Chandra Levy Private Investigator Declines Polygraph

WJLA-TV ^ | June 20, 2002

[Shermy]

Washington (AP) - The private investigator who found Chandra Levy's leg bone earlier this month says he's insulted by a police request to submit to a polygraph test.

Joe McCann is a former DC homicide detective who was hired by Levy attorney Billy Martin. McCann found the bone on June 6th, a week after police finished their search of Rock Creek Park.

The Washington Post reports sources familiar with the incident say police also seemed to question McCann's story.

DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey says it's standard procedure in major cases to ask witnesses with crucial information to take a polygraph. The chief says there's no reason to believe McCann moved the bone or fabricated his account.

McCann declined to take the polygraph and says police are just trying to divert attention from the real question of why didn't they find the bone during their search.

[Shermy]

The Washington Post article has much more detail. Here's the link:

Detective Questioned on Bone

[Shermy]

Ping.

[NautiNurse]

Maybe Chief Ramsey should submit to a polygraph. Baseline question: How many doughnuts are too many doughnuts?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Kill the messenger.

[Registered]

HARD AT WORK AS USUAL....

 

AND FINALLY, THE CHIEF'S NEW POLICE CRUISER

 

[Shermy]

Payback maybe?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Payback maybe?

Ya' think?

[Sacajaweau]

Asking McCann to take a lie detector test is just another stupid move of the police chief... What's new.

You may be right that perhaps the donut bloated chief may be the one who should take a lie detectors test.

The big question: Did anyone approach you and control any part of the investigation?

Sac

[Dawgsquat]

ping

[Austin Willard Wright]

Polygraphs are junk science. Any innocent person who agrees to take one could be signing his death warrant.

[Palladin]

Make the damn dumb donut chief take a poly!

[MozarkDawg]

DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey says it's standard procedure in major cases to ask witnesses with crucial information to take a polygraph. The chief says there's no reason to believe McCann moved the bone or fabricated his account.

Unless you're a congressman, may very well have been the last person to see the victim alive, considering you were having a love affair with her, the fact that you've stalled and lied about where you were, what you were doing, and were observed tossing what may very well be evidence immediately preceeding your personal invitation to search your premeses notwithstanding ....

Oh yeah, you also get the out when you have your lawyer cook up your own polygraph -- note to McCann.

[Plummz]

fyindex

[The Great Satan]

But former law enforcement officials who know McCann said the polygraph request was insulting and a possible way to divert attention from the real question: Why didn't D.C. police find the bone during an earlier search of that section of the park?

"It's not routine" to ask for a polygraph in instances such as McCann's, said defense lawyer Louis H. Hennessey, who headed the D.C. police homicide unit in the mid-1990s. "I think they're looking like fools and they're trying to cast aspersions on other people."

Certainly looks that way.

[aristeides]

Washington Post this morning has this minor correction: The headline on a June 20 Metro article about a private investigator in the Chandra Levy case being asked to take a polygraph test incorrectly implied that the investigator was the source of the story. The investigator declined to discuss the incident.

[Plummz]

Do you recall something about graffiti and the Joyce Chiang case?

IIRC, you drew a connection some Ripper-related graffiti.

[aristeides]

Yes, there at least used to be a graffito on the wall of a parking area behind the Starbucks on Connecticut Ave. where Chiang was last seen. I went and saw the graffito for myself last year. When I last passed the Starbucks, I thought I noticed that that wall had been cleaned or renovated, so I doubt if the graffito is still there. I forget the text of the graffito, but I seem to remember it had the initials "J.C."

[aristeides]

Here's a paragraph on that graffito from the whereschandra archives:

But Roger Chiang doesn't buy the suicide theory, and said police missed important evidence like the foot-high letters written on the wall of the Starbucks in Dupont Circle where she was last seen. The day after she disappeared, Roger Chiang said he noticed a message that said "Good Day, JC. May I never miss the thrill of being near you."

I can confirm the text of this graffito, having seen it myself.

[janette]

for later reading

[daniel boob]

You are out of control.