The bones were found by a dog. A man and his dog were hiking the ravine, hunting turtles, when the dog began to get excited. The man went over to see what it was and unearthed the skull.
I biked Rock Creek Park last night. Parts of it are heavily forested, other parts are comprised of exercise courses and jogging paths. The area where Chandra’s remains were found is made up of hills and dense foliage. The further north you go in the park, the more isolated and creepy it becomes. Don’t even talk about the Maryland section. Yikes!
Was at Rock Creek park a week or so ago, it’s a big park; and as well, there’s lots of areas that are generally untraveled. Easy to see how something could go unnoticed there when you’ve actually been to some of the more “secluded” spots.
Dental records are a fast and reliable way to make a positive identification. Indeed there’s still DNA there, but it takes time to process that information (and do it properly).
Sounds like a lot of people are jumping the gun on Condit again. Course it’s possible, but I wouldn’t assume anything at this point. That’s tacky.
Least it’s a change of pace from the terrorist “this” and terrorist “that” drama the media keeps masturbating on.
Hey, c’mon, he was hunting turtles with his dog. Perhaps the dog likes turtles and he was doing it to entertain the dog
Who knows, maybe MPD should hire the dog—it’d be less expensive than recruiting new people.
Anyhoo, back to the original topic, the NY Times says something to the effect that they’re checking out a guy known to have assaulted two other women in Rock Creek Park.
A comment on Thursday’s news coverage from our local morning news guys: GWB could have been walking on the GWB holding a dog leash with Ossam bin Laden on the other end, and the lead news story would still have been Chaundra Levy.
A body will decompose. Heavily wooded areas have trees with leaves that fall and decompose. Animals and birds finding what they perceive as food will do as they will.
When we’ve come across animal remains in the woods they’re seldom intact.
I have no sympathy for Condit (sleezy womanizing men who cheat on their spouses aint’ one of my favorite demographics), but it’s a hellava leap from that to ‘he had something to do with it’.
And, since it’s pretty damned likely that she died fairly soon after she’d disappeared (otherwise, she’d have returned to her appartment etc.), what exactly would have been different if he’d told the cops 'oh yea, we were having an affair but broke up?"
let’s recall that ‘all the presidents horses and men’ who searched the park over and over last summer didn’t find her. So, even if he’d said “Yes, I talked to her at 1:15 pm and she was on her way to Rock Creek Park for a jog” (not saying that is what happened), I don’t see what would have been different.
Perhaps nothing, but I don’t think it’s his call to make. He decided his potential political viability was more important than the potential aid to the investigation. I think that’s the disgust people are expressing.
Maybe his information wouldn’t have helped, but that’s all in hindsight. At the time he had a choice to make and he made the wrong one.
