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| body_discovered = {{death date|2002|5|22|mf=y}}<br />[[Rock Creek Park]], [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| burial_place = Lakewood Memorial Park Cemetery, [[Hughson, California]], U.S.
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[San Francisco State University]]|{{nowrap|[[University of Southern California]]}}}}
| occupation = Intern
| employer = [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]
| parents = Robert and Susan Levy
| image_caption = Levy in her [[Senior portrait|
}}
'''Chandra Ann Levy''' (April 14, 1977 – {{Circa}} May 1, 2001) was an American [[internship|intern]] at the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], who disappeared in May 2001. She was presumed murdered after her skeletal remains were found in [[Rock Creek Park]] in May 2002. The case attracted attention from the American news media for several years.
Due to a miscommunication, the [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia]] (MPD) failed to follow its own search parameters in Rock Creek Park, leaving Levy's body to [[Decomposition|decompose]] for a year. Further, the MPD had been informed, but soon dismissed the information that [[#Identification of the prime suspect|Ingmar Guandique]], already arrested for attacking women in Rock Creek Park, had confessed to attacking Levy. The MPD instead put much of its focus on the revelation that Levy had been having an [[Affair#Extramarital affair|affair]] with [[U.S. Representative|Congressman]] [[Gary Condit]], a married [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] then serving his fifth term representing [[California's 18th congressional district]], and a senior member of the [[House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]]. Condit
Following a series of investigative reports by ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 2008, the MPD followed up and finally obtained a warrant, on March 3, 2009, to arrest Ingmar Guandique, identified and dismissed by the MPD eight years earlier.<!-- Please see discussion page regarding terminology. "Undocumented Immigrant" refers to the Wikipedia page "Illegal immigration. The page itself is referred to as illegal immigration so the term "illegal immigrant" is proper. The consensus on the talk page reaffirmed the use of this term. --> He had been convicted of assaulting two other women in Rock Creek Park around the time of Levy's disappearance and was still in prison on those convictions when the arrest warrant on Levy's death was issued. Prosecutors alleged that Guandique had attacked and tied up Levy in a remote area of the park and left her to die of [[dehydration]] or exposure. In November 2010, Guandique was convicted of murdering Levy; he was sentenced in February 2011 to 60 years in prison. In June 2015, however, Guandique was granted a new trial. On July 28, 2016, prosecutors announced that they would not proceed with the case against Guandique and would, instead, seek to have him deported. In
==Life and background==
[[File:Federal Home Loan Bank Board Building.jpg|thumb|Levy interned at the central office of the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="Life-Getty-20010719">{{cite magazine|last=Mathieson|first=Greg|url=http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/50411595/TIME-LIFE-Images|title=Chandra Levy|quote=HOLC Building containing Bureau of Prisons office where missing intern Chandra Levy worked before her disappearance.|magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]]|agency=[[Getty Images]]|date=July 19, 2001|access-date=December 23, 2010|archive-date=August 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827192014/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/building-containing-bureau-of-prisons-office-where-missing-news-photo/50411595|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
Levy was born in [[Cleveland]], Ohio, to Robert and Susan Levy; the family moved to [[Modesto, California]], where she attended [[Grace M. Davis High School]]. At the time of her disappearance, her parents were members of Congregation Beth Shalom, a [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative Jewish]] synagogue.<ref name="JJ">{{cite news |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/chandra_levys_jewish_angle_20010720/ |title=Chandra Levy's Jewish Angle |first=James D. |last=Besser |date=July 20, 2001 |work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]] |access-date=December 18, 2006 |archive-date=June 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621190216/http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/chandra_levys_jewish_angle_20010720/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She attended [[San Francisco State University]], where she earned a degree in journalism. After interning for the California Bureau of Secondary Education and working in the office of [[Mayor of Los Angeles|Los Angeles Mayor]] [[Richard Riordan]], she began attending the [[University of Southern California]] to earn a master's degree in [[public administration]].<ref name="WP02-Gentleman">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch2_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Chapter Two: The Gentleman from Ca.|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|pages=1–2|date=July 13, 2008|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126083436/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch2_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
As part of her final semester of study, Levy moved to [[Washington, D.C.]]
