1 00:00:05,254 --> 00:00:08,221 [ TELEPHONE RINGS ] 2 00:00:08,221 --> 00:00:10,721 ** 3 00:00:10,721 --> 00:00:12,088 [ BEEP ] 4 00:00:24,354 --> 00:00:27,388 [ TELEPHONE RINGS ] 5 00:00:29,521 --> 00:00:30,554 [ BEEP ] 6 00:00:36,088 --> 00:00:39,588 IMPORTANT, NEW QUESTIONS IN THE CASE OF CHANDRA LEVY, 7 00:00:39,588 --> 00:00:41,788 THE MISSING WASHINGTON, D.C. INTERN. 8 00:00:41,788 --> 00:00:44,321 Narrator: IT'S ONE OF THE MOST CHILLING POLITICAL THRILLERS 9 00:00:44,321 --> 00:00:46,021 IN RECENT HISTORY. 10 00:00:46,021 --> 00:00:48,588 THIS CASE IS "HOUSE OF CARDS" ON STEROIDS. 11 00:00:48,588 --> 00:00:50,421 Dimond: A YOUNG, STARRY-EYED INTERN 12 00:00:50,421 --> 00:00:53,388 RUNS INTO HER OWN CONGRESSMAN, 13 00:00:53,388 --> 00:00:56,121 STARTS TO HAVE AN ILLICIT AFFAIR WITH HIM. 14 00:00:56,121 --> 00:00:59,454 Narrator: 24-YEAR-OLD INTERN CHANDRA LEVY VANISHES 15 00:00:59,454 --> 00:01:01,188 IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 16 00:01:01,188 --> 00:01:04,488 WHAT THEY FIND IS A HORNET'S NEST OF INTRIGUE. 17 00:01:04,488 --> 00:01:06,488 Narrator: IN THIS THREE-PART SPECIAL, 18 00:01:06,488 --> 00:01:08,221 WE GIVE YOU AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK 19 00:01:08,221 --> 00:01:11,088 INSIDE THIS AGONIZING INVESTIGATION. 20 00:01:11,088 --> 00:01:13,354 THE WHOLE TIME, WE WERE HOPEFUL THAT SHE'D BE FOUND ALIVE. 21 00:01:13,354 --> 00:01:14,854 IT WAS SCARY AS HELL. 22 00:01:14,854 --> 00:01:17,621 McCann: HE SAID, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH. 23 00:01:17,621 --> 00:01:18,954 THESE PEOPLE WILL KILL ME. 24 00:01:18,954 --> 00:01:20,454 I CAN'T GET INVOLVED." 25 00:01:20,454 --> 00:01:21,588 Narrator: HEAR FROM THE VOICES 26 00:01:21,588 --> 00:01:24,088 AT THE CENTER OF THIS MEDIA SENSATION... 27 00:01:24,088 --> 00:01:26,721 I WAS, LITERALLY, PULLING TEETH. 28 00:01:26,721 --> 00:01:29,554 I COULD NOT GET HIM TO OPEN UP. 29 00:01:29,554 --> 00:01:31,354 YOU COULD WATERBOARD HIM ALL DAY LONG, 30 00:01:31,354 --> 00:01:33,088 AND HE WOULD NEVER ADMIT IT. 31 00:01:33,088 --> 00:01:34,721 Narrator: ...SPEAK WITH THE MAN 32 00:01:34,721 --> 00:01:37,088 WHO WAS CHARGED FOR THIS BRUTAL CRIME... 33 00:01:42,421 --> 00:01:45,154 ...AND DELVE INTO NEW THEORIES ON THE MURDER. 34 00:01:45,154 --> 00:01:47,688 I'M SATISFIED THAT I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 35 00:01:50,088 --> 00:01:51,321 ** 36 00:01:51,321 --> 00:01:54,154 Alexander: THIS, TRULY, WAS THE CRAZIEST CASE 37 00:01:54,154 --> 00:01:56,688 EVER TO HIT WASHINGTON, D.C. 38 00:01:56,688 --> 00:01:59,254 Dimond: WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY? 39 00:01:59,254 --> 00:02:02,154 Doyle: THE STORY GOES FROM ZERO TO 60 VERY QUICKLY. 40 00:02:02,154 --> 00:02:04,888 Dimond: WHY IS A 53-YEAR-OLD CONGRESSMAN 41 00:02:04,888 --> 00:02:06,754 CALLING A YOUNG INTERN? 42 00:02:06,754 --> 00:02:08,321 Chung: DID YOU KILL CHANDRA LEVY? 43 00:02:08,321 --> 00:02:09,888 I DID NOT. 44 00:02:09,888 --> 00:02:12,088 Grimm: THEY SIMPLY FOUND BONES IN A PARK 45 00:02:12,088 --> 00:02:13,388 ALMOST A YEAR AFTER. 46 00:02:13,388 --> 00:02:15,588 Alexander: THERE WERE NO EYEWITNESSES. 47 00:02:15,588 --> 00:02:17,088 THERE WAS NO MURDER WEAPON. 48 00:02:17,088 --> 00:02:19,088 Dimond: THEY, FINALLY, PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, 49 00:02:19,088 --> 00:02:20,654 AND IT POINTED TO ONE MAN -- 50 00:02:20,654 --> 00:02:22,854 INGMAR GUANDIQUE. 51 00:02:22,854 --> 00:02:26,654 Grimm: MR. MORALES WAS A JAILHOUSE SNITCH, A RAT. 52 00:02:26,654 --> 00:02:29,488 Velez-Mitchell: THIS CASE THAT TOOK SO MANY YEARS TO BUILD 53 00:02:29,488 --> 00:02:31,254 HAS COLLAPSED OVERNIGHT. 54 00:02:31,254 --> 00:02:33,421 ** 55 00:02:33,421 --> 00:02:36,421 Susan: IT'S THE WORST THING A MOTHER COULD EVER FACE. 56 00:02:36,421 --> 00:02:38,754 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 57 00:02:38,754 --> 00:02:41,254 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 58 00:02:41,254 --> 00:02:43,188 Dimond: IT'S MAY 6, 2001, 59 00:02:43,188 --> 00:02:45,354 AND IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, 60 00:02:45,354 --> 00:02:48,621 SUSAN AND DR. ROBERT LEVY ARE BESIDE THEMSELVES. 61 00:02:48,621 --> 00:02:51,854 THEY HAVE NOT HEARD FROM THEIR DAUGHTER, CHANDRA, FOR DAYS. 62 00:02:51,854 --> 00:02:53,654 THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 63 00:02:53,654 --> 00:02:55,654 I'M SUSAN LEVY. 64 00:02:55,654 --> 00:02:58,121 I'M BOB LEVY. 65 00:02:58,121 --> 00:03:00,421 Robert: WE CALLED HER UP, AND SHE DIDN'T ANSWER HER PHONE, 66 00:03:00,421 --> 00:03:02,821 GOT A MESSAGING MACHINE, AND I KEPT CALLING AND CALLING, 67 00:03:02,821 --> 00:03:05,221 AND SHE NEVER ANSWERED, AND I GOT WORRIED ABOUT IT. 68 00:03:05,221 --> 00:03:06,854 Susan: HE GOT VERY UPSET, 69 00:03:06,854 --> 00:03:10,954 AND HE SAID HE FELT SOMETHING WAS WRONG. 70 00:03:10,954 --> 00:03:12,654 Narrator: THE 24-YEAR-OLD CHANDRA HAS 71 00:03:12,654 --> 00:03:15,821 SPENT THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 72 00:03:15,821 --> 00:03:18,988 WORKING AS AN INTERN, BUT IN JUST A FEW DAYS, 73 00:03:18,988 --> 00:03:22,288 HER PARENTS EXPECT HER TO RETURN HOME TO GRADUATE 74 00:03:22,288 --> 00:03:24,621 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 75 00:03:24,621 --> 00:03:26,388 WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE. 76 00:03:26,388 --> 00:03:29,621 WHEN THEY DON'T HEAR FROM HER FOR FIVE OR SIX DAYS, 77 00:03:29,621 --> 00:03:30,888 THEY BECOME CONCERNED. 78 00:03:30,888 --> 00:03:33,754 THEY CALLED, NO RESPONSE FROM THE E-MAIL, 79 00:03:33,754 --> 00:03:36,088 AND THEY GET INCREASINGLY FRETFUL. 80 00:03:36,088 --> 00:03:38,221 Narrator: ALARMED BY CHANDRA'S SILENCE, 81 00:03:38,221 --> 00:03:41,688 THE LEVYS ALERT THE POLICE IN WASHINGTON. 82 00:03:41,688 --> 00:03:43,421 I'M RONALD MONROE. 83 00:03:43,421 --> 00:03:45,488 I'M A RETIRED ASSISTANT-CHIEF OF POLICE 84 00:03:45,488 --> 00:03:47,154 WITH THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT 85 00:03:47,154 --> 00:03:49,754 OF WASHINGTON, D.C. 86 00:03:49,754 --> 00:03:54,088 AT THE TIME THAT CHANDRA LEVY WAS REPORTED AS MISSING, 87 00:03:54,088 --> 00:03:56,854 THE NUMBER OF MISSING PERSONS IN THE DISTRICT 88 00:03:56,854 --> 00:04:01,321 PROBABLY EXCEEDED 200 TO 300 A MONTH. 89 00:04:01,321 --> 00:04:04,821 WHEN THE PARENTS CALLED, WE SENT AN OFFICER TO JUST CHECK 90 00:04:04,821 --> 00:04:07,788 ON THE WELFARE OF THE PERSON. 91 00:04:07,788 --> 00:04:09,354 Narrator: A PATROLMAN HEADS 92 00:04:09,354 --> 00:04:12,088 TO THE VIBRANT NEIGHBORHOOD OF DUPONT CIRCLE, 93 00:04:12,088 --> 00:04:15,521 WHERE CHANDRA HAD BEEN SUBLETTING A SMALL APARTMENT. 94 00:04:15,521 --> 00:04:17,788 Dimond: THEY FOUND SUITCASES HALF PACKED. 95 00:04:17,788 --> 00:04:19,821 SOME OF HER CLOTHES WERE STILL HANGING. 96 00:04:19,821 --> 00:04:22,321 THEY FOUND DIRTY DISHES IN THE SINK, 97 00:04:22,321 --> 00:04:25,254 NO FOUL PLAY, NO FORCED ENTRY. 98 00:04:25,254 --> 00:04:26,588 ** 99 00:04:26,588 --> 00:04:28,221 Doyle: NOTHING SEEMS TO BE AMISS. 100 00:04:28,221 --> 00:04:30,688 SHE'S BEEN INHABITING THE APARTMENT, 101 00:04:30,688 --> 00:04:33,221 BUT NO INDICATION OF WHERE SHE MIGHT HAVE GONE. 102 00:04:33,221 --> 00:04:35,621 THE POLICE WENT TO HER ROOM AND FOUND EVERYTHING THERE, 103 00:04:35,621 --> 00:04:38,521 YOU KNOW, NOTHING, AND THEY DIDN'T FIND HER ANYWHERE. 104 00:04:38,521 --> 00:04:40,388 Monroe: THE LEVYS HAD TOLD US 105 00:04:40,388 --> 00:04:43,388 THAT CHANDRA WAS VERY RESPONSIBLE, 106 00:04:43,388 --> 00:04:45,288 AND THAT REALLY MADE IT DIFFICULT 107 00:04:45,288 --> 00:04:47,521 TO UNDERSTAND WHY SHE WOULD NOT RETURN 108 00:04:47,521 --> 00:04:49,154 FOR HER GRADUATION. 109 00:04:49,154 --> 00:04:51,088 Susan: SHE HAD GOT HONORS. 110 00:04:51,088 --> 00:04:53,388 SHE WAS TOP IN HER CLASS. 111 00:04:53,388 --> 00:04:56,454 THAT WOULD BE EXCITING FOR HER. 112 00:04:56,454 --> 00:05:00,621 Doyle: CHANDRA WAS RAISED IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA. 113 00:05:00,621 --> 00:05:03,088 IT WAS A CLOSE-KNIT FAMILY. 114 00:05:03,088 --> 00:05:05,688 HER FATHER, DR. ROBERT LEVY, IS AN ONCOLOGIST, 115 00:05:05,688 --> 00:05:08,788 EXTREMELY WELL-REGARDED IN THE MODESTO COMMUNITY. 116 00:05:08,788 --> 00:05:11,921 HER MOTHER, SUSAN, WAS MORE OF A FREE SPIRIT. 117 00:05:11,921 --> 00:05:16,854 SHE LOVES HORSES, ART, PAINTING, DANCING. 118 00:05:16,854 --> 00:05:18,854 Narrator: CHANDRA HAS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP 119 00:05:18,854 --> 00:05:20,988 WITH HER YOUNGER BROTHER, ADAM. 120 00:05:20,988 --> 00:05:23,488 Susan: FAVORITE MEMORIES WERE WHEN WE TRAVEL 121 00:05:23,488 --> 00:05:26,754 BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN WE WERE CLOSEST AS A FAMILY. 