[LurkedLongEnough]

According to the police investigation, Condit's wife Carolyn was in Washington when Chandra disappeared.

Just a desperate attempt to divert attention away from Gary and emphasize the fact that he is "married".

[archy]

According to the police investigation, Condit's wife Carolyn was in Washington when Chandra disappeared

There are at least two possible scenarios in which the congressman may yet be shown to have been a cad and a boyslut, but not a murderer, particularly if another did him the *favour* of solving his Chandra problem for him without his foreknowledge and then blackmailed him with the fait accompli with a promise to implicate him in Levy's homicide if he did not assist in the after-the-fact coverup of the circumstances of her death or other demands, including possible political ones.

And of those at least two possible variations on that theme, Condit's wife Carolyn could very easily have been either the instigator or a participant in them, either to *teach her philandering husband a little lesson* and save her lackluster marriage or simply to do away with the pesky annoyance who had so distrracted her hubby and set an example for any other roundheeled interns or others who might consider a fling with *Gary the cool California biker/surfer dude*.

That possibility alone suggests that Condit still deserves the presumption of innocence, so long as our constitution means anything. But of course as its provisions are weakened for all us ordinary folks, often in the name of pragmatic *national security* so must it also be diminished for Gary Condit.

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[Eva]

No, I think that the mention of the fact that Carolyn Condit was in town, was intended to give Condit a motive, as if his wife was in town to demand that he end the affair.

[Terriergal]

Yeah but you stay married long enough to a nutcase like him and maybe she went over the edge and offed her hubby's girlfriend. Or maybe they did it together because he was getting tired of her and tired of the wife's jealousy. It feels totally bizarre to me to even think this way... but ... well there you go.