[alnick]

How come this 'predator' was never mentioned as a suspect previously?

Two reasons that I can think of.

1. The Levy case up until yesterday was not a murder investigation.

2. The body had not been located at Rock Creek Park before yesterday, so a Rock Creek Park predator wouldn't necessarily be top of the list of people to look at.

[Fred Mertz]

Good answers!

[kayak]

Unless something has changed in the last little while, this is still not a murder investigation. It has been officially changed from a missing persons case to a death case ..... though I suspect everyone is really considering it a murder case.

Guandeque has not been identified as a suspect but has merely been interviewed at this point.

Facts matter.

[aristeides]

But the attacks on the two women apparently got no publicity even as a local news item here in the D.C. area. I never heard of the attacks until now. I did hear of the murder of a jogger in Montgomery Co., Maryland a year or two ago (they caught that murderer.) I was listening to a local radio talk show yesterday -- they too mentioned the Montgomery Co. case and did not mention these Rock Creek Park incidents. Apparently they didn't know about these cases either.

I wonder why Condit's people didn't think of calling attention to them? Maybe they didn't know about them either?

[JBCiejka]

I think the Rock Creek predator would be the first thought since the police new she had looked it up. I believe the first attack was in February, so it should have been at the top of the list. Although I find it strange that these other two ladies were jogging in the early evening, and supposedly Chranda went out in the afternoon. And someone who "attacks" women to steal things probably would not take the time to find a safe place to hide the body, especially in the middle of the day, and in the middle of a path, when anyone else could jog by.