==Disappearance and search==
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Computer experts took a month to reconstruct the data to determine that the laptop was used on the morning of May 1 to search for websites related to [[Amtrak]], [[Baskin-Robbins]], Condit, [[Southwest Airlines]], and a weather report from ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Her final search at 12:59 p.m. was for [[Alsace-Lorraine]], a region in France.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article24598267.html |title=Levy searched Internet about park, Condit, FBI agent testifies |last=Doyle |first=Michael |date=October 28, 2010 |newspaper=McClatchy Newspapers |access-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-date=January 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111170430/https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article24598267.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A particular search at 11:33 a.m. was for information about Rock Creek Park in ''The Washington Post'' "Entertainment Guide", then at 11:34 she clicked a link to bring up a map of the park. Detectives later theorized that she might have met someone at the [[Pierce-Klingle Mansion]] which houses the park headquarters.<ref name="WP01-Disappears"/> On July 25, 2001, three D.C. police sergeants and 28 police cadets searched along Glover Road in the park but failed to find evidence related to Levy. Later, a second attempt found nothing.<ref name="WP01-Disappears"/>
Levy's parents and friends held numerous [[Vigil (liturgy)|vigils]] and [[
==Relationship with Condit==
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Controversy surrounding Levy's disappearance drew the attention of the American news media.<ref name="WP09-Frenzy">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch9_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Chapter Nine: Media Frenzy|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|pages=1–2|date=July 22, 2008|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126083449/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch9_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Condit, a married man who represented the [[congressional district]] in which the Levy family resided, at first denied that he had had an [[extramarital affair|affair]] with her. Although police stated that Condit was not a suspect, Levy's family said they felt Condit was being evasive and possibly hiding information about the matter.<ref name="WP09-Frenzy"/>
Unidentified police sources alleged that Condit had admitted to an affair with Levy during an interview with law enforcement officers on July 7, 2001.<ref name="CNN-20010707">{{cite news|last=Franken |first=Bob |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/07/07/condit.missing.intern/ |publisher=CNN |title=Police sources: Condit admits to affair with Levy |date=July 7, 2001 |access-date=November 5, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211073456/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/07/07/condit.missing.intern/ |archive-date=December 11, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="CNN-20010710">{{cite news|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2001-07-10/justice/missing.intern_1_chandra-levy-anne-marie-smith-congressman-condit/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119115537/http://articles.cnn.com/2001-07-10/justice/missing.intern_1_chandra-levy-anne-marie-smith-congressman-condit/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 19, 2013 |title=Police take up offer to search Condit's apartment |publisher=CNN |date=July 10, 2001 |access-date=November 25, 2010 }}</ref> Condit described her to police as a vegetarian who avoided drinking and smoking. He thought that Levy was going to return to Washington, D.C. after her graduation and was surprised to find out that the lease on her apartment had ended.<ref name="WP09-Frenzy"/> Investigators searched Condit's apartment on July 10. They questioned flight attendant Anne Marie Smith, who claimed that Condit told her she did not need to speak to the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] about his personal life.<ref name="ABC-20010710-search">{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Pierre|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121469|title=Police Search Condit Apartment|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|pages=1–3|date=July 10, 2010|access-date=November 25, 2010|archive-date=December 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208103237/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121469|url-status=live}}</ref> Federal officials began investigating Condit for possible [[obstruction of justice]], as Smith was also involved in an affair with him. (She was not acquainted with Levy.)<ref name="ABC-20010710-obstruction">{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Pierre|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121468|title=Feds Explore Condit Obstruction Allegation|work=ABC News|pages=1–3|date=July 10, 2010|access-date=December 20, 2010|archive-date=December 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208103241/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121468|url-status=live}}</ref> Upset by leaks to the media, Condit refused to submit to a [[polygraph]] test by the D.C. police; his attorney asserted that Condit passed a test administered by a privately hired examiner on July 13. He avoided answering direct questions during a televised interview on August 23, with news anchor [[Connie Chung]] on the [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] program ''[[Primetime (U.S. TV program)|Primetime Thursday]]''.<ref name="WP09-Frenzy"/> Intensive coverage continued until news of the [[September 11 attacks]] superseded the media's coverage of the Levy case.<ref name="WP10-Informant">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch10_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Chapter Ten: A Jailhouse Informant|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|pages=1–2|date=July 22, 2008|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126075059/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch10_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In a nationwide Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll of 900 registered voters conducted in July 2001, 44 percent of American respondents thought that Condit was involved in Levy's disappearance and 27 percent felt that he should resign. Fifty-one percent of the respondents believed that he was acting as if he were guilty; 13 percent felt that he should run again for office. A poll sample taken from Condit's congressional district held a more favorable view of Condit.