Editing Killing of Chandra Levy

{{Short description|2001 homicide in the United States}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Chandra Levy
| image              = Chandra Levy.jpg
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1977|04|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], U.S.
| disappeared_date   = {{disappeared date and age|2001|05|01|1977|04|14|mf=y}}
| disappeared_place  = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| 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|high school senior portrait]] in 1994
}}

'''Chandra Ann Levy''' (April 14, 1977&nbsp;– {{Circa}} May 1, 2001) was an American [[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 [[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 [[extramarital affair]] with Congressman [[Gary Condit]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|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 was never named as a suspect by police; he was eventually cleared of any involvement.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Cheney, Condit Meet |language=en-US |url=https://www.wired.com/2001/07/cheney-condit-meet/ |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=July 21, 2001 |issn=1059-1028 |access-date=January 14, 2022 |agency=[[Reuters]] |archive-date=October 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024043256/https://www.wired.com/2001/07/cheney-condit-meet/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Due to the cloud of suspicion raised by the intense media focus on the missing intern and the later revelation of the affair, Condit lost his bid for re-election in 2002.

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, 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 March 2017, Guandique lost his bid to remain in the United States and was deported to his native [[El Salvador]] on May 5, 2017. Levy's murder remains unsolved.

==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"/>

==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>

==Relationship with Condit==
[[File:GaryCondit.jpg|thumb|U.S. Representative [[Gary Condit]]]]
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=https://www.foxnews.com/story/fox-news-opinion-dynamics-poll-condits-acting-guilty|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=live}}</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=dead}}</ref>

==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>

==Memorial services==
On May 28, 2002, the Levy family organized a memorial service at the Modesto Centre Plaza that drew over 1,200 people, some from as far as Los Angeles.<ref name="SFChronicle-20020529-memories">{{cite news|last=Squatriglia|first=Chuck|author2=Coile, Zachary|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2002%2F05%2F29%2FMN157533.DTL|title=Precious Memories and Broken Hearts|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=May 29, 2002|access-date=December 2, 2010|archive-date=August 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827192015/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PRECIOUS-MEMORIES-AND-BROKEN-HEARTS-THE-2816791.php|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="BaltimoreSun-20020528">{{cite news|last=Noda|first=Debbie|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/photos/sns-chandra-levy-murder-trail-pg-018,0,1806574.photo|title=Memorial for Chandra Levy|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|date=May 28, 2002|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=June 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629171932/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/photos/sns-chandra-levy-murder-trail-pg-018,0,1806574.photo|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="FLS-20020527">{{cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Helen|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CfEyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3166,7922502|title=Lavish Memorial Service is Set for Chandra Levy|newspaper=[[The Free Lance Star]]|volume=118|number=147|page=7|date=May 27, 2002|access-date=December 3, 2010|archive-date=January 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131203440/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CfEyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3166,7922502|url-status=live}}</ref> Speakers at the 90-minute ceremony included Levy's brother, grandmother, great-aunt and friends.<ref name="USAToday-20020528">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/28/levy-memorial.htm|title=Memorial held for Chandra Levy|date=May 28, 2002|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=November 30, 2010|archive-date=August 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827192015/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/28/levy-memorial.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In a eulogy delivered in Hebrew and English by Rabbi Paul Gordon, Levy was described as "a good person taken from us much too soon".<ref name="SFChronicle-20020529-memories"/> About a year later, on May 27, 2003, Levy's remains were buried in Lakewood Memorial Park Cemetery at [[Hughson, California]], near her home town of Modesto. Attended by about 40 of Levy's friends and family members, the private ceremony concluded with the release of 12 white doves.<ref name="WP-20030528">{{cite news|last=Lengel|first=Allan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801927.html|title=Chandra Levy's Remains Buried|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 28, 2003|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111164200/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801927.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==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=https://www.foxnews.com/story/levy-parents-bittersweet-over-news-of-expected-arrest-in-daughters-murder|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=live}}</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 undocumented immigrant from [[El Salvador]]<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--not stated-->|website=WRC-TV, Washington DC|url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/ingmar-guandique-back-in-el-salvador-after-chandra-levy-murder-charges-dropped/14073/|title=Ingmar Guandique Deported to El Salvador After Chandra Levy Murder Charges Dropped|date=May 8, 2017|access-date=April 6, 2022|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121193823/https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/ingmar-guandique-back-in-el-salvador-after-chandra-levy-murder-charges-dropped/14073/|url-status=live}}</ref> who was also being held in the jail, told him that Condit paid him $25,000 to kill Levy.

