However, it seems it's entirely possible that Condit is a "re-gifter". Chandra wore a man's Tag Heuer watch according to her co-workers at the Bureau of Prisons.
If she had it on when she disappeared, it would make sense that Condit would want to discard the evidence of the box which would connect him to the watch which would presumably connect him to Chandra. The watch is numbered as is the box.
It is the dumping of the watch box that caught Condit in a proven lie. He dumped the box just prior to the DCPD coming in to search his apartment. He claimed to have dumped it to hide his previous affair with Ms. McKay. His reason for driving to Virginia to throw it away, INSIDE a McDonalds french fry box, inside a McDonalds bag was that the press was going through his trash.
When asked by the police why he threw something away that had been in his apartment prior to the police search he claimed that the box had been in his congressional office, not his apartment and that it was just trash.
If it had been in his office and it was "just trash" he could easily have thrown it away at his office because the congressional trash is not thrown away for the media to dig through. It's incinerated in-house.
It sounds like the watch & box are the "smoking gun" in this thing.
I don't recall this. Do you have a cite handy?
Thanks.