Hi sweetie,
Oh, it certainly would. My beach was their hangout growing up. I'd love to read it.
Here's that Times article:
July 18, 2001
Police See Nothing to Link Missing
Intern and Dead Women
By JAMES RISEN and RAYMOND BONNER
ASHINGTON, July 17 — Washington police investigating
the disappearance of the government intern Chandra Ann
Levy have found no evidence that would link her case to other
recent missing-person cases involving young women in the capital,
law enforcement officials said today.
In particular, investigators for the Metropolitan Police Department
have reviewed two cases involving women whose bodies were
recovered in the Washington area, Joyce Chiang and Christine M.
Mirzayan.
Ms. Chiang, a 28-year-old lawyer at the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, disappeared in January 1999, after last being
seen in the Dupont Circle area, a few blocks from where Ms. Levy,
24, lived. Her body was discovered three months later on the
Virginia side of the Potomac River, but the authorities were never
able to determine the cause of death.
Ms. Mirzayan, a 28-year-old intern at the National Research
Council in Washington, disappeared on Aug. 1, 1998. Her body was found in a wooded area near
Georgetown University the next day. Her head had been crushed.
No one has been arrested in either case. There are some striking similarities
between those cases and the Levy one. All three women were Californians in
their 20's and had similar physical characteristics. Like Ms. Levy, Ms.
Mirzayan was an intern, while Ms. Chiang lived in the same neighborhood as
Ms. Levy.
But police officials said their review of the cases had found no connections to
Ms. Levy's disappearance.
"There is no evidence to indicate that they are linked," said Sgt. Joseph
Gentile, a spokesman for the Washington police. "Our guys have looked at
these cases, and there is nothing to show a link."
Sergeant Gentile added that the police had not "found anything that points to
a serial killer."
Ms. Levy, who had been working in Washington as an intern at the Bureau of
Prisons, was last seen on April 30, just before she was planning to return
home to Modesto, Calif., and to her graduation from the University of Southern California.
The police have been able to determine, through a search of the personal computer that she kept in her
apartment, that on the morning of May 1 she went online at 9:30 and remained online for at least three hours.
The police found that during that time, she checked for directions to the Klingle Mansion in Rock Creek Park,
prompting their search of that area on Monday and today.
The police did not find any evidence that might help determine Ms. Levy's whereabouts, but the police are
continuing to search remote locations in Washington.
The police have fed information about the case into the F.B.I.'s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
database, which helps detect similarities between cases.
Robert Ressler, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation official who helped establish the program for the
bureau in the mid- 1980's, said in an interview that the use of the VICAP database was not likely to help the
police solve the Levy case at this point.
"VICAP works from a crime scene or a body," said Mr. Ressler, who now runs a private forensic
investigation firm in Virginia.
Mr. Ressler was critical of the police handling of the case, and said they had moved too slowly.
"They lost time, they lost momentum," he said. "Poor police investigation at the outset leads to unsolved
crimes. Four years from now, we could still be saying, What happened to Chandra Levy?"
Roger Chiang, the brother of Joyce Chiang, questioned why the police ruled out possible connections with his
sister's death.
"I have to question whether they have taken an honest look at Joyce's case," Mr. Chiang said today.
He also was critical of the police handling of the Levy case, saying "they waited too long to get an aggressive
investigation going."
Meanwhile, a police official said today that lawyers for Representative Gary A. Condit, Democrat of
California, sent over the raw data from a polygraph examination administered by an expert hired by his
lawyers.
Last week, Mr. Condit's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, announced that Mr. Condit had passed the test, showing he
was truthful in saying that he had nothing to do with Ms. Levy's disappearance and did not know her
whereabouts.
Mr. Condit, who has publicly described Ms. Levy as a "good friend," has been interviewed three times by the
police. They have emphasized that he is not a suspect in her disappearance. Ms. Levy's relatives have said
that Ms. Levy was having an affair with Mr. Condit.
The police official said the polygraph test results were sent by the Washington police to the F.B.I. for review.
The police do not know when they will receive the bureau's analysis. The police have expressed skepticism
about the polygraph because it was administered by someone hired by Mr. Condit's lawyers, and they have
said they would like an opportunity to administer one to Mr. Condit themselves. |
