO), there's a lot of speculation that she had met him, (or believed she was going to meet with him), to get a ticket from him for her trip home.

All the records, (credit card, etc), had been checked. She surfed websites for Amtrak and the airlines but no ticket was purchased. Her parents had confirmed this at the time.

Her e-mail to them on May 1st said that she was still undecided about how she was getting home and when exactly she would be there and that she would let them know.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

That makes sense.

[bimbo]

Did the dogs pick up her scent again at the park?? Anyone know?

Not likely ... If Chandra or her remains were in the park, the dogs would have made the discovery in short order. Unlike the D.C. police, the dogs are very competent.

[Bonaparte]

" How long would somebody's scent remain on a sidewalk anyways."

But the scent was on the sidewalk. The dogs only lost her scent at the curb. To me, this means there may have been street cleaning in the interim. All that water and biodegradable disinfectant, all that rotary brush action. That could explain it -- just as stepping into a car could also explain it.

[terilyn]

This is nuts! There is no plausible explanation that this attacker hit her on the jogging trail and then hauled her body all the way ALMOST to the road.

Fox News just reported that the medical examiner has confirmed that her skull was fractured/cracked.

This map confirms the suspicions in my mind that she was killed and then stashed and dumped from the road.

So where is Condit's red car/"I don't have a car in DC"/that he does have in DC go? The car he insisted he didn't have but Anne Marie Smith actually rode in it and when checked it was registered to Condit. He claimed it was used by staffers.

Why lie and say you don't have a car? It's stupid and it can be proved. Any bets that the Keystone Cops never did a thourough search/forensics check on that car including the trunk?

[MHT]

Fox just reported that her skull had a crack. A predator could have grabbed her, causing her to fall to the ground, perhaps killing her even if the original intent of the perpetrator was not murder.

It is also still possible that she fell or tripped while jogging, injuring her head, and causing an accidental death.

The real tip-off is going to be whether or not they can figure out if anything happened to her neck with broken bones indicating some sort of choking or strangulation. Clothing has not indicated any sort of knife wound, stabbing, or heavy bleeding.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I might be wrong but I'm not sure there is any evidence that Chandra was out jogging ...

I heard on the news tonight that the remains of "tennis shoes" were found at the site. Not "running shoes". IMHO, she was not out for a run. She went there, was lured there, to meet somebody. Somebody important to her (given how far into her travel plans she was at the time). My instincts tell me she was set up and then ambushed, a deliberate act to silence her. All accounts stipulate that her mood prior to her disappearance was very upbeat. She was totally blindsided by an evil force, an evil plan. Keeps coming up Condit. Conditit. Maybe not "in personum".

Hey Fred! How's things?

[terilyn]

"It is also still possible that she fell or tripped while jogging, injuring her head, and causing an accidental death."

This would make sense if she had been found on or near the jogging path. She was found way off the path, near the road that separates the park from the residential area. She couldn't have fallen, hit her head hard enough to cause a skull fracture and then dragged herself that far only to collapse and die. Why drag yourself into the woods instead of down the path where there would be a better chance you would be found?

[mewzilla]

Here's something else. Acoording to FOX this morning, Chandra was wearing tennis shoes. Her jogging shoes were still at her apt. Who goes for an 8 mile jog in tennies? And where are her keys? And why didn't the perp steal her ring?

[mewzilla]

And can they tell if the skull fracture was ante-mortem or post-mortem?

[Bonaparte]

"...all claiming to have the answers........ nobody seems to be producing though."

There is only one who can produce --

The Great Karnak

[terilyn]

They haven't said yet. I would guess they would be able to tell, though I can't imagine what would have cracked it after she were dead and lying there.