Reports: Arrest close in Chandra Levy slaying

**celeb_2006** · February 21st, 2009, 10:13 AM

Chandra Ann Levy, a 24-year-old graduate student from University of Southern California, seen in this undated file photo released by the family, has been missing since April 30, 2001, after completing a federal internship. Media reports Saturday Feb. 21, 2009 in Washington and California say that an arrest may be close in the slaying of the young woman, whose disappearance ended Gary Condit's congressional career. (AP)

Reports: Arrest close in Chandra Levy slaying

An arrest may be near in the nearly decade-old slaying of federal intern Chandra Levy, whose disappearance in 2001 ended Gary Condit's congressional career, several television stations reported.
The California Democrat was romantically linked to Levy, but was not considered a suspect in her death or disappearance. Television stations, KFSN and KCRA in California and WRC in Washington, D.C., reported that police were seeking an arrest warrant.
Levy's parents said Friday outside their Modesto, Calif., home that police called them and told them an arrest was near.
"Your child is dead and gone and it's painful, but we're glad that the police and people are doing something, and investigating, and making a difference so somebody's not on the street to do it again," Chandra's mother, Susan Levy, told KGO-TV in San Francisco.
The parents did not say when an arrest warrant might be issued.
The 24-year-old Levy disappeared in May 2001 and at the time, she was wearing jogging clothes when she left her apartment. Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park in Washington about a year later.
Authorities questioned the married Condit in her disappearance. He reportedly told police that he and Levy were having an affair, and while he was not considered a suspect, the negative publicity was cited as the main cause of the Condit's re-election defeat in 2002.
Investigators also interviewed Ingmar Guandique, 27, a Salvadoran immigrant who has denied any involvement in Levy's disappearance and killing.
Guandique was convicted of attacking two women in Rock Creek Park shortly after Levy disappeared.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Saturday her department had no information to release in the ongoing case.
"This case generated numerous bits of information, which we continue to follow up on," she said in a statement.
After Condit did not get re-elected, he sued several media outlets that had connected him to the disappearance and death of Levy. He reached an undisclosed settlement with three tabloid newspapers.

**B.C.** · February 21st, 2009, 10:26 AM

Good, about time.

**LynnieD** · February 21st, 2009, 10:59 AM

I could never figure out if that Condit was involved or not.......

Hope they get the scum who did it...whoever it is.

**Daphne** · February 21st, 2009, 05:33 PM

I'm glad to hear a warrant has been prepared. This case always bothered me, especially because I later went on to intern in Washington, DC. Here is more information on the warrant (Arrest warrant prepared in Chandra Levy case).

**Penny Lane** · February 21st, 2009, 06:19 PM

Personally, I think Condit is a guilty motherfucker. Whoever they send the warrant out for, I hope some closure is in store.

**A*O** · February 21st, 2009, 06:28 PM

Yeah - I think Condit was involved in some way. No doubt the same old story, married man has affair with young woman and promises to leave wife. Young woman believes him. Married man dumps young woman who threatens to tell all and ruin his career. Young woman disappears.

**maryk** · February 21st, 2009, 06:34 PM

I was a teen at the time but I always felt it was Condit's work, he didn't do it himself but he hired someone.

**McJag** · February 21st, 2009, 06:55 PM

Doesn't look like he had anything to do with it-this guy was a serial-in-making. Good thing they caught him,there would have been plenty of others.

**Quazar** · February 21st, 2009, 07:21 PM

I'm glad they kept up with this case and finally got an answer. I had forgotten all about it. I remember this was big news for months, until 9/11, then you didn't hear about it again.

**Daphne** · February 22nd, 2009, 11:18 AM

There were several other young women in the area who were raped and killed before Chandra. I don't think Condit was involved at all.

**chartreuse** · February 22nd, 2009, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Daphne

There were several other young women in the area who were raped and killed before Chandra. I don't think Condit was involved at all.

agreed. i never got the impression that condit was involved with her murder, even though i do think that he is an ass.

**czb** · February 22nd, 2009, 11:25 AM

yeah, daphne's right. but condit looked guilty and the whole situation was sleazy so people (like me) assumed he was guilty. killed condit's career, not sure about his marriage. who knows, maybe his wife was happy she didn't have to sleep with a weazel anymore.

**Sasha** · February 22nd, 2009, 12:14 PM

I found that inmate in a federal prison. Following an exchange of letters and telephone calls, the inmate -- whose name The Washington Post agreed to withhold to protect him against reprisals from other prisoners -- said he would see me. It took more than an hour and a half of warm-up conversation in a prison visiting room, but the inmate recounted the story to me as we sat side-by-side. He told me the same story he told authorities: that Guandique told him he was walking in the Adams Morgan neighborhood one day; was approached by a man who pulled up to the curb in a black car and who offered him the "job" of killing a woman for $25,000. The man would supply a picture of the woman and information on her whereabouts. He would pay half the money upfront and the rest upon completion of the "job." Guandique said he did not realize who the man was and who the victim was until the story hit the media.

Who Killed Chandra Levy? (washingtonpost.com)

Who Killed Chandra Levy: Reporters' Notebook - Washington Post Investigations