1 00:00:01,754 --> 00:00:03,754 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 2 00:00:03,754 --> 00:00:05,654 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 3 00:00:05,654 --> 00:00:06,921 Connie Chung: CONGRESSMAN CONDIT, 4 00:00:06,921 --> 00:00:10,088 DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANDRA LEVY? 5 00:00:10,088 --> 00:00:11,488 NO. I DO NOT. 6 00:00:11,488 --> 00:00:13,954 DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER DISAPPEARANCE? 7 00:00:13,954 --> 00:00:15,154 NO. I DIDN'T. 8 00:00:15,154 --> 00:00:17,188 DID YOU SAY ANYTHING, OR DO ANYTHING, 9 00:00:17,188 --> 00:00:19,521 THAT COULD'VE CAUSED HER TO DROP OUT OF SIGHT? 10 00:00:19,521 --> 00:00:22,121 YOU KNOW, CHANDRA AND I NEVER HAD A CROSS WORD. 11 00:00:22,121 --> 00:00:23,588 [ INHALES ] 12 00:00:23,588 --> 00:00:25,688 DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA IF THERE WAS ANYONE 13 00:00:25,688 --> 00:00:27,688 WHO WANTED TO HARM HER? 14 00:00:27,688 --> 00:00:28,988 NO. 15 00:00:28,988 --> 00:00:31,454 DID YOU CAUSE ANY TO HARM HER? 16 00:00:31,454 --> 00:00:32,821 NO. 17 00:00:32,821 --> 00:00:34,488 DID YOU KILL CHANDRA LEVY? 18 00:00:34,488 --> 00:00:36,854 I DID NOT. 19 00:00:36,854 --> 00:00:38,288 [ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ] 20 00:00:38,288 --> 00:00:40,754 Narrator: IT'S ONE OF THE MOST BAFFLING DISAPPEARANCES 21 00:00:40,754 --> 00:00:42,454 IN RECENT HISTORY. 22 00:00:42,454 --> 00:00:43,621 SO MUCH INTRIGUE. 23 00:00:43,621 --> 00:00:45,788 POWER MEETS BEAUTY. 24 00:00:45,788 --> 00:00:48,654 WHAT'S GOING ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS? 25 00:00:48,654 --> 00:00:52,021 NOW, IN THE SECOND OF THIS THREE-PART SPECIAL, 26 00:00:52,021 --> 00:00:54,354 THE LEVYS' PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR EMBARKS 27 00:00:54,354 --> 00:00:56,421 ON A PERILOUS SEARCH FOR CHANDRA. 28 00:00:56,421 --> 00:00:58,654 HE SAID, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH. 29 00:00:58,654 --> 00:01:00,088 [ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ] THESE PEOPLE WILL KILL ME. 30 00:01:00,088 --> 00:01:01,888 I CAN'T GET INVOLVED." 31 00:01:01,888 --> 00:01:04,488 A GRUESOME DISCOVERY IN AN URBAN OASIS. 32 00:01:04,488 --> 00:01:06,654 Palmer: 33 00:01:09,954 --> 00:01:13,154 SOMETHING DIABOLICAL IS GOING ON THERE. 34 00:01:13,154 --> 00:01:15,321 A NEW SUSPECT EMERGES. 35 00:01:15,321 --> 00:01:16,621 HE GIVES ALL THE INDICATIONS 36 00:01:16,621 --> 00:01:18,821 THAT HE WAS A SERIAL PREDATOR. 37 00:01:18,821 --> 00:01:23,588 AND, LATER, A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE OPENS OLD WOUNDS. 38 00:01:23,588 --> 00:01:26,188 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THIS WOMAN ALLOWED 39 00:01:26,188 --> 00:01:28,088 THE KILLER TO WALK FREE? 40 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:31,654 [ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ] 41 00:01:31,654 --> 00:01:37,088 Alexander: THIS TRULY WAS THE CRAZIEST CASE EVER TO HIT WASHINGTON, DC. 42 00:01:37,088 --> 00:01:39,588 Dimond: WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY? 43 00:01:39,588 --> 00:01:42,421 Doyle: THE STORY GOES FROM ZERO TO 60 VERY QUICKLY. 44 00:01:42,421 --> 00:01:47,088 Dimond: WHY IS A 53-YEAR-OLD CONGRESSMAN CALLING A YOUNG INTERN? 45 00:01:47,088 --> 00:01:48,621 Chung: DID YOU KILL CHANDRA LEVY? 46 00:01:48,621 --> 00:01:50,221 I DID NOT. 47 00:01:50,221 --> 00:01:53,621 Grimm: THEY SIMPLY FOUND BONES IN A PARK ALMOST A YEAR AFTER. 48 00:01:53,621 --> 00:01:55,854 Alexander: THERE WERE NO EYEWITNESSES. 49 00:01:55,854 --> 00:01:57,354 THERE WAS NO MURDER WEAPON. 50 00:01:57,354 --> 00:01:59,354 Dimond: THEY'D FINALLY PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, 51 00:01:59,354 --> 00:02:00,921 AND IT POINTED TO ONE MAN: 52 00:02:00,921 --> 00:02:03,188 INGMAR GUANDIQUE. 53 00:02:03,188 --> 00:02:07,154 Grimm: MR. MORALES WAS A JAILHOUSE SNITCH, A RAT. 54 00:02:07,154 --> 00:02:10,088 Velez-Mitchell: THIS CASE THAT TOOK SO MANY YEARS TO BUILD 55 00:02:10,088 --> 00:02:11,521 HAS COLLAPSED OVERNIGHT. 56 00:02:11,521 --> 00:02:13,754 [ DISTORTED TUNE PLAYS ] 57 00:02:13,754 --> 00:02:16,454 Susan: IT'S THE WORST THING A MOTHER COULD EVER FACE. 58 00:02:16,454 --> 00:02:19,188 ** 59 00:02:19,188 --> 00:02:21,254 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 60 00:02:21,254 --> 00:02:22,521 Narrator: IT'S BEEN MONTHS SINCE 61 00:02:22,521 --> 00:02:25,088 WASHINGTON, DC INTERN CHANDRA LEVY 62 00:02:25,088 --> 00:02:27,821 DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE. 63 00:02:27,821 --> 00:02:31,721 BACK IN CALIFORNIA, HER PARENTS' MINDS ARE RACING. 64 00:02:31,721 --> 00:02:34,288 [crying] WE JUST WANT OUR DAUGHTER HOME ALIVE. 65 00:02:34,288 --> 00:02:37,421 WE'RE NOT SURE WHETHER THAT'S POSSIBLE OR NOT, 66 00:02:37,421 --> 00:02:39,554 AND WE WANT HER HOME. 67 00:02:39,554 --> 00:02:43,088 IT'S NOT LIKE HER NOT TO CALL OR BE IN TOUCH. 68 00:02:43,088 --> 00:02:44,554 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] MAYBE SHE RAN OFF, 69 00:02:44,554 --> 00:02:47,521 HAD A SCHIZOPHRENIC EPISODE, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 70 00:02:47,521 --> 00:02:49,321 I MEAN, YOU THINK OF ALL THOSE THINGS. 71 00:02:49,321 --> 00:02:51,754 THERE'S A REASON WHY SHE DIDN'T TURN UP. 72 00:02:51,754 --> 00:02:54,721 YOU KNOW, WE ALL THOUGHT MAYBE SHE'D BE SEEN SOMEWHERE. 73 00:02:54,721 --> 00:02:56,621 YOU THINK, "WELL, SHE'S HIDING." 74 00:02:56,621 --> 00:03:01,188 WE HAD HOPE, BUT IT WAS SCARY AS HELL. 75 00:03:01,188 --> 00:03:04,821 Narrator: POLICE HAVE SOUGHT ANSWERS FROM A POWERFUL PERSON OF INTEREST: 76 00:03:04,821 --> 00:03:07,721 UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT. 77 00:03:07,721 --> 00:03:09,188 THE CONGRESSMAN AND CHANDRA LEVY 78 00:03:09,188 --> 00:03:10,988 HAVE HAD AN AFFAIR. 