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DEVELOPING: A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a man accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy, MyFoxDC.com reports. Ingmar Guandique is charged with murder in Levy's death nearly a decade ago. Levy disappeared in 2001. Her case drew attention when she was romantically linked to then-Congressman Gary Condit. The California Democrat was initially a suspect but police no longer think he was involved. Prosecutors say Levy's death fits a pattern of attacks by Guandique in 2001 in Washington's Rock Creek Park. That's where her remains were found. Defense lawyers say the Salvadoran immigrant has become a...

Chandra Ann Levy (April 14, 1977–ca. May 1, 2001) was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001 and is presumed murdered after her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park in May 2002. The investigation led to media allegations of an extramarital affair with then-U.S. Representative Gary Condit,[1] a Democrat representing California's 18th congressional district and a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Condit was never named a suspect by police and was ultimately cleared of involvement, however the cloud of suspicion raised by the...

On Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that accused murderer and gang member Ingmar Guandique, 28, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testifies at Guandique’s January trial.A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was arrested last April for the murder of missing intern Chandra Levy, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for the assault of two...

-snip- The Chandra Levy case is the most famous unsolved murder in modern Washington, a mystery involving sex, power and secrets. At its center is a vivacious young intern who had crossed paths with a handsome, married congressman. The story triggered months of feverish worldwide media attention in 2001, before the Sept. 11 attacks shoved it aside and the investigation stalled. The Washington Post spent a year reconstructing the disappearance of Chandra Levy and the investigation into her death. Reporters interviewed police officials, investigators and suspects, many for the first time, and obtained details about dozens of previously unknown private...

WASHINGTON -- Gary Condit's legal and financial travails just keep worsening. An Arizona judge has ordered the former Ceres congressman to pay $42,680.42 for filing a frivolous libel lawsuit. Condit's lawsuit against the tiny Sonoran News for a story referring to murder victim Chandra Levy amounted to harassment, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kristin Hoffman ruled this week. Condit's actions showed "he was aware the lawsuit should never have been brought," Hoffman added.

Although he is no longer an FBI agent, Brad Garrett still visits the steep, wooded hillside in a Washington, D.C., park where the skeletal remains of Chandra Levy, a federal intern from Modesto, were found five years ago this week, a year after she disappeared. No one has been charged in the killing of the 24-year-old, whose disappearance generated enormous publicity after authorities revealed that she had been having a relationship with her married hometown congressman, Gary Condit. Condit was defeated in 2002 by his former aide, Dennis Cardoza. Read more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/22/CHANDRA.TMP

NEW YORK - Former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit must find a new lawyer to represent him in a defamation suit after his attorney withdrew from the case Wednesday, saying he believed it was meritless. ADVERTISEMENT Mark E. Goidell asked to resign from the case in a Jan. 15 submission to the court, saying he now agrees with the attorney representing writer Dominick Dunne that "the defamation claim in this action is not warranted by existing law or by a non-frivolous argument for new law." Goidell filed the lawsuit on Condit's behalf in November, claiming the writer made false claims about...

Process servers are stuck, and $2.4M lawsuit in limbo Officials say Chad Condit illegally took campaign money raised by his father. WASHINGTON — Chad Condit is proving to be an elusive defendant. The son of former congressman Gary Condit, Chad Condit is a target of a $2.4 million lawsuit filed by California's political watchdog agency. The regulators claim Condit and his sister, Cadee Condit, illegally pocketed campaign money their father raised. But in the two months since the Fair Political Practices Commission filed the lawsuit, officials have been unable to reach Chad Condit to deliver legal papers. "We are still...

Did you miss that headline in the news last week? Well, that's because no one ran it. Ingmar Guandique, a violent Salvadoran national who is serving a 10-year sentence for assaulting two female joggers in Washington's Rock Creek Park last year, was interrogated recently as part of the investigation into the intern murder mystery. But in my review of all 115 news items archived in the Lexis-Nexis database that mention Guandique in connection with the Levy case, not a single story referred to his status as a criminal illegal alien.

Former U.S. Representative Gary Condit: I swear to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth….

