Homicide Ruling Focuses Levy Probe D.C. Police to Ask FBI Lab's Help In Learning How Ex-Intern Died

Would you happen to have the photo of Chandra, shown on NBC Nightly News 8-22-01, that reveals what looks to be a large man's watch on her wrist? None of our photo FReepers captured it, and NBC would not respond to a request for reference. Thanks ...

Pegita

Do you mean the FBI vs The Park Police on who should be handling the items found?, This is a National Park and is Federal Goverment ran property, right?. It is not a State Park, right?

The Park Police who "thoroughly" examined Vince Foster's "end."

(one last bump from me tonight for this thread)
Good Night All... I am heading to bed!

Chances are it was a false information leak, they DO NOT have the ring and their is no mention of the bracelet at all. So we do not know if was found in the apartment earlier or if it was actually missing

Thnk you for clarifying for me.

G'nite!

they're worthless as teats on a chicken

ROFL!

So Ingmar Guandeque was "strongly discounted" as a suspect last year, after he was caught and convicted for two separate attacks in the same Rock Creek Park area ,a Mapquest map of which was the last thing that showed up on Chandra Levy's computer? What happened between then and now to make them assume he is a suspect now, when he would've seemed the logical suspect then? I'd like to hear their rationale.

Ooohh! Good catch on the ring!

WP "Law enforcement sources said yesterday that police strongly discounted Guandique as a suspect after interviewing him last year -- and after he passed a polygraph test."

A man walking his dog found the remains about 9:20 a.m. last Wednesday in thick underbrush far from a path. The site was near a steep hillside above the creek that runs along Broad Branch Road NW near Brandywine Street.

Along with the remains, police found a Walkman, a University of Southern California sweatshirt, shorts, running tights, a red sports bra and running shoes.

The Washington Times reported that sources close to the investigation said police had a ring with the initials C.L. found at the scene. Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer yesterday disputed that account, saying police did not discover any rings, bracelets or keys at the scene. "That is just not true," he said. "We didn't find it."

The above is is from the following article...

'We'll get the killer' - 5/29/02 Washington Times

Below are new facts in the case taken from a
Larry King Live Interview on 5/28/02

KING: Welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE. Joining us now from Washington is Deputy Chief Terrance Gainer of the D.C. Metropolitan police.

Chief, it was officially ruled a homicide today. But they don't know what kind of homicide. How do they know then it was a homicide?

DEP. CHIEF TERRANCE GAINER, D.C. METRO POLICE: It's based on the totality of the circumstances, the disappearance, how we find the remains, some of the evidence we gathered at the scene. KING: Do we know if the scene was the scene of the crime?

GAINER: We can't say for certainty. There's still evidence that needs to be processed by the FBI as well as soil samples. I think that will lend to the information we have. But the medical examiner has indicated to us that the condition of the remains is certainly consistent with being out in that area for a very, very long period of time.

KING: Chief Ramsey said not a whole lot was obtained from the bones. Would you agree with that?

GAINER: I think that's very accurate, yes.

KING: Is this going to be a very tough case to solve?

GAINER: Well, it was a big step of finding her remains, not only for the family's comfort but what it brings to an investigation. Now we will be anxiously awaiting what the FBI can develop for us. Then we will go back and take a look at statements we've taken, interviews we've conducted, other evidence we've gathered and compare that to what we know today versus what we knew then. And actually when we get into that, what we can learn from the FBI's examination of our evidence.

KING: What can you tell us about the two fellows already in prison, one for murder, another for assault?

GAINER: I can tell you they're a couple of people we've looked at in the past. All during these past 12 months when we were trying to find Ms. Levy, our investigators as well as agents of the FBI looked at crimes being committed in and around the Washington area as well as those across the country to see if we can find any patterns or similarities. We had not found that and we'll have to continue to look at that to see if there's any type of serial killers who might be out there.

KING: Do you plan to re-interview Congressman Condit?

GAINER: I think everyone will have an equal opportunity to be revisited by both our investigators and agents of the FBI.