<ref name="Fox-20010727">{{cite news|last=Blanton|first=Dana|title=FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll: Condit's Acting Guilty|publisher=Fox News Channel|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30692,00.html|date=July 27, 2001|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207034339/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30692,00.html|archive-date=February 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> On March 5, 2002, Condit lost the Democratic primary election for his Congressional seat to his former aide, then-[[California State Assembly|Assemblyman]] [[Dennis Cardoza]],<ref name="NYTimes-20020305">{{cite news|last=Nieves|first=Evelyn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/us/condit-loses-house-race-to-former-aide.html|title=Condit Loses House Race To Former Aide|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 6, 2002|access-date=November 25, 2010|archive-date=August 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812210956/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/us/condit-loses-house-race-to-former-aide.html|url-status=live}}</ref> with the Levy controversy being cited as a contributing factor.<ref name="WP09-Frenzy"/> He was subpoenaed to appear on April 1, 2002, before a District of Columbia [[grand jury]] investigating the disappearance. The date was kept a carefully guarded secret to avoid further leaks.<ref name="WP-20020402-appointment">{{cite news|last=Lengel|first=Allan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801703.html|title=Condit Had Appointment With Grand Jury|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=April 2, 2002|access-date=November 25, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111162720/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801703.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Condit left Congress at the end of his term on January 3, 2003, after failing to win his re-election bid.<ref name="Reuters-20080709">{{cite news|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/idINN0828554520080708|title=Condit's slander suit over Chandra Levy dismissed|work=[[Reuters]]|date=July 9, 2008|access-date=November 19, 2010|archive-date=August 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827192015/https://www.reuters.com/?edition-redirect=in|url-status=
==Discovery of her remains==
[[File:Chandra Levy map.png|thumb|'''Red circle''': Location where Levy's body found<br />'''Blue circle''': Park headquarters<br />'''Black circle''': Levy's apartment]]
On May 22, 2002, around 9:30 am, skeletal remains which matched Levy's [[Forensic dentistry|dental records]] were discovered by a man who was walking his dog and looking for turtles in [[Rock Creek Park]], near Broad Branch Creek in
After a preliminary [[autopsy]] was performed, District of Columbia police announced that there was sufficient evidence to open a homicide investigation. On May 28, D.C. medical examiner Jonathan L. Arden officially declared Levy's death a homicide, but said, "There's less to work with here than I would like. It's possible we will never know specifically how she died."<ref name="CourtTV-20020528">{{cite news|url=http://www.courttv.com/archive/news/2002/0528/levy_ap.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429000151/http://www.courttv.com/archive/news/2002/0528/levy_ap.html |title=Coroner says Chandra Levy was murdered|publisher=[[CourtTV]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|archive-date=April 29, 2008|date=May 28, 2002|access-date=August 9, 2006}}</ref> Arden found damage to her [[hyoid]] bone, suggesting that she was possibly strangled, but he did not deem it to be conclusive evidence of such a cause of death.<ref name="CNN-20020713">{{cite news|url=
==Memorial services==
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==Identification of the prime suspect==
[[File:VictorvilleUSP.jpg|thumb|Guandique was incarcerated at the [[United States Penitentiary, Victorville|U.S. Penitentiary, Victorville]] for assaults against two other women in [[Rock Creek Park]].<ref name="Fox-20101105">{{cite news|last=Levine|first=Mike|title=Levy Parents 'Bittersweet' Over News of Expected Arrest in Daughter's Murder|publisher=Fox News Channel|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497964,00.html|date=February 22, 2009|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629055547/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497964,00.html|archive-date=June 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>]]
In September 2001, Washington, D.C. police and federal prosecutors were contacted by the lawyer of an informant, held in [[D.C. Jail]], who claimed to have knowledge of Levy's killer. The informant, whose identity was protected for his safety, said that Ingmar Guandique, a 20-year-old
Investigators ruled out the story about Condit, because Guandique had already admitted to assaulting two other women in the same park where Levy's remains were found.<ref name="WP10-Informant"/> Guandique failed to show up for work on the day of Levy's disappearance.<ref name="WP06-Predator">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch6_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Chapter Six: The Predator in the Park|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 18, 2008|access-date=December 22, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126082934/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch6_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His former landlady recalled that his face appeared scratched and bruised at around that time.<ref name="WP-20101128">{{cite news|last=Higham|first=Scott|author2=Horwitz, Sari|title=Even after Ingmar Guandique's conviction, the Chandra Levy saga is all about Gary Condit|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR2010112404515.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|pages=1–2|date=November 28, 2010|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=February 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214183134/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR2010112404515.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The investigators on the Levy case did not interview the other Rock Creek Park victims.<ref name="WP-20090304-warrant">{{cite news|last=Higham|first=Scott|author2=Horwitz, Sari|title=Warrant Is Issued for Suspect in Levy Killing|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030301967.