Fallen ex-U.S. Rep. Gary Condit has defiantly denied under oath that he had a steamy affair with doomed intern Chandra Levy — flying in the face of allegations from police and her family that he did, NBC's "Today" show reports. Asked in a recent deposition, "Can you describe in general terms your relationship with Ms. Levy?" the gray-haired ex-congressman from California tersely replied: "We were friends." "Did you relationship ever become romantic?" Condit is pressed again. "No," he replied, according to a transcript of the explosive deposition, parts of which are set to air today and tomorrow on the...

Former California Rep. Gary Condit must answer embarrassing questions about his sex life with Chandra Levy and other women as part of his defamation suit against crime author Dominick Dunne, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Manhattan District Judge Peter Leisure also said Condit must disclose information about his personal finances as part of the discovery in the suit. [snip] Leisure said Condit couldn't have it both ways — sue Dunne and then prevent the defendants from cross-examining thoroughly for facts. "Unfortunately for plaintiff, he opened that door himself by filing this lawsuit," Leisure said. "The court cannot allow plaintiffs...

Judge dismisses libel suit by wife of former Calif. Rep. Condit Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed last year by the wife of former California Rep. Gary Condit against USA Today and its parent company, Gannett Co. U.S. District Judge Bruce Black ruled this week that there is no jurisdiction to hear the case in New Mexico. The lawsuit, filed in New Mexico because of state law that lets plaintiffs sue up to three years after a published report, was in response to a July 27, 2001 USA Today article about the...

I have created a public register of "bump lists" here on Free Republic. I define a bump list as a name listed in the "To" field used to index articles. Free Republic Bump List Register

LACI'S HAIR FOUND IN PLIERS ON SCOTT'S BOAT LACI'S HAIR FOUND IN PLIERS ON SCOTT'S BOAT By KATE SHEEHY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 13, 2003 -- California cops searching Scott Peterson's boat found a pair of pliers with strands of his murdered wife's hair on them, it was reported yesterday. Prosecutors plan to introduce the potentially explosive DNA evidence and the tool, discovered stashed under a seat on his 14-foot aluminum boat, as key evidence at Peterson's trial, NBC News said. It was not immediately clear whether authorities will try to tie the pliers to the slaying of Peterson's pregnant wife, Laci,...

ASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — The F.B.I. has asked all 17 senators on the joint Senate-House intelligence committee to turn over appointment books, schedules, phone records and electronic calendars in an effort to determine if they may have spoken with journalists about classified intelligence information, Congressional officials said.The request, first reported in The Washington Post, was made to the Senate counsel's office on Aug. 7, one Congressional official said, and was later forwarded to all of the Senate members of the committee.The F.B.I. asked for records pertaining to the lawmakers' activities on June 18 and June 19.The official said that...

<p>The wife of Rep. Gary Condit is suing the Star tabloid magazine for $15 million, claiming it libeled her by claiming she threatened to kill herself because of her husband's relationship with federal intern Chandra Levy.</p> <p>In the suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Fresno, Carolyn Condit said the magazine knowingly published falsehoods in a Sept. 11, 2001, cover story, including claims that she threatened to kill herself, trashed the family house and sought counseling.</p>

An FBI analysis of the clothing found with Chandra Levy's remains has detected no traces of DNA, law enforcement sources said, all but eliminating the possibility that forensic evidence from the site in Rock Creek Park will help solve the case.

<p>Ceres, Calif. — Rep. Gary Condit has paid $100,000 to his two children in recent months with money from a political action committee he set up to give himself a voice on California issues.</p> <p>The payments -- $60,000 to Cadee Condit and $40,000 to Chad Condit -- are included in a required campaign report filed Wednesday. The report states the payments were for campaign consulting services.</p>

Several news sources are added in this version, including links to Iraq news in the War Wires category in column 4.