122 00:05:26,754 --> 00:05:30,088 WHEN WE WOULD DRIVE FROM SAN FRANCISCO BACK, 123 00:05:30,088 --> 00:05:36,088 THEY WOULD SAY THE WHOLE "STAR WAR" TRILOGY BY HEART, 124 00:05:36,088 --> 00:05:40,321 THE DIALOGUE FOR ALL THREE MOVIES. 125 00:05:40,321 --> 00:05:41,821 Robert: CHANDRA WAS REALLY HEADSTRONG. 126 00:05:41,821 --> 00:05:42,921 WE WENT ON TRIPS. 127 00:05:42,921 --> 00:05:44,854 SOMETIMES, SHE'D JUST WALK AWAY FROM US 128 00:05:44,854 --> 00:05:46,488 BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BE ASSOCIATED 129 00:05:46,488 --> 00:05:49,221 WITH HER PARENTS AND KID BROTHER. 130 00:05:49,221 --> 00:05:52,854 CHANDRA WAS REALLY INTO JUSTICE AND POLICING, 131 00:05:52,854 --> 00:05:55,988 AND SHE WAS A POLICE EXPLORER. 132 00:05:55,988 --> 00:05:59,288 Susan: IN HIGH SCHOOL, SHE ACTUALLY GOT TO WORK 133 00:05:59,288 --> 00:06:00,588 IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, 134 00:06:00,588 --> 00:06:02,821 AND SHE DID PARKING TICKETS. 135 00:06:02,821 --> 00:06:06,154 SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF THE JOB, AND SHE WAS GOOD AT IT. 136 00:06:06,154 --> 00:06:08,888 Doyle: SHE ALWAYS HAD THE DRIVE. 137 00:06:08,888 --> 00:06:10,954 SHE HAD SET HER EYES 138 00:06:10,954 --> 00:06:14,121 WELL BEYOND THE CITY THAT SHE WAS RAISED IN. 139 00:06:14,121 --> 00:06:15,754 ** 140 00:06:15,754 --> 00:06:17,121 Narrator: IN THE YEAR 2000, 141 00:06:17,121 --> 00:06:19,188 WHILE WORKING TOWARDS A MASTER'S DEGREE, 142 00:06:19,188 --> 00:06:21,288 CHANDRA SECURED A COVETED INTERNSHIP 143 00:06:21,288 --> 00:06:23,821 AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS. 144 00:06:23,821 --> 00:06:27,454 SHE BECAME VERY EXCITED TO GET THIS INTERNSHIP. 145 00:06:27,454 --> 00:06:31,088 IT SEEMED A PERFECT FIT FOR HER LONG-TERM GOALS, 146 00:06:31,088 --> 00:06:32,854 FOR HER CAREER. 147 00:06:32,854 --> 00:06:35,188 SHE TALKED ABOUT BEING AN FBI AGENT 148 00:06:35,188 --> 00:06:38,988 OR WORKING IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY COMMUNITY. 149 00:06:38,988 --> 00:06:40,754 Dimond: SHE WAS IN THE PRIME OF LIFE. 150 00:06:40,754 --> 00:06:43,454 SHE HAD EVERYTHING GOING FOR HER... 151 00:06:43,454 --> 00:06:45,788 AND THEN SHE DISAPPEARED. 152 00:06:45,788 --> 00:06:46,754 NARRATOR: FIVE DAYS AFTER 153 00:06:46,754 --> 00:06:49,088 THE LEVYS REPORTED CHANDRA MISSING, 154 00:06:49,088 --> 00:06:51,821 THE POLICE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS. 155 00:06:51,821 --> 00:06:54,688 ** 156 00:06:54,688 --> 00:06:56,121 I'M JIM TRAINUM. 157 00:06:56,121 --> 00:06:57,254 I'M A RETIRED DETECTIVE 158 00:06:57,254 --> 00:06:59,721 WITH THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT. 159 00:06:59,721 --> 00:07:02,521 THERE'S EVIDENCE THAT SHE PROBABLY WAS ONLY LEAVING 160 00:07:02,521 --> 00:07:04,221 FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, 161 00:07:04,221 --> 00:07:06,088 BUT THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO GO ON. 162 00:07:06,088 --> 00:07:09,188 DID SHE JUST DROP OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH VOLUNTARILY? 163 00:07:09,188 --> 00:07:11,754 IS SHE MISSING UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES 164 00:07:11,754 --> 00:07:13,721 BUT STILL ALIVE? 165 00:07:13,721 --> 00:07:16,488 COULD SHE HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF FOUL PLAY? 166 00:07:16,488 --> 00:07:19,154 ALL OF THESE ARE POSSIBILITIES THAT YOU HAVE TO EXPLORE. 167 00:07:19,154 --> 00:07:20,288 ** 168 00:07:20,288 --> 00:07:22,088 Dimond: BACK IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, 169 00:07:22,088 --> 00:07:24,788 CHANDRA'S PARENTS ARE GETTING DESPERATE. 170 00:07:24,788 --> 00:07:27,088 THEY START LOOKING FOR CLUES. 171 00:07:27,088 --> 00:07:29,921 DR. LEVY AND SUSAN LEVY ARE DOING WHAT THEY CAN 172 00:07:29,921 --> 00:07:32,354 TO COME UP WITH AN IDEA OF WHERE SHE MIGHT BE, 173 00:07:32,354 --> 00:07:35,788 AND SO THEY LOOK AT HER CELL PHONE BILL. 174 00:07:35,788 --> 00:07:37,921 Dimond: HER PARENTS NOTICE ON THE PHONE BILL THAT 175 00:07:37,921 --> 00:07:41,788 CHANDRA LEVY HAS CALLED ONE NUMBER IN D.C. 176 00:07:41,788 --> 00:07:44,654 OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 177 00:07:44,654 --> 00:07:47,121 SUSAN LEVY DECIDES SHE'S GONNA TAKE SOME ACTION. 178 00:07:47,121 --> 00:07:49,121 SHE CALLS THIS NUMBER. 179 00:07:49,121 --> 00:07:51,454 Narrator: SUSAN REACHES AN ANSWERING MACHINE, 180 00:07:51,454 --> 00:07:54,188 AND THE OUTGOING MESSAGE STUNS HER. 181 00:07:54,188 --> 00:07:57,821 Dimond: THAT'S THE OFFICE OF CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT. 182 00:07:57,821 --> 00:08:01,321 THIS IS A NAME THAT SUSAN LEVY IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZES 183 00:08:01,321 --> 00:08:03,688 BECAUSE THIS IS THE CONGRESSMAN 184 00:08:03,688 --> 00:08:07,821 WHO REPRESENTS THEIR HOMETOWN OF MODESTO, CALIFORNIA. 185 00:08:07,821 --> 00:08:10,488 Man: GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA IS RECOGNIZED FOR 2 MINUTES. 186 00:08:10,488 --> 00:08:13,988 IT IS A TREMENDOUS COST TO THE COMMITTEE 187 00:08:13,988 --> 00:08:16,088 AND TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THIS COUNTRY, 188 00:08:16,088 --> 00:08:19,121 AND THEY'RE CONFUSED WHY WE CAN'T WORK TOGETHER. 189 00:08:19,121 --> 00:08:22,388 Mooney: GARY CONDIT WAS WELL RESPECTED IN THE COMMUNITY. 190 00:08:22,388 --> 00:08:26,821 EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A DEMOCRAT IN A LARGELY REPUBLICAN AREA, 191 00:08:26,821 --> 00:08:29,921 HE NEVER HAD TROUBLE WINNING AN ELECTION. 192 00:08:29,921 --> 00:08:32,954 HE WAS A GOOD-LOOKING GUY, A CHARMER, 193 00:08:32,954 --> 00:08:37,888 SOMEONE WHO KNEW HOW TO PLAY THE POLITICAL GAME VERY WELL. 194 00:08:37,888 --> 00:08:40,688 THERE WAS EVEN TALK ABOUT HIM BECOMING 195 00:08:40,688 --> 00:08:44,088 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 196 00:08:44,088 --> 00:08:45,921 ** 197 00:08:45,921 --> 00:08:46,988 Doyle: CONGRESSMAN CONDIT MARRIED 198 00:08:46,988 --> 00:08:49,088 HIS HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEART, CAROLYN. 199 00:08:49,088 --> 00:08:50,921 THEY HAD TWO KIDS. 200 00:08:50,921 --> 00:08:53,721 HE IS THE SON OF A BAPTIST MINISTER, 201 00:08:53,721 --> 00:08:57,754 AND HE HIMSELF ATTENDS BIBLE STUDY WITH HIS COLLEAGUES. 202 00:08:57,754 --> 00:09:01,388 HE'S APPROPRIATELY BAPTIST FOR HIS RURAL DISTRICT. 203 00:09:03,588 --> 00:09:06,188 Dimond: WHEN SUSAN LEVY REALIZES THE CONGRESSMAN'S NUMBER 204 00:09:06,188 --> 00:09:08,154 IS ALL OVER THEIR DAUGHTER'S PHONE BILL, 205 00:09:08,154 --> 00:09:10,788 SHE WONDERS, WHY IS HER DAUGHTER CALLING HIM 206 00:09:10,788 --> 00:09:13,454 OVER AND OVER AGAIN? 207 00:09:13,454 --> 00:09:16,921 SO, ROBERT DECIDES HE'S GOT TO CALL THIS CONGRESSMAN. 208 00:09:16,921 --> 00:09:18,421 THEY PULL OUT THEIR PHONE BOOK. 209 00:09:18,421 --> 00:09:19,588 THEY LOOK IN THERE, 210 00:09:19,588 --> 00:09:22,554 AND THEY FIND THE HOME PHONE FOR GARY CONDIT. 211 00:09:22,554 --> 00:09:24,754 THEY CALL IT, AND FORTUITOUSLY, 212 00:09:24,754 --> 00:09:27,921 GARY CONDIT IS HOME. 213 00:09:27,921 --> 00:09:29,088 WHEN ROBERT LEVY GETS 214 00:09:29,088 --> 00:09:30,688 THE CONGRESSMAN ON THE TELEPHONE, 215 00:09:30,688 --> 00:09:33,888 HE ANNOUNCES THAT HE IS THE FATHER OF CHANDRA LEVY, 216 00:09:33,888 --> 00:09:35,688 AN INTERN THERE IN WASHINGTON, 217 00:09:35,688 --> 00:09:37,888 THAT SHE IS MISSING, 218 00:09:37,888 --> 00:09:39,654 AND IN EMOTIONAL TONES, 219 00:09:39,654 --> 00:09:41,221 "DO YOU KNOW WHERE MY DAUGHTER IS? 220 00:09:41,221 --> 00:09:44,721 DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HER AT ALL?" 221 00:09:44,721 --> 00:09:47,521 HE TELLS ROBERT LEVY, "I KNOW YOUR DAUGHTER. 222 00:09:47,521 --> 00:09:49,621 SHE'S A LOVELY PERSON, BUT I DON'T HAVE 223 00:09:49,621 --> 00:09:51,721 ANY INFORMATION FOR YOU, PERIOD." 224 00:09:51,721 --> 00:09:53,921 ** 225 00:09:53,921 --> 00:09:56,288 DESPITE HIS DENIALS, THE LEVYS REMAIN 226 00:09:56,288 --> 00:09:58,788 INCREDIBLY SUSPICIOUS OF GARY CONDIT, 227 00:09:58,788 --> 00:10:00,921 AND, INDEED, INFORM LAW ENFORCEMENT 228 00:10:00,921 --> 00:10:02,821 OF THIS CONNECTION. 229 00:10:02,821 --> 00:10:05,421 Narrator: POLICE NOW HAVE AN UNLIKELY LEAD -- 230 00:10:05,421 --> 00:10:09,188 A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 231 00:10:09,188 --> 00:10:12,354 THEY QUICKLY DISCOVER THAT HIS D.C. CONDO IS JUST 232 00:10:12,354 --> 00:10:15,421 MINUTES AWAY FROM CHANDRA'S RENTAL. 233 00:10:15,421 --> 00:10:16,988 SO CONGRESSMAN CONDIT 234 00:10:16,988 --> 00:10:20,521 IS THE SUBJECT OF GREAT INTEREST TO POLICE. 235 00:10:20,521 --> 00:10:23,088 A POLICE DETECTIVE AND A SERGEANT 236 00:10:23,088 --> 00:10:26,621 GO TO THE CONGRESSMAN'S CONDOMINIUM, 237 00:10:26,621 --> 00:10:27,721 AND THEY INTERVIEW HIM. 238 00:10:27,721 --> 00:10:30,754 "WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CHANDRA LEVY?" 239 00:10:30,754 --> 00:10:32,388 CONDIT TOLD THESE POLICE OFFICERS 240 00:10:32,388 --> 00:10:34,854 THAT HE HAD, INDEED, MET CHANDRA LEVY, 241 00:10:34,854 --> 00:10:37,388 THAT SHE AND A FRIEND HAD COME TO HIS OFFICE, 242 00:10:37,388 --> 00:10:38,988 AND BECAUSE SHE WAS A CONSTITUENT, 243 00:10:38,988 --> 00:10:41,521 HE SAID, HE SHOWED HER AROUND. 