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|pages=1–2|date=March 4, 2009|access-date=December 22, 2010|archive-date=February 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204171159/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030301967.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Police chief Ramsey avoided calling Guandique a suspect and described him as a "[[person of interest]]",<ref name="NYTimes-20021008">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/us/a-2nd-look-by-officers-in-intern-case.html|title=A 2nd Look By Officers in Intern Case|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 8, 2002|access-date=November 24, 2010|archive-date=May 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527205647/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/us/a-2nd-look-by-officers-in-intern-case.html|url-status=live}}</ref> telling reporters not to make "too big a deal" about him. Assistant chief [[Terrance W. Gainer]] said that if Guandique had been considered a suspect, D.C. police would have been after him "like flies on honey".<ref name="WP-20101128"/>
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The Levy homicide remained listed as a "[[cold case]]" until 2006, when [[Cathy L. Lanier]] succeeded Ramsey as D.C. police chief. Lanier replaced the lead detective on the case with three veteran investigators who had more homicide experience.<ref name="WP-20090304-warrant"/> In 2007, the editors of ''The Washington Post'' assigned a new team of reporters to take a year to re-examine the Levy case.<ref name="WP-20101128"/> The resulting series of articles, published during the summer of 2008, focused on the past failure of the police to fully investigate Guandique's connection to the attacks in Rock Creek Park. In September 2008, investigators searched Guandique's federal prison cell in California and found a photo of Levy that he had saved from a magazine. Police interviewed acquaintances of Guandique and witnesses of the other Rock Creek Park incidents.<ref name="WP-20090304-warrant"/>
On March 3, 2009, the [[Superior Court of the District of Columbia]] issued an arrest warrant for Guandique.<ref name="FindLaw-20090303">{{cite web|url=http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/chandralevy/guandique30309cmp.html|title=D.C. v. Ingmar Guandique|work=[[FindLaw]]|date=March 3, 2009|access-date=March 3, 2009|archive-date=March 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309193332/http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/chandralevy/guandique30309cmp.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He was returned to the custody of the [[District of Columbia Department of Corrections]] on April 20 via the [[Federal Transfer Center, Oklahoma City|Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City]].<ref name="Guardian-20090422">{{cite news|last=Syeed|first=Nafeesa|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/feedarticle/8468652|title=Levy slaying suspect arrives in DC for court date|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=April 22, 2009|access-date=February 21, 2011|quote=The inmate has been kept in a D.C. jail since his arrival Monday from a Federal Bureau of Prisons transfer center in Oklahoma City.|location=London|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904054011/http://www.theguardian.com/world/feedarticle/8468652|url-status=live}}</ref> Two days later, Guandique was charged in D.C. with Levy's murder.<ref name="MSNBC-20090422">{{cite news|title=Suspect charged with murder of Chandra Levy|url=
==Trial of Guandique==
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Prosecution witness Armando Morales, who shared a cell with Guandique at the U.S. Penitentiary in [[Kentucky]], testified that Guandique was concerned about being transferred between prisons in 2006 because of inmate violence against suspected rapists. Morales stated that Guandique, a fellow member of the [[Mara Salvatrucha]] gang, confided to him that he had killed Levy while trying to rob her, but said that he did not rape her.<ref name="WP-20101115">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/15/AR2010111506929.html|title=Defense in Levy murder trial tries to undercut government's star witness|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Keith L.|last=Alexander|date=November 15, 2010|access-date=November 15, 2010|archive-date=November 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116051942/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/15/AR2010111506929.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WUSA-20101105">{{cite news|url=http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=118602&catid=158|title=Guandique's Cellmate Testifies at Chandra Levy Murder Trial|publisher=[[WUSA (TV)]]|first=Bruce|last=Leshan|date=November 5, 2010|access-date=November 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320072335/http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=118602&catid=158|archive-date=March 20, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The prosecution rested their case on November 10,<ref name="ModestoBee-20101111-rests">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|title=Prosecution rests in Chandra Levy murder trial|url=http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/11/1423131/prosecution-rests-in-chandra-levy.html|newspaper=The Modesto Bee|date=November 11, 2010|access-date=December 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203041721/http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/11/1423131/prosecution-rests-in-chandra-levy.html|archive-date=December 3, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> while dropping two out of the six charges against Guandique: sexual assault and murder associated with that assault.<ref name="WP-20101110">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|title=A surprise courtroom move in Levy trial|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/10/AR2010111007398.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=B1|date=November 11, 2010|access-date=November 11, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111152213/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/10/AR2010111007398.