If you read Chandra Levy's bio, she was not exactly a push-over. In high school, she completed a wilderness program (when boys dropped out), she joined the Explorer Scouts Police Program, where she served as an undercover agent to catch retailers selling alcohol to youngsters, she kept in shape and she was nobody's fool. Maybe, according to your theory, she was the unlucky one, but I tend to think otherwise. There are too many loose ends to blandly assume that she simply went jogging that day, in an area she needed to look up on a map, with her bags packed, "some great news" for her aunt, and after having made numerous phone calls to a certain congressman, surfed the government websites of his committees -- and then randomly met her death at the hands of a serial rapist who returned to the area twice to repeat the crime (and failed) with her body lying nearby.
Well, almost nobody's fool. She certainly was Gary's fool.
But I do agree with you; she wasn't the defenseless type of woman.
No way was she a pushover. But tackled from behind, where the predator knows what is going on but the prey doesn't, the predator has advantage. Especially a predator that outweighs you by fifty to a hundred pounds, has more muscle, not to mention a weapon, as well as having the drop on you.
On top of this advantage, If he followed his mo and knocked her into the ravine like the other woman, she might have been injured and completely lost her chance to escape. Or, since this was a first for mr G at this location, he never relaxed and gave her a chance to escape.
His last victim was not only savvy, but also LUCKY. She had an opportunity to try to escape.
As far as the map, etc. I think she went to the park with a destination. In fact, I think she met up with Condit that afternoon.
No kdding? Well, that puts a little more light on things. She probably could have defended herself fairly well, unless she felt that she didn't need to defend herself and her attacker was someone she trusted.
Agreed. The only way that a random killing (e.g. Condit not involved in some way) makes sense to me is if the death occurred "accidently" during an assault.
"Accidently" = head striking paved walkway, etc.