244 00:10:41,521 --> 00:10:45,388 HE TOOK HER ON A TOUR OF PARTS OF THE CAPITOL. 245 00:10:45,388 --> 00:10:46,721 CONDIT ALSO TOLD POLICE 246 00:10:46,721 --> 00:10:49,788 THAT HE HAD BECOME A SORT OF MENTOR FOR CHANDRA 247 00:10:49,788 --> 00:10:51,321 AND THAT SHE HAD COME TO HIM, 248 00:10:51,321 --> 00:10:54,321 ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, FOR CAREER ADVICE, 249 00:10:54,321 --> 00:10:56,454 BUT OTHER THAN THAT, HE TOLD THEM, 250 00:10:56,454 --> 00:10:58,354 HE JUST HAD NO INFORMATION AT ALL 251 00:10:58,354 --> 00:11:00,521 ABOUT WHERE SHE MIGHT BE. 252 00:11:00,521 --> 00:11:03,221 Narrator: POLICE ARE STUMPED. 253 00:11:03,221 --> 00:11:05,488 IN SEARCH OF LEADS, THEY SECURE A WARRANT 254 00:11:05,488 --> 00:11:09,421 TO THOROUGHLY SEARCH CHANDRA'S APARTMENT. 255 00:11:09,421 --> 00:11:11,654 Dimond: THE POLICE FIND CHANDRA LEVY'S PURSE, 256 00:11:11,654 --> 00:11:14,588 AND INSIDE, EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE IN PLACE, 257 00:11:14,588 --> 00:11:18,121 HER WALLET, ALL OF HER IDENTIFICATION. 258 00:11:18,121 --> 00:11:19,721 THEY WONDER WHY A YOUNG WOMAN 259 00:11:19,721 --> 00:11:23,121 WOULD LEAVE HER APARTMENT WITHOUT HER IDENTIFICATION. 260 00:11:23,121 --> 00:11:26,754 ABOUT THE ONLY THING MISSING IS THE KEYS TO HER APARTMENT. 261 00:11:28,588 --> 00:11:30,121 THEN, THEY HEAD FOR THE COMPUTER 262 00:11:30,121 --> 00:11:33,488 BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ALWAYS IS FULL OF EVIDENCE. 263 00:11:33,488 --> 00:11:36,821 WHEN THEY TRY TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT SHE HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR, 264 00:11:36,821 --> 00:11:38,421 IT CRASHES. 265 00:11:38,421 --> 00:11:41,621 THE ENTIRE COMPUTER WAS CORRUPTED. 266 00:11:41,621 --> 00:11:43,521 THEY CAN'T SEE ANY E-MAILS. 267 00:11:43,521 --> 00:11:44,954 THEY SEE NOTHING. 268 00:11:46,354 --> 00:11:47,721 ** 269 00:11:47,721 --> 00:11:49,721 NARRATOR: OFFICERS CONFISCATE THE COMPUTER 270 00:11:49,721 --> 00:11:54,288 AND COLLECT OTHER ITEMS THAT COULD, POTENTIALLY, BE EVIDENCE. 271 00:11:54,288 --> 00:11:56,821 Monroe: NEXT, WE RECOVERED HER ANSWERING MACHINE, 272 00:11:56,821 --> 00:11:59,254 AND IT CONTAINED THE NORMAL MESSAGES, 273 00:11:59,254 --> 00:12:01,621 MOSTLY FROM HER PARENTS. 274 00:12:01,621 --> 00:12:03,454 BUT THERE ARE TWO MESSAGES IN THERE 275 00:12:03,454 --> 00:12:05,088 THAT PEAK THEIR INTEREST -- 276 00:12:05,088 --> 00:12:07,454 TWO MESSAGES FROM A MAN. 277 00:12:07,454 --> 00:12:08,488 [ BEEP ] 278 00:12:18,521 --> 00:12:21,188 THE CALLER DOESN'T REVEAL HIMSELF BY NAME, 279 00:12:21,188 --> 00:12:24,354 BUT THE VOICE IS UNMISTAKABLE. 280 00:12:24,354 --> 00:12:26,521 IT'S CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT. 281 00:12:33,088 --> 00:12:34,688 IT'S CLEAR THAT THE CONGRESSMAN 282 00:12:34,688 --> 00:12:36,854 WANTS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH CHANDRA. 283 00:12:36,854 --> 00:12:39,988 Monroe: IT WAS A LITTLE BIT UNUSUAL TO US. 284 00:12:39,988 --> 00:12:42,288 HE HAD INDICATED HE BARELY KNEW HER. 285 00:12:42,288 --> 00:12:44,654 HE JUST KNEW HER IN PASSING. 286 00:12:44,654 --> 00:12:45,921 Dimond: SO NOW THE QUESTION, 287 00:12:45,921 --> 00:12:49,088 WHY IS A 53-YEAR-OLD CONGRESSMAN, 288 00:12:49,088 --> 00:12:51,088 MARRIED, FATHER OF TWO, 289 00:12:51,088 --> 00:12:52,888 CALLING A YOUNG INTERN, 290 00:12:52,888 --> 00:12:54,954 NOT ONCE BUT TWICE? 291 00:12:54,954 --> 00:12:56,754 WHAT DOES HE REALLY WANT? 292 00:12:56,754 --> 00:12:59,588 IT MAKES YOU THINK, "WHAT ELSE IS THIS CONGRESSMAN HIDING?" 293 00:13:04,254 --> 00:13:05,521 Narrator: AFTER SEARCHING THE APARTMENT 294 00:13:05,521 --> 00:13:07,921 OF MISSING INTERN CHANDRA LEVY, 295 00:13:07,921 --> 00:13:11,688 POLICE UNCOVER INTRIGUING VOICE MESSAGES. 296 00:13:11,688 --> 00:13:13,854 ONE OF THE PEOPLE WE IDENTIFIED 297 00:13:13,854 --> 00:13:16,154 WAS CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT. 298 00:13:16,154 --> 00:13:17,154 [ BEEP ] 299 00:13:20,188 --> 00:13:23,654 POLICE THINK, "WAIT A MINUTE. WHAT'S GOING ON? 300 00:13:23,654 --> 00:13:26,354 HE TOLD US THERE WAS NO PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP. 301 00:13:26,354 --> 00:13:29,388 WHY IS A 53-YEAR-OLD CONGRESSMAN, 302 00:13:29,388 --> 00:13:31,588 MARRIED, FATHER OF TWO, 303 00:13:31,588 --> 00:13:33,988 CALLING A YOUNG INTERN? 304 00:13:33,988 --> 00:13:38,154 VERY SUSPICIOUS -- VERY SUSPICIOUS, INDEED." 305 00:13:38,154 --> 00:13:39,954 ** 306 00:13:39,954 --> 00:13:41,954 Monroe: IF A PERSON IS MISLEADING 307 00:13:41,954 --> 00:13:44,421 IN THE NATURE OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE, 308 00:13:44,421 --> 00:13:46,554 YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF WHY. 309 00:13:46,554 --> 00:13:49,188 Narrator: IF CHANDRA DID HAVE A DALLIANCE WITH CONDIT, 310 00:13:49,188 --> 00:13:52,388 IT WOULD BE FAMILIAR TERRITORY FOR THE INTERN. 311 00:13:52,388 --> 00:13:55,254 CHANDRA HAD SEVERAL VERY SERIOUS RELATIONSHIPS 312 00:13:55,254 --> 00:13:57,621 PRIOR TO MOVING TO WASHINGTON. 313 00:13:57,621 --> 00:14:02,854 SHE TENDED TO GRAVITATE TOWARD OLDER MEN... 314 00:14:02,854 --> 00:14:05,888 AND A FEW MARRIED MEN. 315 00:14:05,888 --> 00:14:08,721 Dimond: CHANDRA HAD A HISTORY WITH OLDER, MARRIED MEN, 316 00:14:08,721 --> 00:14:12,354 SO THAT SHE WOULD FALL FOR A MARRIED CONGRESSMAN 317 00:14:12,354 --> 00:14:14,154 WAS NOT A SURPRISE. 318 00:14:14,154 --> 00:14:15,288 Narrator: BUT FOR CONDIT, 319 00:14:15,288 --> 00:14:17,788 A RELATIONSHIP WITH A 24-YEAR-OLD INTERN 320 00:14:17,788 --> 00:14:19,721 COULD BE DAMNING. 321 00:14:19,721 --> 00:14:22,088 GARY CONDIT HAD A LOT TO LOSE. 322 00:14:22,088 --> 00:14:26,088 HE HAD A WIFE AND CHILDREN BACK HOME IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA, 323 00:14:26,088 --> 00:14:27,554 AND AT THIS POINT IN TIME, 324 00:14:27,554 --> 00:14:31,088 GARY CONDIT'S STAR IS RISING IN THE POLITICAL WORLD. 325 00:14:31,088 --> 00:14:34,721 NEWS OF AN AFFAIR COULD ABSOLUTELY WIPE OUT 326 00:14:34,721 --> 00:14:36,554 HIS POLITICAL CAREER. 327 00:14:36,554 --> 00:14:40,554 POLICE START TO WONDER IF HE WAS HAVING A SEXUAL AFFAIR WITH HER 328 00:14:40,554 --> 00:14:42,154 AND IF CONDIT, PERHAPS, 329 00:14:42,154 --> 00:14:45,088 DID SOMETHING TO MAKE THIS GIRL DISAPPEAR. 330 00:14:47,821 --> 00:14:49,754 Narrator: IN THE MIDST OF THE INVESTIGATION, 331 00:14:49,754 --> 00:14:52,154 THE LEVYS INFORM POLICE OF DARK RUMORS 332 00:14:52,154 --> 00:14:55,154 SWIRLING AROUND CONDIT IN MODESTO. 333 00:14:55,154 --> 00:14:59,121 Susan: WE HAD A HANDYMAN, AND I GOT TO KNOW HIM. 334 00:14:59,121 --> 00:15:00,221 THEN, ONE DAY, 335 00:15:00,221 --> 00:15:02,954 WE'RE TAKING THE HORSE IN THE BACKYARD. 336 00:15:02,954 --> 00:15:06,221 WE JUST STARTED TALKING ABOUT DAUGHTERS, 337 00:15:06,221 --> 00:15:09,754 AND THAT'S WHEN HE OPENED UP ABOUT HIS DAUGHTER. 338 00:15:09,754 --> 00:15:14,288 SHE WAS INVOLVED WITH A CONGRESSPERSON. 339 00:15:14,288 --> 00:15:15,788 Dimond: ACCORDING TO SUSAN, 340 00:15:15,788 --> 00:15:18,688 HIS DAUGHTER HAD BEEN ROMANTICALLY LINKED 341 00:15:18,688 --> 00:15:20,321 WITH CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT 342 00:15:20,321 --> 00:15:22,221 WHEN SHE WAS JUST 18 YEARS OLD, 343 00:15:22,221 --> 00:15:23,921 AND THE DAUGHTER, HE SAID, 344 00:15:23,921 --> 00:15:27,088 TOLD HIM THAT CONDIT WAS VERY SECRETIVE, 345 00:15:27,088 --> 00:15:29,221 VERY MYSTERIOUS. 346 00:15:29,221 --> 00:15:30,954 Narrator: THE YOUNG WOMAN REPORTEDLY ENDED 347 00:15:30,954 --> 00:15:35,221 THE RELATIONSHIP WITH CONDIT IN A TENSE BREAKUP. 348 00:15:35,221 --> 00:15:40,254 LATER, THE HANDYMAN RECANTS THE STORY HE TOLD TO SUSAN LEVY, 349 00:15:40,254 --> 00:15:44,154 BUT INVESTIGATORS TAKE THE ACCUSATION SERIOUSLY. 350 00:15:44,154 --> 00:15:47,521 THIS CONGRESSMAN KNOWS A LOT MORE THAN HE'S BEEN SAYING, 351 00:15:47,521 --> 00:15:50,888 SO THEY GO BACK TO HIS CONDO, KNOCK ON THE DOOR. 352 00:15:50,888 --> 00:15:52,521 ** 353 00:15:52,521 --> 00:15:54,688 WE EXPECTED, INITIALLY, THAT 354 00:15:54,688 --> 00:15:59,754 HE WOULD BE FULLY COOPERATIVE IN THE INVESTIGATION, 355 00:15:59,754 --> 00:16:03,321 BUT NOW HE BECAME MORE EVASIVE. 356 00:16:03,321 --> 00:16:06,154 Dimond: HE WOULDN'T TALK TO THE POLICE. 357 00:16:06,154 --> 00:16:09,788 THERE'S NOTHING THAT MAKES A POLICE OFFICER MORE SUSPICIOUS 358 00:16:09,788 --> 00:16:12,954 THAN SOMEONE WHO JUST DOESN'T GIVE THEM VERY MUCH INFORMATION. 359 00:16:12,954 --> 00:16:14,221 Susan: I KIND OF FELT, MAYBE, 360 00:16:14,221 --> 00:16:16,621 HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN COVERING HIS TRACKS. 