Update on Chandra Levy
 

CNN say that the FBI has found her body at last. Sad but at least her parents can truely grieve now.

Did CNN say anything else about the investigation?

HMM they changed it to may be her body now but think its likely. Guess we will see.....

Not yet its breaking news , but they are discussing it right now.

Fox news says they found a skull. They also found clothing like Chandra had.

They also say it was found at the park that she looked up on here computer right before she dsappeared.

CNN has this up...

Remains may be Chandra's
Police in Washington, D.C., are investigating the possibility that skeletal remains found in Rock Creek Park may be those of missing former intern Chandra Levy.
FULL STORY SOON

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/22/levy.body/index.html

Not this again:eek:

I said may be in my second post :p

I just heard on the radio that there is a chance it might be Chandra Levy, but they are running DNA tests on the body to find out for sure.

This is a very unfortunate occurance, whether it is the remains of Chandra Levy or not.

Question:
It was announced that the authorities have been in contact with the Levy family and they are distraught about the situation. Would the authorities have notified Chandra Levy's parents prior to going public with this information since it isn't certain that it is Chandra Levy? If they did, would they have contacted the families of other missing people from the area? (Just curious as to how a high profile case would be treated when compared to low-key, locally-known cases)

Hummm, good question, It wiuldn't seem fair not to contact other families if there were other descriptions that could match.

Ronnie :D

Didnt they spend 1,000,000 man hours scouring that park? What....They didnt look close enough?

Yes, I realize that, however, you also wrote confirmed in the Subject Header of this thread which is the first thing everybody sees......

As the starter of the thread, you can edit it out.....

It's not comfirmed yet, is it? They still have test to do, right?

Yeah, MAY BE is the key word. We should not forget about the other thousands of missing Americans.....

.....like, we just found a body, it MUST be Chandra Levy....duh....

They still have DNA tests to do before they can officially claim that the body is Chandra Levy's.

Correct, they are still confirming.....

As a personal friend and a neighbor of Chandra's PLEASE change the topic of your thread. There is a chance it may be her's but there is always a chance that it is not her. CNN and the Washington POst are reporting that they aren't positive it's a woman's remains. Yes, there was a female sports bra found but still...

Please show some sensitivty.

See CNN now, it's been confirmed.

:(

This whole situation is so sad. I am glad for her family that her body was found. At least now they know.

So sad. My prayers are with her friends and family. One of my sorority sisters who is about Chandra's age is currently working in politics in D.C. and lives in the same area that Chandra did. She is rather concerned... Apparently, there have been 3 women who disappeared around the same time Chandra did -- in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C. Some people there believe it may be a serial killer. So far, one of the missing women's bodies has been found. And now Chandra Levy's as well. So very sad. :(

its very sad that they found her body... i had hoped she would eventually be found alive...

i don't know if i'm just a cynic, but i almost feel like chandra's body being found at this time is almost a wag the dog effect (for those of you who have seen the movie) like washington and the white house wants to take the whole spotliht off themselves and how they royally screwed up with the whole ignoring the 9/11 signs and warnings and put it on somebody/something else so as to get people talking about something else and not jeopardize W's place in history as the "heroic" leader of a nation put to the test and to keep his approval ratings high... its probably just coincidence that the body was found now, but when i heard thats one of the first things that popped in my head...

Even though most people were certain that she was dead, it is still shocking for her remains to be found. At least now her parents can have a proper funeral or memorial service for her. I just hope that whoever the sicko is that did that to her gets what is coming...

IowaHawkeye, it is funny how things worked out that way, isn't it...the timing is likely a coincidence, but the inquiring mind does consider that a possibility.

I would be interested to find out the forensic results with regards to whether or not her body has been there the entire time, or if it was placed there much later...

seriously guys...
 