<p>July 30, 2002 -- Rep. Gary Condit claims the media wanted him to say he "did" slain intern Chandra Levy, and compares newscaster Connie Chung to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an angry, defiant interview, it was reported today.</p> <p>The Washington Post said that in the interview with Esquire magazine, the California Democrat blames the media for his problems after he was romantically linked to Levy, whose remains were found in a Washington D.C., park on May 22.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON -- California Rep. Gary Condit's support for convicted felon James Traficant invites the kind of questions that Condit no longer feels obliged to answer.</p> <p>Now the highest-profile lame duck in Congress, Condit drew more Capitol Hill attention late Wednesday night by becoming the only lawmaker to oppose Traficant's expulsion from the House. But as he has consistently since losing a March Democratic primary, Condit is keeping his thoughts to himself.</p>

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 346 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)       H RES 495     2/3 RECORDED VOTE    24-JUL-2002   10:11 PM       QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution       BILL TITLE:  In the matter of James A. Traficant, Jr.   AYES NOES PRES NV REPUBLICAN 211   8 2 DEMOCRATIC 207 1 1 2 INDEPENDENT 2       TOTALS 420 1 9 4 --- AYES    420 --- Abercrombie Granger Olver Ackerman Graves Ortiz Aderholt Green (TX) Osborne Akin Green (WI) Ose Allen Greenwood Owens Andrews Grucci Oxley Armey Gutierrez Pallone Baca Gutknecht Pascrell Bachus Hall (OH) Pastor Baird Hall (TX) Payne...

<p>Three nationally known forensics specialists will assist the family of Chandra Levy in finding evidence they hope will lead to her killer.</p> <p>Billy Martin, the attorney for the Levy family, said that Dr. Henry Lee, Dr. Cyril H. Wecht and Dr. Michael Baden examined the remains of Miss Levy yesterday and want other physical evidence released so they can examine it.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - The city coroner said he believes that Chandra Levy may have been strangled, although he does not have conclusive evidence to rule it as the cause of death.</p> <p>Levy's skeletal remains, discovered May 22 in Rock Creek Park, showed damage to her hyoid, a small U-shaped bone in the upper neck, but it was not broken, said Chief Medical Examiner Jonathan Arden. Damage to the hyoid bone, usually a fracture, is a key clue in ruling that death was caused by strangulation.</p>

D.C. Chief Medical Examiner Jonathan L. Arden said he believes that Chandra Levy might have been strangled, though he does not have conclusive evidence to rule that as the cause of death. Levy's skeletal remains, discovered May 22 in Rock Creek Park, showed damage to her hyoid, a small U-shaped bone in the upper neck, but it was not broken, he said. "A young person could be strangled and not have it show on the bones," said Arden, who ruled Levy's death a homicide but said the cause was undetermined. So far, results from the FBI tests done on evidence...

<p>FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The wife of Rep. Gary Condit can pursue her $10 million defamation suit against the National Enquirer over a headline that said she attacked Chandra Levy, a judge ruled Wednesday.U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger rejected the tabloid's arguments to dismiss Carolyn Condit's lawsuit. The story was published last summer after the former Washington intern vanished.The Enquirer published headlines on its Web site in July and on its Aug. 7 front page that said: "Cops: Condit's Wife Attacked Chandra."The publication reported that Carolyn Condit called her husband's Washington condominium from her home and "flew into a rage" during a "heated phone screamfest" with Levy. The story, based on an unidentified source, said the confrontation occurred just before Levy vanished.Carolyn Condit said she never met Levy or spoke with her. Washington police have said there was no truth to the report.In his 52-page decision, the judge said the headlines could be interpreted to mean that Condit physically attacked Levy. He rejected the Enquirer's claim that the statements were not defamatory, but said a jury would have to decide.</p>

U.S. Park Police and D.C. police are investigating whether law enforcement personnel are responsible for vandalism at the Rock Creek Park site where Chandra Levy's remains were found, authorities said yesterday. The vandalism occurred during the past three weeks while the site was closed to the public and police maintained a 24-hour watch of the area.Hit link for balance of story.

<p>Payroll records probed.</p> <p>June 25, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Disgraced Rep. Gary Condit gave three of his most loyal staffers whopping pay raises just days after he admitted to cops he was sexually involved with murdered intern Chandra Levy, it was revealed yesterday.</p>

House payroll records show that Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.) significantly increased the salaries of three key staffers in the days following the revelation that he was romantically involved with Chandra Levy, a young Washington intern who went missing last year and recently was found dead in Rock Creek Park.A Roll Call analysis of Condit’s payroll records, as disclosed in the quarterly Statement of Disbursements of the House, revealed that the embattled Congressman gave significant pay raises to two top aides — Administrative Assistant Mike Dayton and Chief of Staff Michael Lynch — as the Levy investigation heated up.The Congressman also...