361 00:16:16,621 --> 00:16:19,688 HE JUST SEEMED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT HIMSELF. 362 00:16:19,688 --> 00:16:21,288 ** 363 00:16:21,288 --> 00:16:24,254 Narrator: TO KEEP PRESSURE ON BOTH CONDIT AND THE POLICE, 364 00:16:24,254 --> 00:16:26,888 THE LEVYS DEVELOP A PLAN. 365 00:16:26,888 --> 00:16:31,121 I KNEW THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GET SOME ANSWERS, FOR ME, 366 00:16:31,121 --> 00:16:34,488 WAS TO TRY TO BE AS PROACTIVE 367 00:16:34,488 --> 00:16:36,088 AND SPEAK UP 368 00:16:36,088 --> 00:16:40,954 ON ANY KIND OF RADIO PROGRAMS, IN TV. 369 00:16:40,954 --> 00:16:43,488 MR. CONDIT, WOULD YOU PLEASE STEP FORWARD 370 00:16:43,488 --> 00:16:45,554 AND SHARE WHATEVER YOU KNOW. 371 00:16:45,554 --> 00:16:47,421 YOU MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE LAST PEOPLE 372 00:16:47,421 --> 00:16:51,154 TO REALLY HAVE SPENT ANY TIME WITH CHANDRA. 373 00:16:51,154 --> 00:16:52,821 I DON'T KNOW THAT FOR A FACT, 374 00:16:52,821 --> 00:16:56,354 BUT PERHAPS RECORDS MIGHT SAY SOMETHING. 375 00:16:56,354 --> 00:16:58,121 I'M NOT SURE. 376 00:16:58,121 --> 00:17:01,854 IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR STORIES TO BEGIN CIRCULATING 377 00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:05,688 ABOUT CONGRESSMAN CONDIT AND CHANDRA LEVY. 378 00:17:05,688 --> 00:17:08,254 WE'RE FASCINATED BY THE POSSIBILITY 379 00:17:08,254 --> 00:17:11,688 THAT SHE WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH THIS CONGRESSMAN. 380 00:17:11,688 --> 00:17:14,888 CONGRESSMAN CONDIT HAD BEEN ONE OF THE FEW DEMOCRATS 381 00:17:14,888 --> 00:17:18,554 WHO WAS VERY VOCAL ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED 382 00:17:18,554 --> 00:17:22,454 WITH THE PRESIDENT AND MONICA LEWINSKY. 383 00:17:22,454 --> 00:17:25,688 THERE ARE DEMOCRATS WHO WANT ALL THE INFORMATION OUT THERE. 384 00:17:25,688 --> 00:17:27,154 WE WANT IT OUT THERE NOW. 385 00:17:27,154 --> 00:17:28,421 WE THINK THAT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST 386 00:17:28,421 --> 00:17:29,988 OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 387 00:17:29,988 --> 00:17:33,154 SO THAT ADDED TO THE BACKDROP OF THIS CASE, 388 00:17:33,154 --> 00:17:35,854 AND IT ADDED TO THE MEDIA INTEREST. 389 00:17:35,854 --> 00:17:38,188 Doyle: THAT REALLY PUT THE BALL IN PLAY, 390 00:17:38,188 --> 00:17:40,788 AND FOR THE SUMMER OF 2001, 391 00:17:40,788 --> 00:17:44,754 GARY CONDIT IS IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF EVERY TABLOID IN TOWN. 392 00:17:44,754 --> 00:17:47,921 THE STORY GOES FROM ZERO TO 60 VERY QUICKLY. 393 00:17:47,921 --> 00:17:50,088 Velez-Mitchell: THE MEDIA IS COMPLETELY INSANE 394 00:17:50,088 --> 00:17:52,388 ABOUT THIS CONGRESSMAN SCANDAL. 395 00:17:52,388 --> 00:17:54,654 THEY CHASE HIM DOWN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS, 396 00:17:54,654 --> 00:17:56,988 SHOUTING, "WHERE'S CHANDRA?" 397 00:17:56,988 --> 00:17:58,921 THEY STAKE OUT HIS HOME. 398 00:17:58,921 --> 00:18:03,121 EVERYWHERE HE GOES, HE'S BEING HOUNDED BY THE NEWS MEDIA. 399 00:18:03,121 --> 00:18:06,088 IT'S A SEX SCANDAL, NOTHING JUICIER THAN THAT. 400 00:18:06,088 --> 00:18:07,788 Monroe: SO, YOU HAVE A MEDIA FRENZY, 401 00:18:07,788 --> 00:18:10,254 AND IT JUST WOULDN'T GO AWAY. 402 00:18:10,254 --> 00:18:14,088 IT BECAME ITS OWN STORY EVERY DAY, 403 00:18:14,088 --> 00:18:15,954 "WHAT'S GOING ON WITH CHANDRA LEVY?" 404 00:18:15,954 --> 00:18:19,388 AND AS A POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE'RE RESPONDING TO THAT. 405 00:18:19,388 --> 00:18:20,854 ** 406 00:18:20,854 --> 00:18:23,554 Narrator: IN SEARCH OF THE NOW-HIGH-PROFILE INTERN, 407 00:18:23,554 --> 00:18:26,088 INVESTIGATORS SWEEP THE CITY. 408 00:18:26,088 --> 00:18:28,954 Dimond: THIS WAS NOT YOUR NORMAL MISSING-PERSON CASE. 409 00:18:28,954 --> 00:18:31,854 IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE D.C. METRO POLICE 410 00:18:31,854 --> 00:18:35,121 TOOK THIS CASE REALLY, REALLY SERIOUSLY. 411 00:18:35,121 --> 00:18:36,754 Monroe: WE SEARCHED THE AREA 412 00:18:36,754 --> 00:18:40,088 IMMEDIATELY AROUND HER DUPONT CIRCLE APARTMENT. 413 00:18:40,088 --> 00:18:42,721 WE SEARCHED THE ALLEYS, THE DUMPSTERS, 414 00:18:42,721 --> 00:18:46,421 HOPING WE WOULD FIND SOMETHING THAT WAS CONNECTED TO HER. 415 00:18:46,421 --> 00:18:50,354 WE EXPANDED THE SEARCH THROUGH VACANT PROPERTIES IN THE CITY. 416 00:18:50,354 --> 00:18:53,588 Narrator: NOW, OVER TWO WEEKS SINCE SHE WAS LAST SEEN, 417 00:18:53,588 --> 00:18:56,588 POLICE ARE BEGINNING TO FEAR THE WORST. 418 00:18:56,588 --> 00:18:58,521 I KNEW, AT THAT POINT, 419 00:18:58,521 --> 00:19:01,688 WE PROBABLY WERE NOT GONNA FIND A LIVE PERSON. 420 00:19:01,688 --> 00:19:04,321 WE'RE GOING TO RECOVER A BODY. 421 00:19:04,321 --> 00:19:06,354 Dimond: THERE WERE HELICOPTERS IN THE SKIES, 422 00:19:06,354 --> 00:19:09,088 LOOKING FOR A FLOATING BODY IN THE POTOMAC. 423 00:19:09,088 --> 00:19:11,588 THERE WERE SNIFFER DOGS AT RIVERBANKS 424 00:19:11,588 --> 00:19:14,088 AND IN ROCK CREEK PARK. 425 00:19:14,088 --> 00:19:16,821 Monroe: WE FOUND NOTHING. 426 00:19:16,821 --> 00:19:18,154 Narrator: IN SEARCH OF LEADS, 427 00:19:18,154 --> 00:19:22,188 POLICE DIVE DEEPER INTO CHANDRA'S SOCIAL CIRCLE. 428 00:19:22,188 --> 00:19:27,088 IT'S UNUSUAL FOR SOMEONE TO BE KILLED RANDOMLY. 429 00:19:27,088 --> 00:19:30,154 POLICE INVESTIGATORS OFTEN FOCUS 430 00:19:30,154 --> 00:19:34,321 ON FAMILY, CLOSE FRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, LOVERS, 431 00:19:34,321 --> 00:19:39,321 WHEN TRYING TO ASCERTAIN WHO THE LIKELY SUSPECT IS. 432 00:19:39,321 --> 00:19:41,354 POLICE DISCOVER THAT CHANDRA LEVY 433 00:19:41,354 --> 00:19:44,288 DIDN'T HAVE A WIDE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, 434 00:19:44,288 --> 00:19:46,721 AND THE SMALL CIRCLE THAT SHE HAD 435 00:19:46,721 --> 00:19:49,354 WAS COMPRISED MOSTLY OF MEN. 436 00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:53,454 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS ZERO IN ON ONE FRIEND IN PARTICULAR. 437 00:19:53,454 --> 00:19:54,921 POLICE DISCOVERED THAT JUST 438 00:19:54,921 --> 00:19:57,088 THREE DAYS BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED, 439 00:19:57,088 --> 00:20:01,188 CHANDRA WAS WITH HIM IN HIS APARTMENT. 440 00:20:01,188 --> 00:20:02,721 WHO WAS THIS MAN, 441 00:20:02,721 --> 00:20:05,121 AND WHAT WAS HE DOING WITH HER IN THE MOMENTS 442 00:20:05,121 --> 00:20:06,588 BEFORE SHE VANISHED? 443 00:20:11,421 --> 00:20:14,388 Narrator: NEARLY THREE WEEKS AFTER CHANDRA LEVY DISAPPEARS, 444 00:20:14,388 --> 00:20:17,421 POLICE UNCOVER A PROMISING LEAD. 445 00:20:17,421 --> 00:20:20,721 THEY DISCOVERED THAT JUST THREE DAYS BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED, 446 00:20:20,721 --> 00:20:23,721 CHANDRA WAS WITH A MAN IN HIS APARTMENT. 447 00:20:23,721 --> 00:20:25,554 ** 448 00:20:25,554 --> 00:20:27,688 THE MAN'S NAME WAS ROBERT KURKJIAN. 449 00:20:27,688 --> 00:20:30,388 HE WAS A NEWCOMER TO WASHINGTON, 450 00:20:30,388 --> 00:20:33,121 AND THEY MET AT THE GYM. 451 00:20:33,121 --> 00:20:36,421 INTERESTINGLY, HE WAS A USC GRADUATE. 452 00:20:36,421 --> 00:20:39,521 Narrator: POLICE BRING HIM IN FOR QUESTIONING. 453 00:20:39,521 --> 00:20:41,921 WHEN PRESSED, KURKJIAN ADMITS THAT HE WAS 454 00:20:41,921 --> 00:20:45,388 ONCE ROMANTICALLY INTERESTED IN CHANDRA. 455 00:20:45,388 --> 00:20:47,588 Dimond: HE HAD ASKED HER OUT TO A PARTY 456 00:20:47,588 --> 00:20:50,588 AND TO SOME FESTIVITIES IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 457 00:20:50,588 --> 00:20:52,621 AND SHE ALWAYS TURNED HIM DOWN. 458 00:20:52,621 --> 00:20:54,288 CHANDRA HAD REVEALED TO ROBERT 459 00:20:54,288 --> 00:20:57,754 THAT SHE HAD A CONGRESSMAN BOYFRIEND, 460 00:20:57,754 --> 00:21:00,821 BUT SHE NEVER NAMED HIM. 461 00:21:00,821 --> 00:21:04,221 HOWEVER, THEY DID STAY IN TOUCH WITH EACH OTHER. 462 00:21:04,221 --> 00:21:06,454 Narrator: IN JANUARY 2001, 463 00:21:06,454 --> 00:21:11,121 SHE INVITED KURKJIAN TO AN EVENT AT THE HEIGHT OF D.C. CULTURE. 464 00:21:11,121 --> 00:21:12,821 HE GOT A CALL FROM CHANDRA. 465 00:21:12,821 --> 00:21:14,488 SHE EXPLAINED THAT SHE HAD TICKETS 466 00:21:14,488 --> 00:21:16,988 TO THE INAUGURATION BALL OF GEORGE W. BUSH. 467 00:21:16,988 --> 00:21:19,188 AND WOULD HE LIKE TO GO? 468 00:21:19,188 --> 00:21:21,521 Velez-Mitchell: THEN, WHEN THEY WERE AT THE INAUGURAL BALL, 469 00:21:21,521 --> 00:21:23,188 SHE'S NOT INTERESTED IN DANCING. 470 00:21:23,188 --> 00:21:24,688 SHE WANTS TO CLIMB THE STAIRCASE, 471 00:21:24,688 --> 00:21:26,888 SO SHE CAN LOOK OUT OVER THE CROWD. 472 00:21:26,888 --> 00:21:30,154 IS SHE LOOKING FOR THIS MYSTERY BOYFRIEND, 473 00:21:30,154 --> 00:21:32,688 AND WHY IS EVERYTHING SO SECRETIVE? 