Ok, while this may sound really bad, I feel like it needs to be said. Condit was a very powerful politician...had they found her remains during the heat of the scandal, his career would be hands down over and done with and he'd be sent to prison. But....we've had a lot of disastrous occurances in the past year or so, so our attention (as media consumers) has been diverted. It's still a big story that her body has been found, but it's not as huge as it would have been, say, 10 months ago. I personally believe that somehow Condit or one of his associates somehow convinced the cops to half heartedly search....or.....someone (Condit or not) has been seriously hiding her all these months and then just now kind of dumped her (for reasons I stated earlier). Nonetheless, I find it all incredibly creepy and I pray for the Levy family that they may one day find peace amid all the tragedy.

Well, while news is by poney express to Kansas, I did not see anything on the news!

Being an Ex Cop, I hope they do a DNA and Find that DickWad Condicks responseable!

Hell they all act like they are above the Law, the crooked Basturds!

Well said Tom...

The Washington Post started a 12 chapter investigative report of/on the cold case of Chandra Levy's Murder.
One may have to sign up/register on WP's web site (free) in order to read it.
About This Series

The Chandra Levy case captivated the world. Last year, The Washington Post decided to find out why her murder remains unsolved.
Post reporters Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham from the paper's Investigative unit were assigned to produce an in-depth reconstruction of the case that would reexamine all avenues of the investigation. Sylvia Moreno joined them from the newspaper's Metro staff. They began by interviewing those closest to Chandra: her parents, Robert and Susan Levy; her aunt, Linda Zamsky; and friends in Washington and in California.
The reporters also spoke to the key police officials in charge of the case: former chief Charles H. Ramsey, former executive assistant chief Terrance W. Gainer, former assistant chief Alfred J. Broadbent and former chief of detectives Jack Barrett. Also interviewed were U.S. Park Police officers, a former FBI agent and a federal prosecutor involved in the case, as well as other women who were attacked and accosted in Rock Creek Park around the time of Chandra's disappearance, on May 1, 2001.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews#
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...cials/chandra/
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washi...vy_the_re.html

The only thing interesting about this case is the fact that the media showed (again) how it can manipulate people into believing something completely irrelevant is important.

This is the second time you've mentioned something in the Washington Post being irrelevant. Need I remind you that both events you mentioned occurred in Washington and are, at the very least, of interest and importance to Washingtonians?

It is our paper, after all.

There are lots of murders in D.C. I can see this being at the most a national interest story which might go for a news cycle. Lots of kids go to D.C. for intern jobs, etc., but this is complete overkill.

Besides the unwarranted Condit speculation, I don't see the big deal.

Ok, Kevin.

How is it overkill? 6 years have passed since her body was found, and it was over seven years ago that she disappeared. It's not totally unusual for a newspaper to go back and write an article about an unsolved case that shook its respective city. My teeny tiny hometown does it every so often, especially when the case involved a young female who was killed. I'm sure in 5 years or so, the Birmingham paper will probably do something similar with Natalee Holloway.

Investigating the Natalee Holloway case involves an all-expense paid trip to Aruba for all "investigative reporters" involved. You can bet that case will merit lots of follow-up.

I do think that it's a shame that we're not equally as interested in the fates of all murder victims and instead seem a whole lot more interested in young, white, female victims. But it's apparently what people watch and read in terms of news stories, so it's not surprising that these are the stories that reporters bring back.

There was recently a decision by the Georgia Supreme Court that any murder investigation labeled as an open case was not subject to the Open Records Act. The Athens paper brought the suit because they wanted access to the police records of a murder of a student that took place when I was in school there. On some level, it's good that the paper would keep pressure on solving the case; on a different level, there are many other unsolved murders in Athens, and yet, not all get this kind of attention or apparently any attention at all.

http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/...80701041.shtml

http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/...30209090.shtml

ETA: the article only list 6 unsolved murders since 2001. But I doubt that all murders before 2001 were solved, and I know of at least one other case (from the 1990s) for which no one was ever prosecuted for the murder. I think the Athens police rates for solving crimes are generally pretty good. I'm just pointing on the difference in attention to cases depended on who the victims are.

Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning?

I hope this series on Chandra Levy's murder renews interest in her murder and her killer is brought to justice.

How many murders happen in D.C. which don't get national attention?

If we don't care about those, why should we care about this one?

Cold cases get attention all the time in the Washington Post.

Probably when they need filler :)