Posted on 05/23/2002 10:14:29 AM PDT by john in missouri
I think it very plausible that it could have been the serial attacker who did this, and Condit was not involved. Last day in DC, she looks up and visits an historical sight that maybe she had earlier heard about(a liberal interested in historic preservation is far from unheard of). Goes for a walk(not jog), early May isn't particularly warm, so that explains no change of clothes left at home.
However, finding 'no keys' raises my suspicions. If there was a prolonged struggle the keys could have been lost away from where she was buried, but it is unlikely the attacker would have dragged very far before burying/hiding her body. So if an extensive search of the nearby area(simple metal detectors that those beachcombers used to search for buried treasure) fail to reveal the keys, then likely they were purposefully taken. Why would a serial random attacker take them, since she was carrying no id? Yeah, he might have taken her goods and keys, and then once away from the body searched for any info that would reveal an address, but then proving useless would have discarded the keys. So again, a thorough search of the area should reveal them. Unless he tossed them in a garbage.
Hard to tell yet, but I wouldn't rule anyone or anything out yet(well, ok, maybe the Chandra is a kidnapped love slave in Arabia speculation can be tossed).
I have reassessed my position on the Walkman aspect. Though the perp claimed to have been trying to steal their walkmans, he is merely lying. He clearly targeted women wearing walkmans since they were easier to sneak up on and attack.
And with Chandra probably wearing a walkman, this made her a potential target of this perp.
Could very well be the serial attacker, I'd hope we can put aside our hatred of Condit and the Dems to view this objectively. Of course he still is a PRIME SUSPECT, but it is a little unnerving to sense how crestfallen some would be if he turned out to be innocent.
Howlin, I don't know if anyone's answered you yet, but I certainly don't remember hearing about the walkman last summer. Perhaps it wasn't cataloged as being missing because the police or friends just didn't think of it, though.
The searches didn't take place until July, they might have done some more searching in August.
I also think its possible that the police might know or have more than what they are saying to perhaps set a trap.
You're right, except for her internet search of the Klingle Mansion. That's the fact that unquestionably turns it from a random jog to a destination, and from a random act to someone laying in wait; from the palooka they're going to try to pin this to, to Condit. Who takes a regular old jog to the Klingle Mansion? And looks it up on the internet? Get real.
Second, you incorrectly assume a hitman would work in a public park and leave the evidence behind. Highly unlikely.
I "assume" exactly the opposite. I said it resembled the act of a bumbling hitman, as the agent of a bumbling third-rater, not the precision of a 1940s film noir hit. The hitman "worked" in a public park because that's the spot to which Levy was lured.
You also mention an M.O. in your post, but don't bother to post why killing Chandra would be beneficial to Condit. It seems that the net effect of her murder for him was to expose their affair and lose his house seat.
If you're going to argue the threshold question about whether Condit wanted her bye-bye (which it's obvious he did), I'm never going to convince you anyway, but I was talking about the MO of the sucker they're talking to now, not Condit.
All you're saying is that Condit totally miscalculated how events and his future would transpire. And, since I proceed from the proposition that Condit was a mediocre third-rater, I totally agree.
It is possible the LE folks kept this out of the news while canvassing pawn shops in hopes of finding her walkman. This, of course, assumes a level of competence that the DC police don't often display.
Bush should have known. This is an outrage!
And as Susan Estrich (BLECHH!) pointed out, Chandra would not have paged Condit over and over and over again that day and then left her apartment without her cell phone. And certainly not for an 8 mile run. She wouldn't have risked missing his call. The only plausible reason for her leaving her apartment without taking her phone with her is that she was planning on seeing him.
His behaviour was suspicious from the start and continues to this day. The fact that he has an attorney like Garegos does not inure to his benefit either.
And the cabby is unaware of her year long disappearance. He has no radio, no tv and doesn't look at newspapers. Right? Her picture has been plastered everywhere. Her thick, full, dark hair would help make her easy to remember. She has been shown with her hair up, down, pulled back, full and frizzy, and full with wave. She's even been shown with short and blonde styles. Why wouldn't the cabby contact the police to say he picked her up at x and dropped her off at Z?
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