474 00:21:34,621 --> 00:21:36,888 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS THEN QUESTION KURKJIAN 475 00:21:36,888 --> 00:21:40,621 ABOUT THE LAST TIME HE SAW CHANDRA. 476 00:21:40,621 --> 00:21:42,088 Dimond: ROBERT TELLS POLICE, 477 00:21:42,088 --> 00:21:45,354 SHE SPENT THE VERY LAST WEEKEND AT HIS APARTMENT, 478 00:21:45,354 --> 00:21:46,788 WATCHING A MOVIE, EATING PIZZA, 479 00:21:46,788 --> 00:21:48,621 DRINKING BEER WITH HIS ROOMMATES, 480 00:21:48,621 --> 00:21:51,121 AND SHE STAYED UNTIL ABOUT 1:00 IN THE MORNING. 481 00:21:51,121 --> 00:21:52,554 Narrator: ACCORDING TO KURKJIAN, 482 00:21:52,554 --> 00:21:57,088 THAT EVENING, SHE OPENED UP ABOUT HER SECRET RELATIONSHIP. 483 00:21:57,088 --> 00:21:59,554 Dimond: SHE WAS POURING HER HEART OUT 484 00:21:59,554 --> 00:22:02,788 ABOUT THIS BOYFRIEND OF HERS. 485 00:22:02,788 --> 00:22:06,588 HE WAS GOING TO QUIT CONGRESS AND BECOME A LOBBYIST, 486 00:22:06,588 --> 00:22:09,088 LEAVE HIS WIFE AND MARRY HER. 487 00:22:10,554 --> 00:22:12,421 IT BECOMES VERY CLEAR TO THE POLICE 488 00:22:12,421 --> 00:22:14,421 THAT THE CONGRESSMAN BOYFRIEND 489 00:22:14,421 --> 00:22:16,521 IS CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT. 490 00:22:16,521 --> 00:22:18,121 Narrator: KURKJIAN ASSURES POLICE 491 00:22:18,121 --> 00:22:19,888 THAT THE NIGHT IN QUESTION CAME 492 00:22:19,888 --> 00:22:22,954 TO AN UNREMARKABLE CONCLUSION. 493 00:22:22,954 --> 00:22:24,654 HE SAID HE BEGAN TO FALL ASLEEP, 494 00:22:24,654 --> 00:22:27,721 AND HE FINALLY CONVINCED HER IT WAS TIME TO LEAVE. 495 00:22:27,721 --> 00:22:30,954 HE TOOK HER OUT TO THE CORNER, PUT HER IN A CAB, 496 00:22:30,954 --> 00:22:33,688 AND THAT'S THE LAST TIME HE SAW OR HEARD FROM HER. 497 00:22:33,688 --> 00:22:36,388 Narrator: POLICE, HOWEVER, SUBJECT KURKJIAN AND HIS STORY 498 00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:38,988 TO FURTHER SCRUTINY. 499 00:22:38,988 --> 00:22:41,988 HE'S ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE IN CHANDRA'S LIFE, 500 00:22:41,988 --> 00:22:47,088 AND THE POLICE FIGURE THEY NEED TO GIVE HIM A POLYGRAPH TEST. 501 00:22:47,088 --> 00:22:48,621 HE READILY AGREES TO IT. 502 00:22:51,154 --> 00:22:52,621 AND HE PASSES. 503 00:22:55,154 --> 00:22:57,221 INVESTIGATORS CLEAR KURKJIAN, 504 00:22:57,221 --> 00:22:58,888 BUT THEY'VE GAINED NEW INSIGHT 505 00:22:58,888 --> 00:23:02,088 INTO CHANDRA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CONGRESSMAN. 506 00:23:02,088 --> 00:23:04,854 Dimond: POLICE WERE STUNNED BY ONE THING. 507 00:23:04,854 --> 00:23:07,088 IT WAS MORE THAN JUST A FLING TO CHANDRA. 508 00:23:07,088 --> 00:23:09,954 CHANDRA WANTED A COMMITMENT. 509 00:23:09,954 --> 00:23:12,554 Narrator: BUT CONDIT STILL ISN'T TALKING. 510 00:23:12,554 --> 00:23:14,854 TO INCREASE THE PRESSURE ON THE CONGRESSMAN, 511 00:23:14,854 --> 00:23:17,854 COPS TURN TO THEIR ALLIES IN THE PRESS. 512 00:23:17,854 --> 00:23:20,721 THE INVESTIGATORS ARE LEAKING LIKE A SIEVE. 513 00:23:20,721 --> 00:23:22,788 THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO SECRET 514 00:23:22,788 --> 00:23:24,888 THAT'S HELD FOR MORE THAN A COUPLE OF HOURS. 515 00:23:24,888 --> 00:23:26,321 THE STORY ACCELERATES 516 00:23:26,321 --> 00:23:29,288 BEYOND ANYTHING THAT I'D EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. 517 00:23:29,288 --> 00:23:30,988 THERE WAS SEX. 518 00:23:30,988 --> 00:23:32,754 THERE WAS A UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN 519 00:23:32,754 --> 00:23:35,088 AND A MISSING INTERN. 520 00:23:35,088 --> 00:23:39,621 CONDIT MUST HAVE FELT THE HEAT. 521 00:23:39,621 --> 00:23:42,754 Narrator: IT SEEMS THE PUBLICITY TACTIC WORKS. 522 00:23:42,754 --> 00:23:44,121 ON JUNE 23rd, 523 00:23:44,121 --> 00:23:47,688 CONDIT AGREES TO MEET WITH INVESTIGATORS. 524 00:23:47,688 --> 00:23:49,954 Dimond: SO THEY GO BACK TO INTERVIEW HIM. 525 00:23:49,954 --> 00:23:51,654 THE POLICE KNOW A WHOLE LOT MORE 526 00:23:51,654 --> 00:23:54,354 THAN GARY CONDIT THINKS THEY KNOW. 527 00:23:54,354 --> 00:23:55,621 THEY'VE HEARD THE VOICEMAILS. 528 00:23:55,621 --> 00:23:58,221 THEY'VE TALKED TO HER FRIENDS, 529 00:23:58,221 --> 00:24:00,454 BUT HE'S A UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN. 530 00:24:00,454 --> 00:24:04,688 HOW FAR CAN THEY PUSH HIM TO GIVE THE TRUTH? 531 00:24:04,688 --> 00:24:06,588 HE DID HAVE A PRETTY GOOD ALIBI 532 00:24:06,588 --> 00:24:09,088 FOR THE TIME CHANDRA LEVY WENT MISSING. 533 00:24:09,088 --> 00:24:11,088 HE HAD A PACKED SCHEDULE THAT DAY. 534 00:24:11,088 --> 00:24:14,188 FIRST OF ALL, HIS WIFE WAS IN TOWN FOR A RARE VISIT. 535 00:24:14,188 --> 00:24:16,521 HE WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A LENGTHY MEETING 536 00:24:16,521 --> 00:24:19,654 WITH VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY ON ENERGY POLICY, 537 00:24:19,654 --> 00:24:21,621 AND THEN HE HEADED TO CAPITOL HILL 538 00:24:21,621 --> 00:24:24,921 AND SPENT SOME TIME IN HIS CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE. 539 00:24:24,921 --> 00:24:26,721 BUT ONCE AGAIN, HE DOESN'T GIVE THEM 540 00:24:26,721 --> 00:24:30,521 ANYMORE THAN, "I KNEW HER. SHE CAME TO MY OFFICE. 541 00:24:30,521 --> 00:24:32,988 SHE CAME TO MY CONDO ONCE OR TWICE." 542 00:24:32,988 --> 00:24:34,521 ** 543 00:24:34,521 --> 00:24:36,888 Narrator: CONDIT'S CONTINUED OBFUSCATION 544 00:24:36,888 --> 00:24:39,521 ONLY FUELS INTRIGUE. 545 00:24:39,521 --> 00:24:42,888 POLICE KNOW THAT GARY CONDIT IS NOT BEING ENTIRELY HONEST. 546 00:24:42,888 --> 00:24:46,321 SO HOW DO YOU BUILD A CASE AGAINST SOMEBODY LIKE THAT? 547 00:24:46,321 --> 00:24:48,521 YOU GO SEARCH THEIR APARTMENT. 548 00:24:48,521 --> 00:24:50,854 ON JULY 10th, ARMED WITH A WARRANT, 549 00:24:50,854 --> 00:24:54,754 POLICE CONDUCT A SEARCH OF THE CONGRESSMAN'S HOME. 550 00:24:54,754 --> 00:24:56,754 AND THAT NIGHT, FOR HOURS, 551 00:24:56,754 --> 00:25:00,821 THERE'S CRIME-SCENE TECHS WHO ARE GOING PIECE BY PIECE, 552 00:25:00,821 --> 00:25:04,521 SCRAP BY SCRAP THROUGH THE CONGRESSMAN'S APARTMENT. 553 00:25:04,521 --> 00:25:07,954 TECHNICIANS SOUGHT OUT ANYTHING THAT MIGHT SHED LIGHT 554 00:25:07,954 --> 00:25:11,688 ON CONGRESSMAN CONDIT AND CHANDRA LEVY. 555 00:25:11,688 --> 00:25:15,088 WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IS EVIDENCE OF A MURDER. 556 00:25:15,088 --> 00:25:16,821 THEY REMOVE PARTS OF THE CARPET, 557 00:25:16,821 --> 00:25:20,821 PARTS OF THE WALL, PIPES AND TRAPS FROM THE SINKS. 558 00:25:20,821 --> 00:25:24,521 Narrator: POLICE THEN SCRUTINIZE THE SAMPLES. 559 00:25:24,521 --> 00:25:29,188 THE EVIDENCE THAT WE FOUND WAS PRETTY MUCH NONDESCRIPT. 560 00:25:29,188 --> 00:25:30,954 AFTER THEY ANALYZED IT ALL, 561 00:25:30,954 --> 00:25:33,588 THEY HAD NOTHING. 562 00:25:33,588 --> 00:25:36,254 Narrator: BUT THEN, JUST DAYS AFTER THE SEARCH, 563 00:25:36,254 --> 00:25:38,888 A TIPSTER STEPS FORWARD. 564 00:25:38,888 --> 00:25:41,288 WHAT A BIZARRE STORY HE HAS TO TELL. 565 00:25:41,288 --> 00:25:43,454 Doyle: IT LOOKS, TO THIS WITNESS, 566 00:25:43,454 --> 00:25:45,754 LIKE THE CONGRESSMAN IS HIDING SOMETHING. 567 00:25:51,354 --> 00:25:54,388 AFTER A FRUITLESS SEARCH OF CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT'S 568 00:25:54,388 --> 00:25:55,754 D.C. APARTMENT, 569 00:25:55,754 --> 00:25:58,521 INVESTIGATORS RECEIVE A CALL FROM A TIPSTER 570 00:25:58,521 --> 00:26:01,621 IN NEARBY ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. 571 00:26:01,621 --> 00:26:04,654 WHAT A BIZARRE STORY HE HAS TO TELL. 572 00:26:04,654 --> 00:26:06,321 Narrator: ON THE NIGHT OF JULY 10th, 573 00:26:06,321 --> 00:26:08,554 JUST HOURS BEFORE POLICE WERE SCHEDULED 574 00:26:08,554 --> 00:26:10,588 TO SEARCH CONDIT'S APARTMENT, 575 00:26:10,588 --> 00:26:15,088 THE CALLER SPOTTED AN INDIVIDUAL STANDING NEAR A TRASHCAN. 576 00:26:15,088 --> 00:26:20,088 AND THE WITNESS RECOGNIZED THIS AS GARY CONDIT. 577 00:26:20,088 --> 00:26:22,654 HE SEES GARY CONDIT TAKE AN OBJECT 578 00:26:22,654 --> 00:26:26,621 AND PUSH IT WAY DOWN INTO A TRASHCAN. 579 00:26:26,621 --> 00:26:28,721 Doyle: THE WITNESS THINKS THIS IS PRETTY STRANGE. 580 00:26:28,721 --> 00:26:31,321 HE'S SEEN ACCOUNTS OF GARY CONDIT, 581 00:26:31,321 --> 00:26:33,488 LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE WESTERN WORLD. 582 00:26:33,488 --> 00:26:35,954 HE'S AWARE OF THE CHANDRA LEVY STORY. 583 00:26:35,954 --> 00:26:39,521 IT LOOKS LIKE THE CONGRESSMAN IS HIDING SOMETHING. 584 00:26:39,521 --> 00:26:41,121 ** 585 00:26:41,121 --> 00:26:43,621 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS ARE STUNNED BY THE CALL 586 00:26:43,621 --> 00:26:47,588 AND RACE TO ALEXANDRIA TO INSPECT THE SCENE. 