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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>