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Chandra Levy Biography

Intern / Murder Victim

Chandra Levy, a former intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, disappeared from Washington D.C. on 1 May 2001. Levy was due to return to her home in California for college graduation ceremonies; when she failed to do so, her parents contacted authorities. Police searched Levy's apartment and found money, credit cards, her packed luggage and no signs of a struggle. Newspapers reported that Levy had some sort of relationship with California Rep. Gary Condit; Condit at first called her a "good friend," but in July of 2001 he admitted to police that he and Levy had had a romantic affair. (Levy's status as an intern drew extra attention to the case, thanks in part to intern Monica Lewinsky's infamous affair with former president Bill Clinton, which Condit had publicly condemned.) On 22 May 2002 Levy's remains were discovered in a Washington, D. C. park. One week later the D.C. medical examiner ruled that Levy's death was a homicide, although the exact details of her death remained unknown. In March of 2009, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador named Ingmar A. Guandique was charged with Levy's murder. Guandique was by then already in prison for other assaults committed at the same park.

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