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On November 15, the defense rested its case without calling Guandique to the stand. Other prison witnesses called by the defense refuted Morales' testimony. Jose Manuel Alaniz said that Guandique made no mention of rape or murder while sharing a cell with both Alaniz and Morales at the penitentiary in Kentucky. Alaniz admitted under [[cross-examination]] that he "didn't want to be too nosy" and was often asleep at the prison while recovering from a gunshot wound. The prosecution dropped two more charges because the [[statute of limitations]] had passed: kidnapping and attempted robbery. During closing arguments for the remaining charges of first-degree murder committed during a kidnapping and during a robbery,<ref name="WP-20101115"/> prosecutor Amanda Haines contended that Guandique bound and gagged Levy after attacking her, leaving her to die of dehydration or exposure in the park. Defense attorney Santha Sonenberg countered with the lack of any DNA evidence connecting Guandique to the crime scene.<ref name="WP-20101116">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|title=Attorneys Give Final Arguments in Levy Murder Trial; Jury Deliberations Begin|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111607327.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|pages=1–2|date=November 16, 2010|access-date=November 16, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111185502/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111607327.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Calling the prosecution's case "fiction", Sonenberg suggested that Levy had been murdered elsewhere, with her dead body being dumped in the park.<ref name="WP-20101117-hands">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|title=Levy case is now in the jury's hands|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111607010.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=B1|date=November 17, 2010|access-date=November 17, 2010|archive-date=November 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117110110/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111607010.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
The jury began deliberations on November 17, 2010.<ref name="WP-20101117-hands"/> Scheduled proceedings of the case met delays because of increased security at the courthouse.<ref name="WP-20101118-delay">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|title=Long lines from tightened security delay justice at D.C. Superior Court|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111805657.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 18, 2010|access-date=November 18, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111160657/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111805657.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After two days of deliberations, all but one juror had voted to convict Guandique.<ref name="WP-20101123-holdout">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112207322.html|title=A single holdout delayed the verdict|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=A6|date=November 23, 2010|access-date=November 23, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111164021/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112207322.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On the third day, the jury asked Judge [[Gerald Fisher]] to clarify the definition of assault.<ref name="WE-20101119-elaboration">{{cite news|last=Babay|first=Emily|title=Chandra Levy jury seeks elaboration from judge|url=http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/capital-land/2010/11/chandra-levy-jury-seeks-elaboration-judge|newspaper=The Washington Examiner|date=November 19, 2010|access-date=November 19, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722131304/http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/capital-land/2010/11/chandra-levy-jury-seeks-elaboration-judge|archive-date=July 22, 2011}}</ref> Fisher responded that any physical injury could legally be considered an assault, regardless of how small.<ref name="NBC-DC-20101119-definition">{{cite news|title=Levy Jury Asks for Legal Definition of Assault|url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Levy-Jury-Asks-for-Legal-Definition-of-Assault-109277174.html|publisher=[[WRC-TV]]|date=November 19, 2010|access-date=November 19, 2010|archive-date=January 30, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130040155/http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Levy-Jury-Asks-for-Legal-Definition-of-Assault-109277174.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On November 22, 2010, the jury found Guandique guilty of both remaining counts of first-degree murder.<ref name ="CNN-20101122-guilty">{{cite news|url=http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/22/verdict-reached-in-chandra-levy-case|title=Man found guilty of murdering Chandra Levy|publisher=CNN|date=November 22, 2010|access-date=November 22, 2010|archive-date=November 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125025059/http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/22/verdict-reached-in-chandra-levy-case/|url-status=
===Sentencing and appeals===
On February 1, 2011, Guandique's attorneys requested a [[new trial]] on the grounds that the verdict had been improperly attained. The 17-page filing claimed that the prosecutors had appealed to the emotions of the jury, using "references to facts not in evidence".<ref name="NBCDC-20110202-trial">{{cite news|last=Gresko|first=Jessica|url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Guandique-Wants-New-Trial-in-Levy-Slaying-115150324.html|title=Guandique Wants New Trial in Levy Slaying|agency=[[WRC-TV]]|date=February 2, 2011|access-date=February 3, 2011|archive-date=January 29, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129180903/http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Guandique-Wants-New-Trial-in-Levy-Slaying-115150324.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The motion also alleged that one juror, who did not take notes, had breached the judge's instructions not to be "influenced by another juror's notes".<ref name="NBCDC-20110202-trial"/> The prosecution opposed a retrial, arguing that the issue regarding the notes was no more than a technicality that did not have a significant effect on the verdict.<ref name="Fox-20110208">{{cite news|last=Levine|first=Mike|title=Prosecutors seek life term for Chandra Levy killer|url=http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/08/prosecutors-seek-life-term-chandra-levy-killer/|publisher=Fox News Channel|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=February 8, 2011|access-date=February 8, 2011|archive-date=February 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110212131838/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/08/prosecutors-seek-life-term-chandra-levy-killer/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Guandique faced a minimum penalty of 30 years to a maximum of [[life imprisonment]] without the possibility of [[parole]].<ref name ="CNN-20101122-guilty"/><ref name ="MSNBC-20101122-guilty">{{cite news|url=