79 00:03:10,988 --> 00:03:13,688 BUT, DESPITE EVIDENCE, CONDIT HAS DENIED 80 00:03:13,688 --> 00:03:16,621 ANY ROMANTIC INVOLVEMENT WITH CHANDRA. 81 00:03:16,621 --> 00:03:19,088 HE'S BEING VERY EVASIVE AND, OF COURSE, 82 00:03:19,088 --> 00:03:22,454 THAT MAKES THE POLICE ALL THAT MORE SUSPICIOUS, 83 00:03:22,454 --> 00:03:24,354 AND THEY THINK MAYBE GARY CONDIT 84 00:03:24,354 --> 00:03:27,288 HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH HER DISAPPEARANCE. 85 00:03:27,288 --> 00:03:29,154 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 86 00:03:29,154 --> 00:03:32,288 Narrator: A MASSIVE SEARCH EFFORT IS UNDERWAY. 87 00:03:32,288 --> 00:03:34,488 WE HAVE TO FIND HER. WE HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION 88 00:03:34,488 --> 00:03:35,821 "WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANDRA LEVY?" 89 00:03:35,821 --> 00:03:38,088 UNTIL WE CAN DO THAT, I'M NOT REAL HAPPY 90 00:03:38,088 --> 00:03:40,088 WITH WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, BUT I KNOW THAT OUR PEOPLE 91 00:03:40,088 --> 00:03:42,788 ARE WORKING AS HARD AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN. 92 00:03:42,788 --> 00:03:48,188 WE REALLY HADN'T FOUND EVIDENCE OF WHERE CHANDRA WAS. 93 00:03:48,188 --> 00:03:50,854 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GAIN ACCESS 94 00:03:50,854 --> 00:03:53,221 TO A VALUABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION 95 00:03:53,221 --> 00:03:54,988 THEY SEIZED WEEKS AGO. 96 00:03:54,988 --> 00:03:57,154 WHEN THEY SEARCH CHANDRA'S APARTMENT 97 00:03:57,154 --> 00:03:59,088 AND THEY ZERO IN ON HER COMPUTER, 98 00:03:59,088 --> 00:04:03,121 THEY START TO FIDDLE AROUND WITH IT, AND IT CRASHES. 99 00:04:03,121 --> 00:04:05,854 THE ENTIRE COMPUTER WAS CORRUPTED. 100 00:04:05,854 --> 00:04:09,921 Narrator: NOW, FORENSIC TECHNICIANS FINALLY HAVE CHANDRA'S LAPTOP 101 00:04:09,921 --> 00:04:11,121 UP AND RUNNING. 102 00:04:11,121 --> 00:04:14,288 WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN FORENSIC ANALYSIS 103 00:04:14,288 --> 00:04:17,088 AND GARNER INFORMATION OFF OF THE COMPUTER. 104 00:04:17,088 --> 00:04:19,454 Trainum: THE EXPERTS WERE ABLE TO GET IN THERE 105 00:04:19,454 --> 00:04:21,521 AND FIND OUT WHAT SHE HAD SEARCHED RIGHT BEFORE 106 00:04:21,521 --> 00:04:23,721 SHE HAD LAST TURNED HER COMPUTER OFF. 107 00:04:23,721 --> 00:04:25,788 THIS WAS A BIG DEAL. 108 00:04:25,788 --> 00:04:27,754 IT SHOWS WHAT SHE WAS DOING 109 00:04:27,754 --> 00:04:30,888 IN THE HOURS BEFORE HER DISAPPEARANCE. 110 00:04:30,888 --> 00:04:33,354 Narrator: THE ANALYSIS FINDS THAT, ON MAY 1st, 111 00:04:33,354 --> 00:04:35,421 THE DAY SHE WAS LAST HEARD FROM, 112 00:04:35,421 --> 00:04:38,921 CHANDRA LOGGED ON TO THE INTERNET AT 10:27 AM 113 00:04:38,921 --> 00:04:41,588 AND VISITED SEVERAL WEBSITES. 114 00:04:41,588 --> 00:04:43,954 THEY LOOK AT WHAT SHE'S BEEN SEARCHING 115 00:04:43,954 --> 00:04:47,254 AND THEY DISCOVER, ON MAY 1st, AMONG THE SITES SHE VISITED 116 00:04:47,254 --> 00:04:49,988 WAS CONGRESSMAN CONDIT'S HOMEPAGE. 117 00:04:49,988 --> 00:04:52,854 Narrator: BUT IT'S ONE OF THE LAST SEARCHES CHANDRA ENTERED 118 00:04:52,854 --> 00:04:55,388 THAT PIQUES INVESTIGATORS' INTEREST. 119 00:04:55,388 --> 00:04:58,654 THEY FOUND A SEARCH FOR THE PIERCE-KLINGLE MANSION 120 00:04:58,654 --> 00:05:00,321 IN ROCK CREEK PARK. 121 00:05:00,321 --> 00:05:03,788 Narrator: ROCK CREEK PARK IS A NEARLY-2,000-ACRE WOODLAND 122 00:05:03,788 --> 00:05:06,154 THAT BISECTS WASHINGTON. 123 00:05:06,154 --> 00:05:09,621 IT'S LIKE A FOREST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY. 124 00:05:09,621 --> 00:05:12,088 THE PIERCE-KLINGLE MANSION IS A LANDMARK 125 00:05:12,088 --> 00:05:14,254 WITHIN THE ROCK CREEK PARK. 126 00:05:14,254 --> 00:05:16,388 THAT'S A PERFECT PLACE TO MEET SOMEONE 127 00:05:16,388 --> 00:05:18,788 IN THIS BIG, HUGE EXPANSE. 128 00:05:18,788 --> 00:05:22,188 Narrator: CHANDRA'S APARTMENT IS ONLY 2 MILES FROM THE PARK, 129 00:05:22,188 --> 00:05:25,154 BUT HER INTEREST IN THE MANSION IS A MYSTERY. 130 00:05:25,154 --> 00:05:29,421 WE JUST WEREN'T SURE HOW IT PLAYED IN, BUT IT WAS A LEAD 131 00:05:29,421 --> 00:05:33,521 AND, WHEN YOU HAVE NO LEADS, YOU'LL FOLLOW ANYTHING. 132 00:05:33,521 --> 00:05:36,954 Narrator: POLICE GATHER REINFORCEMENTS AND RUSH TO THE LARGE, 133 00:05:36,954 --> 00:05:40,388 URBAN PARKLAND TO LOOK FOR ANY SIGNS OF CHANDRA. 134 00:05:40,388 --> 00:05:43,321 ROCK CREEK PARK IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL URBAN PARK. 135 00:05:43,321 --> 00:05:45,521 IT'S GOT A HUGE CREEK RUNNING THROUGH IT. 136 00:05:45,521 --> 00:05:50,588 IT'S GOT ROCKY AREAS AND AREAS THAT ARE JUST PURE WILDERNESS. 137 00:05:50,588 --> 00:05:52,954 IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT 138 00:05:52,954 --> 00:05:56,688 TO DO A COMPLETE SEARCH OF EVERY SINGLE INCH OF IT. 139 00:05:56,688 --> 00:05:59,754 WHAT WE'RE LOOKIN' FOR IS OBVIOUSLY ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS 140 00:05:59,754 --> 00:06:03,554 IN AREAS THAT WOULD NOT BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE 141 00:06:03,554 --> 00:06:06,488 AND, IF SOMEONE ACCIDENTALLY FELL OFF THAT LEDGE, 142 00:06:06,488 --> 00:06:08,588 THEY MIGHT NOT BE FOUND FOR A WHILE. 143 00:06:08,588 --> 00:06:12,088 TO THE EXTENT THAT WE SEARCHED THAT PARK, TO MY RECOLLECTION, 144 00:06:12,088 --> 00:06:14,154 WE HAD NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE. 145 00:06:14,154 --> 00:06:16,554 THERE'S AN EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH, 146 00:06:16,554 --> 00:06:20,154 BUT THEY FAIL TO FIND ANYTHING CONCLUSIVE. 147 00:06:20,154 --> 00:06:21,921 Narrator: AFTER MONTHS OF SEARCHING, 148 00:06:21,921 --> 00:06:24,254 THE LEVY FAMILY IS DEEPLY FRUSTRATED 149 00:06:24,254 --> 00:06:26,821 BY THE STATE OF THE INVESTIGATION. 