Investigators: Medical Examiner Finds Crack in Chandra Levy's Skull

FOXNews ^ | 5/23/2002 | Rita Cosby and The Associated Press

[Interloper]

WASHINGTON

[John Jamieson]

I agree! They didn't search until many weeks after she disappeared. They were putting on a show, not a real search. The body was 100 yards off a main road just inside the west edge of the park. She was dumped there. She wasn't jogging on a path a quarter mile away.

[John Jamieson]

Where did you get 2800 acres? DC is only 10 square miles (little over 3 miles on a side). The park has been described as 30% of DC which would fit with 1700. Some of that acreage would have to be in Maryland, if it's right.

[cgk]

Where did you get 2800 acres? DC is only 10 square miles (little over 3 miles on a side). The park has been described as 30% of DC which would fit with 1700. Some of that acreage would have to be in Maryland, if it's right.

I thought the same as you, then I saw this: Chandra Levy's Body Identified

So I went and looked it up and found this: Rock Creek Park, which mentioned this specifically: Rock Creek Park's jurisdiction now encompasses 3,000 green acres, shelters historic landmarks, offers recreation and sports, and helps people enjoy nature.

I still have trouble fathoming such a large number of acres in the District of Columbia.

Mrs Kus

[stiga bey]

DC is only 10 square miles (little over 3 miles on a side).

I believe it's 10 miles squared, i.e., ten miles per side, or a hundred square miles. Minus the big chung ceded back to virginia, that still leaves 60-70 square miles.

[stiga bey]

chung = chunk

idiot who types with one hand while lying on his side = typos

[cgk]

I found this just now... It looks like it might be from before her body was found. (noting the "search area" detail)...

Mrs Kus

[lentulusgracchus]

And then 1 year later while looking for turtles a private citizen discovered her. Just one of those things. A freak event. No foul play whatsoever folks.

That's right. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, please.

I'm still impressed that the dogs didn't sniff her out....a story on another thread mentioned a shallow grave that was apparently disturbed by animals. If her body was evident to the wild animals, most likely buzzards or local dogs, why not to the police bloodhounds? I assume it was bloodhounds -- had a demonstration down here in Texas a few years ago, the dogs that usually get called in by police are bloodhounds owned by a youngish couple who raise and train them specially, they are super people-finders. Different dogs for live, or dead, people, but they are all just wonderful hounds, with great dispositions and ace noses. Their snoots have a range better than most fish-finders, and damn near as good as battlefield radars.

And the dogs never found her. Interesting.

[cgk]

here's the image of the "search area" on the picture above, which isn't clickable in that picture:

Mrs Kus

[John Jamieson]

Looks like your right. So much for 30% of DC area. Even 3000 acres is under 5 square miles. (640 acres=section=sq mile) Me bad, sorry.

[cgk]

And finally, from fox news, the only picture I've been able to find of where her body was found in relation to the park and where she (and condit) lived, as well as Klingle Mansion, which she looked up the day she disappeared.

Mrs Kus

[lentulusgracchus]

Thanks for the post of the map -- gosh, it's big! The park, I mean. Where was her body found, anyway? I was going to ask for a link, but I see the URL down at the bottom.....thankee, ma'am.

[cgk]

No worries. I didn't believe it either, which is why I looked it up when I read it in a post, and not a news article. It's funny, I consider skepticism to be healthy. I know many on here use it for other reasons. I didn't take your post as one of those at all.

Mrs Kus

[cgk]

I posted the only picture I could find of where she was found not one minute before your post. :) Hope it helps. Let us know if you find a better or more detailed picture. Thanks.

Mrs Kus

[lentulusgracchus]

LOL -- you answer questions faster than I can post them....thanks!

[John Jamieson]

Found near the "W" in Western Ridge in your big map. 100 yards east of the road on the edge of the park.

[John Jamieson]

AJC: WASHINGTON -- Police on Thursday sifted through rotting leaves and bushes on the wooded hillside where the bones of Chandra Levy were found the day before. Along with a skull and scattered bones, they found remnants of a University of Southern California sweat shirt, running shoes, a sports bra and a Walkman, plus a ring engraved with the initials CL.

The terrain in that section of Rock Creek Park is too rugged and steep for jogging, Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Charles Ramsey said. He wondered aloud whether the 24-year-old former federal intern might have been killed elsewhere and her body dumped in the area after it was searched last summer. "There's no way that she was jogging where [her remains] were found," Ramsey said. "We can't make a presumption that the body was there at the time that we searched" the area.

The Washington Post reported that police search teams didn't reach the exact spot where Levy's remains were found, because the site was several hundred yards beyond the range of their standard search methods. While investigators combed the forest and forensic experts sought a cause of death, the police chief said detectives might interrogate Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.) for a fifth time.

By Matthew Cella and Jim Keary THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Chandra Levy's body apparently was dumped in Rock Creek Park, where police found her remains on Wednesday, 13 months after she went missing, law-enforcement sources and others familiar with the investigation said yesterday. The former intern's remains were found under thick underbrush far from a path, which indicates her body was placed there, sources said. The remains were found on a hillside above the creek that runs along Broad Branch Road NW.

"It was not some place where someone would crawl up into or fall into if she were injured," a law-enforcement source said. Metropolitan Police officers yesterday began digging through the thick brush on the hillside in search of evidence that would indicate how long the body had been at the scene, as the D.C. medical examiner investigated the remains to determine the time and cause of death. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey told The Washington Times yesterday that the search area is "pretty wide" and that "animals apparently have gotten to the remains." He would not comment on the condition of the scene or the remains, which he said were not "all right together."

[cgk]

What can I say... too much sugar tonight? :)

I found this one. It's much clearer:

Mrs Kus

[cgk]

Thank you for posting that article. I keep seeing references to "under some brush" and "in a shallow grave." Could it be both? This one only mentions under brush... and there's that statement about her body being "not intact." Dug up? Animals? I wish they had more information, especially for her family, who desperately need it right now.

Mrs K

[lentulusgracchus]

Those parks are absolutely massive compared to what we're used to in Texas.....my gosh, Rock Creek isn't even the biggest park in the area; the Great Falls/Scotts Run/George Washington Memorial/Turkey Run National/Northern Virginia Regional/Lady Bird Johnson/Glover-Archbold park complex is even bigger -- and they're both huge. And then there's Anacostia/Anacostia River/Greenbelt Park complex on the east side of town. Absolutely astonishing. The Texas development lobby would never let that much condominiable property sit idle......think of all the strip malls, all the money you could make covering that much acreage with income-producing concrete! Loomis Armored would be completely rented out for a month, carrying bribes to the right people! -- uh, I mean "campaign contributions"! Sorry!

[Don Myers]

?The level of moral degeneracy is so high, if it ever saw the light of day, the place would be burned to the ground.?

You are describing the nation. Why do you think Klinton was and is so popular among many people even now? Is DC so different from the rest of the country? No.