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Oregon daily emerald worldwide www.dailyemerald.com Today’s crossword solution THSWSflTSsqm M*r30,Z00Z Celebrate the coming of summer by participating in the fourth annual UO Faculty-Staff Fitness Walk! This one-mile walk happens on Thursday, May 30th from 12:00 noon-1:00 pm, and starts at the Student Recreation Center Turf Field. Walk with some very SPECIAL GUESTS and win some GREAT PRIZES! For more information, contact Molly Kennedy at Physical Activity & Recreation Services at 346-4170. I Police want more evidence in Chandra Levy’s homicide ByJimPuzzanghera Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON (KRT) — Chan dra Levy’s death was ruled a homicide Tuesday, but the city’s medical examiner said there was not enough evidence on her skele tal remains to determine how the 24-year-old former federal intern was murdered. “It’s possible we will never know specifically the injury that caused her death,” said Dr. Jonathan L. Arden, Washington’s chief medical examiner. Police expected to finish by Wednesday their search of the densely wooded section of a park where Levy’s body was found on May 22. Clothing found at the scene will be sent to the FBI crime lab for further testing and detec tives met Tuesday to plan their next steps. “We will solve this case, I guar antee you that,” Washington Met ropolitan Police Chief Charles Ramsey said, bristling at ques tions about whether his depart ment should have handled her disappearance any differently. “How long it takes, I don’t know. ... We are not going to stop, whether it’s a day from now or 10 years from now, it doesn’t matter to us.” The official homicide ruling came just hours before Levy’s par ents held a memorial service for her in the family’s hometown of Modesto, Calif. The disappear ance of Levy on May 1, 2001, touched off a nationwide search and led to the downfall of Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif. Condit, who reportedly told police he and Levy had a romantic relationship, has denied any involvement in her disappearance. Ramsey on Tuesday said it was too early to call anyone a suspect and wouldn’t say whether Condit would be re-interviewed. “We’ll speak to anyone who we feel we need to speak to further this investigation,” Ramsey said. “Right now we have a lot of people we want to interview or perhaps need to re-interview.” Ramsey also would not rule out additional interviews with Ingmar Guandeque, 20, of Washington, who is serving 10 years in federal prison for two knifepoint attacks on women jogging in Rock Creek Park on May 14, 2001, and July 1, 2001. Police talked to him about Levy’s disappearance last year. Although police recovered al most all of Levy’s skeleton, the bones — exposed to the elements for about a year — showed no conclusive evidence of a cause of death, such as strangulation, knife or gunshot wounds, Arden said. He could not determine if Levy was killed where her body was found. “There’s less to work with here than I would like ... but certainly enough to render some conclu sions,” Arden said of the body. “The circumstances of her disap pearance and her discovery, hav ing been secluded in the park, and taking into account the personal effects that were found at the scene allows me to conclude her was death was homicidal in nature.” Police also recovered at the site a jogging bra, tennis shoes and a sweatshirt from the University of Southern California, where Levy had earned a master’s degree. Levy was last seen April 30, 2001, as she prepared to return to California after her internship with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons ended. The next day, she sent e-mail from her computer and searched the In ternet for directions to an old man sion in the park. Levy, a jogger, left her apart ment sometime after logging off her computer at about 12:30 p.m. May 1, 2001. Only her keys were missing from her apartment, leading to speculation that she might have headed to the park for a run. Ramsey said it helps police to know that Levy was murdered and did not somehow die acci dentally in the park. He said the investigation would not necessar ily be hindered by not having a cause of death. “It’s always good to get a cause, but it doesn’t really stop us from moving from forward,” Ramsey said. “We know the manner of death was homicide. The ques tions still remain: How did she get there, was she going to see some one when she got there, was she just out for a walk?” ©2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. EMU | the present Tell us what you want. What you really, really want. Students. .. Faculty. . .Staff We need your imput about the future Erb Memorial Union. You are invited to attend a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, May 29th. Come and tell us what you’d like the EMU to be. erb memorial union EMU | the future Town Hall Meetings Wednesday May 29th NOON-1 pm EMU Amphitheater 5:15-6:1 5pm Skylight Room [top floor of Skylight near Century Rooms] UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
