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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[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

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.

Yes. Behavioral change is not that radical. Especially with the psychos.

[terilyn]

Hopefully the FBI has done that.

I know, it's the Enquirer. But as I have been reminded numerous times around here, they did break the story on Monica's blue dress, (or so I've been told).

[L_Von_Mises]

I think it all gets logged. Their dispatcher knows where they make each pick-up and drop-off and when -- for everyone's physical and legal protection. If a cab stopped there, there had to be a record, unless it only appeared to be a cab.

I can't speak on DC but in Chicago and NYC you get in and tell them where you want to go and they take you there. Other than turning on the meter they don't do anything else. At least this is the case when you hail a cab. If someone calls the cab company for a ride then the dispatcher records the info to ensure that someone gets there. I know you can flag a cab down in DC but I am not certain how they handle that aspect of it. A friend of mine drove a cab in Boston and he paid a "rental" fee for the cab for his shift and whatever he got above that was his profit. Of course he had to pay for gas. As far as I know, unless he was sent somewhere by a dispatcher there was no record (but I could be mistaken).

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

So what we have here is a young woman who has just earned her masters in public administration, has just completed her internship in DC, has been having a terrific time partying and hob-nobbing with Congressmen and an assortment of friends, has been keeping herself in great shape at her fitness club, and has been calling her relatives regularly with all sorts of gushy, glowing reports. Reeses thinks this is a life not worth living and that her suicide was inevitable. In fact, he claims to have mathematical proof of it and goes on about "the numbers," but I have yet to see him present this math he says he has.

Yep. Doesn't mesh with the facts. Theory dead.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

RE: 551

All good points. I vote for scenario #1, motivation provided by scenario #3.

[Bonaparte]

Yes, the practice you describe is called "paying gate" (and may have other names). A friend of mine did this in San Francisco and always let the dispatcher know where he had just dropped his fare, where he was picking up a fare. Lots of cabbies were getting attacked, robbed and cheated out of fares at the time. This procedure may vary from place to place, though.

[Freedom2specul8]

Yes, I may be right. Condit is a scumbag for sure, but he does not fit the type who would go out of the way to dirty himself by having his mistress killed or killing her himself

What is the type of person that would?

[terilyn]

Thanks for that. I honestly want the guilty party caught and prosecuted. If it's Condit fine, if not, fine. I do not want somebody to be a convenient scapegoat however.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I'd like to see the media figure out who that staffer is and start peppering her with questions. The more heat, the more likely to slip or crack.

[browardchad]

I got the impression that the police do not think that the guy that is sitting in jail now is the prime suspect.

Same here -- I also got the impression they suspect the body was moved.

[terilyn]

That would be nice, especially if somebody, anybody, other than Fox News would step up to the plate and report ALL of the news. Notice on the map here from the AP. It marks the place Chandra was found and her apartment, but unlike the first maps posted yesterday, Condit's apartment is no longer marked. The media, you know they only want to get to the truth and report it ;)

[rwt60]

Let me applaud your investigative skills. You seem to have a much better understanding of the case than those who want to take Condit's name off the list without good reasons.

One question I haven't seen addressed is who owns the Klingle mansion? That seems to me to be a key question in this puzzle. Is it government property? Is it private property? Who would have been able to let someone inside? Did Gary have any connections to access the place? Could it have been used somehow? It was not open on the day in question.

Any attached garages or outbuildings around anywhere?

[dalebert]

I would like to know who these other two women are and where they work. It still does not excuse Condit's behavior. I heard that this guy told PD that he wanted their walkmans. Chandra's was with the body. Maybe she was killed at her place and the killer looked up the park on her computer.Of course there are many maybees.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Someone who is lonely and does not have many friends, whom no one seems to care about. Someone who does not have a lot to lose and does not have a professional career. Someone who is able to blend in with their surroundings remarkably. Someone who is non-descript and is hard to remember with a passing glance. Someone who craves power and finds it through the taking of life and by overpowering women sexually (against their will). Perhaps even someone who has a history of animal brutality, if that can ever be traced.

[stlnative]

I doubt the body was dumped from either Grant or Broad. Look at those contours(those are 10 foot contours, meaning that each line represents a 10 foot change in elevation), the blue dot is good bit up a steep slope, at least 30-40 feet higher than the road, unless one approaches at an angle, but then the distance is almost as much as from the trail. Now look at that trail, between it and the blue dot is a much more gradual down slope. Also, close to the trail is Glover Road and a side road(likely good for parking a car and accessing the trail) along the ridgetop. A far better place to park and not draw as much suspicion, and much easier to drag or carry a body downhill than up.

The blue star is my estimate of the location... The command post is set up at the intersection there and it is known that remains were found about 100 yards into the woods from the intersection. Also last night before they called off the search they had an area lit up near the roads edge and the reporters were able to film it because it sat so close to roads edge. I am in Illinois but I hike a lot and I live in area just like this. I know what I saw on video tape and the areas that was taped off were not all heavy sloped areas. It will all depend on where they found the majority of her remains at and the pattern that they spread out in. We also have to remember she was a small female and only weighed about 110 pounds. Also if your trying to dump a body and carrying 110 pounds maybe 100 yards up a bi-level slope would not be that hard to do when your trying to get away with murder and save your own butt. Also we do not know yet if she was dismembered or not. The lack of blood on the clothing means nothing yet until we know more. Hopefully they will say soon if they think she was killed there or was dumped there after being killed. If they say she was dumped there then again the finger will start pointing more to Condit again.

[ladyinred]

Haven't read all of the posts...too long, but I saw a reporter who has worked on the case from the beginning discounting this idea. She said Chandra did not go jogging by herself in DC area because she was afraid. That is the reason she had joined a health club in the first place.
She also said the DC police had already interviewed this guy before and had concluded long ago that he was not involved with Chandra's disappearance.

[Araminta Vavasour]

Has anyone mentioned Condit's brother recently? Has he been cleared as a suspect?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good points. I still suspect that Broad and Grant are busier roads than Glover(at night), and parking along them would be more noticeable, hence my speculation that the body reached its spot from above(the east). But you could be correct.

[terilyn]

Link here that indicates it is owned by the National Park Service. It doesn't indicate whether there are outbuildings on this site, but if memory serves me, there are some but they are close to the mansion. I am fairly sure they were searched after Chandra disappeared.

Though, if they searched them as well as they searched the rest of the park, I can't say I have much confidence in how thourough a search it was.

[ladyinred]

MSNBC and Fox were reporting late this afternoon that the police are now saying all indications are pointing to murder, not accidental death or suicide etc.
I think she was dumped in the park.
One very strange 'accidental' remark made by an 'expert' on MSNBC was the possibility that someone killed her and then dumped her in Fort Marcy park! Think he had his cases a little mixed up. I believe this was an FBI profiler that said this. Hmmmm.