KING: Would you say that while no one is a direct suspect everyone is still under suspicion that might be involved?

GAINER: I think we have to take a good look at people who knew Ms. Levy or had something to do with her. A central question is why was she up in the park? Was she walking, was she brought there, was she meeting someone there? So we have to look at simultaneous tracks. Was this a stranger who did something to her or was it someone she knew?

KING: Why wasn't the body found when you swept the park?

GAINER: We regret that. You know the park is some 1,700 acres. We put officers in there for three weeks. It appears now, based on where we found her remains and where we have sites of where we visited that we may have been within 100 yards of her remains to the east at one time and 150 yards to the west.

KING: Thank you so much. Deputy Chief Terrance Gainer joining us from Washington -- deputy chief of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police.

Joining us here in Los Angeles is Mark Geragos, the attorney for the Condit family. Did any of the family watch that today?

MARK GERAGOS, ATTORNEY FOR GARY CONDIT: I think they all did. I mean, I got a lot of calls today from various media outlets who wanted to know was he going to attend, was anybody going to attend. I discussed it with him. I didn't think it was appropriate for him to be there to take the focus off.

Billy had said something earlier in the day that he wanted to kind of pause in terms of the investigation and at least let this be a memorial service to her, to Chandra. I think that's what's appropriate given the circumstances.

KING: Do you have any fears of your client's involvement?

GERAGOS: No, none whatsoever. I really don't. Clearly I was more hopeful that the medical examiner would come up with some more evidence. We don't know exactly what they've got other than the statement that was put out there. But I think what the deputy chief just said tends to support what I read between the lines on the statement.

The statement was based on the totality of the circumstances, based on the circumstances of her leaving and based on how we found her, there really wasn't a whole lot of information, it sounds like, the medical examiner brought to the equation here. It sounds more like they couldn't get really a whole lot of information from the remains, unfortunately, and that's why they classified it as a homicide.

KING: What do you make of these two fellows in jail for different crimes occurring in that park?

GERAGOS: Well, I think both are going to be the subject of interviews and, obviously, a lot more investigation because you've got the one gentleman who virtually in the same area had committed two assaults, one two weeks after and the other about eight weeks after. And both of the signatures, if you will, of those other assaults were women who were jogging with walkmen on, which tend to support or be at least a signature, if you will, to Chandra.

The other gentleman who was arrested on June 5, then later convicted and sentenced to life in prison was in a different area of the park but also along remote jogging trails. He's intriguing as a suspect because he obviously battered the one woman and she subsequently died, unfortunately. The other woman when he arrested on June 5, was also a violent assault.

KING: You don't know what both have said with regard to Chandra, though?

GERAGOS: No, I have no idea. I don't know that they're going to release that. Probably would not. Wouldn't be a good investigative technique.

KING: Does Gary Condit expect to be questioned again?

GERAGOS: We would welcome it, actually.

KING: You would?

GERAGOS: Yes. I think and I said early to you, that as soon as the remains have been found, I believe now that that points to a stranger and that it was a predator in that park. I think that that's what ultimately is going to be the resolution of this.

KING: If the FBI suggests or the police using polygraphs for a punch of people, would he submit?

GERAGOS: I would talk to him about it. I haven't yet. But if they thought that that was going to help, I think I would give some advice that would say cooperate. I don't see any reason in the world not to cooperate at this point because I think that this is going to exonerate him. That's what he's looking for.

KING: When Billy Martin says that he thinks -- and Judy Smith said that we think Condit knows more than he says, as does the aunt, how do you react to that? Partially due to the way he's acted.

GERAGOS: I think also Billy also said today, to be fair to him, that he wanted to make it clear, and he make that statement, he says let me be clear about this, I'm not accusing him of anything. I think that it was clear to me, at least, that once they found her where they did, that it became clear to those who do this for a living and those in law enforcement that this was more than likely a predator who was in the park which John Walsh has kind of posited from day one in this case.

