NY Daily News story:
New look at Levy suspect
Cops question polygraph test of park predator
By HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - Police investigating Chandra Levy's slaying are looking with renewed interest at a park predator they had initially discounted because he passed a polygraph test.
Ingmar Guandique, 21, was arrested in July 2001, two months after Levy vanished. He was convicted of assaulting two female joggers at knifepoint in the same general area of Rock Creek Park where Levy's skeleton was found this year.
A source close to the investigation said last night the polygraph test might have been flawed because the Salvadoran native was questioned through a translator.
The source said on condition of anonymity that investigators think there might be "some kind discrepancy" in the first test because of the language barrier.
They want the second test to be administered by someone who speaks Spanish.
Police dismissed Guandique as a suspect last year, despite the sentencing judge's comment that his behavior was "predatory" and inconsistent with the attempted robbery to which he had confessed.
However, a fellow inmate failed a polygraph after telling police Guandique confessed to him. Moreover, police were skeptical that Levy's killer would return to the same location and then let his subsequent targets fight him off, as both Guandique's victims did.
In addition, both of those women were tall and blond, but Levy was a petite brunette.
Because of damage to a small bone in Levy's neck, the coroner believes she was strangled, not stabbed.
Levy, 24, was known to avoid jogging in the park, and her remains were found in a remote area, 5 miles from her apartment, suggesting she was meeting someone rather than running.
Condit's 'close friend'
Her "very close friend," Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.), denied knowing anything about what happened to the former federal intern, but he ducked some questions and refusing to take an FBI polygraph.
Condit's apartment was searched, his records scoured and his DNA taken. He was called before a grand jury in April and was reported to have refused to answer questions.
Police are now looking away from Condit, struck by similarities among the park attacks.
The two women Guandique attacked — on May 14 and July 1, 2001 — were wearing portable tape players and headphones, allowing him to come up from behind and grab them.
He told police he was trying to steal the players, not rape or kill the women, but he didn't steal either machine.
Levy's radio headphones were found with her jogging clothes and bones May 22.
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