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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[Elenya]

gg188 posted the following link:

World Turtle Day, May 23rd, is observed to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises, as well as their habitat around the world.

I checked the website and it's no joke

So the question I have is:

Did this guy become a turtle lover AFTER last year's Turtle Day (May 23 2001) and so didn't get a chance to find her body then, or did he just recently move to DC, or was he already a Turtle lover last year and DIDN'T see her body there.

Hmmm... Enquiring mind wants to know!...

[spectre]

And I'll bump those remarks!

IF Chandra's hands were tied, whoever killed her wanted to make sure she didn't get away before it was done. Maybe it was the screams we heard about in her apartment? OR maybe whoever gave her the ride to the park, had someone else in the car who tied her up?..

Poor Chandra..Horrible enough to think she "didn't know what hit her" when she died. But, with her hands tied, she had plenty of time to know what her fate was going to be. How will the Levy's survive this? Those poor parents.

sw

[spectre]

Did he happen to have a shovel handy, or did he dig the shallow grave with his raw hands? Geeze!

sw

[ET(end tyranny)]

Now, if her hands were tied, I hope they just deny it!

I do too. I think they know more than they are letting on in hopes of tripping the perp up. And I think Condit is their number one suspect, just that they have to be careful because of who he is.

On the other hand.... if certain things don't get reported, then we never know about them and its easier to cover things up. So, in a way its kind of a mixed bag. Ya know?

[Francohio]

OK, Mr. Condit. Chief Ramsey here.

One bushy-haired, one-armed, illegal-alien perpetrator coming right up. Found him right on that Grassy Knoll, biting Arlen Specter's magic bullet, jes' like you said, Sir!

Well, goll-eee, Sir. Looks like you is innocent after all!

[spectre]

I know :~( And Fox reported her hands were tied, so the cat is out of the bag.

It's a mess.

sw

[ET(end tyranny)]

Well, look at it this way. They have to have some sort of evidence that it was foul play, and something that would eliminate the 'mugger' theory, so that they can officially call it a homicide. This would do both.

They didn't say WHY they felt her hands had been tied, or what with, and they didn't say why they thought the body had been moved to the park. So they may still have a few things up their sleeve.

Besides, maybe the info about her hands having been tied will make Condit squirm just a bit, and he will continue to deny the Levy's lawyer and interview. And continue to hide what he did that day. Which will just keep him as the number one suspect. And everytime he denies and hides info, it gets reported!!

[ET(end tyranny)]

Chandra Levy's body apparently was dumped in Rock Creek Park,

"It was not some place where someone would crawl up into or fall into if she were injured," a law-enforcement source said.

Police believe Levy's body was put at site

[texasbluebell]

Could she have been in that closet that Ann Marie smith was told to not open?

I might be wrong, it's been a while, but wasnt AM Smith talking about sometime in April? I didn't think it was in May when Chandra had already gone missing. I thought it was about a time before her disappearance.

[ET(end tyranny)]

I don't know, could be. What would be in a closet that would make you tell someone NOT to open it??? Any ideas?

[texasbluebell]

Guandeque is supposed to be from Salvador, so your theory probably holds here too.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

OK. Then it would appear she was murdered after a meeting somewhere. But why then would her body be left at or moved to the park and not disposed of where no one would find it?

[ET(end tyranny)]

To make it look like a random act? Lots of people get attacked in parks, muggings etc. Maybe the killer figured a body needed to surface at some point or it would really look suspicious?? Better to make it look like a common crime?

[VRWC_minion]

Police believe Levy's body was put at site

This doesn't rule out anyone. If the guy in jail attacked her he could have carried her there.

[VRWC_minion]

But why then would her body be left at or moved to the park and not disposed of where no one would find it?

Not to mention the problem of transference of evidence to the vehicle that brought her there. The simpliest answer is she was killed somewhere at or near the park.

[texasbluebell]

Well, my own closets are actually pretty boring, but if my life were as risk-taking as Gary Condit's, I could think of a whole lot of things that I wouldn't want people to see.

[ET(end tyranny)]

yeah but presumable Ann Marie would already know he was into strange stuff, a la the pile of neckties under the bed. Suppose he cleaned that clost before the police checked the place? Do you recall if the police were able to check it right away or did he make them wait?

[Elenya]

Police believe Levy's body was put at site

It would be interesting to find out if the turtle hunter who found the body was also in the same area doing the same thing last year in observance of World Turtle Day May 23rd. If he was, then obviously the body was dumped there later, as his dog didn't find it or else he would've called the police.

Maybe that's why nobody knows who this guy is. Could be a key witness to prove that the murder took place elsewhere.

[Wallaby]

THE DISTRICT

A Northwest Washington man faces up to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of assault on female joggers in Rock Creek Park, the U.S. attorney's office for the District said.

Ingmar Guandeque, 20, of the 1400 block of Somerset Place, admitted Friday in D.C. Superior Court that he pursued and grabbed the runners in the early evening of May 14 and July 1 in unsuccessful efforts to steal their Sony Walkman radios. The victims said the attacker brandished a knife.

Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 11.

Excerpt from "Metro," The Washington Post September 30, 2001, Sunday, Final Edition , C03

[ET(end tyranny)]

Good point. I thought it was odd that they didn't release his name. But maybe that is so that no one can 'get' to him, in case he is called as a witness if it goes to trial. From FNC just now it seems the police think its murder just not officially saying so yet.