[Polybius]

This woman's body is rotting above ground in an urban park and several dozen police with dogs can't find it?

Regardles of who killed Chandra Levy, it does not surprise me that a body could be lost in Rock Creek Park for a year. Rock Creek Park is not just any "urban park". It is huge.

While stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Rock Creek Park was a block from my house. Once in the Park, you could bicycle all the way from Bethesda, Maryland to the Potomac in downtown, D.C. or you could go for miles in the other direction farther into Maryland. The Park consisted of woodlands on either side of Rock Creek.

As a student of the Civil War, one weekend I went looking for Fort DeRussy, a Civil War fort now within Rock Creek Park. It took me a while and some effort to find it and I did not see another human being that afternoon.

A Park that can swallow up an entire Civil War fort in it's woodlands can easily swallow up a human body.

[umgud]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves and jump to conclusions. We don't yet know for a fact that she was murdered. She may have tripped and cracked her skull. And....... I may win the lotto tonight.

[rivercat]

I went looking for Fort DeRussy, a Civil War fort now within Rock Creek Park

Fort DeRussy is in Hawaii, right next to Waikiki Beach. It's WWII museum now. Is there another one in MD?

[John Jamieson]

It is huge. Less than 3 square miles is not huge. 1,700 acreas is about the size of W's ranch. Bet I could mow it in less than a year with my lawn tractor.

[smoking camels]

I know what you mean but I am from the Ozark woods and it can't be as big or as bad as that and we searched better than all that. Do you know what combing an area means? Do the DC police?

[Vicki]

I realize the park is very, very large, but that still doesn't explain why a dog didn't pick up the scent of a rotting corpse. After all, it was a dog that sniffed out the skull and I would think a skull would emit less odor.

[bimbo]

A Park that can swallow up an entire Civil War fort in it's woodlands can easily swallow up a human body.

The body was decaying only 100 yards from a residential area; the area was searched intensively 3 times last year; given that the police are incompetent, their dogs are not. If the body was there last year, it would have been found. As for the fort - everyone who wants to know where it is, already knows. Welcome to the club.

[MHT]

There are over 2800 acres in Rock Creek Park. The police searched 1700 mostly accessible acres last year. That's about five times the size of Monaco.

[Coop]

A Park that can swallow up an entire Civil War fort in it's woodlands can easily swallow up a human body.

Easy now. We'll not be interjecting logic into the "Bash the Police at all costs" threads. Please relocate. :-)

[Lee'sGhost]

"A Park that can swallow up an entire Civil War fort in it's woodlands can easily swallow up a human body."

Not only that, I understand that the inept, incompetent DC PD did not even use a grid system to search the park -- just sent people out and said, "Go look over there somewhere." They may not have even searched the area where her body was found.