Editing Killing of Chandra Levy (section)

==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.]], to become a paid [[Internship|intern]] with the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]].<ref name="WP02-Gentleman"/><ref name="Finding-Chandra-2010-p24">{{cite book|last=Higham|first=Scott|author2=Horwitz, Sari|title=Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery|url=https://archive.org/details/findingchandratr00high|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/findingchandratr00high/page/24 24]–25|isbn=978-1-4391-3867-0|oclc= 430842090|publisher=Scribner|location=New York City|year=2010|access-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> In October 2000 she began her internship at the bureau's headquarters,<ref name="USAToday-20020522">{{cite news|title=Chandra Levy mystery: A timeline|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/july01/2001-07-05-levy-timeline.htm|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=May 22, 2002|access-date=November 17, 2010|archive-date=June 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628202246/http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/july01/2001-07-05-levy-timeline.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> where she was assigned to the public affairs division.<ref name="SFChronicle-20020428">{{cite news|last=Fagan|first=Kevin|title=A Life Suspended: A year after Chandra Levy vanished, her family and friends struggle to absorb the passage of time – and hope|url=https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/2002-04-28/news/17540156_1_susan-levy-chandra-levy-rep-gary-condit/3|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=April 28, 2002|access-date=November 19, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716050303/http://articles.sfgate.com/2002-04-28/news/17540156_1_susan-levy-chandra-levy-rep-gary-condit/3|archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref> Her supervisor, bureau spokesperson Dan Dunne, was impressed with Levy's work, especially her handling of media inquiries regarding the upcoming execution of [[Timothy McVeigh]], convicted of bombing the Oklahoma City Federal Building.<ref name="Finding-Chandra-2010-p24"/> Levy's internship was abruptly terminated in April 2001 because her academic eligibility was found to have expired in December 2000. She had already completed her master's degree requirements and was scheduled to return to California in May 2001 for graduation.<ref name="WP02-Gentleman"/>