Anonymous
Post 07/29/2016 13:01     Subject: Re:Witness in Chandra Levy case
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
To this day, my friends and I reference her -- Though she was lovely, some of the photos used at the time were unflattering, so we take occasional "missing" photos with good lighting to be used publicly in the event one of us disappears.


That is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard.


Me too. And I've heard a lot of weird.


Weird?? It makes perfect sense! Everyone knows the media will swoop in on attractive young women who go missing. They'll get their pics on tv and online incessantly and their images will be emblazoned in the public's minds. Everyone is on the look out for them. So much the better if the photos are of the victim being fun and friendly -- pics of women on boats, curled up with puppies, you name it. So if we're out on a boat we make sure to get a couple of wind-whipped photos, and then we update those shots every year or two. We're in our 40s now, so we go for flattering photos with our young kids -- fun moms with little kids get a lot of air-play too.

And it's all because of Chandra.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2016 12:55     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was an intern that summer and still have the People magazine with this case on the cover. It's so strange that they still don't have an answer all these years later.


Did you know her? An old HS friend was an intern that year and didn't know her but oh man did she have some stories to tell about her time interning.

Another friend asked her what the best way to get 'in' would be and she replied with "on your knees." Everyone wrote it off as her making a joke and being tipsy, but she told us later that she was dead serious. If you didn't have a connection, the second best way was to flirt/sleep your way in.

We lost touch and I didn't think about her or her stories until a few years later when a press release came across my desk with my old friend's name and position in it. I was literally because her position/title was NOT one that someone her age or stage of their career should have. Washington, man. Washington.


+1

Was overeaching - by far? Very, very far- right? I have seen this at my place, too. Some people are just ballsy - and not in a good way.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2016 12:46     Subject: Re:Witness in Chandra Levy case
Anonymous wrote:
To this day, my friends and I reference her -- Though she was lovely, some of the photos used at the time were unflattering, so we take occasional "missing" photos with good lighting to be used publicly in the event one of us disappears.


That is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard.


Me too. And I've heard a lot of weird.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2016 12:40     Subject: Re:Witness in Chandra Levy case
To this day, my friends and I reference her -- Though she was lovely, some of the photos used at the time were unflattering, so we take occasional "missing" photos with good lighting to be used publicly in the event one of us disappears.


That is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2016 12:25     Subject: Re:Witness in Chandra Levy case
This case would have been solved if DCUM sleuths had been around back then. I was so riveted at the time as Chandra and I were in similar circumstances (different congressman) and I drew parallels all day long.

To this day, my friends and I reference her -- Though she was lovely, some of the photos used at the time were unflattering, so we take occasional "missing" photos with good lighting to be used publicly in the event one of us disappears.

I'm so sorry for her parents.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2016 12:21     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
Anonymous wrote:I was an intern that summer and still have the People magazine with this case on the cover. It's so strange that they still don't have an answer all these years later.


Did you know her? An old HS friend was an intern that year and didn't know her but oh man did she have some stories to tell about her time interning.

Another friend asked her what the best way to get 'in' would be and she replied with "on your knees." Everyone wrote it off as her making a joke and being tipsy, but she told us later that she was dead serious. If you didn't have a connection, the second best way was to flirt/sleep your way in.

We lost touch and I didn't think about her or her stories until a few years later when a press release came across my desk with my old friend's name and position in it. I was literally because her position/title was NOT one that someone her age or stage of their career should have. Washington, man. Washington.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2016 12:13     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Gary Condits (plural) did it, and that,s why all the secrecy for now.


Damn right.



A real life House of Cards. Tell me more...
jsteele
Post 07/29/2016 09:34     Subject: Re:Witness in Chandra Levy case
Have you guys seen this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/charges-dropped-against-man-accused-of-killing-washington-intern-chandra-levy/2016/07/28/36f36630-54ee-11e6-bbf5-957ad17b4385_story.html

Apparently, the guy who was going to testified about Guandique's jail house confession was caught on tape admitting that he lied about it. As a result, the prosecutors lost their main -- and I think only -- witness.


Anonymous
Post 07/28/2016 22:35     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
I know it's the DailyMail, but the article states that defense counsel had two women ready to testify that they had rough sex with Condit. Given that there were knotted tights found by her body, this would have completely blown the prosecution's case apart.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3713295/Man-convicted-Chandra-Levys-death-wont-retried.html#comments
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2016 20:04     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
Anonymous wrote:I was an intern that summer and still have the People magazine with this case on the cover. It's so strange that they still don't have an answer all these years later.


Well, they thought they had the guy so I doubt they've been looking much the past few years.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2016 20:02     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
I was an intern that summer and still have the People magazine with this case on the cover. It's so strange that they still don't have an answer all these years later.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2016 19:18     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
Anonymous wrote: She wasn't found until 2002, so I can't imagine the autopsy results were very helpful.


True, but I guess she wasn't obviously shot or anything.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2016 18:58     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
She wasn't found until 2002, so I can't imagine the autopsy results were very helpful.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2016 18:44     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
I'm thinking of her family and feeling badly for them.
Anonymous
Post 07/28/2016 18:32     Subject: Witness in Chandra Levy case
The cell mate/witness was a killer in MS-13. Clearly not a reliable person. This guy who was arrested was a terrible criminal but that doesn't mean he did (or didn't) do this.

Did they determine what happened to her? I heard the cell mate claimed the guy said he killed her but that the prosecutors were going with the defense she was tied up in a remote area and the elements got to her. Could the autopsy not tell what happened?