# Chandra Levy Found? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327 "2002-05-22T16:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/21 "2002-05-22T22:15:33Z")
I don’t believe for a second that they “missed” her body the first time around. If you ask me (and I don’t recall anyone doing that, but here you go anyway) it was put there after the dust settled from the original investigation, in hopes that it would look like an accident or random street-type crime and good old GC would skate away, arm-in-arm with OJ and Barretta off to the country club for a quick round on the back nine. Now the fun begins… ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/22 "2002-05-22T22:19:30Z")
I’m sorry, but I just don’t believe that to be true. Most likely, she went walking in the park and some idiot grabbed her, robbed her or raped her, and then probably strangled her or something. I think the fact that she happened to be the mistress of a congressman is pure coincidence. I just can’t see Condit being dumb enough to have her taken out. She was leaving Washington in a few days; he probably would have never seen her again. Unless she was threatening to talk to the tabloids or something, which is something they have never established. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/23 "2002-05-22T23:08:51Z")
I think the FBI knows who it is, they just don’t want to tell yet. Eventually they did. I forgot why they do this. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/24 "2002-05-22T23:56:33Z")
they programmed you to forget… ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/25 "2002-05-23T00:22:09Z")
Rock Creek Park is more that twice the size of New York City’s Central Park. While it is quite narrow in some places, there are a number of places which are seldom used by the public. The local news has said it is not clear if she was buried, and exhumed by natural forces (rain, animals) or if her remains were scattered after partial decomposition. There will be a lot of forensic investigation. There were searches in the area where she was found, in the weeks after she disappeared. A mansion on the park grounds in the vicinity of the location where her remains were found was the subject of one of the sites she accessed on the internet shortly before she disappeared. Tris ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/26 "2002-05-23T01:39:29Z")
I get the strong feeling that she died very near to where she was found. Maybe as suggested she was mugged or raped and her body was tossed there or while she was visiting the area she slipped and fell landing in an area with thick underbrush. Dogs may have found the body and tore it apart a bit. I feel sorry for Gary Condit. He lied about have the affair with her initially but I just think that if he killed her or had her killed he would have disposed of the body in some way better than this. Would anyone think it was wrong to have his life ruined while everyone thought he was a murderer or will it be chalked up to well he shoulded have been having an affair. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/27 "2002-05-23T01:57:06Z")
I think if Gary Condit had been cooperative with the police from the beginning, he would have been forgotten by now - but he was quite evasive with the police & the Levy Family. If he is innocent & had nothing to hide, why be so difficult? Because he wanted to protect his wife from his infidelity? Please! Once someone is missing/ presumed dead you have much bigger problems then how your wife will feel about your cheating heart. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Spider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Barking\_Spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Spider)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/28 "2002-05-23T04:03:06Z")
Mmmmm… Was that Gary Condit I just seen driving down the road in a White Bronco? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/29 "2002-05-23T06:10:37Z")
This is a big breakthrough in the case, and it doesn’t look good for Condit. One big connection now is that in the last 3 hours Levy was at home, she had spent time on the internet looking up both Gary Condit’s campaign site and his schedule, and information about the mansion in Rock Creek Park. Her body was found less than a mile from that exact location. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/30 "2002-05-23T08:09:29Z")
Is this a breakthrough? Let’s wait to hear from the forensic anthropologists. In the meantime the investigative coverage seems to have established that Condit consistently cheated on his wife in Sacramento and later in Washington. ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/31 "2002-05-23T09:30:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \* > \*\*I > I feel sorry for Gary Condit. He lied about have the affair with her initially but I just think that if he killed her or had her killed he would have disposed of the body in some way better than this. > \*\* Thats my take. Condit appeared to me to just be your average politician attempting to dodge controversy. Being romantically linked to a victim doesn’t necessarily imply involvement in their misfortune. A very good case in point for avoiding extramarital hankypanky. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/32 "2002-05-23T09:55:21Z")
Do I think Condit had a hand in Levy’s murder? No. Do I feel sorry for the sleazebag? No. Like **Slainte** said, once it was a matter of abduction and likely murder, the time for evasiveness was over. He still deserves to be tarred and feathered for slowing down the original investigation in order to save himself from embarrassment. I’ll save my sympathy for her family. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/33 "2002-05-23T13:09:25Z")
