Chandra Levy Case: An Arrest Near?

Hmm. You might remember this case. It ended Gary Condit's political career. h/t from an email.

WASHINGTON - An arrest may be close in the slaying of the former federal intern whose disappearance ended Gary Condit's congressional career, according to media reports in Washington and California.

NBC affiliate WRC in Washington and KGO, KFSN and KCRA in California said D.C. police are seeking an arrest warrant in Chandra Levy's death.

The warrant would be for an inmate convicted of attacking two female joggers in the same Washington park where Levy's remains were found in 2002.

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[Lala]

The illegal (I've heard) immigrant supposedly did a contract hit on her for Condit for $25,000.00.
He's in jail for raping and stabbing two women in the park where Levy was found. It is strange that Condit would find such a person to perform this "hit." Condit has only himself to blame for what happened to his career, he should have told the truth from the beginning, that he was having an affair with her instead of trying to hide it.

[Anon]

That is ridiculous, if he put a hit out on her he would have done a lot better job in getting rid of all that evidence in her apartment of their affair. And I mean, he's going to use an illiterate immigrant for a "hit"?

Yes, Condit should have told the truth, but there was never any tiny shred of evidence that he was involved in her murder. The fact that anyone still thinks he killed her or had her killed is a testament to how easy it is for the media to destroy you based on absolute falsehoods.

[Lala]

Supposedly, a jail-house snitch is reporting the "hit."

Anyway, Condit's brother is an ex-con, here's a transcript from Greta in 2001

VAN SUSTEREN: Edna, what do we know about Gary Condit's younger brother? You raised the issue, what is known about him?

BUCHANAN: Well, he's got a rap sheet. He's an ex-con. He's been charged with everything from armed robbery to drug offenses. He's a fugitive from Florida at this very moment. I'd like to know when he was in Washington, D.C. last, had he ever met Chandra. She might go somewhere with him, knowing that he was the congressman's brother. When did he speak to his brother last?

VAN SUSTEREN: Is that something that -- I mean, if you were back in the business and not writing novels, which you do so well now, but back in the business of reporting, going after these crimes and reporting, is that something you would be like dogging about, trying to go into the background of the brother and going to find out what kind of disposal the congressman might have made of other items?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/20/tpt.00.html

[Anon]

It's funny then, that it doesn't appear that the police are planning to arrest Condit....but they're going to arrest the guy who had attacked other women in exactly the same way at exactly the same place and time where Levy was last seen and who even admits he saw her in the park where her body was found.

The police botched this case from the beginning and then let themselves get sidetracked by the media witch hunt against Condit.

Logically, a 'hit' does not make any sense. If it was supposed to look like a robbery then the 'hitman' would have made sure her body was found, if she was to be disappeared forever then her body would not have been left in the park right where she was killed. The very fact that her body was not discovered for years is what put all the heat on Condit in the first place. If her body had been found right away it would have been 'random attack/robbery/rape' and no one would ever have found out about his affair.

Sorry, not buying it for a minute.

[Lala]

I don't believe the hit story either.
Yes, the police botched it. Fox just had an ex-homicide detective who worked for the Levy's on and he said the suspect was picked up a few days after Chandra disappeared, for a burglary, and he had scratches on his face. It is said that he is a member of MS-13. He has also confessed to the murder twice.

[Anon]

The Wash Post series actually did a good job in exposing the comedy of errors that was this investigation from start to finish...how they managed to fail to find her body, overlooking this guy in the beginning then ruling him out based flawed lie detector test, the pressure to investigate Condit because of the media and her family, failure to secure evidence, misinterpretation of evidence. Total incompetance on every level.

Just exactly what you should expect from the D.C. police force...a decade to solve a case that should have been solved in a few months and the ruining of an innocent [though scummy] man's life and career.

[Micha Elyi]

If only the media hadn't been playing a bare-knuckles game of "Name That Party" then the most common reaction to the Condit affair would have been, "he's a clinton democrat, what do you expect? No news here, move along."

Instead, by hiding Condit's party loyalties, the press wing of the Democrat party scored an own goal.

Still, the Condit scandal sold a lot of supermarket tabloids and drew a lot of viewers to farky TV shows; all the usual circuses that appeal to the Democrat party's base voter demographic (women). The party's media wing's moguls made their dough so they're happy and the party's base voters got what they consider quality entertainment so they're happy too.