We have seen in the "Condit-style" and in the "Arkancide"-style murders a tendency for the official cover stories to try to blame the killings on a place. The ten killings mentioned in the Chandra websites as possibly Condit-related, all have been tagged in official media to some specific spot and some alleged series of murders going on in that place-- with the other members of the alleged series tending to vanish upon examination. In the case of the 1996 double murder on the Skyline Drive near Luray, Virginia, I am at a loss to say whether it more resembles Condit,...

Washington (AP) - The private investigator who found Chandra Levy's leg bone earlier this month says he's insulted by a police request to submit to a polygraph test. Joe McCann is a former DC homicide detective who was hired by Levy attorney Billy Martin. McCann found the bone on June 6th, a week after police finished their search of Rock Creek Park. The Washington Post reports sources familiar with the incident say police also seemed to question McCann's story. DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey says it's standard procedure in major cases to ask witnesses with crucial information to take a...

WASHINGTON – How Chandra Levy died is still a mystery, but one thing is for certain: Gary Condit and his biker buddies didn't dump her body in a cave or lime pit in Luray, Va. Those who speculated as much last year are strangely silent now that her remains have been recovered from a park just a few miles from her apartment. Luray is about 80 miles west. When Anne Marie Smith revealed one night on CNN that Condit called her around midnight, May 17, 2001, from a McDonald's pay phone in Luray, it was perfect grist for the Condit-did-it...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Investigators probing the Chandra Levy mystery have peeled back more layers from around Ceres Rep. Gary Condit, with the recent grand jury testimony of a longtime aide.</p> <p>In interviews late last week, but scheduled before the discovery of some of Levy's remains May 22, prosecutors and grand jurors questioned Condit's Modesto-based chief of staff, Mike Lynch. Lynch is considered a witness, not a target of the investigation.</p>

<p>Two small bones found in Washington's Rock Creek Park on Monday came from Chandra Levy's left foot, it was reported today.</p> <p>Another bone, found yesterday, and some lipstick found at the scene will be examined to see whether they belong to Levy the Washington Post reported.</p>

D.C. police searching unsuccessfully in Rock Creek Park over the weekend for more remains and belongings of Chandra Levy instead came across some money believed to be from a bank robbery in the District last week, authorities said. The bills, discovered Saturday in the general vicinity of the search site, had red dye on them. Banks often give robbers money with dye packs, which explode and color the cash red. /// FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE,CLICK AND GO H E R E.

Dyed Cash Found Near Levy Site Bills Found in D.C. Park Believed to Be From Bank Robbery By Allan Lengel Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 10, 2002; Page B02 D.C. police searching unsuccessfully in Rock Creek Park over the weekend for more remains and belongings of Chandra Levy instead came across some money believed to be from a bank robbery in the District last week, authorities said. The bills, discovered Saturday in the general vicinity of the search site, had red dye on them. Banks often give robbers money with dye packs, which explode and color the cash red....

When Chandra's body was found on May 22, we started getting a list of clothing items supposedly found with it: sweat shirt, sweat pants, who knows what all. When I and other posters pointed out that she could never have been wearing all this at one time, the official list condensed to say that what was found was: spandex tights, T-shirt, panties, tube-type exercise bra, and ordinary sneakers (not running or specialty shoes). This at least brought it down to what might be worn at the same time. However, it raised other questions. This is what someone might wear while...

(June 6th, 2002 -- 11:18 PM EDT //Un-&%$^#@* believable. Despite giving them a hard time now and then I've always resisted the idea that the DC cops were really fundamentally incompetent, that the seeming inscrutability of Chandra Levy's disappearance and murder might simply be the result of ridiculously inept police work. Now I've changed my mind. As you no doubt know, Levy's remains were found recently in an isolated section of DC's Rock Creek park. But a couple days ago a fellow Chandra-phile and I were watching Greta Van Susteren's show when she and a couple guests -- a renowned...

