An arrest is near in the nearly ten-year-old murder of federal intern Chandra Levy, with reports that an arrest warrant will be issued within days. Her disappearance in May 2001 effectively ended Gary Condit's congressional career.
Chandra Levy, 24-years-old, left her apartment in May 2001 wearing jogging clothes and was not seen again. Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park in Washington about a year later. At the time of her disappearance, she was having an affair with Gary Condit, a married congressman from California.
At first Gary Condit denied the affair, but later had to admit it. It is widely believed that, while police did not consider him a suspect, the negative publicity over his affair with Chandra Levy was the main cause of his re-election defeat in 2002.
According to the Washington Post, after they published a 13-part serial narrative investigation into the Chandra Levy case in July, pointing to Ingmar Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant, as the most likely suspect in the case, police and prosecutors have been building a case against Guandique.
Ingmar Guandique attacked two women at knifepoint in Rock Creek Park around the time of Chandra Levy's disappearance in May 2001. While he has denied any involvement in Levy's death, an inmate serving time with him told police that Guandique admitted the murder to him. Guandique is serving a 10-year sentence in federal prison in California.
Guandique is pictured above, next to a photo of Chandra Levy.
ABC News in the SF Bay Area received this statement from the Levy family:
"Your child is dead and gone and it's painful but we're glad that the police and people are doing something, investigating, and making a difference so someone is not on the street to do it again."
Gary Condit's lawyer at the time of the incident, Abbe Lowell, said this finally vindicates his client:
"While very good news, it is a tragedy that the police and media obsession with former Congressman Condit delayed this result for eight years and caused needless pain and harm to the families involved. 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."
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