Clothing Found With Chandra's Body (Condit-Levy)

6-9-02 | crystalk

[hoosiermama]

VERY thought provoking! Better sleep on that one!

[Endeavor]

I wish you worked for the FBI or CIA - I'd certainly sleep better at night.

What is obvious is that the DC police sure are chumps -- or, they are doing a fine job of coverup and don't mind that it makes them look way stupid. I guess a lot of cold hard cash could make one overlook appearances.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

look for a 'hello, my name is GARY' sticker discarded near the body

[afraidfortherepublic]

I don't see the USC sweatshirt listed in your write up of the actual clothes found. Are you saying that there is no sweatshirt, or did you forget it? Several news reports specifially mentioned the USC sweatshirt.

From the articles I've read, I am not entirely clear on the tights. Were they tights, aka opaque stockings? Or were they leggings, aka tight knitted pants? I can see her popping out in a sweatshirt and leggings. Leggings are stretchy and might be described as tights by newspaper reporters who don't know the difference.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I meant to say that your analysis is very interesting and may have merit -- except, how would Gary get her gym bag?

[crystalk]

The USC sweatshirt, after much repetition, turned into a USC T-shirt.

The word "leggings" is still much used, but these were later said to be made of spandex and capable of being stretched out to great lengths, so as to bind a person's wrist to her foot while still wearing them (?) if I have understood this correctly.

[crystalk]

Perhaps the same way this receipt got into her apartment, or this transaction was even made in the first place, or the same way he/persons for him, got into her apartment to sanitize it on 5/2 or other appropriate time after her death.

I do not think any of this would be much trouble for a congressman, especially if a few palms were crossed. How was it the landlord at the Newport refused to perform, or let others perform, a well-being check at her apartment until after the security tapes had rewound and rewritten over?

[aristeides]

I hadn't heard this new story that Chandra extended her membership. Can you provide a source?

[vannrox]

Hum Bump

[Plummz]

The initial reports of a USC sweatshirt were incorrect, the MPDC now says it is a USC t-shirt. There was never any report of sweat pants. That leaves as attire: running tights, shorts, running bra, t-shirt. It may have been a little warm for running tights; but if she was going to meet Condit in Rock Creek Park, she may have been wearing them so as not to cut her legs. I don't have any reason to think she was wearing something else when she disappeared. Condit was a control freak and would not have ben happy with her storing clothes at his apt, though she may have wanted to. (Remember how uspet he got when AMS found one of Chandra's hairs?)

As for the gym membership -- it is my understanding that she had to give a 30-day notification of closing the gym membership, and that is what she did April 30. Washington Sports Club has a deal with sister company New York Sports Club and apparently other regional gyms that enable someone with a WSC emmbership to use facilities in other cities. The gym clerk was interviewed last year explaining this, you should be able to find the article on lexis-nexis if you can't in the FR archives.

[crystalk]

Not a primary source, but it is widely alleged on the chat site "whereschandra.com" especially by poster "rd," a fairly respectable researcher and follower of the case.

This is as surprising to me as it is to you. If I thought there was ONE thing established from last year, it is that she checked out and terminated the gym membership on 4/30 about 8 pm, even 7:30. [Except for those who thought the gym guy was lying; making up any checkout or altering date/time and details.]

Since 5/22 I am suddenly reading that the event was later, more like 8:30 or near 9 because she went ahead and worked out AFTER the alleged half hr conversation w/the gym guy. I am also reading that the transaction evidenced on the receipt was NOT a terminating of her membership, but a paying of May's dues[WITH OR WITHOUT GIVING A 30 DAY NOTICE OF TERM AT END OF MAY, depending on who you listen to], thus continuing membership (so she COULD have used it right on thru May)...

[Plummz]

Spandex running tights.

[crystalk]

Are you forgetting the flat sneakers, not a specialized athletic or running shoe, and possibly socks, unless the tights had feet in them?

Also the MPDC and writers persist in calling these "leggings," creating a different picture, then if pressed saying they were of Spandex, and were stretched way out to tie her up [even while she was still wearing them ?!?!]

Writers are changing "leggings" in the official releases, to "tights" on TV, to try to convey the picture better [IMO]

This garb may be what she was lounging around her apt in, and the Levys' attorney has now flatly stated she was abducted "from her apartment," not even weaseling to the extent I do in my theory, where I said "from the grounds or premises of her apartment"--allowing for a possible luring down to the door, or out to the curb...[This has caused renewed attention in recent weeks to the Screams reported at the Newport after 4 am on the morning of 5/1/01.]

[Plummz]

A small item from the media column in the Business section of today's WashTimes:

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No compromise

The District's top cops were angered last month when WTTG reported Chandra Levy may have been tied up before she died, but the station says the story didn't compromise the investigation.

WTTG was careful to not report how Miss Levy may have been restrained, News Director Katherine Green says. "We would never report something if we thought it would compromise a police investigation," she says.

Reporter Paul Wagner broke the story May 23, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. In a published report the next day, Terry Gainer, then the District's assistant police chief, said the sources who leaked the information should be "shot or put in jail."

Mr. Gainer, now chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, could not be reached for further comment. A source close to him said he didn't blame the station for reporting the information, he was just angry it was leaked.

The report was the latest exclusive for Mr. Wagner, who has covered the Levy case for more than a year. Last year, he was the first reporter to disclose police planned to search the home of Rep. Gary A. Condit, a California Democrat. Police have repeatedly said Mr. Condit is not a suspect.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I wish I could remember what Chandra was reportedly wearing that last night at the gym, or what someone at the gym said Chandra typically wore while working out. It was reported somewhere in the media last year, but I have not yet located it.

[Plummz]

I left out the shoes because I didn't recall any details. If she was just walking to the parkl t meet COndit, any kind of sneakers would be expected.

the Levys' attorney has now flatly stated she was abducted "from her apartment,"

I missed this. Do you have a cite? The Levy team presumably has more informaton than we do and such a statement would be quite significant.

[crystalk]

It is now being alleged that, so far from the whole body being dumped here [perhaps soon after the killing], that the ENTIRE LEFT LEG INCLUDING HIP AND BUTTOCK, from the waist down, was cut off and is (or was) missing, something random action of animals would not be likely to cause. The entire remainder of the skeleton, including entire right leg, and including tiny bones of the hands and the right foot, and the hyoid bone in the throat, were present and accounted for.

The nature of the cut which involves dividing the tough left pelvis bone separate from both the right side of that bone, and the spine, would tend to rule out animal activity. The left femur is also still missing in its entirety.

The later bringing of the (left) tibia alone, attached to a wire, back to the search area on the slope in Rock Creek Park, was also unlikely to have been the work of small rodents.

"Any self-respecting squirrel would bet its two front teeth that this was the work of human beings," according to Crystalk, an expert in matters squirrelly.

[crystalk]

Are you sure SHORTS are still on the list? Or is this the same thing as were called "panties" in this list here?

[crystalk]

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