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.
There are at least two possible scenarios in which the congressman may yet be shown to have been a cad and a boyslut, but not a murderer, particularly if another did him the *favour* of solving his Chandra problem for him without his foreknowledge and then blackmailed him with the fait accompli with a promise to implicate him in Levy's homicide if he did not assist in the after-the-fact coverup of the circumstances of her death or other demands, including possible political ones.
And of those at least two possible variations on that theme, Condit's wife Carolyn could very easily have been either the instigator or a participant in them, either to *teach her philandering husband a little lesson* and save her lackluster marriage or simply to do away with the pesky annoyance who had so distrracted her hubby and set an example for any other roundheeled interns or others who might consider a fling with *Gary the cool California biker/surfer dude*.
That possibility alone suggests that Condit still deserves the presumption of innocence, so long as our constitution means anything. But of course as its provisions are weakened for all us ordinary folks, often in the name of pragmatic *national security* so must it also be diminished for Gary Condit.
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Right! What was he doing in Luray? That's a magic question. He did call AM Smith and said he was in trouble and had to lay low for a while. See post 21 for the link to the chronology.
I hadn't picked up on the fact that he hid it from the police. Assuming for just a minute that all he was guilty of was having an affair, why would that (his wife being there) be a fact that he would try to hide from the police? I mean, I can see it if they are calling him or showing up at the front door and asking if his wife if there bec they want to question her -- but telling the police that she (his wife) was there there at the same time CL disappeared would be a good thing for him -- if he was innocent of kidnapping or killing her. This leads me to believe that he did not want them to confirm his time line with her and find gaps he could not account for -- time used to do the deed. This is only relevant IF he is guilty of murdering her, not of just having an affair with her. Am I missing something?
All his machinations, inluding offering a reward before it was known Chandra had disappeared, including hiring his own polygrapher, have only served to increase the cloud of suspicion he's brought on himself.
I do believe that Chandra's father will see justice done in the death of his daughter.
Because he is a member of Congress until next January.
Possible, yes, but I don't buy it. She just strikes me as being way too weak and timid.
While I do think he was involved, I am not inclined to think he was in it alone.
The keys have not been located..yet and the watch you're referring to..do you mean the "watch" from the "watchbox" he was reported dumping near Luray, VA?
That watch had nothing to do with Chandra (i.e. it wasn't a gift exchanged between the two of them) it was a watch given to Condit as a parting gift from another one of his girlfriends....he was dumping the box to try to deflect evidence of the fact that the old girlfriend had verified their relationship to authorities and she said she had given him the Tag Heuer watch as a "booby prize", shall we say?
LOL This is one of those "did I write that" moments. That's what I get for posting before I eat, have coffee..and before I'm awake! Sheepish embarassed grin.
Could be a typo. It may be AIDS instead.
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