Posted on 05/29/2002 5:03:41 AM PDT by kattracks
The Chandra Levy murder remains in Wednesday's headlines, mainly because the "whodunit" has a political link.According to The Hill , a newspaper covering the Capitol, the Levy family considers Rep. Gary Condit -- a California Democrat -- a suspect in Chandra's murder.
Chandra's family mourned her death on Tuesday, just hours after the D.C. medical examiner ruled that the 24-year-old woman had been murdered. Based on the skeletal remains found in a Washington park, however, the medical examiner could not say exactly how she was killed.
According to The Hill , Chandra's family is now redoubling their efforts to link Chandra's death to Condit, who lost the Democratic primary in March - and therefore, will lose his seat in Congress in January.
Condit is "in seclusion," according to his aides.
A Levy family source told The Hill , "We believe that in her final days on this earth that he [Condit] found out that other people knew about the affair, and we believe that he was trying to break off the relationship."
According to the police investigation, Condit's wife Carolyn was in Washington when Chandra disappeared.
Interesting questions. I believe the liberal press went after the story because of pent up frustrations about not going after Clinton. In other words, Condit became a whipping boy for Clinton.
As to why everyone else is following this, I believe the whole thing is the stuff of intrigue like Dianna's death. It may be an added bonus that he is a RAT. Personally I like to follow it but I think the evidence against Condit is pretty thin and I would not vote to convict him if I were a juror.
One has to wonder..why does condit still have aides?
When Chandra turned up missing and a link was found to the park, my husband and I were saying that if it were our child we sure would be in that park and search for her. And if we had the money, we would hire a PI, never a lawyer. Especially not Monica's Mom's lawyer. Right away it made at least some people, perhaps also the investigators, suspect Chandra had run away.
Lawyer Martin sure didn't do the Levys any good. Who was the nitwit who recommended him to the grieving parents?
The possibility of strangulation and tied leggings, if anything, give greater credibility to that stewardess' claim that he was into kinky sex and might have had something to do with her death.
Perhaps they had one last fling and it was disastrous. Perhaps she WAS moved from his apt. (They never mentioned the physical evidence they took from his apt.)
Whatever the outcome, at this point her discovery has only brought MORE attention to the possibility of Condit really having done the venal deed.
He also knew he'd never have to pay it since it offered the money only upon her "safe return".
He said that he believes they WILL catch the killer, and that trace evidence is not as important as just plain following up on all clues.
However, as far as trace evidence is concerned, he mentioned the earlier report that the skull had been injured, and said that it could be an important clue. He said that, after all, they were able to identify the remains of the Romanovs 75 years after they were murdered.
Rats are kinda like my kids. Even if they didn't do what I punish them for they probably did something else that deserved punishing. :)
If Condit did NOT know Chandra was in terrible trouble or dead, it seems to me to be an extraordinarily thoughtless thing to say to her parents who were, not at that time, very worried about her. Why would you scare the parents by immediately offering a reward for someone who was just missing for a few days? Saying that to them immediately upon hearing that they had not heard from their daughter for a few days would just serve to upset them, perhaps entirely unnecessarily. Condit didn't realize how other people would react to a lot of the things he did and said because he had conciousness of guilt and was concerned only with himself and beating the rap, IMHO.
VRWC_minion pretty well sums up how I feel about this. I hope it was pretty obvious that I was poking fun at myself a little. I think this is a very interesting case and follow it, but I certainly don't try to "investigate."
Something's amiss here...according to the OJ playbook, Condit should be out searching for Chandra's killer or killers.
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