Posted on 05/23/2002 12:09:55 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON – Some of the biking and jogging trails in the park missing intern Chandra Levy may have visited when she disappeared are in a high-crime area.
Police say Levy's home computer shows she surfed the Internet for a map of the Klingle Mansion, a building used by the park ranger and other staff in Rock Creek Park about 2 miles from her apartment. The computer activity took place around 9 a.m. on May 1.
It's not known if Levy met someone there, or even visited the park, but the Klingle Mansion is in an area of the District of Columbia with a "moderately high" risk of violent crime, according to APB/Neighborhood CrimeCheck, a database developed for APBnews.com by CAP Index Inc., the nation's leading provider of crime-risk assessment data to corporate America.
A risk rating of one indicates your risk of violent crime is less than one-fifth the U.S. average. A rating of 10 indicates the risk is 10 times the national average.
The zip code – 20010 – that covers most of the park area around the Klingle Mansion, which is located on Williamsburg Lane, has a rating of 8.
The Adams Morgan neighborhood where Democratic Rep. Gary Condit lives also scored an 8. The zip code covering most of Adams Morgan is 20009.
Some authorities have speculated that Levy may have met with Condit, with whom she was having an affair, before she disappeared, because her ID was found in her apartment. Only her keys and a gold ring were missing. Condit, married with two children, allegedly told her not to carry her license whenever she visited him.
Levy, a USC graduate student, did not keep a car in D.C., where she interned for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons at the Justice Department.
Condit's condo is not far from Levy's apartment, which is in the 1200 block of 21st Street NW, just south of DuPont Circle.
Her neighborhood, which straddles the 20033 and 20036 zip codes, has a violent crime rating of 6 to 7, which is "moderate" to "moderately high" risk.
By comparison, the Anacostia section of D.C., one of the most violent, has a rating of 9 – or "high risk."
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