I also think that the Levy's mishandled their loss by playing to the media, by doing the whole thing long range from California, and by being basically too weird to take seriously.
No matter who may eventually be convicted, no matter who actually did the crime, media and the police blew this thing big time and from the start.
The popular rush to indict Condit also has a ring of nastiness to it that does not befit or do justice to anyone involved - particularly the populace represented here on FR.
None of the responses in this thread so far have addressed the main points of the article - why did the police not admit to another potential suspect? Why did the police not actually search the area fully as they were so eager to make the public balieve they had? Why must it take so long for fundamental elements of the case to become public knowledge when the probably trivial details of Condit's sex life have been speculated on until the idea of a 'gay haitian biker (from outer space)" has been accepted as common knowledge and fact?
Maybe of most interest to me would be why was the democrat establishment so totally willing to toss the boy overboard?
Because he is only a Congressman and he was hurting them by generating bad PR plus the bad PR could, and probably will now, go on for a long time with no end in sight.
Clinton was hurting them with bad PR, too, but also was President with huge abilities to help them out in countless ways, as well. Condit didn't have that benefit.
A single Congressman is rarely that important to any party unless he/she is Speaker of the House or from a district that's really crucial for some reason. Most Congressmen by far are just not that high on the DC totem pole.