Guandique repeated his innocence during his sentencing. He has maintained his innocence in the years since the trial.<ref name="AbcNewsJan2013SecretHearing">{{Cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/secret-hearings-case-chandra-levy-slaying-18311786 |title=Secret Hearings in Case of Chandra Levy Slaying - ABC News |website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |access-date=January 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128074743/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/secret-hearings-case-chandra-levy-slaying-18311786 |archive-date=January 28, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
On February 25, 2011, public defender James Klein filed an appeal of Guandique's conviction with the [[District of Columbia Court of Appeals]]. According to the court's annual report, appeals take an average of 588 days to reach resolution.<ref name="McClatchy-20110301-appeals">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/01/109639/man-sentenced-in-chandra-levy.html|title=Man sentenced in Chandra Levy killing appeals his conviction|publisher=The McClatchy Company|date=March 1, 2011|access-date=March 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304053250/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/01/109639/man-sentenced-in-chandra-levy.html|archive-date=March 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> In December 2012 and January 2013, a set of secret hearings was made known to the public, but the subject of the meetings was sealed by the judge.<ref name="AbcNewsJan2013SecretHearing"/><ref name="NbcUSNewsJan2013SecretHearing">{{Cite news | url = http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/25/16698740-secret-hearings-held-in-killing-of-washington-intern-chandra-levy?lite | title = Secret hearings held in killing of Washington intern Chandra Levy | work = [[NBC News]] | date = January 25, 2013 | access-date = January 25, 2013 | archive-date = January 27, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130127171302/http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/25/16698740-secret-hearings-held-in-killing-of-washington-intern-chandra-levy?lite | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/chandra-levy-murder-conviction-may-be-in-doubt/2013/01/25/35ebd9da-66f8-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_video.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=Chandra Levy murder conviction may be in doubt | date=January 25, 2013 | access-date=December 22, 2018 | archive-date=January 28, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128190111/http://www.washingtonpost.com/chandra-levy-murder-conviction-may-be-in-doubt/2013/01/25/35ebd9da-66f8-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_video.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> After a third hearing in February, the judge in the case unsealed transcripts from the previous hearings which revealed that Klein was seeking a new trial based on new evidence in the case.<ref name="HuffingtonPostFeb2013A">{{Cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/ingmar-guandique-new-trial-chandra-levy_n_2719319.html |title=Ingmar Guandique, Man Jailed For Killing Chandra Levy, Could Get New Trial |website=[[HuffPost]] |access-date=February 27, 2013 |archive-date=February 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222042645/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/ingmar-guandique-new-trial-chandra-levy_n_2719319.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A fourth hearing was scheduled for April 2013.<ref name="HuffingtonPostFeb2013A"/>
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Specifically, the defense argued that they had only received two of three pages of a memo detailing prosecutors' contacts with Morales. At trial he had testified that he had never cooperated with law enforcement prior to the Levy case. The missing first page noted that he had previously approached law enforcement to discuss gang activity, including the actions of gangs to which he belonged. The defense argued this information had been purposely withheld from them, as it might suggest that Morales had shaded his testimony to gain favor with prosecutors.<ref name="2021 WashPost disciplinary hearing story">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith|title=Ex-federal prosecutors in Chandra Levy murder case dispute allegations they withheld information on key witness|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/chandra-levy-ethics-violations-prosecutors/2021/05/28/d858bb30-be28-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html|url-access=subscription|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 28, 2021|access-date=April 4, 2022|archive-date=May 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530144311/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/chandra-levy-ethics-violations-prosecutors/2021/05/28/d858bb30-be28-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
On July 28, 2016, prosecutors announced that they would not proceed with the case against Guandique and would, instead, seek to have him deported.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/us/charges-dropped-in-chandra-levy-murder/index.html|title=Charges dropped in Chandra Levy murder |first1=Ralph |last1=Ellis |first2=Cheri |last2=Mossburg |date=July 28, 2016 |website=[[CNN]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728230411/http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/us/charges-dropped-in-chandra-levy-murder/index.html|archive-date=July 28, 2016|access-date=July 28, 2016}}</ref> According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', prosecutors lost confidence in the case after learning that Morales, who now lives in Maryland, was secretly recorded admitting lying on the witness stand during the 2010 trial. Babs Proller, the woman who made the recording, turned it over to the police. The U.S. Attorney's Office said only that based on new information that had come to light during the previous week, there was no longer enough evidence to go forward with the retrial.<ref name="WaPoDropped">{{cite news|url=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|title=Why prosecutors dropped charges against the man accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy|author1=Lynh Bui|author2=Keith Alexander|author3=Scott Higham|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=July 30, 2016|access-date=December 22, 2018|archive-date=December 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206192540/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|url-status=live}}</ref> In
