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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Yeah, but they wouldn't necessarily go back to the same Wendy's. I would believe he may have continued to attack women, and may have even attacked women joggers, but to attack someone near where you have previously stashed a body? That goes against all laws of self-preservation.
Anyone else hear the Fox report this morning that there may be evidence that Chandra was tied up in some manner? That would take this latest suspect pretty much out of the picture.
Molly Henneberg?? said that a couple of police were asked Ramsey and Gaines???? they would not confirm or deny that evidence was found in the park suggesting that Chandra may have been tied up. They also said that IF such information were true, whoever released the info should be shot. That they shouldn't be releasing that type of information.
I think this was the reason she went to the park, to collect a ticket from Condit, but there wasn't one.
Instead, she got a one-way ticket out of this world...poor kid.
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Could she have been in that closet that Ann Marie smith was told to not open?
sounds like the DC police are thinking the same.
Condit, Geragos or others involved in this case are lurking on these forums, and grabbing hold of any information or EXCUSE for what happened. And I've got to say, the falling down and striking her head is going to be their number one theory for the cause of death....and/or the fall-guy who is in jail.
Now, if her hands were tied, I hope they just deny it!
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TO CONDIT: You are disgusting. Your lame pathetic excuses aren't going to save you. Whether they say so or not, your alibi has too many holes to be credible. I believe, as countless Americans do, that you either killed Chandra Levy or had her killed. The condolences your staffer sent to her family make me sick. You don't belong on ANY house committees, and you are going down the tube. You are another OJ with one exception: YOU are going to be found guilty.
What? How'd you miss DOJ press release: District man pleads guilty in two separate Rock Creek Park assaults
The Salvadoran on the grassy knoll?
My thought is that Chandra was killed at the park, but not out in the open. Condit couldn't risk having her meet him anywhere anyone would recognize him. That's why she was researching the park and Klingle Mansion on her computer. He told her where they would meet. She was unfamiliar with the location.
As it turns out, the mansion was closed to the public that day. How convenient.
Now we also know that Condit liked to ride his bike to the park, so he would be very familiar with the accommodations.
The only problem with this is how to dispose of the body. It would have to be kept out of sight until it was safe to move it, probably after dark. An outbuilding or garage would work nicely, or the trunk of a car. The body would have been in its final resting place long before any search occurred.
As I know from my own experience when I was beaten with baseball bats by a black gang at a Metro station outside D.C. and tried and failed to get the media to report it, there are certain crimes that the media will not report. From the address where he lived, I surmise Guandeque is black or Hispanic. His two assault victims are apparently white. That may be why the media wouldn't report their assaults. Or maybe there's a policy not to report minor crimes occurring in Rock Creek Park.
FWIW, many health clubs only allow sneakers to be used that are not used on the street. The "running shoes" she left at the apt may have been the ones she used at the club and weren't usuable for the street.
We have no idea when in the day of May 1, (or even if it was the same day) she would have been killed. She may not have gone directly to park or she may have stayed several hours.
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