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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
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