Editing Killing of Chandra Levy (section)

==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&nbsp;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 Washington, D.C.<ref name="Braun">{{cite news|last=Braun|first=Stephen|date=May 23, 2002|title=Remains in D.C. Park Identified as Intern's|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-23-na-chandra23-story.html|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|location=Los Angeles|access-date=September 22, 2016|archive-date=September 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923045456/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/23/nation/na-chandra23|url-status=live}}</ref> Detectives found bones and personal items scattered, but not buried, in a forested area along a steep incline.<ref name="WP-20020523-found">{{cite news|last=Twomey|first=Steve|author2=Horwitz, Sari|title=Chandra Levy's Remains Found in Park By Dog|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801755.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|page=A01|date=May 23, 2002|access-date=November 11, 2010|archive-date=November 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126074738/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801755.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A sports bra, sweat shirt, leggings and tennis shoes were among the evidence that was recovered. Although police had previously searched over half the {{convert|1754|acre|ha|adj=on}} main section of the park, the wooded slope where Levy's remains were eventually found had not been searched. Police commanders ordered the search perimeters to be within {{convert|100|yd|m}} of each road {{em|and trail}} but due to a miscommunication, the officers only searched within 100 yards of every road. The remains were found about four miles <!-- It's 3.7 miles by foot --> (6&nbsp;km) from Levy's apartment.

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=https://edition.cnn.com/2002/US/07/13/levy.medical.examiner/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119130614/http://articles.cnn.com/2002-07-13/us/levy.medical.examiner_1_chandra-levy-rock-creek-park-bone |url-status=live |archive-date=January 19, 2013 |publisher=CNN |title=Report: Levy may have been strangled |date=July 13, 2002 |access-date=November 25, 2011 }}</ref> On June 6, after the police completed their search, private investigators hired by the Levys found her shin bone with some twisted wire about {{convert|25|yards|m}} from the other remains. Police Chief [[Charles H. Ramsey]] said, "It is unacceptable that these items were not located."<ref name="KNE-20020602">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cOQrAAAAIBAJ&pg=4442,6792887|date=June 2, 2002|title=Investigators hired by family find leg bone near site of Chandra Levy's remains|first=Mark|last=Sherman|newspaper=[[Kentucky New Era]]|page=5|access-date=December 3, 2010|archive-date=January 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131135301/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cOQrAAAAIBAJ&pg=4442,6792887|url-status=live}}</ref>