Police find leg bone near site of Chandra Levy remains

sacbee.com ^ | Thursday, June 6, 2002 | By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer

[let freedom sing]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators working for Chandra Levy's parents discovered a human leg bone and twisted wire Wednesday near the site where her remains were found in a Washington park. Dr. Jonathan Arden, Washington's medical examiner, has determined it is probably Levy's left shin bone, people familiar with the investigation said. But the bone yielded no clues about how Levy died, they said.

[let freedom sing]

"It is unacceptable ...

[SAJ]

From the D.C. Police Department's 'Professional Peace Officer's Guide to Forensic Investigation', page 39:

'Oh, de leg bone connected to de hip bone...'

[My Identity]

The DC police report that private parties searching the area found several human bones, blood-stained clothes, an abandoned automobile, six hand-guns, a knife, two assault rifles, a box cutter, a wallet, an address book, an envelope of anthrax, Levy's ring and keys, photos, a videotape, a signed confession, and other items the police referred to as "potential clues".

The police issued a formal statement to the media: "Oops! Guess we missed a few things when we were searching the area the first couple times for, uh... what was her name again?"

Congressman Gary Condit (D-CA) was also seen in the park, jumping up and down and waving his hands frantically while shouting "over here, I did it, I did it." Eventually he was asked to leave by police community-service personnel. They said, "Mr. Condit, who is not a suspect at this time, was asked to exit the area for his own personal safety. He was attracting too much media attention and we couldn't guarantee his safety."

[Diver Dave]

That's my congressman you're talking about.

Would you care to write your story for the Modesto Bee so they will get an accurate report?

Good on you!

[ChasingFletch]

"Oops! Guess we missed a few things when we were searching the area the first couple times for, uh... what was her name again?" ...

Your post is hilarious. How do I get this coffee out of my keyboard. Are you a comedy writer? If not you should be!

These cops are amazing. They spent 1500 man hours (plus trained dogs - dogs not as smart as that one pooch with the man strolling through the park who found Chandra) searching 1700 acres. That is approximately one acre per day per man. A five year old could neatly search an acre in an hour or two. What else is left to find? Anyhow you are very funny!

[ChasingFletch]

""If it was a [body part], obviously we would have liked to have found it," Ramsey said...........

Ramsey.....this guy deserves a nice big Darwin Award, so he can sit in his living room and stare at it....WHEN HE'S FIRED !!!!!

[Robert Drobot]

Stupid is as stupid does. My sympathies to the Levy family for the Vince Foster type of investigation being conducted by the DC cops. If Chandra Levy's killer is caught, it will be by pure happenstance.

[ChasingFletch]

"Vince Foster type of investigation being conducted by the DC cops.">>

That was the Park Police, but I get your sentiment. Vince's car got there without him being in it. There are so many holes in that story, if it were swiss cheese there would be strikingly no cheese. Patrick Knowlton knows! These D.C. cops are not very bright.

MyIdentity in post #4 says it all!!

[cynicom]

Evidence keeps getting in the way of the DC closing this case down. If Ramsey spent as much time directing the department as he does hogging the cameras, they might get something done.

[self_evident]

Failing to search that area of the park, said Kobilinsky, was "when the case was blown. If it was isolated, all the more reason to search the area."

It's seems obvious by now that they have no intention of solving this case. 25 yards away! Thats like looking for something in the kitchen, and not finding it (with about 25 helpers) even though its in the bedroom. The Levy investigators should just take over and keep the DC police out of the loop.

[doosee]

""If it was a [body part], obviously we would have liked to have found it," Ramsey said...........

Ramsey also may have said: When the part was found, "You're pullin my leg" or This gives us a leg up on the investigation. or The DC police are nearing the final leg of this event....

[ChasingFletch]

"Vince Foster type of investigation"......

IMO these are two different kinds of investigations. Vince's was a grand, outright coverup by police, politicians, and the sleazy powerful-protecting media. These D.C. guys may be just real stupid, and Condidit may have been pretty efficient ....or not!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Well, hey, can you say "grid search". First they did not do a grid search far enough out from the Klingle Mansion which is how they missed the body in the first place. And obviously even though they had that crime scene taped off they did not go out far enough.Maybe the DC police were trained by the LA police who missed the body of a seven year old in a clear swimming pool for two days.You have to wonder what is it they are doing when they are "looking" for something

[let freedom sing]

Off with their heads!

[let freedom sing]

LA police who missed the body of a seven year old in a clear swimming pool for two days.You have to wonder what is it they are doing when they are "looking" for something

stranger than fiction

[KissOfTheSith]

>Police find leg bone near site of Chandra Levy remains

Over in another thread, I made a point about how this kind of thing is becoming common:

... In three high profile cases, however, searches have been meaningless.

• A couple of years ago, when that mother killed her children by putting them in her car and then driving the car into the little pond near her house, the police searched the small pond and found nothing. Then, just a week or so later, the woman took the police to the pond and they found the car right at the end of the ramp.
  
  
• When Chanda Levy went missing, the police searched that park, and they knew she had asked for info on that K. mansion, so they had reason to search the park carefully. Still, Levy's body was found in the park.
  
  
• That poor little kid was reported as missing from the pool party. Many dozens of police hung out around the pool, and it was specifically searched. Yet a few days later the body of the missing boy was found at the bottom of the pool.

Now, of course, Chandra would have to get a double entry in the list...

I don't know what the heck is going on. Either our law enforcement agencies actually are as terrible as a lot of the FR Let's hate the cop threads paint them as being, or this might be a kind of message -- bad guys may purposefully wait until an area has been searched, and then go back in and plant evidence in the area.

It's happening in such unrelated cases that even as tin foil it's hard to imagine it as some kind of message. Perhaps people in law enforcement are really, really, hopelessly stupid...

-- KotS