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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I don't own a dog but I don't think I would just let one randomly start digging in a public area. I'm getting conflicting info on exactly how the body was found - whether it was buried, covered or just laying there. Burying would imply an act to hide evidence, covered might.
Question. The cadets check the area last July, if not more than once. Two months, June and July. Wouldn't the heat have helped decay and wouldn't cadets smell a decaying body?
No ME either so I don't know how long a decomposing body retains its "freshness". I suppose it varies somewhat on factors like temperature, weight, presence of scavengers (vultures, maggots, etc.), hydration, etc.
I do wonder, as someone else pointed out, if there were two reports of jogger attacks in this part of the park, why wouldn't the cops have made an even more thorough search of the area when they were supposedly combing parks for evidence last summer - particularly the one park with a direct and known link to Levy (her computer records)?
For now, I'm in the "too convenient" camp of skeptics.
That's right. Even if DNA evidence proves this "park predator" killed Chandra, I won't feel one bit sorry for suspecting Gary Condit was involved.
The police are obligated to focus on people who LIE to them in missing persons/homicide investigations. By lying to the police, Condit forced them to make him an issue! So even if he didn't do anything intentionally to Chandra, his behavior hindered her investigation.
Did this "predator" use a car in the two assaults or did he walk to the park from his home? He lived about one block east of the park.
I question this because the body site location is not near a "jogging trail" and would appear to me to be just a drop site, after killing her somewhere else.
From the description of the body site, it was uphill from the road and was some distance from a "jogging trail". How far up the hill was it? Could a single person have dragged a body up the hill without leaving lots of evidence - crushed bushes and grass/weeds?
Not if she was a liberal. Liberals have some kind of green $hit flowing through their veins.
Eight miles isn't that far and I never took my cell phone jogging.
With her bags packed to go home, she suddenly got the irresistible urge to jog on a path she'd never been to before (had to look up the location on Map Quest). ,
If you are working out regularly, you do get an irresistible urge to continue. Taking a jog after getting the packing done sounds reasonable.
If that's the case, maybe she was suicidal.
Apparently people jog at this park quite regularly.
While I still believe Condit knows something about Levy's death, although I'm open to the suggestion that he didn't, I've always believed that he was more frighted that the police and public would discover the "other" rather than that he was associated with murder. Whatever the "mystery" is here about his nefarious deeds, they have to be dark indeed if that frightened him more than implication of murder.
Yes, and look how quickly the DC Keystones were able to "find" him once Chandra Levy was found, yet for a whole year they couldn't find him, either. I still refer to her as Chandra, unlike the DC coppers who prefer to use the words "it" and "body" and don't dare speak the name. After all, the sheeple might remember she was actually a real person at one time, not an "it" and still expect justice. Yep, toooo convenient, just like the robbery of the Starbucks with that gal murdered, and lo and behold, lucky robber/murderer gets the same attorney that "pretended" to defend Monica at first, you know, Vernon Jordan's friend, and then the Reno gang decided to go for the death penalty (even though they are against it, don't you know!). I knew they'd find a sucker, just didn't know they'd be so obvious and do it so quickly but hey, look what they've gotten away with so far, so why not! I'm so angry over this, and the fact they "couldn't find it" because "it" was in a more secluded, overgrown area. Wouldn't you concentrate more in an area like that, IF you were trying to find "it?" Grrrr!
It crossed my mind that the walkman was placed their after this guy was arrested but then I recalled that she apparently did own one and it was missing.
Personally, for nearly 10 years I rarely go more than 2 days without jogging. The exceptions are always outside of my control, such as being in Russia in winter, sickness, extended rainy weather. (I'm not that much of an addict.) I do run in snow, early in morning or indoors during hot weather, and parks in the spring are among my favorite places to go.
If they don't pin it on this guy, that will be crummy bastard Condit's fault. They will need very hard forensic evidence or a confession now - with both being harder to get with a year old crime scene and skeletal remains.
I'm pretty disgusted with the DC police at this point (I wasn't up until today). They CONVICTED a guy of assaulting (small) women joggers just after her disappearance both on the same jogging trail, one of the victims being pulled into a ravine off the trail. And they didn't send cadaver dogs down into the ravines near that trail, only did a cursory foot search?!!! IDIOTS! Lame * idiots!
Here's a clue, DC, since you can't buy one. If it turns out that chandra was indeed bashed in the head, look for a connection with Mirzayan, who was also pulled into a ravine. Check and see if this guy was in jail in the interval between the murders of Mirzayan and Chandra.
The only reason he didn't kill that last jogger is that - she got away.
Also, what was she wearing at the time of her demise?
Do we expect it was in broad daylight? What time of day were the other two females assaulted?
I wouldn't be so quick to make that conclusion. If the police knew of this guy attacking women in that park, there's no doubt they went through every square inch of that park looking for Chandra Levy. Nothing turned up. That would tell me she was put there sometime later, after her killer knew it had been searched and turned up nothing.
That's speculation, of course, but I think that's a lot more plausible than to hastily decide this other predator must have done it.
On hearing this story, my 12 year old son who couldn't figure out why the guy would be "digging" for turtles in the woods. He claimed they don't burrow in the ground.
Best I've heard yet. Also, her PC revealed that she was checking out the Condit's committee schedules online, apparently trying to track him down that day.
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