Editing Killing of Chandra Levy (section)

==Disappearance and search==
Levy was last seen on May 1, 2001. The [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia|Metropolitan Police Department]] was first alerted on May 6, when Levy's parents called from Modesto to report that they had not heard from their daughter in five days. Police called hospitals and visited Levy's apartment in [[Dupont Circle]] that day, finding no indication of foul play. On May 7, Levy's father told the police that his daughter had been having an affair with a U.S. congressman, and the next day stated that he believed the congressman to be U.S. Representative [[Gary Condit]]. Levy's aunt also called the police and told them that Chandra had confided in her about the affair. Police obtained a warrant on May 10 to conduct a formal search of Levy's apartment. Investigators found her credit cards, identification and mobile phone left behind in her purse, along with partially packed suitcases. The answering machine was full, with messages left by her relatives and two from Condit. A police sergeant tried to examine Levy's laptop computer and inadvertently corrupted the internet search data, as he was not a trained technician.<ref name="WP01-Disappears">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch1_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Chapter One: A Young Woman Disappears|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|pages=1–3|date=July 13, 2008|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=October 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027181028/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch1_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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&nbsp;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&nbsp;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 [[press conference]]s in an attempt to "bring Chandra home".<ref name="NYDailyNews-20020502">{{cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Helen|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2002/05/02/2002-05-02_plea_for_chandra_at_annivers.html|title=Plea for Chandra at Anniversary Vigil|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|date=May 2, 2002|access-date=December 3, 2010}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="WP04-Levys">{{cite news|last=Horwitz|first=Sari|author2=Higham, Scott|author3=Moreno, Sylvia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch4_1.html|title=Who Killed Chandra Levy?, Chapter Four: The Levys|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=July 16, 2008|access-date=November 11, 2010|archive-date=November 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114135123/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ch4_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WP-20020505-50">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801726.html|title=50 Join Levy Family at Anniversary Vigil|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|first=Allan|last=Lengel|date=May 5, 2002|access-date=November 11, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111151958/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801726.html|url-status=live}}</ref>