Posted on 05/23/2002 10:14:29 AM PDT by john in missouri
PAPER: Rock Creek Park Predator Interviewed by Police Investigating Levy Death Thu May 23 2002 12:52:01 ET
D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officials investigating the death of Washington intern Chandra Levy have interviewed a man serving a 10-year prison sentence for attacking two women in Rock Creek Park last year, ROLL CALL DAILY is planning to report on Thursday.
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D.C. Metro Police investigators have "talked to" Ingmar Guandeque, who was arrested in July 2001 after attacking two females (one in May and one in July) who were jogging along the Broad Branch trail in Rock Creek Park. Levy's decomposed body was found Wednesday along the Broad Branch trail in a heavily wooded area.
A second official close to the Levy investigation said that while Guandeque was interviewed after Levy's disappearance last year, investigators are now taking a closer look at him since the intern's body was discovered.
"Clearly there are some coincidences and links -- just because of the proximity of where he [committed his crimes]," said a source close to the investigation.
ROLL CALL's Amy Keller reports: Guandeque, who lived on the 1400 block of Somerset Place Northwest, was arrested last summer and sentenced in February 2002 to two concurrent terms of 10 years' imprisonment for a pair of assaults of female joggers in the Broad Branch section of the park.
The first attack occurred in mid-May 2001, at 6:30 p.m., about two weeks after Levy disappeared. In that case, Guandeque came upon an unnamed female jogger, attacking her from behind while brandishing a knife.
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Lame duck U.S. House Representative, not Senator.
A word to the wise.
That is a very good question.
If this guys is the perp, he could have based his selection of victims based upon the fact that they were probably in "Condition White" as evidenced by the fact that they were running through an isolated section of the park while wearing headphones, and probably oblivous to any potential threats. I run through fairly deserted parks (and questionable neighborhoods) while wearing an MP3 player with headphones, but I always keep the volume relatively low, and pay close attention to my surroundings - And, I'm a 225 lb guy with martial arts training, not a 110 lb woman. Women running alone should avoid that kind of danger area, especially when they are tuned out wearing headphones.
Somebody tell OJ, they got the "real" killer.
She got on the website because she was going to meet someone there. She went there with a purpose.
Absolutely! This guy didn't go from killing Chandra Levy to letting two witnesses go. Murderers don't just become compassionate and allow individuals who can identify them get away. Alot of attackers who had previously done time for rape/assault, left their early victims alive. It wasn't until they were released and committed those crimes again, that they murdered their victims to prevent them from identifying them and sending them back to prison.
The article states that they talked with him last year .... "A second official close to the Levy investigation said that while Guandeque was interviewed after Levy's disappearance last year, investigators are now taking a closer look at him since the intern's body was discovered."
I've lived in this area for almost my entire life - a long time. You are absolutely correct about the longtime policy of LEO coverups in this area. Many of the Capitol Hill political elite, including politicians, lobbyists, etc., are mainly transients who really don't care what happens to the regular Americans who live around here. Therefore, the ruling class here wants all those who live here temporarily to "feel safe" and not be "alarmed" by the truth regarding the serial killers, rapists and other criminals who enjoy Rock Creek Park along with all those temporary residents with a false sense of security.
Rock Creek Park has always been the favorite haunt of homosexuals trolling for tricks, serial or opportunistic rapists, and other dirtbag criminals who find the yuppie, liberals who use it to be easy marks to prey on. And in those rare instances where a perp is actually captured, tried and convicted (about 1% of all crimes committed), the local criminal justice system quickly releases them back into the communities from whence they came - to breed and perpetrate more crimes once again.
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