Does no one else find it odd that her body turns up now, just as Washington starts to get scrutinized about how much they knew about terrorist activities before 911? Suddenly, this forgotten national story gets brought back into the lime light. Interesting. I work for a news station her in Austin, and here are a few tidbits of information we’ve gleamed that I haven’t seen discussed yet. She was identified by her dental records. Why? Because what they found was a skeleton with no hair, skin, or other DNA. It seems to have been stripped clean. Her skeleton was scattered, meaning she wasn’t burried in one piece. Sure, some animal could have gotten to her body, but then it most likely would have wandered off with something, and as far as I know, she’s all there. It’s a fairly well traveled park, and they’d already done an intense investigation of the area. For her body to suddenly turn up after a year without anyone having noticed is very suspicious. I’m not shouting conspiracy theory here, but there was DEFINITELY foul play involved, not just some simple mugging gone wrong. It looks like her body was moved to its present location, but whether or not the authorities will report it like that, who knows? I feel Condit has something to do with it, but exactly how much is something I feel needs to be investigated. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/34 "2002-05-23T13:41:47Z")
**posted by Sam Stone** > [@](#): > > it doesn’t look good for Condit… [Levy] had spent time on the internet looking up both Gary Condit’s campaign site and his schedule, and information about the mansion in Rock Creek Park. wha? she worked for Condit, right? so what’s odd about her having checked his site out? and it’s just as likely (since we (non-Law) have no real facts in the case) that she was killed whilst strolling or jogging, by a mugger/rapist/socio. again, if she was gonna go check a mansion out, is it that odd that she would have looked it up on the net? not saying she **was** killed by a crazy and not a condit, though. jb ---
**Author:** ![trishdish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@trishdish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trishdish)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/35 "2002-05-23T14:17:36Z")
Actually, JB, she did not work for Condit. She met him while doing an internship for another federal agency of which the name escapes me right now. Bureau of Prisons?!? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/36 "2002-05-23T15:01:00Z")
On our local news last night they mentioned that some of the items found with/near the remains were jogging clothes and a radio so I’m leaning toward her being in the wrong place at the wrong time. > [@](#): > > She was identified by her dental records. Why? Because what they found was a skeleton with no hair, skin, or other DNA. It seems to have been stripped clean. I don’t think that’s the case, I believe it’s just faster to use dental records than it is to wait for DNA results. I seem to recall that there was some hair and skin but I was listening to newsradio while I was driving so I was only half-listening and might’ve misheard. Be that as it may, no one is implying that she killed herself and buried herself in the woods, so yes: there is obvious foul play involved, I just don’t see any evidence pointing to Condit yet. ---
**Author:** ![Zoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6de8d8/32.png) [@Zoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoff)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/37 "2002-05-23T15:08:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by RTFirefly_ > Like Slainte said, once it was a matter of abduction and likely murder, the time for evasiveness was over. He still deserves to be tarred and feathered for slowing down the original investigation in order to save himself from embarrassment. And this is what really did him in. Everything I read about the voters in Modesto said they were disgusted with his evasiveness. It wasn’t that they thought he killed Chandra Levy, they just thought the misleading answers were inappropriate when there was an active missing person case. So, he really got tarred for the appropriate reason, in my opinion. As for looking Condit up, I’m not so sure that’s necessarily damning evidence. She had been in a relationship with him. That could be a very mundane thing that only looks strange in hindsight. I don’t think we have enough facts to really say much about what happened. I haven’t seen anything to lead me to believe he killed her, but I’m going to join **Slainte** and **RTFirefly** for a drink in the “No sympathy for Condit” section. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/38 "2002-05-23T15:17:22Z")
A local lady was found by a jogger too at Fort Ord. I think they should have joggers for searchers instead of the FBI… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/39 "2002-05-23T15:42:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*Her skeleton was scattered, meaning she wasn’t burried in one piece. Sure, some animal could have gotten to her body, but then it most likely would have wandered off with something, and as far as I know, she’s all there. > \*\* I’ve heard there’s not a complete skeleton at all. Just some bones and a damaged skull. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > It’s a fairly well traveled park, and they’d already done an intense investigation of the area. For her body to suddenly turn up after a year without anyone having noticed is very suspicious. > \*\* Again, Rock Creek Park is a ravine, and except for the path and road at the bottom, it’s billygoat land. She was reported found on a steep, wooded slope, and the guy who found her had to brush leaves off the skull before _he_ even realized he had found a skull. Incideintally, a mile and a half from a mansion is really a pretty good distance away, in Washington. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327/40 "2002-05-23T17:11:17Z")
If a jogger found the remains then the area must be joggable, ie not all that secluded. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chandra-levy-found/110327.md?page=3)