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"/>

Guandique denied attacking Levy.<ref name="CNN-20101115-dropped">{{cite news|last=Smoot|first=Kelly Marshall|author2=Courson, Paul|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/15/dc.chandra.levy.trial/|publisher=CNN|title=Sources: More charges dropped against suspect in Chandra Levy killing|date=November 15, 2010|access-date=November 15, 2010|archive-date=November 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108224704/http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/15/dc.chandra.levy.trial/|url-status=live}}</ref> On November 28, the FBI had the informant take a polygraph test, which he failed. A polygraph test on Guandique, administered on February 4, 2002, returned inconclusive results that were officially ruled "not deceptive". Because neither the informant nor Guandique was fluent in English, D.C. chief detective Jack Barrett said that he would have preferred polygraph tests to have been administered by bilingual examiners, who were unavailable at the time.<ref name="WP10-Informant"/> When Judge Noel Anketell Kramer was asked about Guandique's potential connection to the Levy homicide, she responded, "This is such a satellite issue. To me it doesn't have anything to do with this case." Kramer sentenced Guandique to 10 years in prison for his attacks on two other women at Rock Creek Park.<ref name="WP-20101128"/> Guandique was sent to the [[United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy|U.S. Penitentiary, Big Sandy]] near [[Inez, Kentucky]],<ref name="McClatchy-20101104-confessed">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/04/103204/guandique-confessed-to-killing.html|title=Guandique confessed to killing Chandra Levy, inmate testifies|publisher=[[The McClatchy Company]]|date=November 4, 2010|access-date=November 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123045116/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/04/103204/guandique-confessed-to-killing.html|archive-date=November 23, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was later transferred to the [[United States Penitentiary, Victorville|U.S. Penitentiary at Victorville]], California.<ref name="Fox-20101105"/>

[[File:Cathy Lanier DC 2009.jpg|thumb|[[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia|Metropolitan Police Department]] chief [[Cathy L. Lanier]] in 2009]]
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=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30355684|work=NBC News|agency=Associated Press|date=April 22, 2009|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016084922/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30355684|url-status=live}}</ref> He was indicted by a [[grand jury]] on six counts: kidnapping, first-degree murder committed during a kidnapping, attempted first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree murder committed during a sexual offense, attempted robbery, and first-degree murder committed during a robbery.<ref name="DCcourt-20090519">{{cite web|url=http://www.dccourts.gov/dccourts/docs/current/2009_CF1_9230/2009-05-19_Indictment.pdf|title=The United States of America v. Ingmar Guandique|pages=527–533|publisher=[[Superior Court of the District of Columbia]]|date=May 19, 2009|access-date=December 22, 2010|archive-date=September 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929061457/http://www.dccourts.gov/dccourts/docs/current/2009_CF1_9230/2009-05-19_Indictment.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Guandique pleaded not guilty at his [[arraignment]], where a trial date was initially set for January 27, 2010.<ref name="MSNBC-20090527">{{cite news|title=Man pleads not guilty to killing Chandra Levy|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30961639|work=NBC News|agency=Associated Press|date=May 27, 2009|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016084922/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30961639/|url-status=live}}</ref> His lawyers argued that Guandique's federal prison cell was outside the jurisdiction of a court-ordered search.<ref name="McClatchy-20100924-trial">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|title=Lawyers prepare for center stage in Chandra Levy murder trial|url=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/24/v-print/101122/lawyers-prepare-for-center-stage.html|publisher=[[The McClatchy Company]]|date=September 24, 2010|access-date=November 17, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913073013/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/24/v-print/101122/lawyers-prepare-for-center-stage.html|archive-date=September 13, 2012}}</ref> After errors in processing contaminated some of the gathered evidence with [[DNA]] from employees of the prosecution,<ref name="WP-20100130">{{cite news|last=Duggan|first=Paul|title=Mishaps continue in Chandra Levy murder trial|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012904253.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 30, 2010|access-date=March 22, 2010|archive-date=November 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110061913/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012904253.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the start date of the trial at the [[H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse]] was moved to October 4, 2010.<ref name="McClatchy-20100924-trial"/>

