MORE LEVY BONES ARE IDENTIFIED (Condit's Chief of Staff Before GJ)

New York Post ^ | 6/12/02 | ED ROBINSON

[kattracks]

Two small bones found in Washington's Rock Creek Park on Monday came from Chandra Levy's left foot, it was reported today.

Another bone, found yesterday, and some lipstick found at the scene will be examined to see whether they belong to Levy the Washington Post reported.

[crystalk]

Chandra Levy Theme Song"

1. Thats Me all Over.

2. I'm in Pieces, Bits and Pieces.

3. Dry Bones.

[crystalk]

You are right on that.

[crystalk]

Translation, it was a coat hanger, just like Crytalk said the day it was found.

[SarahW]

I told you you didn't know how to look things up. Try harder.

[Plummz]

Bite me. If you want to use your own special definitions of words and refuse to spell out your logic, such as it is, or state your case to other forum participants, that's your problem -- not mine.

[ET(end tyranny)]

He commented on the size and weight of the bone and I got the impression he was saying he didn't think an animal hauled it off. He elaborated but I don't remember what all he said, I was thinking hmmmm because of all the talk at FR about animals hauling the bones away.

Perhaps he'll comment on this topic again and be more precise.

[SarahW]

You might check out this this tutorial or other gruesome images related to taphonomic analysis of remains. taphonomic analysis of remains. This is all from a pretty fun beginners site.

You might buy the book

Or, consider a course of study.

I was being short and surly when I first told you to look up taphonomy. I thought you already knew what I was talking about!

[SarahW]

Oh, and you might want to call all those professors of forensic anthropology and chide them for making up their own secret definitions.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Someone could have taken the leaves from the fall of 2001 and covered the body in 2002.

Another possibility is that the body could have been placed there sometime between the partial grid search and the finding of the body. This would still allow for 2001 leaves to cover the body.

Something else. If someone wanted this to remain a missing person, opposed to a murder or homicide, then one would want no body to be found right away. Which would mean keeping the body in storage (frozen somewhere, until things cooled off) at which time, what better place to take the body than to a place previously searched and considered clean?

[Plummz]

I don't think the tibia of a small woman would be too much for a racoon to run off with.

[Saundra Duffy]

Also yesterday, the grand jury probing Levy's death heard testimony from Mike Lynch, Gary Condit's chief of staff about the congressman's relationship with Levy.

Mike Lynch is a liar and he works for the father of all liars! BTW - We have not forgotten; Gary Condit's ROTTEN!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I believe the tabloids this week they got Condit like never before. Notice his silence.

Did Condit go to the memorial service for Chandra?

[ET(end tyranny)]

Probably not, but with all the underbrush it may get caught up a lot. I think that was the point that Wecht talked about. Doesn't really matter, since we can't be sure. It's just hard to believe that the police missed a bone that Levy investigators found rather quickly.

[Plummz]

Okay, great. Forensic taphonomy is a cross between skeleton-study and other forensics. Now that that's out of the way -- you still seem to be making assumptions in #47 about the condition of the bones, the placement of the clothes, and how disturbed or undisturbed the leaves were when the corpse was found. None of these facts have been mentioned in any of the reports I've read, besides one third-hand account of the tights being at the base of a tree in The National Enquirer.

[Plummz]

It's just hard to believe that the police missed a bone that Levy investigators found rather quickly.

You don't have any experience interacting with the DC Police, do you? This is about the easiest thing to believe in the whole investigation.

[SarahW]

That isn't what he was saying at all.

I'm not going to beat my head against a wall about it... FIne by me if you want to ignore the whole picture, which indicated the body has been there since may. Lets stop far short of that. For the last time, there is nothing about the crime scene or remains as revealed to anyone in the public that is in any way inconsistant with Chandra's unburied dead body being left there May 1.

The next person who says her head must have been chopped off, or already decomposed, because it rolled down the hill gets a virtual kick in the butt.

The smell questions are much more understandable. Her body was in a location fairly remote, and was not searched by recruits. Dogs were not even brought into the area. Add to that, the search was in July. If Chandra's dead body was left where it lay on May 1, exposed to heat, humidity, carnivores/scavengers, and most importantly. insects there would have been virtually no flesh remaining at the time of the search. In fact, skeletonization could have taken as little as two or three weeks.

If any human passing on foot did happen to smell something unpleasant in May/June, I doubt they would have rushed into the underbrush to explore, but would instead have attributed it to some dead animal.

[ET(end tyranny)]

LOL, yeah you're right. The DC police seem to just have one screw up after another.

[Plummz]

For the last time, there is nothing about the crime scene or remains as revealed to anyone in the public that is in any way inconsistant with Chandra's unburied dead body being left there May 1.

Nor is there anything inconsistent with the body (or skeleton) being placed there much later. We have to wait for more information, which, unfortunately, becomes less reliable the longer the govt sits on it.

[Ditter]

Isn't there a road/trail at the top of the slope where her remains were found? It has been suggested that a car could have brought her to a spot where she could have been taken 'down' to the place where she was found rather than having been brought 'up'.

[Ditter]

Crystalk said the coat hanger wire was wrapped in a figure 8 around the left tibia. Do you still hold to this?