POLYGRAPH FLAWED IN CHANDRA LEVY PROBE
Polygraph flawed in Chandra Levy probe?
Sunday, September 29, 2002 Posted: 10:38 AM EDT (1438 GMT)
Chandra Levy's remains were found in May.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police detectives in the Chandra Levy murder case are focusing on a suspect initially discounted after he passed a polygraph test investigators now believe was flawed, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
Ingmar Guandique, 21, has been in prison since July 2001 -- two months after the 24-year-old intern disappeared. He was imprisoned after being convicted of assaults on two female joggers in Washington's Rock Creek Park, the paper reported.
Levy's disappearance last year generated national attention due in part to her links to Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Condit of California, who lost a re-election bid earlier this year.
Police have ruled Levy's death a homicide but have not previously identified any suspects.
After Levy's remains were found in Rock Creek Park on May 22, 2002, some investigators reexamining the Guandique case were struck by similarities in the three crime scenes, the Post reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources.
Investigators then discovered that a Spanish-speaking interpreter, instead of a bilingual polygraph technician, was used in administering Guandique's polygraph, it said.
Relying on an interpreter, according to legal experts, can skew the results of the test because the questions are filtered through and possibly altered by the interpreter, it said.
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