by Pat Brown
Remember Chandra Levy? The Washington Post just did a nice spread on the cold case, still rumininating about what actually happened to Chandra. The Post declared the intern's mysterious disappearance and murder "Washington's most famous unsolved crime." Last we heard some local serial killer wandering about Rock Creek Park (where her body was finally found in a ravine) is theorized to have grabbed her, tied her up and raped her. Bullocks. I never bought this scenario. Let's take a look at it. When was the last ti
me you heard of a serial killer, wandering around a park with ropes, looking for a jogger to tie up? In my experience and from all the history of dead women in parks, they are attacked by anger retaliatory serial killers, the type that commit the type of crime I have coined as a "bop and drop." This means he jumps out of the bushes or comes up behind his victim and nails her with a rock, or a police baton, or throws a belt around her throat and she falls to the ground. He rapes and strangles her. Her body is left right there or he pulls it under a bush to hide it. This is the level of activity we find with raped dead women in parks.
me you heard of a serial killer, wandering around a park with ropes, looking for a jogger to tie up? In my experience and from all the history of dead women in parks, they are attacked by anger retaliatory serial killers, the type that commit the type of crime I have coined as a "bop and drop." This means he jumps out of the bushes or comes up behind his victim and nails her with a rock, or a police baton, or throws a belt around her throat and she falls to the ground. He rapes and strangles her. Her body is left right there or he pulls it under a bush to hide it. This is the level of activity we find with raped dead women in parks. I have never heard of a woman being bound hand and foot (which rather makes raping her difficult) when there is no necessity to bother to do so. Bound women are found in homes, places of business, basements of serial killer's houses, and in trunks where the bindings are merely for ease of managing those flopping limbs.
Which brings us back to former Rep. Gary Condit. The location where Levy was found in Rock Creek Park is pretty much a skip and a jump away from Condit's home. It was also along a drive that one would take to make sure the car is not seen going from Point A to Point B.
Condit got to know the lovely summer intern, Chandra, the 24-year-old USC coed interning with the Bureau of Prisons in Washinton. Condit is a pretty squirrelly character. He had affairs with numerous women, stringing them along, and attempting to keep their relationships secret. I believe Chandra was naive and foolish and thought Condit was really going to dump his wife and marry her. This is what she told a friend. If she stuck to her guns, she would become a massive liability for Condit.
Did he kill her? There is a good amount of evidence that makes one focus on him as opposed to anyone else. If Condit (pictured right) didn't bind her up and toss her in the park, who else would? I bet Condit wishes still he could come up with an answer for that, but he can't. He was her one and only even if she wasn't HIS one and only. I doubt this case will ever be closed, any good physical evidence is long gone. If Condit did her in, he got away with a "good enough" murder.
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For readers who want to take a closer view, see this
timeline and the Washington Post series. What do you think it would take to solve this cold case?
