Posted on 05/24/2002 1:28:58 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON -- A woman attacked in Rock Creek Park two weeks after intern Chandra Levy vanished also had ties to Congress.
Halle Shilling, who was assaulted close to the park area where Levy's remains were found, covered Congress as a reporter for States News Service. The late Levy, who had an affair with Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., turned up missing May 1, 2001.
On May 14, 2001, Shilling, 30, said she was "jumped" by a man brandishing a knife while jogging along Broad Branch Trail, where Levy's remains were found on Wednesday. The two struggled, but she was able to escape by clawing her assailant.
Just two weeks earlier, Levy, 24, disappeared after looking up a map of Rock Creek Park. She logged off her computer at about 1 p.m. May 1. Her keys and a ring, but not her ID, were missing from her apartment.
At the scene where her remains were discovered, investigators recovered a USC sweatshirt, leotards, a jogging bra, sneakers and strands of dark hair. Levy was scheduled to return to USC to attend her masters graduation ceremony just before she disappeared.
Police also found a portable radio with Levy's remains. Shilling said she was wearing a Sony Walkman headset when she was attacked from behind. So was Christie Wiegand, 26, who was assaulted by a man with a knife in the same park on July 1.
Both women were attacked by Ingmar Guandeque, a 20-year-old Salvadoran, who in September 2001 pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and this February was sentenced to 10 years in prison (the maximum penalty for his crimes was 35 years).
Guandeque admitted in D.C. Superior Court that he pursued and grabbed the female joggers last year in a failed attempt to steal their Sony Walkmans. He never took any property from his victims, and the judge said he acted more like a predator, who enjoyed physical confrontation with his victims, than a thief.
Shilling said U.S. Park Police warned her after she was attacked to avoid wearing headphones while jogging, since they make it harder to hear possible attackers coming up from behind.
Roll Call, a Capitol Hill paper, reported yesterday that D.C. police interviewed Guandeque after Levy's disappearance. But they told the Washington Post he's not a prime suspect in her death.
Between the time Guandeque was arrested last July and his sentencing in February, no media linked Guandeque to the Levy case in any way, according to a Nexis search of media reports. In fact, up until yesterday, there was just one story on Guandeque -- a Metro brief in the Washington Post about his guilty plea.
Horrors! Gasp! Are you suggesting that anyone in DC could be that devious? I'm shocked, I tell you -- shocked!
After AND *far less severe.* These nutcases normally *escalate* the severity of their attacks... they start small and grow more violent over time, like with serial killers mutilating animals when they were kids, then moving on to humans. They don't murder somebody and THEN go back to merely harassing people.
Did she miss the ceremony? Sorry, I don't understand this.
'Scuse me...but what's today's date? Oh, almost exactly one year since this alleged second attack? Uh huh. Anniversaries are great, aren't they?
All police forces all over the country should use "DC investigative method" , by which investigators simply wait until exactly one year from the date of the crime, then PRESTO!!! ...they find the bidy, a cnvenient witness, AND A CONVENIENT SUSPECT, all IN THE SAME WEEK!! Easy, huh? Just think of the tax dollars that'll be saved!!
Methinks I smell a park crazy being turned into a convenient scapegoat by the DC police.
She wasn't going there just to jog, she was going there to meet someone...someone who told Chandra to meet here there perhaps ostensibly to jog, but if jogging is your sole objective, you put on your jogging clothes, you go outside and jog. Period.
This was a set up.
Interesting and possible pespective.
The thing that smells like war to me is the whole anthrax thing. Dashel was a specific target and yet he has never once publicly chastized the FBI for not announcing who was responsible for trying to kill him. He would have a great soap box to stand on demanding that the FBI perform and deliver the person who tried to kill him. It would be a more effective "Bush and his administration can not do anything right" speech than any of the other similar attacks he has made. Yet he says nothing. That makes me think that the FBI has told him who it was and that for some very real and obvious national security reasons related to a pending major war, he isn't talking publicly about it. I also don't understand why his staff hasn't leaked anything to the press, unless it is so obvious that they shouldn't.
As in zen and music, silence can be an important sound to listen to and learn from.
I wonder where she is today?
They're trying hard for this one though.
Do you have access to any of the maps we found back last summer, the ones that showed where all these places were in relation to each other?
Perhaps someone whose wife was at his apartment, so they couldn't go there, so how about a place halfway between their places where nobody would see them.
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I just think all of this happening, ALL AT ONCE, on or about the anniversary of Chandra's disappearance is really REALLY suspicious. WAY too convenient.
IMHO, there's definitely master plan in the works with this one.
AH HA!!!
I KNEW this whole deal smelled like a load of...dog waste.
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