==Trial of Guandique==
[[File:H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse.JPG|thumb|right|Guandique was tried at the [[H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="McClatchy-20100924-trial"/>]]
On October 18, 2010, jury selection commenced in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia before Judge [[Gerald Fisher|Gerald I. Fisher]]. Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez presented the names of potential witnesses for the trial, including FBI agent Brad Garrett and the two women whom Guandique was convicted of assaulting. At the start of the trial, the prosecution's case was expected to take around four weeks and the defense was expected to take one day.<ref name="WP-20101018-selection">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|title=Jury selection begins in Levy case|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101805735.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=B4|date=October 18, 2010|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=November 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112084919/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101805735.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On October 25 and 26, Halle Shilling and Christy Wiegand testified about being attacked by Guandique while independently jogging in Rock Creek Park. Wiegand recounted that Guandique grabbed her from behind, dragged her down a ravine and held a knife against her face.<ref name="SJMN-20101026-testifies">{{cite news|last=Barakat |first=Matthew |title=Chandra Levy's father testifies at murder trial |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_16436046 |newspaper=[[San Jose Mercury News]] |date=October 26, 2010 |access-date=November 24, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

On October 26, 2010, Levy's then-64-year-old father, Robert, took the stand and refuted statements about his past suspicions of Condit. Robert Levy testified that he told authorities during the early years of the investigation that his daughter Chandra would have been too cautious to jog in the woods alone, but said that he no longer believed this to be true. He said that he also told police that his daughter and Condit had a five-year plan between them to get married. In retrospect, Robert Levy admitted: "I just said whatever came to mind just to point to him as the villain." Levy added that he had been convinced that Condit was "guilty until we learned about this character here," referring to Guandique.<ref name="WE-20101026-father">{{cite news|last=McCabe|first=Scott|title=Levy's Father testifies he pointed Investigators to Condit|url=http://dev.www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/blogs/capital-land/levys-father-testifies-he-pointed-investigators-to-condit-105806768.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Examiner]]|date=October 26, 2010|access-date=February 21, 2011}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> On November 1, Condit testified at the trial and was asked on at least three occasions if he and Chandra Levy had been involved in a sexual relationship. He replied, "I am not going to respond to that question out of privacy for myself and Chandra."<ref name="WP-20101102-refuses">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|title=Condit refuses to testify about whether he had affair with Levy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/01/AR2010110107051.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=A1|date=November 2, 2010|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111144332/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/01/AR2010110107051.html|url-status=live}}</ref> FBI biologist Alan Giusti testified that semen found on underwear from Levy's apartment contained sperm matching Condit's [[DNA profiling|DNA profile]].<ref name="CNN-20101110-DNA">{{cite news|last=Courson|first=Paul|title=Condit's DNA found in Levy's underwear|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/10/dc.levy.murder.trial/|publisher=CNN|date=November 10, 2010|access-date=November 10, 2010|archive-date=November 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108224716/http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/10/dc.levy.murder.trial/|url-status=live}}</ref>