150 00:06:26,821 --> 00:06:29,821 WE COULDN'T JUST TRUST THE POLICE COULD DO ALL THE WORK. 151 00:06:29,821 --> 00:06:31,154 IT WAS A LOT OF WORK. 152 00:06:31,154 --> 00:06:34,454 WE NEEDED TO FIND AS MUCH AS WE CAN. 153 00:06:34,454 --> 00:06:38,754 WE NEEDED SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT COULD DO MORE INVESTIGATION, 154 00:06:38,754 --> 00:06:41,221 SO WE HAD PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS. 155 00:06:41,221 --> 00:06:43,621 [ SUSPENSEFUL FLOURISH PLAYS ] MY NAME IS JOE McCANN. 156 00:06:43,621 --> 00:06:46,921 I WAS A HOMICIDE DETECTIVE AND THEN A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. 157 00:06:46,921 --> 00:06:48,721 I WAS BROUGHT INTO THE LEVY INVESTIGATION 158 00:06:48,721 --> 00:06:52,321 BY THE LAW FIRM THAT REPRESENTED THE LEVY FAMILY. 159 00:06:52,321 --> 00:06:55,221 Narrator: McCANN HAS NEVER CONDUCTED A TELEVISED INTERVIEW 160 00:06:55,221 --> 00:06:56,621 ON THE SUBJECT. 161 00:06:56,621 --> 00:06:59,421 NOW, HE OFFERS US EXCLUSIVE INSIGHT 162 00:06:59,421 --> 00:07:02,354 INTO HIS DOGGED PURSUIT OF CHANDRA. 163 00:07:02,354 --> 00:07:05,321 WE SET UP OUR OWN 800 NUMBER. 164 00:07:05,321 --> 00:07:07,454 LEADS ARE COMIN' IN ALL THE TIME 165 00:07:07,454 --> 00:07:11,254 AND TOOK US DOWN MANY, MANY DIFFERENT PATHS. 166 00:07:11,254 --> 00:07:13,621 AFTER A MONTH OF SORTING THROUGH TIPS, 167 00:07:13,621 --> 00:07:16,488 McCANN HEARS A TALE THAT INTRIGUES HIM. 168 00:07:16,488 --> 00:07:20,554 THIS ONE PARTICULAR NIGHT, IT'S JUST ME AND MY PARTNER. 169 00:07:20,554 --> 00:07:22,921 THE 800 NUMBER RINGS. 170 00:07:22,921 --> 00:07:24,288 WE ANSWER THE PHONE. 171 00:07:24,288 --> 00:07:26,788 THERE'S A GENTLEMAN ON THE OTHER END OF THE PHONE 172 00:07:26,788 --> 00:07:28,988 WHO DOESN'T WANNA GIVE US HIS NAME, 173 00:07:28,988 --> 00:07:30,788 BUT HE'S GOT THIS STORY TO TELL 174 00:07:30,788 --> 00:07:34,121 ABOUT CHANDRA BEING IN CALIFORNIA 175 00:07:34,121 --> 00:07:37,288 AND, AS WE LISTENED TO IT, IT DID SOUND CREDIBLE. 176 00:07:37,288 --> 00:07:39,621 SO WE STARTED TO FOCUS ON THIS. 177 00:07:39,621 --> 00:07:43,388 Narrator: THE TIP RELATES TO A SIMMERING RUMOR THAT'S BEEN CIRCULATING. 178 00:07:43,388 --> 00:07:46,954 SOON AFTER CHANDRA DISAPPEARED, SCUTTLEBUTT SUGGESTED 179 00:07:46,954 --> 00:07:49,288 THAT SHE MIGHT'VE, INDEED, BEEN PREGNANT. 180 00:07:49,288 --> 00:07:51,454 NOW, THIS WAS NEVER SUBSTANTIATED 181 00:07:51,454 --> 00:07:53,754 AND NO ONE KNEW WHO STARTED THE RUMOR, 182 00:07:53,754 --> 00:07:59,088 BUT FOREVER IT HAS LONG HOVERED OVER THIS MOST SORDID CASE. 183 00:07:59,088 --> 00:08:02,321 Narrator: WHILE HE IS SORT OF DETAILS, THE TIPSTER PUTS FORTH 184 00:08:02,321 --> 00:08:05,654 A BIZARRE, AND SEEMINGLY OUTRAGEOUS, CLAIM: 185 00:08:05,654 --> 00:08:08,854 HE HAS FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE THAT CHANDRA GOT INVOLVED 186 00:08:08,854 --> 00:08:11,921 WITH AN UNNAMED GANG IN CALIFORNIA. 187 00:08:11,921 --> 00:08:14,254 HE SAID, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH. 188 00:08:14,254 --> 00:08:17,788 THESE PEOPLE WILL KILL ME. I CAN'T GET INVOLVED." 189 00:08:17,788 --> 00:08:20,688 MY PARTNER HUNG IN THERE AND HE FINALLY GOT HIM TO SAY, 190 00:08:20,688 --> 00:08:22,988 "OKAY. COME OUT AND MEET ME." 191 00:08:22,988 --> 00:08:26,154 JUST THE FACT THAT THIS GUY WAS SO RELUCTANT TO MEET WITH US 192 00:08:26,154 --> 00:08:27,288 AND THERE WAS A REWARD 193 00:08:27,288 --> 00:08:30,088 TOLD US THAT MAYBE THERE IS SOMETHING TO IT. 194 00:08:30,088 --> 00:08:33,854 Narrator: McCANN AND HIS PARTNER FLY OUT WEST. 195 00:08:33,854 --> 00:08:35,688 McCann: WE MEET HIM IN THE LOBBY OF THE HOTEL. 196 00:08:35,688 --> 00:08:36,821 HE'S SCARED TO DEATH. 197 00:08:36,821 --> 00:08:38,588 HE TELLS US THIS VERY ELABORATE STORY, 198 00:08:38,588 --> 00:08:42,921 THAT HE WAS HIRED BY SEVERAL PEOPLE TO RENT AN RV 199 00:08:42,921 --> 00:08:46,088 AND MEET THEM AND SOMEBODY ELSE IN NEVADA. 200 00:08:46,088 --> 00:08:48,421 HE SAYS THEY ALL SHOW UP WITH A YOUNG LADY. 201 00:08:48,421 --> 00:08:52,288 HE RECOGNIZES HER AS CHANDRA LEVY. 202 00:08:52,288 --> 00:08:53,788 Narrator: ACCORDING TO THE TIPSTER, 203 00:08:53,788 --> 00:08:57,488 SHE WAS TAKEN TO A NEARBY MOUNTAIN IN THE RV. 204 00:08:57,488 --> 00:09:02,421 THERE, CHANDRA ENDURED A PREGNANCY-RELATED PROCEDURE, 205 00:09:02,421 --> 00:09:05,154 BUT, IT DIDN'T GO AS PLANNED. 206 00:09:05,154 --> 00:09:08,321 DURING THIS EVENT, SHE DIES, 207 00:09:08,321 --> 00:09:12,688 AND THEY WIND UP BURYING HER IN THE DESERT IN CALIFORNIA. 208 00:09:12,688 --> 00:09:16,088 A STUNNED McCANN IS LEFT WITH COUNTLESS QUESTIONS. 209 00:09:16,088 --> 00:09:20,288 EXACTLY HOW AND WHY DID THIS SCENARIO COME TO PASS? 210 00:09:20,288 --> 00:09:21,754 BUT AS HE PRESSES HIM, 211 00:09:21,754 --> 00:09:24,754 THE TIPSTER FEARS HE'S SAID TOO MUCH. 212 00:09:24,754 --> 00:09:26,088 McCann: HE DOESN'T WANNA TALK ANYMORE. 213 00:09:26,088 --> 00:09:28,121 HE SAYS, "LOOK. I'LL FINISH THE STORY UP TOMORROW. 214 00:09:28,121 --> 00:09:30,088 JUST GET ME HOME." 215 00:09:30,088 --> 00:09:32,354 AND THEN WE FOLLOW UP ON HIS LEADS. 216 00:09:32,354 --> 00:09:34,688 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 217 00:09:34,688 --> 00:09:37,221 Narrator: McCANN AND HIS PARTNER HEAD TO THE MOUNTAINS 218 00:09:37,221 --> 00:09:39,288 WHERE CHANDRA SUPPOSEDLY DIED 219 00:09:39,288 --> 00:09:42,321 AND TALK TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR THE SCENE. 220 00:09:42,321 --> 00:09:45,221 BUT THEY COME UP EMPTY-HANDED. 221 00:09:45,221 --> 00:09:48,821 BY THE END OF THE DAY, I'M CONVINCED THAT THIS GUY IS 222 00:09:48,821 --> 00:09:52,654 TELLING A STORY AND IT'S NOT A VERY TRUE STORY. 223 00:09:52,654 --> 00:09:56,121 SO I GO BACK TO CONFRONT HIM AND I SAY TO HIM, 224 00:09:56,121 --> 00:09:59,288 "HOW MUCH DID THESE GUYS PAY YOU TO RENT THIS VAN?" 225 00:09:59,288 --> 00:10:02,054 HE SAYS, "THEY GAVE ME $10,000." 