If there's one particularly mysterious death with conspiracy theories abound, it's that of Chandra Levy's, an American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington D.C notorious due to disappearing in 2001 and having her skeletal remains found in Rock Creek Park one year later.
Even 19 years later, we have more questions than answers and no convicted killer is behind bars for Chandra Levy's murder.
Levy was an ambitious woman determined to pursue a career in Washington D.C, who in Spring 2001, at 24 years old, vanished without a trace. But her murder was unsolved for years, until 2010, when an undocumented immigrant named Ingmar Guandique was convicted of killing her.
Levy grew up in Northern California with her parents, Bob and Susan Levy, and her younger brother, Adam Levy.
It's said that she was very individualistic and didn't like being told what to do. She wanted to start working wit hthe FBI and moved to D.C to work as an intern with the Bureau of Prisons as part of her master’s program in public administration at the University of Southern California. She had high political internships and reportedly was a honor student, had good grades and the drive to go after these high good positions. Supposedly, while she was in D.C, Levy had engaged in an affair with California Congressman Gary Condit, a Democratic representative from her hometown of Modesto, California, and a married man 28 years her senior.
That's where all the conspiracy theories begin.
An ABC News consultant and former FBI agent, Brad Garret, who also worked as the lead investigator in Levy's case reported that Levy met the congressman when she and a friend visited his office and he gave them a tour of the capitol. He said that her life was basically going to work, back home and then to Gary's house after hours, and that she had an unhappy life there.
Levy's father begs to differ, claiming that Levy was very content in D.C. They went to visit her just before anything happened and she was pretty happy. He also mentioned that she had a secret friend she constantly went out with.. was this the congressman? Did her parents actually know something about the affair?
Well, he found out later about that.Chandra Levy graduated from USC in December 2000, but stayed in D.C. through the spring. She had planned to return to the West Coast in May 2001 to walk in her graduation ceremony, according to her family.
The day Levy disappeared was the day she was packing at her D.C Apartment near Dupont Circle, getting ready to come back home too. She was going to decide what to do next, if look for a job, move back to D.C, look into law school or apply to the FBI. Levy said that her daughter sounded very happy the last time that they spoke and was looking forward to the future.. which of course she never got to turn into reality.
She went missing on Tuesday, May, 2001. Her family didn't suspect anything at first until they couldn't get ahold of her. Her dad began panicking and investigators later found out that she had been researching a visit to D.C's Rock Creek Park, though a search of the park yielded no information. When they searched her apartment, there were only two things missing: her keys and a ring. Her ID, credit cards and cellphone were still in the apartment. What kept everyone puzzled was the fact that she didn't even take her ID to the park.
Apparently, investigators found out that the number she called the most was Gary Condit's office number. By 2001, Congressman Gary Condit had made a name for himself in politics: He was the youngest mayor in Ceres, California, history, and from 1972 through 2000, he never lost an election. Condit became a center of the media not because of his work, but because of the case. Condit denied that he wasn't in love with Levy and not leaving his wife either and that when he was interrogated by the police, he answered every question truthfully.
One year later, Chandra's body was found in a remote area of Rock Creek Park after a man called 911 claiming that he had found a skull. Her family was absolutely devastated by the findings.
That’s when Guandique was finally convicted. Then, in 2016, before the new trial could begin, secret recordings from an unlikely source came to light, and charges against Guandique were dismissed, altering the course of the Levy case.
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