<!--[[File:USP Big Sandy.jpg|thumb|left|Armando Morales testified that Guandique admitted killing Levy while held at the [[United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy|U.S. Penitentiary, Big Sandy]] in [[Kentucky]].<ref name="WP-20101115"/>]]-->
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=dead}}</ref> After the trial, a juror said the testimony of Morales was decisive in reaching the verdict.<ref name ="WP-20101123-guilty">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|author2=Cauvin, Henri E.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112207433.html|title=Guandique found guilty in Levy case|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=A1|date=November 23, 2010|access-date=November 23, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111164027/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112207433.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The conviction was called a "miracle" for having been reached with only circumstantial evidence.<ref name="WP-20101127-miracle">{{cite news|last=Enright|first=Deirdre M.|author2=Engle, Matthew L.|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-opinions/2010/11/miracle_conviction_or_one_more.html|title='Miracle' conviction or one more mistake?|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 27, 2010|access-date=December 22, 2010|archive-date=October 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009011628/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-opinions/2010/11/miracle_conviction_or_one_more.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Gladys Weatherspoon, who had previously represented Guandique in the 2001 assault cases, stated that she was troubled by the jury's verdict: "I just think they were going to convict anyway.... They felt bad for that woman, the mom. She's sitting in there every day."<ref name ="WP-20101123-guilty"/> At a post-trial press conference, Susan Levy said, "There's always going to be a feeling of sadness. I can surely tell you, it ain't closure."<ref name="ModestoBee-20101122">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|title=Susan Levy: 'A feeling of sadness' will persist|url=http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/23/1440444/susan-levy-a-feeling-of-sadness.html|newspaper=[[The Modesto Bee]]|date=November 23, 2010|access-date=December 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203040328/http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/23/1440444/susan-levy-a-feeling-of-sadness.html|archive-date=December 3, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since the conclusion of the trial, Susan Levy has acted to keep photographic evidence of her daughter's remains sealed from the news media.<ref name="ModestoBee-20101124-media">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|url=http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/24/1443022/chandra-levys-mother-fighting.html|title=Chandra Levy's mother fighting media request for some trial photos|newspaper=The Modesto Bee|date=November 24, 2010|access-date=December 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227154723/http://www.modbee.com/2010/11/24/1443022/chandra-levys-mother-fighting.html|archive-date=December 27, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===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=https://www.foxnews.com/us/prosecutors-seek-life-term-for-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=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna40317461|title=Guilty verdict in Chandra Levy murder case|work=[[NBC News]]|agency=Associated Press|date=November 22, 2010|access-date=November 22, 2010|archive-date=March 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325095740/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40317461|url-status=live}}</ref> In seeking the maximum possible sentence, the prosecutors stated that Guandique "is unable to control himself and thus, will always remain a danger to women".<ref name="Fox-20110208"/> A memo submitted by the prosecution in February 2011 cited Guandique's harassment of female staff in prison, including soliciting a nurse and masturbating in front of guards.<ref name="Fox-20110208"/> Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez disclosed that he had traveled to El Salvador with a detective to investigate allegations that Guandique had fled his native country because of suspected attacks against local women dating back to 1999.<ref name="VancouverSun-20110208">{{cite news|last=Doyle|first=Michael|title=Prosecutors seek life without parole for Chandra Levy's killer|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/Prosecutors+seek+life+without+parole+Chandra+Levy+killer/4247029/story.html|newspaper=[[The Vancouver Sun]]|agency=[[The McClatchy Company]]|date=February 8, 2011|access-date=February 10, 2011}} {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> During the sentencing hearing on February 11, Guandique said to Levy's family, "I am sorry for what happened to your daughter", and insisted on his innocence. Before Judge Gerald Fisher reminded Susan Levy to address the court instead of the defendant, Levy said to him, "Did you really take her life? Look me in my eyes and tell me." Fisher denied Guandique's motion for retrial and handed down a sentence of 60 years in prison, stating that Guandique "will be a danger for some time. He's a sexual predator."<ref name="WP-20110211-prison">{{cite news|last=Alexander|first=Keith L.|title=Guandique, Chandra Levy's killer, gets 60 years in prison|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021103591.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|pages=1–2|date=February 11, 2011|access-date=February 11, 2011|archive-date=June 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628203643/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/11/AR2011021103591.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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]]. In December 2012 and January 2013, a set of secret hearings were 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"/>

