BREAKING: Chandra Levy Killed by ILLEGAL ALIEN!
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Police Close to Charging California Prisoner in Chandra Levy Case
Saturday , February 21, 2009
Police have interviewed and are close to charging a California prison inmate in the eight-year-old case of Chandra Levy, the federal intern who vanished and was found murdered a year later, a law enforcement official told FOX News on Saturday.
The official said Washington, D.C., authorities submitted evidence to the U.S. Attorney's Office to obtain an arrest warrant for Ingmar Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant who will be served papers in California and likely will be flown to Washington to hear the charges against him.
Guandique, 27, is in the high-security Victorville federal prison in Adelanto, Calif., the source told FOX.
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Guandique was convicted of assaulting two women in Washington's Rock Creek Park around the time of Levy's disappearance and is serving a 10-year sentence in federal prison, according to The Washington Post. It's the same park where Levy's remains were found in 2002, the year after she vanished.
Another inmate told investigators that Guandique confessed to Levy's murder, according to WRC-TV in Washington. But Guandique reportedly changed his story when speaking to police, saying that he saw Levy several times in the park but played no part in her death.
Levy's parents, Robert and Susan Levy, said Friday night that police told them there had been a break in the case, KXTV in Sacramento reported.
"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," Susan Levy told KGO-TV in San Francisco.
The parents did not say when an arrest warrant might be issued.
Levy, 24, of Modesto, Calif., had just completed an internship at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared after leaving her apartment in jogging clothes on May 1, 2001. Her remains were found about a year later.
The cause of death was ruled a homicide, but nobody ever was charged.
Levy was romantically linked to married California Rep. Gary Condit. He acknowledged to detectives that they had an intimate relationship, but he denied any involvement in or knowledge of Levy's disappearance or death. Levy's parents also said their daughter had told them about the affair.
Though police never publicly named Condit a suspect, the negative publicity from the case was cited as the main cause of the Democrat's re-election defeat in 2002.
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.
FOX News' Mike Levine and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Very sad. I hope they nail this illegal to the cross.
This is a very distrubing story on so many levels.
I am so sorry for her family, the only blessing for them is knowing that her killer will not go un-punished.
Investigators prepare warrant in 2001 slaying of former inte
Investigators prepare warrant in 2001 slaying of former intern Chandra Levy in WashingtonBy GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Associated Press Writer
8:37 PM EST, February 21, 2009
* Photos of Chandra Levy are on display as musicians, right, stand by at the memorial service for Levy in this Tuesday, May 28, 2002 file photo taken at the Modesto Centre Plaza in Modesto, Calif. Media reports Saturday Feb. 21, 2009 in Washington and California say that an arrest may be close in the slaying of the former federal intern whose disappearance ended Gary Condit's congressional career. The warrant is expected to be for a prison inmate convicted of attacking two female joggers in the same Washington park where Levy's remains were found. (AP Photo/Debbie Noda, Pool, File) (DEBBIE NODA, AP / May 28, 2002)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators in the 2001 slaying of Chandra Levy have prepared an arrest warrant for a Salvadoran immigrant convicted of similar attacks in the park where the former intern disappeared, a person close to the investigation said Saturday.
The person told The Associated Press that Ingmar Guandique's arrest is imminent and an official announcement is expected soon. The person was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Levy had just completed an internship with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons when she went missing in May 2001 in Washington, D.C. The 24-year-old was wearing jogging clothes when she vanished, and her remains were discovered in Rock Creek Park a year later.
Authorities questioned former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit in Levy's disappearance, but he was never a suspect in her death. Condit was reportedly having an affair with Levy, and the negative publicity from the case was cited as a main reason the California lawmaker lost re-election in 2002.
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Map of area where the body was found Graphic Guandique, 27, has denied any involvement in Levy's disappearance and killing. However, investigators interviewed him in the Levy case after he was convicted of attacking two women joggers in Rock Creek Park shortly after her disappearance.
Guandique was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for those attacks. The federal Bureau of Prisons lists an inmate in California with the same sentence and age, but with the spelling Guandigue instead of Guandique. A message seeking comment was not returned.
Levy's father, Robert Levy, said Washington, D.C., Police Chief Cathy Lanier called his home late Friday and said there would be an arrest in a few days.
Robert Levy said he and his wife, Susan, were not told the identity of the person to be arrested "but we all know who it is." He would not elaborate but said they would favor a life sentence for the killer.
"If someone is executed, they really don't suffer too much," he said from his home in Modesto, Calif.
A second person aware of the investigation, a law enforcement official who spoke to investigators, said Saturday that the break in the case came in part from DNA evidence. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Levy investigation is ongoing, said DNA evidence was either retested or collected, and it was connected to Guandique.
The official said D.C. police have interviewed Guandique at least twice, and the case has been sent to a grand jury.
An attorney for Condit said the new revelations clear the former congressman.
"This should give the Levys the answer and closure they deserve, and remove the unfair cloud that has hung over the Condits for too long," said Abbe Lowell, a Washington lawyer.
Condit did not return several messages left by The Associated Press but said in a statement to WJLA-TV in Washington that he is glad the Levy family is finally getting answers.
"For my family, I am glad that their years of standing together in the face of such adversity have finally led to the truth," he said in the statement, posted on the station's Web site. "It is unfortunate that an insatiable appetite for sensationalism blocked so many from searching for the real answers for so long. I had always hoped to have the opportunity to tell my side of this story, but too many were not prepared to listen. Now I plan to do so, but I will have no further comments on this story at this time."
The Levys said the news about the arrest warrant did not make up for the loss of their daughter.
Photographs of Chandra adorned the living room of the Levy home, which sits on a quiet street in a suburban community surrounded by farms and orchards. The piano she played remains in the front room, but is now out of tune. Her bedroom has become part storage area and part shrine, with more pictures of Chandra hanging next her mother's paintings.
"There's not a day or night it's not on our minds," Susan Levy said. "When it comes to holiday time and family get-togethers, there's a big void."
Lanier, the D.C. police chief, said Saturday that she could not comment out of respect for the Levy family and the investigators and prosecutors who have worked on the case.
"It would simply be inappropriate for me to violate the integrity of their work by commenting before it is appropriate to do so," Lanier said in an e-mail.
Susan Levy said the couple had been meeting with a special task force of Washington police working on the case. "We got the attention that may lead to an arrest and a conviction," she said.
After Condit lost his re-election bid, he sued several media outlets that had connected him to Levy's disappearance and death. He reached an undisclosed settlement with three tabloid newspapers.
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