=== Disciplinary proceedings against prosecutors ===
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The media was criticized for its "rush to judgment" in suggesting, sometimes blatantly, that Condit was guilty of the murder, especially in the early days of the investigation.<ref name="DK-20090222-better">{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=mark|title=With 20/20 Hindsight, Condit Story Was Better Than Truth|url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/22/700629/-With-20-20-Hindsight,-Condit-Story-Was-Better-Than-Truth|publisher=[[Daily Kos]]|date=February 22, 2009|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=June 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607224655/http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/22/700629/-With-20-20-Hindsight,-Condit-Story-Was-Better-Than-Truth|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="LADN-20090222-rush">{{cite news|last=Perrier|first=Phil|title=Was There a Rush To Judgment?|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/WAS+THERE+A+RUSH+TO+JUDGMENT%3F-a0149874106|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Daily News]]|date=August 21, 2006|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=October 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013135120/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/WAS+THERE+A+RUSH+TO+JUDGMENT%3F-a0149874106|url-status=dead}}</ref> Some of the reporters who were camped out in front of Condit's Washington apartment house were quoted as saying that they would remain there "until he resigns".<ref name="RMA-20011001">{{cite news|title=Respect Mahh Authori-tay!!! |url=http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2001/10/01/respect-mahh-authori-tay/|date=October 1, 2001|access-date=August 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201185119/http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/2001/10/01/respect-mahh-authori-tay/|archive-date=December 1, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="MRC-20010822">{{cite news |last=Bozell III|first=L. Brent|title=Is This a Condit Country?|url=http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2001/col20010822.asp|publisher=[[Media Research Center]]|date=August 22, 2001|access-date=November 5, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608165125/http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2001/col20010822.asp|archive-date=June 8, 2011}}</ref> When Ingmar Guandique was convicted of murdering Levy in November 2010, Condit's lawyer Bert Fields remarked, "It's a complete vindication but that comes a little late. Who gives him his career back?"<ref name ="USAToday-20101122-convicts">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-11-22-chandra-levy-verdict_N.htm|title=Jury convicts Guandique of murdering Chandra Levy|newspaper=USA Today|date=November 22, 2010|access-date=November 22, 2010|first1=Oren|last1=Dorell|archive-date=November 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125071949/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-11-22-chandra-levy-verdict_N.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
On the 17th anniversary of the homicide, Levy's mother continued to push for further investigation into her daughter's death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/gone-cold/chandra-levys-mom-hopes-petition-will-spark-new-law-for-investigating-cold-cases/85-584824917|title=Chandra Levy's mom hopes petition will spark new law for investigating cold cases|date=August 16, 2018 |access-date=December 22, 2018|archive-date=August 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827192016/https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/gone-cold/chandra-levys-mom-hopes-petition-will-spark-new-law-for-investigating-cold-cases/85-584824917|url-status=live}}</ref>
An episode of the podcast [[You're Wrong About]] released
== Impact ==
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In 1997, when [[Disappearance of Kristen Modafferi|Kristen Modafferi]] mysteriously disappeared from the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] just three weeks after her 18th birthday, her parents turned to their congresswoman for help, because they were ineligible to receive help from the [[National Center for Missing and Exploited Children]]. As a result, Congress enacted "Kristen's Law" in October 2000, which established the [[National Center for Missing Adults]] (NCMA) within the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] in order to coordinate such missing persons cases.<ref name="NCMA-Kristens-Law">{{cite web|url=http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/content.php?webid=kristens_law|title=Kristen's Law|publisher=National Center for Missing Adults|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202200943/http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/content.php?webid=kristens_law|archive-date=December 2, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> By the time Levy disappeared, institutions were in place in order to provide her family with support and assist in a nationwide search to locate her. Although the Levy family quickly moved to mobilize all such available resources, including offering a cash reward for information, hiring its own investigators,<ref name="WP05-Secret">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch5_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Chapter Five: A Secret Meeting|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 17, 2008|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126083213/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch5_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and seeking media attention, those efforts to locate Chandra Levy or find her killer were overshadowed by the speculation which surrounded her possible relationship with Condit. Susan Levy later joined forces with Donna Raley, the mother of another young woman who disappeared from Modesto in 1999, to form "Wings of Protection", a support group for people with missing loved ones.