=== Dropped charges ===
In May 2015, prosecutors dropped their opposition to a new trial.<ref>{{Cite web|title = New trial possible in Chandra Levy killing - CNN.com|url = http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/22/us/chandra-levy-case/index.html|website = CNN|date = May 23, 2015|access-date = June 4, 2015|archive-date = May 26, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150526001949/http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/22/us/chandra-levy-case/index.html|url-status = live}}</ref> This resulted from defense claims that the prosecution's star witness, Armando Morales, had [[perjury|perjured]] himself on the stand. The defense contended that prosecutors failed to disclose that Morales was a [[jailhouse informant]] with a reputation for being untrustworthy. Morales had denied ever being an informant. The defense also argued that Morales made up Guandique's confession in order to boost his stock with prosecutors.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/new-trial-likely-for-man-convicted-of-killing-intern-chandra-levy/2015/05/22/d5c5ac20-00c4-11e5-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html|title=New trial likely for man convicted of killing intern Chandra Levy|author1=Keith Alexander|author2=Mary Pat Flaherty|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 23, 2015|access-date=December 22, 2018|archive-date=January 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128132610/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/new-trial-likely-for-man-convicted-of-killing-intern-chandra-levy/2015/05/22/d5c5ac20-00c4-11e5-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On June 3, the defense said that a new witness, a neighbor, called 911 at 4:37&nbsp;a.m. on the last day Levy was alive in order to report hearing a 'blood-curdling scream', possibly coming from Levy's apartment.<ref>{{Cite web|title = New Witness Emerges in Chandra Levy Murder –– Could The Real Killer Still Be Out There?|date = June 3, 2015|url = http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/chandra-levy-murder-new-witness-emerges-14-years-after-her-disappearance/|access-date = June 4, 2015|archive-date = June 3, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150603161240/http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/chandra-levy-murder-new-witness-emerges-14-years-after-her-disappearance/|url-status = live}}</ref> The following day, Judge Gerald Fisher granted a motion for the new trial.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Chandra Levy murder retrial granted by US judge|work = BBC News|date = June 4, 2015|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33000019|access-date = June 4, 2015|archive-date = June 7, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150607012936/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33000019|url-status = live}}</ref> Judge Robert E. Morin set the retrial of Guandique for March 1, 2016, but at that time, it was moved to October 11.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Judge sets 2016 retrial date in Chandra Levy case|date = June 12, 2015|url = http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-modesto/judge-sets-2016-retrial-date-in-chandra-levy-case/33553438|access-date = June 15, 2015|archive-date = September 4, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150904054011/http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-modesto/judge-sets-2016-retrial-date-in-chandra-levy-case/33553438|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Retrial in Chandra Levy case now set for fall|url=http://wtop.com/national/2016/03/retrial-in-chandra-levy-case-now-set-for-fall/|date=March 4, 2016|access-date=April 8, 2016}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In November 2015, prosecutors told a D.C. Superior Court judge that their office had failed to turn over documents to the defense before the defendant's first trial.<ref>{{Cite news|title = Prosecutor in retrial of man charged in Levy murder acknowledges 'mistake'|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/prosecutor-in-retrial-of-man-charged-in-levy-murder-acknowledges-mistake/2015/11/20/ab31854c-8fbc-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html?tid=ss_fb|newspaper = The Washington Post|date = November 20, 2015|access-date = December 29, 2015|issn = 0190-8286|language = en-US|first = Keith L.|last = Alexander|archive-date = January 2, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160102045332/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/prosecutor-in-retrial-of-man-charged-in-levy-murder-acknowledges-mistake/2015/11/20/ab31854c-8fbc-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html?tid=ss_fb|url-status = live}}</ref> In December 2015, defense attorneys argued in new court filings that the charges should be dismissed because of those errors.<ref>{{Cite web|title = In Chandra Levy case, defense attorneys seek dismissal of murder charges|url = http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article49891190.html|website = mcclatchydc|access-date = December 29, 2015|archive-date = January 2, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160102045332/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article49891190.html|url-status = live}}</ref>

