The sad part is, because of what the items are, I don't think they are with the body. I think they were each removed from her body (ring, bracelet, watch), the keys were removed from her fanny pak and all 4 items were put in something and tossed in a trash bin.
There seems to be an obsession with finding the ring and bracelet. It is an attempt to ELIMINATE Gary and gain another suspect. If the ring and bracelet are never found, it makes the case against Gary stronger. He knows that they BOTH identify Chandra and Chandra alone. The keys also identify Chandra and Chandra alone.
We don't know for certain that the Walkman is hers BUT it may have fingerprints.
The simplest statistic makes Condit a suspect and any involvement makes him as guilty as everyone else.
I keep trying to eliminate Gary somehow. It just can't be done. Finding the body in Rock Creek Park really helps in filling in the timeline.
Chandra did indeed expose Condit in the end and ruin him.
Payback time!!!What a terrible price she paid.
Doesn't it sound as though Geragos, John Walsh and the rest of these folks are putting it this way: "See? Since her remains weren't found with a handwritten confession by Gary Condit, he obviously didn't commit the murder ...."
Like you, I feel the things we have learned are far from exonerating him. And while it's all circumstantial at this point, I will repeat, men have been executed on circumstantial evidence alone.
I think evidence definitively linking Guandique to the crime would eliminate Condit from suspicion of participation in her murder.
But it wouldn't make him innocent of concealing his knowlege of her whereabouts that day.