CHANDRA MAY HAVE BEEN STRANGLED

WASHINGTON — Murdered Washington D.C. intern Chandra Levy may have been strangled to death, the chief medical examiner there said Saturday.

AP In a report published by The Washington Post online, Jonathan Arden said that one of Levy's upper-neck bones had been damaged but not broken.

Still, he said, there wasn't sufficient evidence to confirm that the young woman had definitely died by strangulation.

Levy had been missing for a little more than one year when her remains were found in D.C.'s Rock Creek Park in May. She had been planning to return home to California when she disappeared.

Law enforcement authorities have said that FBI tests done on evidence unearthed so far have turned up no clues to help solve her slaying.

Chandra Levy may have been strangled to death

Quick way for Condidit to shut her up in a hurry, then he had to call his airline girlfriend in a panic because he wasn't sure what to do next.
BTW, where's Condit? Still in the country?

Sounds like they're talking about the hyoid bone in her throat, usually crushed during manual strangulation or strangulation by ligature.

That makes it appear as if she might have been strangled by a hesitant or inexperienced killer without overpowering physical strength, perhaps while she was struggling...or possibly died while she had been in a bound position and strangled while in a hogtie or seccumbed to a combination of a rope around her nech and positional asphyxia.

Alternately, she may have been slowly garrotted as an interrogation technique to determine if she'd left any journals or diaries, or to determine any contacts to whom she'd told and details of her relationship with the senator.

Interestingly, in another case preceeding the Levy murder in which a senator's female companion was murdered, the cause of death was also strangulation, with a rope, found still around her neck when her body was finally found. That was back in 1978, and also like the Levy case, it remains unsolved.

The grisly saga of Pixie Grismore

And here's another case, more recent, that's been compared to the Chandra Levy disappearance and murder.

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