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 March 2017 Guandique lost his bid to remain in the United States and was deported to his native El Salvador in May.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4956|title=Ingmar Guandique|work=National Registry of Exonerations}}</ref>

=== Disciplinary proceedings against prosecutors ===
Defense lawyers for Guandique believed that Campoamor-Sánchez and Haines had deliberately failed to turn over the first page of the Morales memo. They filed a complaint to that effect with the Justice Department's [[Office of Professional Responsibility]] (OPR). After investigating for two years, OPR found no ethical or legal violations.<ref name="Reuters prosecutors story">{{cite news|last=Scarcella|first=Mike|title=Prosecutors in Chandra Levy case fight six-month sanction bid by ethics enforcers|url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/prosecutors-chandra-levy-case-fight-six-month-sanction-bid-by-ethics-enforcers-2021-11-09/|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|date=November 9, 2021|access-date=January 20, 2022|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121001048/https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/prosecutors-chandra-levy-case-fight-six-month-sanction-bid-by-ethics-enforcers-2021-11-09/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Campoamor-Sánchez left the Justice Department to work at the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]], and Haines retired. In 2020 the [[District of Columbia Bar]]'s Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) announced it would investigate the allegations; it brought charges the following May.<ref name="National Law Journal article">{{cite news|last=Scarcella|first=Mike|title=Two Former Federal Prosecutors Contest Ethics Charges Stemming From Chandra Levy Murder Trial|url=https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2021/05/04/2-former-federal-prosecutors-contest-ethics-charges-stemming-from-chandra-levy-murder-trial/|newspaper=[[National Law Journal]]|date=May 4, 2021|access-date=January 20, 2022|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121001050/https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2021/05/04/2-former-federal-prosecutors-contest-ethics-charges-stemming-from-chandra-levy-murder-trial/|url-status=live}}</ref>

At the hearing both attorneys testified in their behalf. Haines believed that the full memo had been turned over to the defense and they had lost the first page. She did not think there would have been any reason for prosecutors to withhold it as it did not seriously damage their case; but she sometimes delayed turning over more specific information on witnesses to the defense since at some trials that had led to those witnesses getting killed. Both she and Campoamor-Sánchez testified that they had clashed over what to turn over to the defense and when, since at the time there were no clear rules in the Justice Department about it, leading to greater clashes between the two about who would question Morales at trial and handle the case's [[closing argument]]—Campoamor-Sánchez had originally been scheduled to do both, but Haines reassigned those tasks to herself, leaving him feeling marginalized.<ref name="2021 WashPost disciplinary hearing story" />

Three months later ODC announced its preliminary conclusion that the two had violated bar rules requiring that prosecutors disclose potentially exculpatory evidence to defense lawyers, and recommended both be [[Suspension (punishment)|suspended]] from practicing law for six months. Both contested that punishment, with Haines's attorney calling it "unhinged—from both reality and from any precedent in law or logic". She and Campoamor-Sánchez have denied any wrongdoing.<ref name="Reuters prosecutors story" />