<p>WASHINGTON — A D.C. police spokesman said Thursday night there are new developments in the case of missing federal intern Chandra Levy.</p> <p>Sergeant Joe Gentile said a police official will meet with the media at 9:30 p.m. in Rock Creek Park near the spot where her remains were found several weeks ago.</p>

Items from the latest Enquirer story (rolling out in newsstand/supermarkets over the weekend) I found to be new information: The running tights were at the base of the tree, perhaps indicating Levy had been tied to it and tortured. The bracelet Condit gave her was not at the scene. Her keys were not at the scene, perhaps lending credibility to the theory that someone scrubbed her apartment. (Recall no Condit memntos were found in her apt.) The source for the above items is a retired California sheriff (who they named) said to be "close to the investigation." Grand jurors in...

<p>A spike in a D.C. park marks the spot where the remains of Chandra Levy were found.</p> <p>June 1, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - This is the spot where the yearlong search for Chandra Levy ended tragically.</p> <p>A metal spike spray-painted orange marks the location where Levy's skeletal remains, workout clothing, sunglasses and Walkman radio were found by a man and his dog last week - touching off one of the highest-profile murder mysteries Washington, D.C., history.</p>

Lack of information handicaps Levy inquiry DC police checking pawnshops for 2 pieces of missing jewelry 06/01/2002 Associated Press WASHINGTON - Police found Chandra Levy's remains through happenstance and, although they have concluded that she was slain, they'll need another big break to find who did it and how. For now, the most likely scenarios are that she was strangled or suffocated, authorities believe. Police are visiting pawnshops in search of two pieces of missing jewelry and talking again to cabdrivers, hoping to find someone who dropped her off the day she disappeared 13 months ago. Ms. Levy's knotted...

  FReeper Sleuths! Gary Condit and the Mystery of the Chandra Levy Pinky Ring! From the New York Post:"Police believe this missing tiny pinkie ring could be the key to solving the Chandra Levy murder case. A gift from her mother, Susan in 1998, it was one of the 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern's most cherished possessions and her family has said she wore it constantly. The 14-carat gold ring was bought for $416 and has two diamond chips and the initials "CL" inscribed. But it was not among the personal items found during the extensive police search of the...

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<p>The Levy family says Chandra was never without her gold pinkie ring, seen here in an artist's conception.</p> <p>May 30, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Police believe this missing tiny pinkie ring could be the key to solving the Chandra Levy murder case.</p>

The Chandra Levy murder remains in Wednesday's headlines, mainly because the "whodunit" has a political link. According to The Hill , a newspaper covering the Capitol, the Levy family considers Rep. Gary Condit -- a California Democrat -- a suspect in Chandra's murder. Chandra's family mourned her death on Tuesday, just hours after the D.C. medical examiner ruled that the 24-year-old woman had been murdered. Based on the skeletal remains found in a Washington park, however, the medical examiner could not say exactly how she was killed. According to The Hill , Chandra's family is now redoubling their efforts to...

June 29 — Following is a timeline of what sources close to Gary Condit say his movements were in the week leading up to Chandra Levy's disappearance. Levy was last seen on Monday, April 30, when she canceled her membership at a Washington health club Saturday, April 28 Carolyn Condit, the congressman's wife, arrives from California at 7:30 p.m. ET. Rep. Condit, with a staffer because he has no car, picks her up at the airport. They go to a Xando coffee shop. Sunday, April 29 Rep. Condit has brunch with his wife, and they go shopping in his Adams...

This updated chronology (#10) is based on news reports, television interviews, and helpful FReeper inputs. Feel free to use this chronology for your own research. All suggested corrections will be considered. No matter how compelling the information may seem, Gary Condit is legally innocent until convicted in a court of law. The public however may draw its own conclusions from news reports and interviews. This information is for research and education purposes only. Aug. 2000: Anne-Marie Smith first dates Condit. (She later explained that there were dating "rules" with the Congressman: The lady was not allowed to carry identification, driver's...

<p>Chandra Levy's body apparently was dumped in Rock Creek Park, where police found her remains on Wednesday, 13 months after she went missing, law-enforcement sources and others familiar with the investigation said yesterday.</p> <p>The former intern's remains were found under thick underbrush far from a path, which indicates her body was placed there, sources said. The remains were found on a hillside above the creek that runs along Broad Branch Road NW.</p>