226 00:10:02,054 --> 00:10:03,988 WELL, I KNEW THAT THIS GUY IS NOT SOMEBODY 227 00:10:03,988 --> 00:10:06,088 WHO'S GONNA HAVE $2 ON HIM. 228 00:10:06,088 --> 00:10:09,221 SO I SAY TO HIM, "SHOW ME THE MONEY," 229 00:10:09,221 --> 00:10:13,221 AND, WITH THAT, THIS GUY WAS LIVING IN A LITTLE TRAILER, 230 00:10:13,221 --> 00:10:14,921 BREAKS OUT A BAG, 231 00:10:14,921 --> 00:10:17,588 AND ALL I CAN SEE IS THE HUNDREDS. 232 00:10:17,588 --> 00:10:20,021 THERE'S THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN THERE. 233 00:10:20,021 --> 00:10:22,454 HOW DOES A GUY LIKE THAT GET THIS MONEY? 234 00:10:22,454 --> 00:10:25,054 THERE MUST BE SOMETHING TO THE STORY. 235 00:10:25,054 --> 00:10:29,654 Narrator: THEN, McCANN SEARCHES THE DESERT FOR THE ALLEGED BURIAL SPOT. 236 00:10:29,654 --> 00:10:31,554 HE FINDS NOTHING. 237 00:10:31,554 --> 00:10:35,388 I WORK A LITTLE MORE AND I'M STILL CONVINCED IT'S BS. 238 00:10:35,388 --> 00:10:36,721 THERE'S NOTHING TO IT. 239 00:10:36,721 --> 00:10:38,121 END OF STORY. 240 00:10:38,121 --> 00:10:40,488 EXCEPT, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? 241 00:10:40,488 --> 00:10:42,854 Narrator: A TRUSTED SOURCE REVEALS TO McCANN 242 00:10:42,854 --> 00:10:46,321 HOW THE INFORMANT MANAGED TO GET HIS HANDS ON THE MONEY. 243 00:10:46,321 --> 00:10:48,921 THIS GUY, WHO I MET IN CALIFORNIA, 244 00:10:48,921 --> 00:10:50,721 IS A FLIMFLAM ARTIST. 245 00:10:50,721 --> 00:10:53,688 HE WAS JUST LOOKIN' FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME. 246 00:10:53,688 --> 00:10:56,154 SOMEBODY NOTIFIED A NEWSPAPER THAT I WAS GONNA BE 247 00:10:56,154 --> 00:10:58,821 IN CALIFORNIA, AND WHAT I WAS DOING. 248 00:10:58,821 --> 00:11:01,954 SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER, THEY BEAT ME THERE. 249 00:11:01,954 --> 00:11:05,788 SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS, THE NEWSPAPER GOT TO HIM FIRST. 250 00:11:05,788 --> 00:11:07,454 THEY HEARD HIS STORY. 251 00:11:07,454 --> 00:11:09,788 THEY PAID HIM THE MONEY. 252 00:11:09,788 --> 00:11:12,321 HE COST JUST A LOT OF EFFORT, 253 00:11:12,321 --> 00:11:15,521 AND SO I WAS PRETTY ANNOYED, PISSED OFF AT HIM. 254 00:11:15,521 --> 00:11:16,688 THERE WAS JUST NOTHING. 255 00:11:16,688 --> 00:11:20,254 THERE WAS REALLY NOTHING ABOUT CHANDRA. 256 00:11:20,254 --> 00:11:21,588 Narrator: ACCORDING TO McCANN, 257 00:11:21,588 --> 00:11:24,288 THE INCIDENT WAS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE PUBLIC 258 00:11:24,288 --> 00:11:27,288 AND THE MEDIA'S FASCINATION WITH THE CASE. 259 00:11:27,288 --> 00:11:30,088 IMPORTANT NEW QUESTIONS IN THE CASE OF CHANDRA LEVY. 260 00:11:30,088 --> 00:11:31,488 MISSING INTERN CHANDRA LEVY. 261 00:11:31,488 --> 00:11:34,654 THE 24-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE. 262 00:11:34,654 --> 00:11:37,888 Larry King: WILL CHANDRA LEVY EVER BE FOUND? 263 00:11:37,888 --> 00:11:42,421 A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED IT REMEMBER HOW CRAZY IT WAS. 264 00:11:42,421 --> 00:11:44,988 YOU COULDN'T PICK UP A NEWSPAPER, A MAGAZINE, 265 00:11:44,988 --> 00:11:46,488 LISTEN TO A TV SHOW. 266 00:11:46,488 --> 00:11:48,188 THE MEDIA WAS TALKING ABOUT IT. 267 00:11:48,188 --> 00:11:49,588 IT WAS EVERY DAY. 268 00:11:49,588 --> 00:11:50,721 IT WAS EVERY NIGHT. 269 00:11:50,721 --> 00:11:52,354 IT WAS NONSTOP. 270 00:11:52,354 --> 00:11:54,988 Narrator: AS THE NEWS CYCLE CONTINUES TO SPIN, 271 00:11:54,988 --> 00:12:00,721 BOTH McCANN AND POLICE WORK TO CULTIVATE NEW LEADS. 272 00:12:00,721 --> 00:12:04,588 BUT IN LATE 2001, EVERYTHING CHANGES. 273 00:12:04,588 --> 00:12:06,288 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] [ FLAMES CRACKLING ] 274 00:12:06,288 --> 00:12:11,188 SO JUST AS THE LEVY-CONDIT STORY WAS PEAKING, 275 00:12:11,188 --> 00:12:15,121 IT WAS ECLIPSED BY AN EVEN MORE SHOCKING EVENT, 276 00:12:15,121 --> 00:12:19,154 AND THAT WAS THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON SEPTEMBER 11th. 277 00:12:19,154 --> 00:12:22,654 ** 278 00:12:22,654 --> 00:12:27,621 ONCE THE TWIN TOWERS FELL, ONCE THE PENTAGON WAS BREACHED, 279 00:12:27,621 --> 00:12:30,321 ONCE THE PLANE CRASHED IN PENNSYLVANIA, 280 00:12:30,321 --> 00:12:33,121 EVERYONE'S ATTENTION WAS DIVERTED. 281 00:12:33,121 --> 00:12:36,388 I CAME TO THE QUICK REALIZATION THAT THE STORY 282 00:12:36,388 --> 00:12:39,121 ABOUT CHANDRA LEVY IS NO LONGER A STORY. 283 00:12:39,121 --> 00:12:42,288 REPORTERS, LIKE MYSELF, STOPPED PAYING ATTENTION ALTOGETHER 284 00:12:42,288 --> 00:12:44,154 BECAUSE, NOW, WE'RE AT WAR 285 00:12:44,154 --> 00:12:48,788 AND WHAT WAS THE LOSS OF ONE CHILD IN THAT SCOPE OF THINGS? 286 00:12:48,788 --> 00:12:50,988 WE DIDN'T GET THE MEDIA ATTENTION ANYMORE, 287 00:12:50,988 --> 00:12:52,754 AND THERE GO A LOT OF THE LEADS. 288 00:12:52,754 --> 00:12:54,821 SO THINGS START TO DRY UP. 289 00:12:54,821 --> 00:12:57,788 Narrator: FROM McCANN'S COUNTERPARTS AT METRO PD, 290 00:12:57,788 --> 00:13:00,488 THEIR PRIORITIES HAVE NOW SHIFTED. 291 00:13:00,488 --> 00:13:04,121 DC POLICE WAS FOCUSED ON STOPPING ATTACKS. 292 00:13:04,121 --> 00:13:06,388 THERE WERE NO INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES LEFT 293 00:13:06,388 --> 00:13:10,588 FOR THE DEPARTMENT TO FOCUS ON THIS MISSING-GIRL CASE. 294 00:13:10,588 --> 00:13:14,288 Narrator: AS MONTHS TO BY, THE CASE GOES COLD. 295 00:13:14,288 --> 00:13:17,354 FOR OUR FAMILY, WE WERE SHOCKED. 296 00:13:17,354 --> 00:13:21,088 BUT WE WERE NOT EMOTIONAL, LIKE MOST PEOPLE, 297 00:13:21,088 --> 00:13:24,254 'CAUSE WE'VE ALREADY FELT 9/11 HAPPEN TO US. 298 00:13:24,254 --> 00:13:26,621 ** 299 00:13:26,621 --> 00:13:29,121 AND THEN, MAY 2002, 300 00:13:29,121 --> 00:13:32,154 A MAN WALKING HIS DOG IN ROCK CREEK PARK 301 00:13:32,154 --> 00:13:34,921 SPOTS SOMETHING ON THE GROUND 302 00:13:34,921 --> 00:13:39,454 AND HE GOES DOWN INTO THE RAVINE TO CHECK IT OUT. 303 00:13:39,454 --> 00:13:41,688 HE IS ABSOLUTELY FLABBERGASTED. 