== Media coverage ==
The disappearance of Chandra Levy became a national topic of the news media in the summer of 2001,<ref name="AJR-200109">{{cite news|last=Wenner|first=Kathryn S.|url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=2845 |title=How the Chandra Levy Saga Took Off|journal=[[American Journalism Review]]|date=September 2001|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119164725/http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=2845|archive-date=November 19, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> with 63% of Americans closely following the case.<ref name="WP09-Frenzy"/> The media swamped Levy's parents from the moment they decided to go to Washington, D.C., in search of their daughter.<ref name="Nieman-Harvard">{{cite web|last=Petersen|first=Kim|title=The Chandra Levy Story: What does media coverage look and feel like from the other side?|url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/101639/The-Chandra-Levy-Story.aspx|publisher=[[Nieman Foundation for Journalism]]|date=Fall 2001|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=June 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611141353/http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/101639/The-Chandra-Levy-Story.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Condit, about a hundred reporters were camped out in front of his apartment during the morning of September 11, 2001, but they all left after news spread about [[September 11 attacks|that day's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/1/condit-mum-on-question-of-affair-with-intern-levy/?page=2|title=Condit mum on question of affair with Levy|newspaper=[[The Washington Times]]|first=Ben|last=Conery|date=November 1, 2010|access-date=November 29, 2010|archive-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820101005/http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/1/condit-mum-on-question-of-affair-with-intern-levy/?page=2|url-status=live}}</ref> Media critics and cable news executives later cited the Levy case, as well as the concurrent [[sensationalism|sensationalist]] coverage of a string of [[shark attack]]s, as a reflection of the manner of news coverage in the United States before the September 11 attacks had taken priority.<ref name="NYTimes-20020524-restraint">{{cite news|last=Rutenberg|first=Jim|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01EEDB163BF937A15756C0A9649C8B63|title=Media Report: World Events Bring Restraint in Levy Case|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=A16|date=May 24, 2002|access-date=July 13, 2008|archive-date=August 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827192017/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/us/media-report-world-events-bring-restraint-in-levy-case.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYTimes-20080711-sharks">{{cite news|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/dramatic-entrance-for-sharks/index.html|title=Like It's the Summer of 2001: Sharks and Chandra|newspaper=New York Times |first=Mike|last=Nizza|date=July 11, 2008|access-date=July 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080717042124/http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/dramatic-entrance-for-sharks/index.html |archive-date=July 17, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2002, D.C. newspaper ''[[Roll Call]]'' first reported Ingmar Guandique's possible connection to the case, with little effect on the news media's focus on Condit.<ref name="WP-20101128"/> Conservative commentator [[Michelle Malkin]] noted the lack of headlines that an illegal immigrant had been questioned in the Levy case. She said that in her review of 115 news items from the [[LexisNexis]] database, not a single mention of Guandique referred to his status as a "criminal [[illegal immigration|illegal alien]]". She called the "glaring omission" of his status "a newsworthy act of negligence". She wrote that only the very conservative ''[[Human Events]]'' reported that the [[Immigration and Naturalization Service]] had approved his working legally while he was applying for [[temporary protected status]]. That application was ultimately denied, but not before he had assaulted two other women at Rock Creek Park.<ref name="JWW-20020605-blinders">{{cite news|last=Malkin|first=Michelle|author-link=Michelle Malkin|title=The media's immigration blinders|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin0060502.asp|publisher=[[Jewish World Review]]|date=June 5, 2002|access-date=November 23, 2010|archive-date=October 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023143831/http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin0060502.asp|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2005, investigative journalist [[Dominick Dunne]] said on ''[[Larry King Live]]'' that he believed that Gary Condit had more information about the Levy case than he had been disclosing. Condit filed two lawsuits against Dunne, forcing him into an undisclosed financial settlement on one of them. In 2008, U.S. District Judge [[Peter K. Leisure|Peter Leisure]] dismissed the other suit that alleged [[slander]], because "The context in which Dunne's statements were made demonstrates that they were part of a discussion about "speculation" in the media and inaccurate media coverage".<ref name="Reuters-20080709"/>