<ref name="ModBee-20071102">{{cite news |url=http://www.modbee.com/2003/02/18/110218_p2/under-their-wings.html|title=Under Their 'Wings'|newspaper=The Modesto Bee|date=November 2, 2007|access-date=December 1, 2010|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616204300/http://www.modbee.com/2003/02/18/110218_p2/under-their-wings.html|archive-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref><ref name="NYDailyNews-20030101">{{cite news |last=Kennedy|first=Helen|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2003/01/01/2003-01-01_chandra_s_mom_offers_her_sym.html|title=Chandra's Mom Offers Her Sympathy|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=January 1, 2003|access-date=December 3, 2010}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The [[Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.|Mary Ann Liebert]] company, the publisher of the ''Journal of Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine'', presented its annual Criterion Award to Susan Levy for her work with "Wings of Protection" in May 2002.<ref name="BusinessWire-20020515">{{cite web|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1673457/Susan-Levy-Mother-of-the.html|title=Susan Levy, Mother of the Missing Chandra Levy, to Receive Award From the Publisher of Journal of Women''s Health and Gender Based Medicine at 10th Annual Congress on Women''s Health|publisher=[[Business Wire]]|date=May 15, 2002|access-date=December 3, 2010|archive-date=June 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615064655/http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1673457/Susan-Levy-Mother-of-the.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine stated that the media may have become more skeptical of "[[herd mentality]]" and open to alternative suspects after the Levy case.<ref name="Newsweek-20100518">{{cite news|last=Smalley|first=Suzanne|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/18/no-headline.html|title=Would Bloggers Have Cracked Chandra's Case?|journal=[[Newsweek]]|pages=1–2|date=May 18, 2010|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126140118/http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/18/no-headline.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The D.C. police claimed that it would have discovered Levy's body earlier if not for a miscommunication regarding the scope of the search. Commanders had ordered that a search be conducted within {{cvt|100|yards|m}} of each road and trail in Rock Creek Park, but searches were only made within 100 yards of each road, causing the body to remain undiscovered for a longer period of time.<ref name="WP01-Disappears"/>
Both the chief of detectives, Jack Barrett, and the chief of police, Charles H. Ramsey, have since left the force in [[Washington, D.C.]] Ramsey became head of the [[Philadelphia Police Department]]; Barrett, who became an analyst for an intelligence support firm in [[Arlington County, Virginia]], stated in hindsight that the media had imposed "enormous amounts of pressure" on the Washington, D.C. police.<ref name="WPep-Epilogue">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/epilogue_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Epilogue|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 27, 2008|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126082957/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/epilogue_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Morales, who is serving time for conspiracy to distribute [[methamphetamine]] and [[crack cocaine]], was scheduled to be released on August 5, 2016.<ref name="McClatchy-20101123-beginning">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/23/104206/for-chandra-levy-murder-trial.html|title=For Chandra Levy murder trial witness, a new beginning?|publisher=The McClatchy Company|date=November 23, 2010|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128043532/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/23/104206/for-chandra-levy-murder-trial.html|archive-date=November 28, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{update inline |date=September 2016|reason=August 2016 is now in the past.}} Condit retired from politics and moved to [[Phoenix, Arizona]] with his wife to manage real estate and open two [[Baskin-Robbins]] franchises, which have since closed.<ref name="People-20090309-after">{{cite news|last=Clark|first=Champ|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20264057,00.html|title=Inside Story: Gary Condit After Chandra Levy Case|journal=[[People (American magazine)|People]]|date=March 9, 2009|access-date=December 2, 2010|archive-date=January 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108170819/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20264057,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="NYDailyNews-20090223">{{cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Helen |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_no_longer_a_target_in_chandra_levy_case_.html|title=No longer a target in Chandra Levy case, Gary Condit set to tell all|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=February 23, 2009|access-date=February 7, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023123935/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_no_longer_a_target_in_chandra_levy_case_.html|archive-date=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
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*[[Crime in Washington, D.C.]]
*[[List of solved missing person cases: post-2000|List of solved missing person cases]]
*[[List of unsolved murders (
== References ==
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* [https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6439561 Chandra Levy] at [[Find a Grave]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110824015719/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/chandra-levy.html Chandra Levy murder case] at [[truTV]]
* [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121163 Chandra Levy case timeline (2000–2002)] at [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/crime/levy/levyTimeline.html Chandra Levy case timeline (2000–2010)] at ''[[The Washington Post]]''
* {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802225031/http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1243,q,543273,mpdcNav_GID,1533,mpdcNav,%7c.asp|date=August 2, 2008|title=Homicide Investigation — Chandra Ann Levy}} by the [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia|D.C. Metropolitan Police Department]] (mirrored by the [[Internet Archive]])
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