304 00:13:41,688 --> 00:13:43,088 [ DISTORTED TUNE PLAYS ] 305 00:13:43,088 --> 00:13:45,588 AND THE FIRST THING HE DOES IS CALL THE PARK POLICE. 306 00:13:45,588 --> 00:13:47,721 ** 307 00:13:49,654 --> 00:13:50,754 Dispatcher: MM-HMM. 308 00:13:55,554 --> 00:13:58,421 ** 309 00:14:00,854 --> 00:14:02,621 Narrator: IN MAY 2002, 310 00:14:02,621 --> 00:14:06,921 ONE YEAR AFTER DC INTERN CHANDRA LEVY GOES MISSING, 311 00:14:06,921 --> 00:14:09,688 A MAN WALKING HIS DOG IN ROCK CREEK PARK 312 00:14:09,688 --> 00:14:12,221 MAKES A GRUESOME DISCOVERY. [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 313 00:14:12,221 --> 00:14:14,121 Palmer: 314 00:14:17,521 --> 00:14:19,354 Dispatcher: 315 00:14:19,354 --> 00:14:21,921 Palmer: 316 00:14:21,921 --> 00:14:23,154 ** 317 00:14:23,154 --> 00:14:27,154 Narrator: THE METRO PD SPRING INTO ACTION. 318 00:14:27,154 --> 00:14:29,854 HERE IS A SKULL FOUND IN THE PARK 319 00:14:29,854 --> 00:14:32,654 WHERE THEY BELIEVE THAT CHANDRA HAD GONE MISSING 320 00:14:32,654 --> 00:14:36,521 AND SO EVERYBODY GOES DEFCON 1. 321 00:14:36,521 --> 00:14:37,588 THE POLICE ARRIVE. 322 00:14:37,588 --> 00:14:40,788 THEY SEALED OFF A VERY LARGE AREA 323 00:14:40,788 --> 00:14:43,454 AND THAT BECAME THEIR CRIME SCENE. 324 00:14:43,454 --> 00:14:44,688 I WAS IN THE NEWSROOM 325 00:14:44,688 --> 00:14:48,221 WHEN THE NEWS CAME THAT THERE WERE REMAINS FOUND. 326 00:14:48,221 --> 00:14:50,588 INSTANTLY, THE MEDIA CAME FLOODING BACK 327 00:14:50,588 --> 00:14:53,921 TO THE ROCK CREEK PARK SCENE, WHERE INVESTIGATORS 328 00:14:53,921 --> 00:14:57,821 BEHIND YELLOW TAPE WENT ABOUT THEIR WORK. 329 00:14:57,821 --> 00:14:59,854 WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE SCENE, 330 00:14:59,854 --> 00:15:01,788 BONES ARE SCATTERED EVERYWHERE, 331 00:15:01,788 --> 00:15:03,788 AND THAT'S NORMAL FOR THIS SORT OF SCENE. 332 00:15:03,788 --> 00:15:07,121 IF THERE'S A BODY THAT'S OUT IN THE ELEMENTS, 333 00:15:07,121 --> 00:15:09,154 IT BEGINS TO DECOMPOSE 334 00:15:09,154 --> 00:15:13,521 AND THEN ANIMALS AND OTHER SCAVENGERS ATTACK THE BODY. 335 00:15:13,521 --> 00:15:17,121 AS THEY'RE SYSTEMATICALLY SEARCHING THE AREA, 336 00:15:17,121 --> 00:15:21,088 THEY BEGIN TO FIND VARIOUS ITEMS OF CLOTHING. 337 00:15:21,088 --> 00:15:24,988 THIS TRAGIC SCENE IS FILLED WITH PERSONAL EFFECTS: 338 00:15:24,988 --> 00:15:26,254 SUNGLASSES, 339 00:15:26,254 --> 00:15:30,154 A USC ATHLETIC T-SHIRT TURNED INSIDE OUT, 340 00:15:30,154 --> 00:15:31,554 A RUNNING SHOE, 341 00:15:31,554 --> 00:15:32,921 AND BLACK RUNNING TIGHTS 342 00:15:32,921 --> 00:15:34,454 THAT ARE INSIDE OUT 343 00:15:34,454 --> 00:15:35,554 AND KNOTTED. 344 00:15:35,554 --> 00:15:39,421 [ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ] 345 00:15:39,421 --> 00:15:42,188 Narrator: TO IDENTIFY THE SKELETONIZED REMAINS, 346 00:15:42,188 --> 00:15:45,954 INVESTIGATORS FOCUS ON THE SKULL. 347 00:15:45,954 --> 00:15:50,388 THEY ACTUALLY TAKE THE SKULL TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE 348 00:15:50,388 --> 00:15:54,754 WITH RED LIGHTS AND SIREN, THEY WERE IN SUCH A HURRY. 349 00:15:54,754 --> 00:15:57,688 THE MEDICAL EXAMINER HAD ALREADY OBTAINED 350 00:15:57,688 --> 00:16:00,088 CHANDRA'S DENTAL RECORDS, 351 00:16:00,088 --> 00:16:03,521 SO HE WAS ABLE TO MATCH UP THE VARIOUS FILLINGS, 352 00:16:03,521 --> 00:16:06,721 MADE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION THAT IT WAS CHANDRA. 353 00:16:06,721 --> 00:16:08,988 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] 354 00:16:08,988 --> 00:16:12,254 WELL, AFTER THEY IDENTIFIED HER, THEY CALLED US UP AND TOLD US. 355 00:16:12,254 --> 00:16:14,254 THAT WAS JUST REALLY BAD. I MEAN, JUST -- 356 00:16:14,254 --> 00:16:17,454 -IT WAS HORRIBLE. -AS BAD AS ANYTHING CAN BE. 357 00:16:17,454 --> 00:16:19,988 I'M POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS. 358 00:16:19,988 --> 00:16:24,754 IT'S THE WORST THING A MOTHER COULD EVER FACE. 359 00:16:24,754 --> 00:16:28,154 THE MINUTE THAT BODY WAS FOUND, I THOUGHT OF THEM 360 00:16:28,154 --> 00:16:32,088 AND THE TRAVAILS AND TROUBLES AND ANXIETY 361 00:16:32,088 --> 00:16:34,154 THEY HAD GONE THROUGH FOR SO LONG. 362 00:16:34,154 --> 00:16:38,521 FINALLY, THEY HAD CHANDRA BACK, BUT SHE WAS DEAD. 363 00:16:38,521 --> 00:16:42,688 IT WAS A GUT PUNCH BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW THIS CASE 364 00:16:42,688 --> 00:16:44,954 IS PROBABLY GONNA END THAT WAY, 365 00:16:44,954 --> 00:16:50,088 WHEN YOU'RE CONFRONTED WITH THAT REALITY, IT'S STILL SHOCKING. 366 00:16:50,088 --> 00:16:52,454 Narrator: NOW, IT'S UP TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER 367 00:16:52,454 --> 00:16:55,988 TO DETERMINE EXACTLY HOW CHANDRA DIED. 368 00:16:55,988 --> 00:16:59,321 FINDING A BODY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN EYEWITNESS 369 00:16:59,321 --> 00:17:01,354 BECAUSE THE BODY DOESN'T LIE. 370 00:17:01,354 --> 00:17:06,121 THE BODY IS GONNA TELL THE MANNER AND MEANS OF DEATH. 371 00:17:06,121 --> 00:17:07,788 Narrator: IT WON'T BE EASY. 372 00:17:07,788 --> 00:17:11,254 TIME AND THE ELEMENTS HAVE TAKEN A TOLL. 373 00:17:11,254 --> 00:17:12,454 IT'S OVER A YEAR 374 00:17:12,454 --> 00:17:15,254 BEFORE CHANDRA LEVY'S REMAINS ARE FOUND 375 00:17:15,254 --> 00:17:18,854 AND, BECAUSE THEY'RE SKELETON REMAINS, AT THIS POINT, 376 00:17:18,854 --> 00:17:21,554 THERE'S VERY LITTLE THEY CAN FIND OUT. 377 00:17:21,554 --> 00:17:24,088 THERE WAS NO SOFT TISSUE TO SHOW A STAB WOUND. 378 00:17:24,088 --> 00:17:26,154 THERE WAS NO BULLET IN THE HEAD. 379 00:17:26,154 --> 00:17:28,388 THERE WASN'T ANYTHING LEFT OF HER THROAT 380 00:17:28,388 --> 00:17:30,988 TO DETERMINE THAT SHE MIGHT'VE BEEN STRANGLED. 