During the summer of 2008, ''The Washington Post'' ran a 13-part series billed, in part, as "a tale of the tabloid and mainstream press pack journalism that helped derail the investigation". The two investigative reporters who were behind the ''Post'' series, [[Scott Higham]] and [[Sari Horwitz]], wrote a book which detailed their investigation. The book, ''[[Finding Chandra]]'', was published in May 2010.<ref name="Finding-Chandra-2010-piv">{{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|page=iv|isbn=978-1-4391-3867-0|oclc= 430842090|publisher=Scribner|location=New York City|year=2010|access-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> Commentators, including ''The Washington Post'' Metro reporter Robert Pierre, wrote that emphasis on a glamorous white murder victim, when "about 200 people are killed in this city every year, most of them black and male", was "absolutely absurd and dare I say, [[Racism|racist]], at its core".<ref name="WP-20080727-series">{{cite news|title=A 13-Part Series to Love or Hate|first=Deborah|last=Howell|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 27, 2008|page=B06|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502758.html|access-date=December 22, 2018|archive-date=December 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214233151/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502758.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WCP-20080722">{{cite news|title=''Post'' Reporter Hopes Protesters March on ''Post'' Building over Chandra Series|first=Erik|last=Wemple|author-link=Erik Wemple|newspaper=[[Washington City Paper]]|date=July 22, 2008|url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/07/22/post-reporter-hopes-protesters-march-on-post-building-over-chandra-series/|access-date=July 27, 2008|archive-date=July 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727134133/http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/07/22/post-reporter-hopes-protesters-march-on-post-building-over-chandra-series/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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 on May 25, 2020, reviewed the events surrounding her disappearance and the search for her.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Disappearance of Chandra Levy |date=2020-05-25 |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/62UwFcuMfr9XHCUL6mxeQr |access-date=2023-03-13 |language=en}}</ref>

== Impact ==
Levy's death has had a lasting impact, due in part to the efforts of her family and friends. Levy's disappearance came after a number of other high-profile cases that led to the creation of resources for missing young adults. For example, Levy's parents quickly requested help from the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation,<ref name="WP04-Levys"/> a nonprofit group that was established in Modesto after [[Cary Stayner|three female tourists disappeared]] from a 1999 trip to [[Yosemite National Park]] and were later found slain.<ref name="Carole-Sund-Carrington-Foundation">{{cite web|title=About Us {{!}} Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation|url=http://www.carolesundfoundation.com/sections/about|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826022709/http://www.carolesundfoundation.com/sections/about |access-date=February 8, 2011|archive-date=August 26, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> That foundation, which offered the Levys staff support and contributed towards a cash reward for information about Chandra's disappearance, was merged into the [[Murder of Laci Peterson|Laci and Conner Search and Rescue Fund]] in 2009;<ref name="ModBee-20090627">{{cite news|last=Jardine|first=Jeff |url=http://www.modbee.com/2009/06/26/761010/reward-group-will-dissolve-shift.html|title=Reward group will dissolve, shift its assets|newspaper=The Modesto Bee|date=June 27, 2009|access-date=December 1, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616203941/http://www.modbee.com/2009/06/26/761010/reward-group-will-dissolve-shift.html|archive-date=June 16, 2011}}</ref> Susan Levy had previously participated in the efforts to find [[Murder of Laci Peterson|Laci Peterson]], another missing woman from Modesto.<ref name="WP-20030501-remains">{{cite news|last=Lengel|first=Allan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801908.html|title=After Two Years, Levy Case Remains Open|newspaper=The Washington Post|pages=1–2|date=May 1, 2003|access-date=November 5, 2010|archive-date=November 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111144355/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061801908.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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=usurped}}</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>

== See also ==
*[[Crime in Washington, D.C.]]
*[[List of solved missing person cases: post-2000|List of solved missing person cases]]
*[[List of unsolved murders (2000–present)|List of unsolved murders]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last=Daugherty|first=Ralph|title=Murder on a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of Chandra Levy|isbn=978-0-595-31847-6|oclc=57542114|publisher=[[iUniverse]]|year=2004|location=Lincoln, Nebraska}}
* {{cite book|last1=Higham|first1=Scott|author-link=Scott Higham|last2=Horwitz|first2=Sari|author-link2=Sari Horwitz|title=[[Finding Chandra|Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery]]|isbn=978-1-4391-3867-0|oclc=430842090|publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]|year=2010|location=New York City}}

== External links ==
* [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]])
* [http://www.dccourts.gov/dccourts/about/media/us_v_guandique.jsp United States of America v. Ingmar Guandique] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217061301/http://www.dccourts.gov/dccourts/about/media/us_v_guandique.jsp |date=February 17, 2011 }} documents at the [[Superior Court of the District of Columbia]]
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/ "Who Killed Chandra Levy?"], a 13-part series from ''The Washington Post''

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