587 00:26:47,588 --> 00:26:50,288 POLICE DIG THROUGH THE TRASH AND DISCOVER ONE ITEM 588 00:26:50,288 --> 00:26:53,854 THAT IS MORE CURIOUS THAN EVERYTHING ELSE. 589 00:26:53,854 --> 00:26:56,388 IT'S A WATCH BOX. 590 00:26:56,388 --> 00:26:58,288 Narrator: THE BOX ITSELF IS EMPTY, 591 00:26:58,288 --> 00:27:02,354 BUT THE BRAND NAME CATCHES THE INVESTIGATOR'S EYE. 592 00:27:02,354 --> 00:27:05,421 THIS PARTICULAR WATCH WAS INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE, 593 00:27:05,421 --> 00:27:07,221 WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION, 594 00:27:07,221 --> 00:27:09,821 WHAT WAS THE RELEVANCE OF THE WATCH BOX, 595 00:27:09,821 --> 00:27:11,688 AND WHY DID HE WANT TO GET RID OF IT? 596 00:27:13,321 --> 00:27:16,654 THEY TRACE THIS WATCH BACK TO A STORE IN CALIFORNIA, 597 00:27:16,654 --> 00:27:20,388 AND IT WASN'T PURCHASED BY CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT. 598 00:27:20,388 --> 00:27:23,488 IT WAS PURCHASED BY A WOMAN NAMED JOLEEN, 599 00:27:23,488 --> 00:27:26,521 SO POLICE DO SOME INVESTIGATING. 600 00:27:26,521 --> 00:27:29,888 Narrator: THEY LOCATE A WOMAN NAMED JOLEEN ARGENTINI MCKAY 601 00:27:29,888 --> 00:27:31,554 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 602 00:27:31,554 --> 00:27:34,988 NOT FAR FROM CONDIT'S HOME DISTRICT. 603 00:27:34,988 --> 00:27:36,788 THEY FOUND HER, SAT HER DOWN, 604 00:27:36,788 --> 00:27:41,221 AND SHE TELLS THEM A WILD STORY. 605 00:27:41,221 --> 00:27:43,688 SHE WORKED IN GARY CONDIT'S OFFICE, 606 00:27:43,688 --> 00:27:47,788 AND GARY CONDIT AND SHE HAD HAD A LONG-TIME AFFAIR. 607 00:27:47,788 --> 00:27:49,354 ** 608 00:27:49,354 --> 00:27:52,121 Doyle: SHE HAD FELT STRONGLY ENOUGH ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP 609 00:27:52,121 --> 00:27:54,221 THAT SHE GAVE HIM NOT JUST ANY WATCH 610 00:27:54,221 --> 00:27:56,788 BUT A VERY FINE WATCH, 611 00:27:56,788 --> 00:28:01,388 BUT THE YOUNG WOMAN TELLS THEM SHE HAD SOME CONCERNS. 612 00:28:01,388 --> 00:28:04,554 Narrator: JOLEEN CLAIMS CONDIT PLACED ENORMOUS PRESSURE ON HER 613 00:28:04,554 --> 00:28:07,321 TO KEEP THEIR LIAISON A SECRET. 614 00:28:07,321 --> 00:28:10,154 ACCORDING TO JOLEEN, SHE BROKE OFF THE RELATIONSHIP 615 00:28:10,154 --> 00:28:13,288 AFTER FINDING CONDIT WAS MANIPULATIVE AND CONTROLLING 616 00:28:13,288 --> 00:28:15,888 IN THE CONFINES OF THEIR AFFAIR. 617 00:28:15,888 --> 00:28:19,188 Narrator: THE REVELATIONS LEAVE INVESTIGATORS PERPLEXED. 618 00:28:20,288 --> 00:28:22,688 Dimond: IF GARY CONDIT WOULD GO TO ALL THIS TROUBLE 619 00:28:22,688 --> 00:28:28,154 TO HIDE A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIFT FROM A WOMAN HE WORKED WITH, 620 00:28:28,154 --> 00:28:31,388 WHAT ELSE IS HE HIDING? 621 00:28:31,388 --> 00:28:34,521 Narrator: THE ANSWER, IN PART, COMES FROM ANOTHER WOMAN 622 00:28:34,521 --> 00:28:37,554 WHO STEPS FORWARD THAT SAME MONTH. 623 00:28:37,554 --> 00:28:39,388 A FLIGHT ATTENDANT NAMED ANNE MARIE SMITH 624 00:28:39,388 --> 00:28:42,188 COMES FORWARD AND SAYS, PUBLICLY, 625 00:28:42,188 --> 00:28:44,521 SOME REALLY DAMNING THINGS. 626 00:28:44,521 --> 00:28:47,554 Dimond: SHE TELLS THIS STORY ABOUT A STEAMY AFFAIR THAT 627 00:28:47,554 --> 00:28:51,488 SHE'S HAD WITH GARY CONDIT FOR THE LAST YEAR. 628 00:28:51,488 --> 00:28:53,821 ACCORDING TO SMITH, HE WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR 629 00:28:53,821 --> 00:28:58,921 WITH HER AND CHANDRA LEVY AT THE SAME TIME. 630 00:28:58,921 --> 00:29:02,388 Narrator: SMITH BEGINS REVEALING DETAILS OF THE ALLEGED AFFAIR 631 00:29:02,388 --> 00:29:03,921 IN THE MEDIA. 632 00:29:03,921 --> 00:29:10,421 HE HAD THIS FANTASY ABOUT ME AND ANOTHER MAN -- 633 00:29:10,421 --> 00:29:13,621 LIKE, A LITTLE MENAGE A TROIS, EXCEPT WITH ANOTHER MAN, 634 00:29:13,621 --> 00:29:15,088 AND HE CALLED ME AND SAID, "WELL, WE'RE HERE. 635 00:29:15,088 --> 00:29:16,454 WE'RE WAITING FOR YOU," 636 00:29:16,454 --> 00:29:17,788 SO, EVENTUALLY, I WENT OVER THERE, 637 00:29:17,788 --> 00:29:21,154 AND I PROBABLY GOT THERE AROUND 10:30 OR 11:00 AT NIGHT, 638 00:29:21,154 --> 00:29:24,854 AND HE SAID, "WELL, THEY LEFT. 639 00:29:24,854 --> 00:29:27,288 THESE GUYS LEFT," AND HE SAID, 640 00:29:27,288 --> 00:29:30,654 "I THOUGHT YOU WOULD PROBABLY GET UPSET AND CRY." 641 00:29:30,654 --> 00:29:32,788 ** 642 00:29:32,788 --> 00:29:34,921 STOP. [ CHUCKLES ] 643 00:29:34,921 --> 00:29:36,688 I CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS. 644 00:29:38,821 --> 00:29:40,521 THE LAST TIME I WAS THERE, 645 00:29:40,521 --> 00:29:41,988 I PEAKED OVER THE EDGE OF THE BED, 646 00:29:41,988 --> 00:29:45,954 AND I SAW THIS TIE STICKING OUT, AND I, LIKE, PULLED ON IT, 647 00:29:45,954 --> 00:29:50,521 AND HE HAD ALL THESE TIES TIED TOGETHER UNDER HIS BED, 648 00:29:50,521 --> 00:29:55,821 AND HE CAME OUT OF THE SHOWER, AND I ASKED HIM. 649 00:29:55,821 --> 00:29:58,488 I'M LIKE, "WHO HAVE YOU BEEN TYING UP?" 650 00:29:58,488 --> 00:30:03,321 AND HE SAID, "I ACTUALLY HAD THOSE USED ON YOU." 651 00:30:03,321 --> 00:30:06,621 THIS BLOWS APART HIS REPUTATION ON CAPITOL HILL. 652 00:30:06,621 --> 00:30:11,921 THIS IS STEAMY, NASTY, DIRTY STUFF. 653 00:30:11,921 --> 00:30:13,221 Narrator: ACCORDING TO SMITH, 654 00:30:13,221 --> 00:30:16,854 THE RELATIONSHIP ENDED IN MAY OF 2001, 655 00:30:16,854 --> 00:30:19,221 BUT SOON AFTER CHANDRA DISAPPEARED, 656 00:30:19,221 --> 00:30:22,088 SHE HEARD FROM CONDIT ONCE AGAIN. 657 00:30:22,088 --> 00:30:25,454 HE ACTUALLY APPROACHED HER THROUGH HIS STAFF 658 00:30:25,454 --> 00:30:27,754 ABOUT SIGNING AN AFFIDAVIT, 659 00:30:27,754 --> 00:30:29,488 SAYING THAT SHE HAD NEVER HAD 660 00:30:29,488 --> 00:30:30,954 A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP 661 00:30:30,954 --> 00:30:32,488 WITH THE CONGRESSMAN. 662 00:30:32,488 --> 00:30:35,621 Narrator: SMITH REFUSED TO SIGN THE DOCUMENT. 663 00:30:35,621 --> 00:30:37,121 Doyle: THIS WAS EXTRAORDINARY. 664 00:30:37,121 --> 00:30:40,521 NOW, THE CONGRESSMAN IS BEING ACCUSED IN THE MEDIA, 665 00:30:40,521 --> 00:30:42,554 NOT ONLY OF BEING A PHILANDERER, 666 00:30:42,554 --> 00:30:45,754 BUT AS SOMEBODY WHO'S TRYING TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE. 667 00:30:45,754 --> 00:30:48,854 Narrator: THE INCIDENT LEFT SMITH SHAKEN. 668 00:30:48,854 --> 00:30:52,088 I DIDN'T STAY IN MY OWN HOTEL ROOMS IN MY LAYOVERS. 669 00:30:52,088 --> 00:30:55,088 I MOVED TO A PLACE WHERE NOBODY KNOWS MY ADDRESS, 670 00:30:55,088 --> 00:30:56,688 NOBODY KNOWS MY PHONE NUMBER. 671 00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:58,821 I WAS VERY CONCERNED FOR MY OWN SAFETY. 672 00:30:58,821 --> 00:31:01,454 Narrator: THROUGH HIS CONGRESSIONAL AIDS, 673 00:31:01,454 --> 00:31:04,921 CONDIT RESPONDS TO THE EXPLOSIVE CLAIMS. 674 00:31:04,921 --> 00:31:08,354 GARY CONDIT COMPLETELY DENIES EVERYTHING. 675 00:31:08,354 --> 00:31:11,888 HE SAYS THAT ANNE MARIE SMITH IS IN IT JUST FOR THE FAME, 676 00:31:11,888 --> 00:31:13,088 AND HE'S STILL NOT ADMITTING 677 00:31:13,088 --> 00:31:16,154 HE HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHANDRA. 678 00:31:16,154 --> 00:31:20,254 Narrator: THE PRESS RUN WITH CONDIT'S DENIAL, 679 00:31:20,254 --> 00:31:24,388 BUT SOON, SOMEONE STEPS FORWARD TO CHALLENGE HIM. 680 00:31:24,388 --> 00:31:27,521 A WOMAN NAMED LINDA ZAMSKY COMES FORWARD. 681 00:31:27,521 --> 00:31:31,454 WHO IS SHE? SHE'S CHANDRA LEVY'S AUNT. 682 00:31:31,454 --> 00:31:32,921 HER AUNT LINDA WAS A SOUNDING BOARD 683 00:31:32,921 --> 00:31:34,621 THAT CHANDRA TRUSTED 684 00:31:34,621 --> 00:31:37,088 AND THE PERSON SHE TOLD THE MOST DETAIL 685 00:31:37,088 --> 00:31:39,521 AS A WOMAN CAN TELL ANOTHER WOMAN. 686 00:31:39,521 --> 00:31:42,988 SHE BECOMES UPSET AND FRUSTRATED 687 00:31:42,988 --> 00:31:46,488 WITH GARY CONDIT'S UNWILLINGNESS TO BE FORTHCOMING, 688 00:31:46,488 --> 00:31:48,288 AND SHE FINALLY BLOWS THE WHISTLE, 689 00:31:48,288 --> 00:31:52,421 THEN RELEASES A 15-PAGE STATEMENT. 690 00:31:52,421 --> 00:31:55,088 Dimond: ZAMSKY KNOWS EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY 691 00:31:55,088 --> 00:31:56,654 OF THAT RELATIONSHIP. 692 00:31:56,654 --> 00:31:59,521 SHE WAS MADLY IN LOVE WITH THE MAN OF HER DREAMS. 693 00:31:59,521 --> 00:32:02,654 SHE WAS OBSESSED WITH HIM. 694 00:32:02,654 --> 00:32:05,321 Narrator: ZAMSKY ALSO PAINTS A CURIOUS PICTURE 695 00:32:05,321 --> 00:32:08,688 OF CONDIT'S CLOSELY-GUARDED PERSONAL LIFE. 696 00:32:08,688 --> 00:32:12,988 Doyle: LINDA ZAMSKY SAYS CONDIT INSISTED ON SECRECY, 697 00:32:12,988 --> 00:32:14,788 AND THERE WERE SEVERAL RULES TO BE FOLLOWED 698 00:32:14,788 --> 00:32:17,088 TO KEEP THE RELATIONSHIP SECRET. 699 00:32:17,088 --> 00:32:19,821 FOR INSTANCE, IF CHANDRA WAS ON THE ELEVATOR 700 00:32:19,821 --> 00:32:22,188 AT CONDIT'S APARTMENT, 701 00:32:22,188 --> 00:32:24,288 AND SOMEBODY ELSE GOT ON BOARD, 702 00:32:24,288 --> 00:32:26,254 SHE WAS TO GET OFF ON ANOTHER FLOOR, 703 00:32:26,254 --> 00:32:30,088 SO THERE'D BE NOTHING CONNECTING HER TO THE CONGRESSMAN. 704 00:32:30,088 --> 00:32:31,254 AND WHEN THEY WENT OUT, 705 00:32:31,254 --> 00:32:35,321 SHE WAS NEVER TO CARRY ANY IDENTIFICATION. 