381 00:17:30,988 --> 00:17:34,488 THERE WAS NO WAY TO TELL EXACTLY HOW SHE DIED. 382 00:17:34,488 --> 00:17:36,888 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 383 00:17:36,888 --> 00:17:37,688 [ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ] Narrator: POLICE ARE ABLE 384 00:17:37,688 --> 00:17:39,521 TO DRAW SOME CONCLUSIONS, 385 00:17:39,521 --> 00:17:42,354 BASED ON THE ITEMS COLLECTED AT THE SCENE. 386 00:17:42,354 --> 00:17:43,788 WHEN THEY FOUND HER LEGGINGS, 387 00:17:43,788 --> 00:17:47,354 THERE WERE LIKE KNOTS AND LOOPS IN THE LEGS. 388 00:17:47,354 --> 00:17:49,221 IF SHE FELL DOWN THAT RAVINE 389 00:17:49,221 --> 00:17:51,188 AND KNOCKED HER HEAD AND DIED BY ACCIDENT, 390 00:17:51,188 --> 00:17:53,721 THERE'S NO REASON TO REMOVE YOUR PANTS. 391 00:17:53,721 --> 00:17:55,421 Narrator: THE KNOTS IN THE RUNNING TIGHTS 392 00:17:55,421 --> 00:17:58,554 LEAD INVESTIGATORS TO A GRIM CONCLUSION. 393 00:17:58,554 --> 00:18:01,321 THE WAY THAT THEY WERE TIED INDICATED THAT, POSSIBLY, 394 00:18:01,321 --> 00:18:05,154 THEY WERE USED AS A WAY TO BIND SOMEBODY. 395 00:18:05,154 --> 00:18:07,388 SOMETHING VERY, VERY 396 00:18:07,388 --> 00:18:11,121 SINISTER AND DIABOLICAL IS GOING ON THERE. 397 00:18:11,121 --> 00:18:13,121 THAT DEFINITELY WAS EVIDENCE 398 00:18:13,121 --> 00:18:15,621 THAT SHE HAD BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. 399 00:18:15,621 --> 00:18:18,754 Narrator: THE METRO PD ANNOUNCE THEIR FINDINGS. 400 00:18:18,754 --> 00:18:22,654 WE KNOW THE MANNER OF DEATH WAS HOMICIDE. 401 00:18:22,654 --> 00:18:25,088 QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN: HOW DID SHE GET THERE? 402 00:18:25,088 --> 00:18:27,321 WAS SHE GOING TO SEE SOMEONE WHEN SHE GOT THERE? 403 00:18:27,321 --> 00:18:29,221 WAS SHE JUST OUT FOR A WALK? 404 00:18:29,221 --> 00:18:33,621 THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF QUESTIONS THAT HAVE TO BE ANSWERED. 405 00:18:33,621 --> 00:18:35,721 Monroe: NOW, WE'RE BACK TO SQUARE ONE. 406 00:18:35,721 --> 00:18:39,288 WE HAVE AN UNSOLVED MURDER OF A YOUNG LADY 407 00:18:39,288 --> 00:18:42,821 WHO CAME TO WASHINGTON TO LIVE HER DREAM, 408 00:18:42,821 --> 00:18:45,588 AND HER DREAMS DIED HERE. 409 00:18:45,588 --> 00:18:50,154 NOW, POLICE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT "WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY?" 410 00:18:50,154 --> 00:18:52,088 WAS IT CONGRESSMAN CONDIT? 411 00:18:52,088 --> 00:18:53,321 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] 412 00:18:53,321 --> 00:18:54,788 Narrator: WITH RENEWED PURPOSE, 413 00:18:54,788 --> 00:18:58,888 INVESTIGATORS REVISIT THEIR FIRST PERSON OF INTEREST. 414 00:18:58,888 --> 00:19:01,454 THERE WERE THEORIES ABOUNDING. 415 00:19:01,454 --> 00:19:04,888 CONDIT, PERHAPS, DID SOMETHING TO MAKE THIS GIRL DISAPPEAR 416 00:19:04,888 --> 00:19:07,921 BECAUSE HE WAS HAVING A SEXUAL AFFAIR WITH HER. 417 00:19:07,921 --> 00:19:09,654 Trainum: THERE WAS A LOT OF THEORIES. 418 00:19:09,654 --> 00:19:13,688 ONE WAS, SHE WAS MEETING GARY CONDIT IN ROCK CREEK PARK. 419 00:19:13,688 --> 00:19:16,754 EVERY STATEMENT, EVERY ACTION, 420 00:19:16,754 --> 00:19:21,488 OF GARY CONDIT'S LIFE COMES UNDER SCRUTINY. 421 00:19:21,488 --> 00:19:25,454 Narrator: ESPECIALLY HIS WHEREABOUTS ON THE DAY CHANDRA WENT MISSING. 422 00:19:25,454 --> 00:19:29,088 GARY CONDIT HAS AN ALIBI FOR THE DAY THAT CHANDRA DISAPPEARS. 423 00:19:29,088 --> 00:19:31,354 HE'S TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS. 424 00:19:31,354 --> 00:19:34,188 HE WAS SITTING DOWN WITH VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, 425 00:19:34,188 --> 00:19:37,954 TALKING ABOUT ENERGY POLICY, OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE. 426 00:19:37,954 --> 00:19:39,988 Velez-Mitchell: THEY DO SOME CHECKING. THEY TALK TO HIS STAFF. 427 00:19:39,988 --> 00:19:43,654 I MEAN, MEETING WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?! 428 00:19:43,654 --> 00:19:46,254 THAT CERTAINLY COULD BE CONFIRMED. 429 00:19:46,254 --> 00:19:48,688 THEN HE'S AT THE OFFICE AND THEN HE GOES TO THE DOCTOR'S. 430 00:19:48,688 --> 00:19:49,788 AT THIS POINT, 431 00:19:49,788 --> 00:19:53,554 CONGRESSMAN CONDIT'S ALIBI CHECKS OUT. 432 00:19:53,554 --> 00:19:56,221 Narrator: AND A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE 433 00:19:56,221 --> 00:19:58,654 LEADS TO ANOTHER DEAD END. 434 00:19:58,654 --> 00:20:01,288 AT THIS POINT, NOTHING ON THE CRIME SCENE 435 00:20:01,288 --> 00:20:05,254 ALLOWED THE INVESTIGATORS TO LINK THIS CASE TO GARY CONDIT. 436 00:20:05,254 --> 00:20:06,721 THEY DON'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE 437 00:20:06,721 --> 00:20:09,388 TO LINK HIM TO CHANDRA LEVY'S MURDER. 438 00:20:09,388 --> 00:20:11,588 MAYBE IT'S SOMEBODY ELSE. 439 00:20:11,588 --> 00:20:15,121 THE PRESSURE STARTED TO BUILD AND BUILD AND BUILD. 440 00:20:15,121 --> 00:20:17,821 POLICE HAD TO DO SOMETHING. 441 00:20:17,821 --> 00:20:21,288 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS BEGIN TO WONDER IF THE LOCATION OF THE CRIME 442 00:20:21,288 --> 00:20:23,754 IS THE KEY TO SOLVING IT. 443 00:20:23,754 --> 00:20:25,654 SO, TO DEVELOP NEW LEADS, 444 00:20:25,654 --> 00:20:29,288 THEY TURN TO A SPECIALIZED CRIMINOLOGIST. 445 00:20:29,288 --> 00:20:30,588 I'M DR. KIM ROSSMO. 446 00:20:30,588 --> 00:20:32,754 I'M THE GEOGRAPHIC PROFILER WHO WAS BROUGHT ON 447 00:20:32,754 --> 00:20:34,188 TO ASSIST IN THE INVESTIGATION 448 00:20:34,188 --> 00:20:36,754 IN THE CHANDRA LEVY DISAPPEARANCE AND MURDER. 449 00:20:36,754 --> 00:20:38,721 I GOT A CALL FROM DETECTIVE TRAINUM 450 00:20:38,721 --> 00:20:40,488 AND HE SAID THAT HE WANTED TO SEE 451 00:20:40,488 --> 00:20:44,154 IF I MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ANY SORT OF PERSPECTIVE. 452 00:20:44,154 --> 00:20:47,021 KIM'S REALLY GOOD AT LOOKING AT A CRIME SCENE 453 00:20:47,021 --> 00:20:50,621 AND HELPING YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE SCENE 454 00:20:50,621 --> 00:20:52,388 THAT KIND OF CONTRIBUTED TO THE CRIME 455 00:20:52,388 --> 00:20:54,888 OCCURRING AT THAT LOCATION? 