Warrant: Chandra Levy suspect described slaying

[Ghost in the Machine]

Warrant: Chandra Levy suspect described slaying
Published: 3/3/09, 10:25 PM EDT
By BRIAN WESTLEY

WASHINGTON (AP) - In the nearly eight years since intern Chandra Levy was attacked and killed in a Washington park, witnesses said a Salvadoran immigrant boasted in letters and jailhouse conversations that he picked out women randomly and stalked them. One witness said the man even bragged of maiming and killing people.

While behind bars for two other attacks in the same park where Levy was killed, police say, Ingmar Guandique slowly revealed that one of those women was Levy, explaining over time how with the help of two teenagers, he grabbed her by the neck and choked her so other joggers wouldn't hear her screams.

Authorities issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Guandique, 27, and said he would be charged with first-degree murder in Levy's death. He is expected to be brought back to Washington from the federal prison in Adelanto, Calif., where he is serving time for attacking the other two women, sometime in the next two months.

The announcement was a long-awaited break in a case that has long stumped the city's police department and led to harsh criticism that the initial investigation was bungled because police missed leads and even searched the wrong part of the park for Levy's body. When the remains were found, they were so decayed police couldn't recover much evidence.

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[Demobrat]

1. That poor girl.

And her poor parents. As for Condit, he's just another example of how the cover-up is always worse than the crime.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Will political Republicans apologize to Condit for the character assassination they

condcuted against him, if this prisoner is proven to be the killer?

How about the media - the corporations who gave the orders to assassinate Condit? Will they apologize?

Will this country learn a lesson if this guy is proven guilty or confesses with proof that can be validated?

[Captain Hilts]

3. It was the press that really went after him despite his having NO motive. nt

[peacetalksforall]

5. Or could we say that it was the media who created Condit's motive.

Remember all the reasons they came up with?

[derby378]

4. Republicans see apologies as a sign of weakness

So they'll probably throw under the bus any Republican who apologizes to Condit.