706 00:32:35,321 --> 00:32:37,788 Narrator: NOTABLY, WHEN CHANDRA WENT MISSING, 707 00:32:37,788 --> 00:32:41,754 POLICE DISCOVERED SHE LEFT HER DRIVER'S LICENSE BEHIND. 708 00:32:41,754 --> 00:32:45,088 ZAMSKY TELLS THE POLICE THAT, ACCORDING TO CHANDRA, 709 00:32:45,088 --> 00:32:48,154 GARY CONDIT DRUMMED INTO HER HEAD, 710 00:32:48,154 --> 00:32:51,321 "NEVER TAKE YOUR IDENTIFICATION WHEN YOU'RE WITH ME." 711 00:32:51,321 --> 00:32:54,888 WAS CHANDRA LEVY GOING TO SEE GARY CONDIT THAT DAY? 712 00:32:54,888 --> 00:32:56,954 ** 713 00:32:56,954 --> 00:33:00,121 Narrator: ANOTHER FRIEND OF CHANDRA'S ALSO STEPS FORWARD 714 00:33:00,121 --> 00:33:02,554 AND CLAIMS THE INTERN WAS GROWING ANXIOUS 715 00:33:02,554 --> 00:33:05,288 ABOUT THE STATE OF THE RELATIONSHIP. 716 00:33:05,288 --> 00:33:07,554 SHE WANTED A COMMITMENT 717 00:33:07,554 --> 00:33:09,854 BEYOND BEING THE MISTRESS. 718 00:33:09,854 --> 00:33:13,154 CHANDRA WANTED GARY TO LEAVE HIS WIFE. 719 00:33:13,154 --> 00:33:14,754 SHE WANTED A BABY, 720 00:33:14,754 --> 00:33:17,588 AND SHE BELIEVED THAT THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. 721 00:33:17,588 --> 00:33:19,521 THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE A FUTURE TOGETHER. 722 00:33:19,521 --> 00:33:22,088 THAT FINAL WEEKEND WAS THE PERFECT STORM. 723 00:33:22,088 --> 00:33:23,621 SHORTLY BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED, 724 00:33:23,621 --> 00:33:26,588 SHE TOLD HER FRIEND SHE WAS PUSHING GARY CONDIT 725 00:33:26,588 --> 00:33:28,288 TO CONFRONT HIS WIFE, 726 00:33:28,288 --> 00:33:31,221 AND THE WIFE WAS IN TOWN. 727 00:33:31,221 --> 00:33:33,688 INVESTIGATORS ARE FLOORED ABOUT HOW THEIR RELATIONSHIP 728 00:33:33,688 --> 00:33:36,921 MAY HAVE TURNED COMBUSTIBLE BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED. 729 00:33:36,921 --> 00:33:40,888 THAT MAY HAVE GIVEN MOTIVE TO CONDIT TO GET RID OF HER. 730 00:33:40,888 --> 00:33:43,421 Narrator: CONCERNED BY THE CONFLICTING STORIES, 731 00:33:43,421 --> 00:33:45,988 COPS ONCE AGAIN CONFRONT CONDIT, 732 00:33:45,988 --> 00:33:48,721 AND HE SUBMITS TO ANOTHER INTERVIEW. 733 00:33:48,721 --> 00:33:51,288 IN HIS THIRD INTERVIEW WITH INVESTIGATORS, 734 00:33:51,288 --> 00:33:53,088 THERE WERE SO MANY QUESTIONS. 735 00:33:53,088 --> 00:33:54,754 WHAT WAS THE NATURE OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP? 736 00:33:54,754 --> 00:33:57,921 WAS IT AN AFFAIR? WERE YOU ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED? 737 00:33:57,921 --> 00:34:01,754 67 DAYS AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHANDRA LEVY, 738 00:34:01,754 --> 00:34:03,754 HE FINALLY ADMITS TO POLICE, 739 00:34:03,754 --> 00:34:07,188 "OKAY, THERE WAS AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP." 740 00:34:07,188 --> 00:34:08,488 Doyle: IT WAS A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP. 741 00:34:08,488 --> 00:34:09,654 IT WAS AN AFFAIR. 742 00:34:09,654 --> 00:34:11,188 THE POLICE ARE ASKING, 743 00:34:11,188 --> 00:34:12,654 "DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANDRA LEVY? 744 00:34:12,654 --> 00:34:14,388 DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER DISAPPEARANCE? 745 00:34:14,388 --> 00:34:15,788 DID YOU KILL HER?" 746 00:34:15,788 --> 00:34:17,988 Dimond: BUT HE SAYS HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO 747 00:34:17,988 --> 00:34:21,088 WITH CHANDRA LEVY'S DISAPPEARANCE. 748 00:34:21,088 --> 00:34:23,988 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS REMAIN SUSPICIOUS. 749 00:34:23,988 --> 00:34:27,288 WITH LITTLE LEVERAGE AGAINST THEIR HIGH-PROFILE TARGET, 750 00:34:27,288 --> 00:34:30,688 ONCE AGAIN, THEY TURN TO THE PRESS. 751 00:34:30,688 --> 00:34:33,188 WHEN IT'S LEAKED TO THE MEDIA, 752 00:34:33,188 --> 00:34:35,254 THERE IS BLOOD IN THE WATER. 753 00:34:35,254 --> 00:34:39,321 THE MEDIA IS LIKE A SHARK ON THAT BLOOD. 754 00:34:39,321 --> 00:34:40,854 THE WHOLE THING EXPLODES. 755 00:34:40,854 --> 00:34:42,254 THERE ARE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE 756 00:34:42,254 --> 00:34:44,988 WHO BELIEVE THAT HE MIGHT HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO 757 00:34:44,988 --> 00:34:47,221 WITH CHANDRA LEVY'S DISAPPEARANCE. 758 00:34:47,221 --> 00:34:48,921 Velez-Mitchell: PEOPLE GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT 759 00:34:48,921 --> 00:34:51,088 HE CARED MORE ABOUT HIS CAREER 760 00:34:51,088 --> 00:34:53,588 THAN ABOUT THE FATE OF THIS YOUNG GIRL. 761 00:34:53,588 --> 00:34:54,654 Susan: IS THERE A DIFFERENT STANDARD 762 00:34:54,654 --> 00:34:57,088 FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN GOVERNMENT? 763 00:34:57,088 --> 00:35:00,121 OH, I THINK SO. YES. 764 00:35:00,121 --> 00:35:02,588 TOTALLY A DIFFERENT STANDARD. 765 00:35:02,588 --> 00:35:04,921 IT'S A DIFFERENT WORLD. 766 00:35:04,921 --> 00:35:06,288 Narrator: BACK IN CALIFORNIA, 767 00:35:06,288 --> 00:35:09,888 CONDIT'S CORE CONSTITUENCY IS FED UP. 768 00:35:09,888 --> 00:35:14,254 HE HAD GONE FROM BEING SOMEONE WHO COULD BE COUNTED UPON 769 00:35:14,254 --> 00:35:17,754 TO SOMEONE WHO WAS A COMPLETE EMBARRASSMENT. 770 00:35:17,754 --> 00:35:20,221 AND SOON, THE SIX-TERM CONGRESSMAN 771 00:35:20,221 --> 00:35:22,421 FACES RE-ELECTION. 772 00:35:22,421 --> 00:35:26,354 BY AUGUST, GARY CONDIT IS IN BIG POLITICAL TROUBLE. 773 00:35:26,354 --> 00:35:29,788 HIS POLITICAL CAREER IS ON THE PRECIPICE. 774 00:35:29,788 --> 00:35:31,288 HIS ATTORNEY TALKED TO HIM. 775 00:35:31,288 --> 00:35:33,721 "YOU'RE AT A CROSSROADS," HE WAS TOLD. 776 00:35:33,721 --> 00:35:36,121 "YOU'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR POLITICAL LIFE. 777 00:35:36,121 --> 00:35:39,188 IT'S TIME TO TALK TO SOMEONE IN THE MEDIA." 778 00:35:39,188 --> 00:35:40,521 ** 779 00:35:40,521 --> 00:35:41,754 MY NAME IS CONNIE CHUNG. 780 00:35:41,754 --> 00:35:43,821 I'M A TELEVISION NEWS JOURNALIST. 781 00:35:43,821 --> 00:35:46,221 I WAS WORKING AT ABC, AT THE TIME. 782 00:35:46,221 --> 00:35:48,954 AS IT TURNED OUT, CONDIT'S LAWYER CALLED ME 783 00:35:48,954 --> 00:35:51,654 AND SAID, "YOU'VE GOT THE INTERVIEW." 784 00:35:51,654 --> 00:35:55,288 IT BECAME BIG NEWS THAT I WAS INTERVIEWING HIM. 785 00:35:55,288 --> 00:35:57,921 Doyle: IT'S THE MOST HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED INTERVIEW 786 00:35:57,921 --> 00:35:59,521 IN QUITE A LONG TIME. 787 00:35:59,521 --> 00:36:01,788 FOR CONGRESSMAN CONDIT TO PERFORM WELL, 788 00:36:01,788 --> 00:36:04,221 HIS CAREER MIGHT BE TURNED AROUND AND SAVED. 789 00:36:04,221 --> 00:36:07,721 PERFORM POORLY, AND IT'S A DISASTER. 790 00:36:07,721 --> 00:36:09,421 Narrator: BUT IN THE MINDS OF THE PUBLIC, 791 00:36:09,421 --> 00:36:11,721 THERE'S ONLY ONCE CONCERN. 792 00:36:11,721 --> 00:36:13,121 Chung: DID YOU KILL CHANDRA LEVY? 793 00:36:17,721 --> 00:36:20,921 Narrator: THE MEDIA IS HOUNDING CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT 794 00:36:20,921 --> 00:36:22,588 OVER A SUSPECTED INVOLVEMENT 795 00:36:22,588 --> 00:36:25,554 IN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHANDRA LEVY. 796 00:36:25,554 --> 00:36:29,221 THE PRESS HAS ONE GOAL DURING THE SUMMER OF 2001. 797 00:36:29,221 --> 00:36:31,088 THAT IS TO GET CONGRESSMAN CONDIT 798 00:36:31,088 --> 00:36:32,854 TO SIT DOWN FOR AN INTERVIEW. 799 00:36:35,088 --> 00:36:37,154 Narrator: HE AGREES TO DO A ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW 800 00:36:37,154 --> 00:36:39,221 WITH CONNIE CHUNG. 801 00:36:39,221 --> 00:36:41,354 WHEN I SAT DOWN FOR THIS INTERVIEW, 802 00:36:41,354 --> 00:36:43,188 HE WAS SITTING ACROSS FROM ME. 803 00:36:43,188 --> 00:36:46,454 I COULD FEEL THE TENSION BETWEEN THE TWO OF US 804 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:48,854 AND EVERYBODY ELSE WHO WAS IN THE ROOM. 805 00:36:48,854 --> 00:36:52,088 I ASKED MY FIVE RAPID-FIRE QUESTIONS. 806 00:36:52,088 --> 00:36:53,521 Chung: CONGRESSMAN CONDIT, 807 00:36:53,521 --> 00:36:56,721 DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANDRA LEVY? 808 00:36:56,721 --> 00:36:58,154 NO, I DO NOT. 809 00:36:58,154 --> 00:37:00,754 DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER DISAPPEARANCE? 810 00:37:00,754 --> 00:37:01,788 NO, I DIDN'T. 811 00:37:01,788 --> 00:37:04,088 DID YOU SAY ANYTHING OR DO ANYTHING 812 00:37:04,088 --> 00:37:06,088 THAT COULD HAVE CAUSED HER TO DROP OUT OF SIGHT? 813 00:37:06,088 --> 00:37:07,088 YOU KNOW WHAT? 814 00:37:07,088 --> 00:37:10,321 CHANDRA AND I NEVER HAD A CROSSROAD. 815 00:37:10,321 --> 00:37:12,421 DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA IF THERE WAS ANYONE 816 00:37:12,421 --> 00:37:14,421 WHO WANTED TO HARM HER? 817 00:37:14,421 --> 00:37:15,721 NO. 818 00:37:15,721 --> 00:37:18,188 DID YOU CAUSE ANYONE TO HARM HER? 819 00:37:18,188 --> 00:37:19,554 NO. 820 00:37:19,554 --> 00:37:22,088 DID YOU KILL CHANDRA LEVY? I DID NOT. 821 00:37:22,088 --> 00:37:25,921 HE ANSWERED THEM QUICKLY -- WHICH I WAS SURPRISED AT -- 822 00:37:25,921 --> 00:37:27,888 AND THEN WE GOT INTO THE INTERVIEW. 