456 00:20:54,888 --> 00:20:57,388 Narrator: ROSSMO CONDUCTS A HOLISTIC EXAMINATION 457 00:20:57,388 --> 00:21:00,521 OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN ROCK CREEK PARK. 458 00:21:00,521 --> 00:21:03,354 FOR ME, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EARLY QUESTIONS WAS, 459 00:21:03,354 --> 00:21:06,721 "HOW COMMON ARE THESE ATTACKS IN ROCK CREEK PARK?" 460 00:21:06,721 --> 00:21:09,554 WE TOOK A LOOK AT THE DATA FROM THE PARK'S POLICE 461 00:21:09,554 --> 00:21:12,621 ABOUT THEIR CRIMES IN THE 18-MONTH PERIOD 462 00:21:12,621 --> 00:21:14,921 LEADING UP TO THERE AND IT WAS VERY CLEAR 463 00:21:14,921 --> 00:21:19,221 THAT CRIMES OF THIS NATURE WERE JUST SO RARE. 464 00:21:19,221 --> 00:21:20,654 Narrator: BUT ROSSMO DISCOVERS 465 00:21:20,654 --> 00:21:22,788 SOME INTRIGUING INCIDENTS. 466 00:21:22,788 --> 00:21:25,888 WE SAW TWO ATTACKS ON FEMALE JOGGERS 467 00:21:25,888 --> 00:21:30,854 IN THE SHORT TIME PERIOD FOLLOWING LEVY'S DISAPPEARANCE. 468 00:21:30,854 --> 00:21:32,321 Narrator: IN SEARCH OF A PATTERN, 469 00:21:32,321 --> 00:21:36,721 ROSSMO PORES OVER THE DETAILS OF THESE TWO CASES. 470 00:21:36,721 --> 00:21:39,754 Dimond: ON MAY 14th, A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED HALLE SHILLING 471 00:21:39,754 --> 00:21:42,121 DECIDED TO GO FOR A RUN IN ROCK CREEK PARK. 472 00:21:42,121 --> 00:21:43,988 IT WAS IN THE EARLY EVENING. 473 00:21:43,988 --> 00:21:46,421 SHE WAS A YOUNG STUDENT, JOURNALISM STUDENT, 474 00:21:46,421 --> 00:21:48,388 TRYING TO GET HER MASTER'S. 475 00:21:48,388 --> 00:21:51,388 WHEN SHE GOT TO THE PARK, SHE NOTICED A HISPANIC MAN 476 00:21:51,388 --> 00:21:56,454 SITTING IN THE PARKING LOT AND SHE TOOK OFF FOR HER RUN. 477 00:21:56,454 --> 00:21:58,388 SHE KEPT LOOKING BACK OVER HER SHOULDER 478 00:21:58,388 --> 00:22:01,488 AND SHE NOTICED HE WAS BEHIND HER. 479 00:22:01,488 --> 00:22:05,354 Narrator: SHILLING GROWS FEARFUL OF THE LOOMING STRANGER. 480 00:22:05,354 --> 00:22:07,454 Dimond: SHE WOULD SPEED UP AND SLOW DOWN, 481 00:22:07,454 --> 00:22:10,121 BUT HE WAS ALWAYS RIGHT THERE. 482 00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:11,754 AND THEN, SUDDENLY, 483 00:22:11,754 --> 00:22:13,154 HE GRABBED HER. 484 00:22:13,154 --> 00:22:16,488 HE THREW HER DOWN INTO THE FOREST. 485 00:22:16,488 --> 00:22:19,388 HALLE DESCRIBES FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE. 486 00:22:19,388 --> 00:22:21,954 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 487 00:22:21,954 --> 00:22:23,288 BUT WHAT HE DIDN'T KNOW IS 488 00:22:23,288 --> 00:22:26,288 SHE HAD TAKEN SOME SELF-DEFENSE CLASSES. 489 00:22:26,288 --> 00:22:29,621 SHE WAS ABLE TO ACTUALLY PUT HER FINGERNAILS 490 00:22:29,621 --> 00:22:32,421 INSIDE HIS MOUTH, INTO HIS SOFT PALATE, 491 00:22:32,421 --> 00:22:34,288 AND THAT WAS A BREAK SHE NEEDED. 492 00:22:34,288 --> 00:22:35,721 HE LOOSENED HIS GRIP 493 00:22:35,721 --> 00:22:38,354 AND SHE GOT UP AND RAN OUT OF THE PARK, 494 00:22:38,354 --> 00:22:42,654 AND SHE RAN STRAIGHT TO THE POLICE AND REPORTED THE ATTACK. 495 00:22:42,654 --> 00:22:45,621 Narrator: THE ASSAILANT GETS AWAY. 496 00:22:45,621 --> 00:22:49,788 AND, SOON, ANOTHER WOMAN ENDURES A SIMILAR ENCOUNTER. 497 00:22:49,788 --> 00:22:52,554 ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF AFTER HALLE SHILLING'S ATTACK, 498 00:22:52,554 --> 00:22:54,788 CHRISTY WIEGAND AND HER FIANCé 499 00:22:54,788 --> 00:22:57,721 GO TO ROCK CREEK PARK FOR A RUN. 500 00:22:57,721 --> 00:23:01,088 AS IS USUAL, HE PULLS AHEAD OF HER. 501 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:05,521 SHE SEES HIM ON THE ROAD AHEAD AND THEN FINALLY HE DISAPPEARS. 502 00:23:05,521 --> 00:23:09,088 [ OMINOUS MUSIC CLIMBS ] 503 00:23:09,088 --> 00:23:13,088 AT THAT POINT, SHE REALIZES THERE IS SOMEBODY BEHIND HER. 504 00:23:13,088 --> 00:23:17,621 THERE IS A YOUNG HISPANIC MAN, GAINING ON HER. 505 00:23:17,621 --> 00:23:19,421 Narrator: WITH NO ONE ELSE ON THE TRAIL, 506 00:23:19,421 --> 00:23:24,221 WIEGAND ATTEMPTS TO OUTRUN THE PURSUER. 507 00:23:24,221 --> 00:23:26,754 Dimond: ALL OF A SUDDEN, SHE'S GRABBED FROM BEHIND. 508 00:23:26,754 --> 00:23:30,088 THEY FALL DOWN INTO A RAVINE. 509 00:23:30,088 --> 00:23:33,488 SHE SEES A KNIFE IN HIS HAND. 510 00:23:33,488 --> 00:23:37,421 HE PUTS HIS HAND OVER HER MOUTH SO SHE CANNOT SCREAM. 511 00:23:37,421 --> 00:23:40,121 SHE IS FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE. 512 00:23:40,121 --> 00:23:43,288 HE DOESN'T TAKE HER EXPENSIVE ENGAGEMENT RING, 513 00:23:43,288 --> 00:23:45,554 HE DOESN'T TRY TO TAKE HER WALKMAN, 514 00:23:45,554 --> 00:23:48,288 AND SHE IS SURE SHE IS ABOUT TO BE KILLED. 515 00:23:48,288 --> 00:23:52,721 Narrator: IN SHOCK, SHE INSTINCTUALLY STRUGGLES WITH THE ATTACKER. 516 00:23:52,721 --> 00:23:57,154 MIRACULOUSLY, SHE BREAKS THE GRIP OF THIS ASSAILANT, 517 00:23:57,154 --> 00:23:59,821 SCRAMBLES BACK UP, 518 00:23:59,821 --> 00:24:03,288 AND REPORTS THE ATTACK TO THE FIRST PERSON SHE SEES. 519 00:24:03,288 --> 00:24:05,754 CHRISTY WIEGAND GIVES A REALLY GOOD DESCRIPTION 520 00:24:05,754 --> 00:24:06,954 OF HER ATTACKER. 521 00:24:06,954 --> 00:24:08,654 HE'S YOUNG. HE'S HISPANIC. 522 00:24:08,654 --> 00:24:12,354 HE'S WEARING A WHITE TANK TOP, BAGGY SHORTS. 523 00:24:12,354 --> 00:24:17,354 Narrator: PARK POLICE IMMEDIATELY RESPOND AND SEARCH THE SURROUNDING AREA. 524 00:24:17,354 --> 00:24:19,588 THIS IS A SECOND ATTACK IN 6 WEEKS. 525 00:24:19,588 --> 00:24:21,754 THE PARK POLICE ARE WORRIED. 526 00:24:21,754 --> 00:24:23,621 THEY SEARCH ALL THE RAVINES, 527 00:24:23,621 --> 00:24:26,454 EVERYWHERE OFF THE JOGGING TRACKS, 528 00:24:26,454 --> 00:24:29,788 AND THEY FINALLY FIND A YOUNG HISPANIC MAN 529 00:24:29,788 --> 00:24:32,788 CROUCHED IN THE BUSHES, HIDING. 