KING: Mark Geragos remains with us. Joining us from New York is Nancy Grace, the anchor of "Trial Heat" on Court TV, the former prosecutor, and in New Haven, Dr. Henry Lee, Chief Emeritus, Scientific Services, and former Commissioner of Public Safety for the state of Connecticut. Author of "Cracking Cases: the Science of Solving Crimes."

KING: Nancy, since other crimes were committed in that park by other people, two now in jail, does this practically eliminate Condit, in your mind, as a suspect?

NANCY GRACE, FORMER PROSECUTOR: Absolutely not. And Larry, I have carefully researched the other crimes there in that park. For instance, Ingmar Guandique, the young man that attacked two other women -- frankly, both of the women he attacked were taller blondes, not even remotely resembling Chandra Levy. Not only that, Larry, but when one of the women bit him, he ran. That is not the person that murdered Chandra Levy, from a profiler point of view.

KING: So you think he's still in the picture?

GRACE: I think that Condit is in the picture. I have no doubt that he is in the picture, and the police have been very carefully stating no one has been ruled out and no one has been ruled in.

And also, before these two men came on the scene, people were desperately trying to attach Chandra Levy to the deaths of two other women. They claimed a serial killer. There is no evidence whatsoever, not even a shred, that a serial killer is functioning in D.C.

KING: This upset you, Mark?

GERAGOS: No, it doesn't upset me. By I'll tell you, Nancy, if she was going to be honest with you about this, would tell you that under the federal rules, what's called "similar acts evidence," there are very few judges or prosecutors who could not get these other acts in as evidence that tends to show this person or persons committed this act.

KING: Being blonde doesn't eliminate...

GERAGOS: Doesn't eliminate at all...

GRACE: Yeah, if they really did it, Mark.

GERAGOS: The fact that they were joggers, the fact that they were wearing walkmen, the fact that one of these women was trained in the martial arts, and that may be an explanation for why she got away, would tend to support this.

GRACE: Guandique didn't kill anyone, Mark. And long story short, you know Guandique could never endure a clobberfest from Chandra Levy.

GERAGOS: Albert Clark (ph) did.

Right, Albert Clark (ph) was the other gentleman we're talking about, Nancy, and I'm sure you ran across him when you were doing your deep study.

GRACE: Yes.

GERAGOS: He was a gentleman who did end up murdering somebody...

GRACE: He did.

GERAGOS: ...unfortunately. It was also out of that park. It was arguably in a different location. However, he also was somebody who used...

GRACE: Very different location.

GERAGOS: ...great force, but it was also out of the Rock...

Well I guess it is time to find out who this Albert Clark is and about the crimes he committed, since this is new person added to pot of people who could be involved in this case.

PING... some more information for you to read about in the Levy Case
Who is this Albert Clark guy?

KING: What can you tell us about the two fellows already in prison, one for murder, another for assault?

I believe Albert Clark is the one in prison for murder.

"Who is this Albert Clark guy?"

He's the next in line to take the fall for Condit.

ABC...anybody but Condit.

sw

Here is a better map of the park I found that shows the trails a little better than any other maps I have seen.
The blue star (under Nature Center) again marks the area where Levy's remains were located.

Albert Clark seems to be Albert Cook (they must have had the last name wrong on LKL last night) This is the guy that MSNBC article mentioned, but this guy was in jail at the time Levy came up missing.
Again here is Gerago trying to make it sound like someone killed her other than Condit, his client.
Slain Md. Jogger's Family and Friends Share Their Torment Woman's Killer Gets Life Term, No Parole

Someone on another thread said that Albert was not incarcerated on 1 May. I think SarahW wrote this.

Not Albert, Ingmar Guandiquez. Ingmar was not incarcerated May 1.

I appreciate the correction. Hope I didn't add any confusion here.

Below are new facts in the case taken from aLarry King Live Interview on 5/28/02

Well I guess it is time to find out who this Albert Clark is and about the crimes he committed, since this is new person added to pot of people who could be involved in this case.

Below are new facts in the case taken from a
Larry King Live Interview on 5/28/02