823 00:37:27,888 --> 00:37:29,621 WHAT EXACTLY WAS YOUR RELATIONSHIP 824 00:37:29,621 --> 00:37:30,588 WITH CHANDRA LEVY? 825 00:37:30,588 --> 00:37:34,188 WELL, I MET CHANDRA LAST OCTOBER, 826 00:37:34,188 --> 00:37:36,821 AND WE BECAME VERY CLOSE. 827 00:37:36,821 --> 00:37:38,488 I MET HER IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 828 00:37:38,488 --> 00:37:40,421 VERY CLOSE MEANING? 829 00:37:40,421 --> 00:37:42,088 WE HAD A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP. 830 00:37:42,088 --> 00:37:44,421 I LIKED HER VERY MUCH. 831 00:37:44,421 --> 00:37:47,121 MAY I ASK YOU, WAS IT A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP? 832 00:37:47,121 --> 00:37:49,388 WELL, CONNIE, I'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 34 YEARS, 833 00:37:49,388 --> 00:37:51,821 AND I'VE NOT BEEN A PERFECT MAN, 834 00:37:51,821 --> 00:37:53,954 AND I'VE MADE MY SHARE OF MISTAKES. 835 00:37:53,954 --> 00:38:00,721 HE REPEATED THE SAME PHRASES, SAME SENTENCES NUMEROUS TIMES. 836 00:38:00,721 --> 00:38:02,121 CAN YOU TELL US, 837 00:38:02,121 --> 00:38:04,988 DID YOU HAVE A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CHANDRA LEVY? 838 00:38:04,988 --> 00:38:08,454 WELL, ONCE AGAIN, I'VE BEEN MARRIED 34 YEARS. 839 00:38:08,454 --> 00:38:10,454 I HAVE NOT BEEN A PERFECT MAN. 840 00:38:10,454 --> 00:38:11,688 I HAVE MADE MISTAKES IN MY LIFE, 841 00:38:11,688 --> 00:38:14,754 AND OUT OF RESPECT FOR MY FAMILY, 842 00:38:14,754 --> 00:38:18,088 OUT OF A SPECIFIC REQUEST BY THE LEVY FAMILY, 843 00:38:18,088 --> 00:38:20,988 IT'S BEST THAT I NOT GET INTO THE DETAILS OF THE RELATIONSHIP. 844 00:38:20,988 --> 00:38:24,388 HE WOULD PRACTICALLY PRESS THE BUTTON, 845 00:38:24,388 --> 00:38:27,088 AND A RECORDING WOULD COME OUT. 846 00:38:27,088 --> 00:38:29,121 I WAS GETTING INCREASINGLY FRUSTRATED 847 00:38:29,121 --> 00:38:32,654 AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW HE COULD DO END RUNS. 848 00:38:32,654 --> 00:38:34,821 I WASN'T THERE TO THROW SOFTBALLS. 849 00:38:34,821 --> 00:38:37,588 TRUTHFULLY, DID YOU ANSWER EVERY QUESTION TRUTHFULLY? 850 00:38:37,588 --> 00:38:39,554 I ANSWERED EVERY QUESTION TRUTHFULLY. 851 00:38:39,554 --> 00:38:40,688 THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO 852 00:38:40,688 --> 00:38:42,221 WHEN YOU'RE COOPERATING WITH THE POLICE. 853 00:38:42,221 --> 00:38:43,621 BUT DID YOU REVEAL THAT 854 00:38:43,621 --> 00:38:45,521 YOU WERE HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH HER? 855 00:38:45,521 --> 00:38:49,254 I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THE ASPECTS OF THE DETAILS 856 00:38:49,254 --> 00:38:52,088 OF THE INVESTIGATION OR THE INTERVIEWS. 857 00:38:52,088 --> 00:38:56,721 AS THE INTERVIEW UNFOLDED, I THOUGHT, "GOOD HEAVENS, 858 00:38:56,721 --> 00:38:59,688 HE IS NOT ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS. 859 00:38:59,688 --> 00:39:01,921 HE'S NOT COMING FORWARD." 860 00:39:01,921 --> 00:39:06,588 NOW, WHEN MRS. LEVY ASKED YOU IF YOU HAD HAD AN AFFAIR, 861 00:39:06,588 --> 00:39:08,688 SHE SAYS YOU SAID "NO," 862 00:39:08,688 --> 00:39:11,288 AND YOU ARE NOW SAYING THAT YOU DIDN'T LIE TO HER. 863 00:39:11,288 --> 00:39:12,554 I'M SAYING THAT. YES. 864 00:39:12,554 --> 00:39:14,221 SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT SHE MISUNDERSTOOD YOU... 865 00:39:14,221 --> 00:39:15,521 YES. ...WHEN YOU SAID NO? 866 00:39:15,521 --> 00:39:16,888 SHE -- WELL, I'M NOT SURE WHAT SHE -- 867 00:39:16,888 --> 00:39:18,288 YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID "YES"? 868 00:39:18,288 --> 00:39:20,521 I'M NOT SURE WHAT CONVERSATION SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT. 869 00:39:20,521 --> 00:39:23,588 SHE MADE SEVERAL REFERENCES TO SEVERAL PEOPLE. 870 00:39:23,588 --> 00:39:26,654 MY JOB WAS JUST SIMPLY TO BE HELPFUL TO HER 871 00:39:26,654 --> 00:39:28,488 TO TRY TO GET TO WHATEVER SHE WAS GETTING THROUGH. 872 00:39:28,488 --> 00:39:31,354 I NEVER LIED TO MRS. LEVY. 873 00:39:31,354 --> 00:39:36,554 HE WASN'T INTENDING TO, REALLY, SPILL ANY KIND OF INFORMATION, 874 00:39:36,554 --> 00:39:40,288 SO BY THE TIME IT WAS OVER, I WAS DRAINED. 875 00:39:40,288 --> 00:39:41,988 HE WAS DRAINED. 876 00:39:41,988 --> 00:39:44,388 HE WAS READY TO GET OUT OF THERE. 877 00:39:44,388 --> 00:39:46,221 I SAID, "THANK YOU," 878 00:39:46,221 --> 00:39:49,621 AND THAT'S WHEN HE BOLTED OUT OF THE CHAIR 879 00:39:49,621 --> 00:39:51,388 AND DIDN'T GET VERY FAR 880 00:39:51,388 --> 00:39:53,554 BECAUSE HIS MICROPHONE WAS STILL ATTACHED, 881 00:39:53,554 --> 00:39:55,188 AND I THOUGHT, "OH, MY GOODNESS." 882 00:39:55,188 --> 00:39:57,988 IT WAS CLEARLY NOT WHERE HE WANTED TO BE. 883 00:40:00,254 --> 00:40:02,521 AFTERWARDS, GARY CONDIT SAID TO ME, 884 00:40:02,521 --> 00:40:05,221 "YOU LOOK NICE. YOU ACT NICE. 885 00:40:05,221 --> 00:40:07,454 BUT YOU'RE NOT NICE." 886 00:40:07,454 --> 00:40:09,721 24 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED, 887 00:40:09,721 --> 00:40:12,421 AND THAT'S A HUGE NUMBER. 888 00:40:12,421 --> 00:40:14,154 THE REACTION WAS SWIFT. 889 00:40:14,154 --> 00:40:16,388 THE FALLOUT WAS GREAT. 890 00:40:16,388 --> 00:40:17,654 ANYBODY WHO SAW IT CAME AWAY 891 00:40:17,654 --> 00:40:19,688 THINKING LESS OF THE CONGRESSMAN. 892 00:40:19,688 --> 00:40:22,888 IT WAS A COMPLETE P.R. DISASTER. 893 00:40:22,888 --> 00:40:24,988 Narrator: WHILE THE INTERVIEW DOES LITTLE TO ADVANCE 894 00:40:24,988 --> 00:40:27,721 THE INVESTIGATION OF CHANDRA'S DISAPPEARANCE, 895 00:40:27,721 --> 00:40:31,821 ITS IMPACT IS FELT IN CONDIT'S BID FOR RE-ELECTION. 896 00:40:31,821 --> 00:40:35,354 IN VOTING, THE PUBLIC MAKES ITS JUDGEMENT ON CONDIT 897 00:40:35,354 --> 00:40:36,554 LOUD AND CLEAR. 898 00:40:36,554 --> 00:40:38,888 BY A MARGIN OF ALMOST 20%, 899 00:40:38,888 --> 00:40:42,888 CONDIT IS TOSSED FROM OFFICE. 900 00:40:42,888 --> 00:40:45,754 Narrator: FOR THE MAN WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE KNOWN HIM BEST, 901 00:40:45,754 --> 00:40:48,754 CONDIT'S PERFORMANCE IN THE NOW-INFAMOUS INTERVIEW 902 00:40:48,754 --> 00:40:51,254 COMES AS NO SURPRISE. 903 00:40:51,254 --> 00:40:52,988 MY NAME IS VINCE FLAMMINI. 904 00:40:52,988 --> 00:40:55,254 I WAS GARY CONDIT'S DRIVER, BODYGUARD, 905 00:40:55,254 --> 00:40:58,854 AND VERY CLOSE FRIEND FOR OVER 30 YEARS. 906 00:40:58,854 --> 00:41:01,688 GARY WOULD NEVER, EVER ADMIT ANYTHING -- 907 00:41:01,688 --> 00:41:04,088 EVER. 908 00:41:04,088 --> 00:41:07,454 OH, HE'S JUST A VERY SECRETIVE PERSON. 909 00:41:07,454 --> 00:41:09,488 HE DON'T WANT NOBODY TO KNOW ANYTHING. 910 00:41:09,488 --> 00:41:11,388 VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW HIS FAVORITE COLOR. 911 00:41:11,388 --> 00:41:13,654 VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW HIS FAVORITE LUCKY NUMBERS. 912 00:41:13,654 --> 00:41:16,788 PROBABLY ME IS THE ONLY ONE, AND I BET YOU ANYTHING, 913 00:41:16,788 --> 00:41:19,721 HE'LL NEVER SAY HE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH CHANDRA -- 914 00:41:19,721 --> 00:41:21,454 NEVER. 915 00:41:21,454 --> 00:41:23,254 YOU COULD WATERBOARD HIM ALL DAY LONG, 916 00:41:23,254 --> 00:41:25,154 AND HE WOULD NEVER ADMIT IT. 917 00:41:25,154 --> 00:41:27,788 Narrator: AFTER YEARS OF WORKING FOR CONDIT, 918 00:41:27,788 --> 00:41:30,421 FLAMMINI HAS MUCH MORE TO SAY. 919 00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:32,354 NEXT TIME ON 920 00:41:32,354 --> 00:41:35,721 "CHANDRA LEVY: AN AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY"... 921 00:41:35,721 --> 00:41:40,521 THE INVESTIGATORS WENT BEYOND LEAVING NO STONE UNTURNED. 922 00:41:40,521 --> 00:41:42,821 Narrator: ...A CURIOUS TIP LEADS AN INVESTIGATOR 923 00:41:42,821 --> 00:41:44,554 TO A BIZARRE CHARACTER. 924 00:41:44,554 --> 00:41:46,921 McCann: HE SAYS THEY ALL SHOW UP WITH A YOUNG LADY. 925 00:41:46,921 --> 00:41:49,488 HE RECOGNIZES HER AS CHANDRA LEVY. 926 00:41:49,488 --> 00:41:52,688 Narrator: A GRIM DISCOVERY IN ROCK CREEK PARK. 927 00:41:57,921 --> 00:42:00,721 Dimond: NOW THIS HAS MOVED FROM A MISSING-PERSONS CASE 928 00:42:00,721 --> 00:42:02,921 TO A HOMICIDE CASE. 929 00:42:02,921 --> 00:42:05,754 WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY? 930 00:42:05,754 --> 00:42:08,088 Narrator: A NEW SUSPECT EMERGES. 931 00:42:08,088 --> 00:42:09,988 Dimond: SHE KEPT LOOKING BACK OVER HER SHOULDER, 932 00:42:09,988 --> 00:42:13,088 AND SHE NOTICED HE WAS BEHIND HER. 933 00:42:13,088 --> 00:42:15,988 IT MADE GUANDIQUE STAND OUT LIKE A NEON SIGN. 934 00:42:15,988 --> 00:42:19,088 Narrator: AND LATER, SECRETS ARE UNCOVERED... 935 00:42:19,088 --> 00:42:23,754 SHE TELLS THE WASHINGTON POST THAT HE LIED ON THE STAND. 936 00:42:23,754 --> 00:42:26,188 Narrator: ...WREAKING HAVOC ON THE CASE. 937 00:42:26,188 --> 00:42:30,288 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS WOMAN ALLOWED THE KILLER TO WALK?