Police unsure if Levy died at body site
Posted on 05/25/2002 5:43:46 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Police unsure if Levy died at body site
Device could reveal if intern's body dumped, rolled down park slope
05/25/2002
WASHINGTON - Police said Friday that they still don't know whether Chandra Levy died where her remains were found or someone dumped her body there.
Investigators scoured the steep slope in Rock Creek Park, where Ms. Levy's remains were discovered Wednesday, in a search for evidence that could tell how she died, how her body got there and, perhaps, who killed her.
"We don't know if this is the primary site or a secondary site," said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a Washington police spokesman.
"We don't know if she was out walking, jogging or there to meet somebody," he said.
The partial remains of the 24-year-old former intern from Modesto, Calif., were found in several places on the embankment. The main area being searched was a secluded, thickly forested area 100 yards uphill from a small stream that forms the western border of the sprawling park and a couple hundred yards from the nearest park road, U.S. Park Police Sgt. Scott Fear said.
AP Police officers stand guard Friday near the area in Rock Creek Park in Washington where the remains of Chandra Levy were found. |
Investigators used a computerized device called a "total station" to create a computer grid of the search area. The device normally is used at traffic accidents to measure skid marks and other evidence to determine how crashes have occurred.
Investigators in the Levy case are using it to plot coordinates where remains and other evidence were found. For instance, the device might be able to tell police whether the body was dumped and rolled down the embankment.
Police have said little about the remains, other than to say the skull was not "pristine" and the bones were scattered. Clothing including tennis shoes, a jogging bra and a sweat shirt also were found.
Investigators are talking to nearby residents and joggers to see whether they recall anything unusual on May 1, 2001, when police believe Ms. Levy disappeared. They also may re-interview people, including Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., and a man convicted of assaulting joggers in the same park where the remains were found.
Police Chief Charles Ramsey said investigators interviewed the man months ago after U.S. Park Police alerted them to his arrest.
A spokesman for the Levy family said a memorial service will be Tuesday at Modesto's Community Center.
I certainly could be wrong, but it sounds like dismemberment was likely (would animals drag the bones around? seems unlikely) which would tend to put doubt on the park rapist scenario.
It's very likely. It is known to be quite common in cases where bodies have been lying in areas populated with carnivore animals of any kind. Frequently the whole skeleton is not recovered because animals have carried some bones away.
A "pretty picture" of an attack-on-jogger was set up, but no jogger or hiker ever came HERE under her own power. And Chandra was not a jogger anyway.
There are almost TOO MANY clothes: it is difficult to believe she was really wearing all of this at one time, and there is no evidence the body was WEARING any of them-- seemingly they were just thrown out near it, in some abundance, as if to get rid of everything of hers the perp had.
I am on another website to say, that I think this may be just the few personal items of hers left behind at Gary's apartment, when Carolyn came to visit 4/28 and found them! That is when everything hit the fan.
More smoke and mirrors. A *total station* is just a surveyor's instrument, usually a laser version of the old surveyor's transit but sometimes a GPS-based device, that allows precise plotting of the location of found evidence. While it will allow a more precise mapping of Levy's recovered remains, it's of little more actual evidentiary value than a well-prepared investigator's field scetch, except that the equipment used is a good deal more expensive, and sounds impressive in court.
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Absolutely.
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