530 00:24:32,788 --> 00:24:36,654 Narrator: POLICE ARREST THE SUSPECT AND BRING HIM IN FOR QUESTIONING. 531 00:24:36,654 --> 00:24:38,521 THIS MAN IS INGMAR GUANDIQUE, 532 00:24:38,521 --> 00:24:43,454 A SALVADORAN NATIVE WHO HAD COME TO THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY. 533 00:24:43,454 --> 00:24:48,321 Trainum: WHEN THEY ASK HIM ABOUT THE ATTACK, HE DENIED IT. 534 00:24:48,321 --> 00:24:53,088 BUT THEY USED A DIFFERENT TACK, AND ASKED HIM IF MAYBE HE JUST 535 00:24:53,088 --> 00:24:56,788 ACCIDENTALLY BRUSHED UP AGAINST SOMEBODY IN THE WOODS. 536 00:24:56,788 --> 00:24:59,921 HE GAVE THEM THIS STORY ABOUT, OH, YEAH, 537 00:24:59,921 --> 00:25:01,821 HE WAS RUNNING OR JOGGING IN THE WOODS 538 00:25:01,821 --> 00:25:04,688 AND COLLIDED WITH A WOMAN BY ACCIDENT 539 00:25:04,688 --> 00:25:06,988 AND SO THEY KNEW THAT, AT THAT POINT, 540 00:25:06,988 --> 00:25:09,088 THAT THEY HAD THE RIGHT GUY. 541 00:25:09,088 --> 00:25:11,088 Narrator: BOTH WIEGAND AND SHILLING 542 00:25:11,088 --> 00:25:14,554 IDENTIFY GUANDIQUE AS THEIR ASSAILANT. 543 00:25:14,554 --> 00:25:17,621 HE EVENTUALLY PLEADED GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED ROBBERY 544 00:25:17,621 --> 00:25:20,954 AND WAS SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON. 545 00:25:20,954 --> 00:25:24,321 Narrator: AFTER REVIEWING THESE CASES, ROSSMO IS ASTOUNDED 546 00:25:24,321 --> 00:25:27,288 BY THE SIMILARITIES TO CHANDRA'S MURDER. 547 00:25:27,288 --> 00:25:28,588 WE TOOK A LOOK AT 548 00:25:28,588 --> 00:25:30,888 ALL THE DIFFERENT BITS OF INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE. 549 00:25:30,888 --> 00:25:35,288 WE TOOK A LOOK AT THE LOCATION WHERE CHANDRA'S BODY WAS FOUND 550 00:25:35,288 --> 00:25:36,821 AND THEN WE LOOKED AT THE LOCATIONS 551 00:25:36,821 --> 00:25:40,288 WHERE THE ATTACKS ON THE TWO FEMALE JOGGERS HAD OCCURRED. 552 00:25:40,288 --> 00:25:42,254 THERE'S NO ONE ELSE AROUND. 553 00:25:42,254 --> 00:25:44,488 ATTACKS LIKE THAT IN THE PARK ARE REALLY RARE 554 00:25:44,488 --> 00:25:45,521 AND, WHEN YOU'VE GOT THREE OF THEM 555 00:25:45,521 --> 00:25:47,754 IN A VERY SHORT TIME PERIOD, 556 00:25:47,754 --> 00:25:52,354 THAT CALLS FOR THEM TO BE LOOKED AT AS BEING CONNECTED CRIMES. 557 00:25:52,354 --> 00:25:55,188 Narrator: THE DETAILS OF GUANDIQUE'S CIRCUMSTANCES 558 00:25:55,188 --> 00:25:57,921 ALSO RAISE ROSSMO'S SUSPICIONS. 559 00:25:57,921 --> 00:26:02,188 WE KNOW THAT HE LIVED JUST TO THE EAST OF ROCK CREEK PARK 560 00:26:02,188 --> 00:26:07,221 AND THERE WERE NO SIMILAR ATTACKS AFTER THEY ARREST HIM. 561 00:26:07,221 --> 00:26:10,188 IT MADE GUANDIQUE STAND OUT LIKE A NEON SIGN. 562 00:26:10,188 --> 00:26:13,088 HE HAD TO BE CONSIDERED A VIABLE SUSPECT 563 00:26:13,088 --> 00:26:15,954 AND NEEDED TO BE EXPLORED FURTHER. 564 00:26:15,954 --> 00:26:19,588 Narrator: POLICE FOCUS IN ON THEIR INCARCERATED SUSPECT. 565 00:26:19,588 --> 00:26:21,388 GUANDIQUE'S ALREADY IN PRISON. 566 00:26:21,388 --> 00:26:24,221 HE'S SERVING TIME FOR THE FIRST TWO ATTACKS, 567 00:26:24,221 --> 00:26:26,354 BUT THE INVESTIGATORS WERE LOOKING FOR 568 00:26:26,354 --> 00:26:29,121 ANY KIND OF CONNECTION, ANY KIND OF EVIDENCE, 569 00:26:29,121 --> 00:26:31,521 THAT MIGHT LINK HIM TO CHANDRA. 570 00:26:31,521 --> 00:26:34,588 INGMAR GUANDIQUE IS THE BIGGEST BREAK IN THIS CASE 571 00:26:34,588 --> 00:26:36,121 IN A VERY LONG TIME. 572 00:26:36,121 --> 00:26:37,388 IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER. 573 00:26:37,388 --> 00:26:39,088 [ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ] 574 00:26:41,554 --> 00:26:42,721 Narrator: AFTER DISCOVERING 575 00:26:42,721 --> 00:26:45,954 CHANDRA LEVY'S REMAINS IN ROCK CREEK PARK, 576 00:26:45,954 --> 00:26:51,188 POLICE IDENTIFY A PROMISING SUSPECT NAMED INGMAR GUANDIQUE. 577 00:26:51,188 --> 00:26:54,088 A CONVICTED FELON, HE'S SERVING A SENTENCE 578 00:26:54,088 --> 00:26:57,154 FOR ATTACKING TWO WOMEN IN THE SAME PARK. 579 00:26:57,154 --> 00:27:00,888 POLICE TRY TO INTERVIEW FAMILY MEMBERS, ASSOCIATES, 580 00:27:00,888 --> 00:27:03,154 BUILD A TIMELINE ON HIM. 581 00:27:03,154 --> 00:27:06,088 THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR ANY KIND OF EVIDENCE 582 00:27:06,088 --> 00:27:09,088 THAT MIGHT LINK HIM TO CHANDRA. 583 00:27:09,088 --> 00:27:10,888 Narrator: IN JANUARY 2000, 584 00:27:10,888 --> 00:27:16,688 HE THEN-18-YEAR-OLD SALVADORAN BEGAN HIS JOURNEY TO AMERICA. 585 00:27:16,688 --> 00:27:18,088 MY NAME IS SYLVIA MORENO. 586 00:27:18,088 --> 00:27:20,254 I'M A RETIRED NEWSPAPER JOURNALIST. 587 00:27:20,254 --> 00:27:23,454 I WORKED AT THE WASHINGTON POST FOR 11 YEARS. 588 00:27:23,454 --> 00:27:27,154 I COMMUNICATED SEVERAL TIMES WITH GUANDIQUE THROUGH LETTER. 589 00:27:27,154 --> 00:27:29,688 GUANDIQUE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES 590 00:27:29,688 --> 00:27:32,354 ILLEGALLY, FROM EL SALVADOR. 591 00:27:32,354 --> 00:27:34,588 HE MADE HIS WAY THROUGH MEXICO. 592 00:27:34,588 --> 00:27:37,154 HE SWAM ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE INTO TEXAS. 593 00:27:37,154 --> 00:27:39,088 HE MADE HIS WAY TO HOUSTON. 594 00:27:39,088 --> 00:27:43,154 AND THEN HE MADE HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON, DC. 595 00:27:43,154 --> 00:27:45,121 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] HE'S GOT A FAMILY IN EL SALVADOR 596 00:27:45,121 --> 00:27:47,088 THAT'S DEEPLY IMPOVERISHED. 597 00:27:47,088 --> 00:27:48,988 HIS ROLE IN COMING TO THE UNITED STATES 598 00:27:48,988 --> 00:27:51,121 WAS TO GET A JOB, ANY KIND OF JOB, 599 00:27:51,121 --> 00:27:53,388 AND START SENDING MONEY HOME. 600 00:27:53,388 --> 00:27:58,221 Narrator: SOON AFTER ARRIVING, GUANDIQUE FINDS MODEST SUCCESS. 601 00:27:58,221 --> 00:27:59,554 Moreno: HE STARTED WORKING. 602 00:27:59,554 --> 00:28:02,688 HE WAS DOING, ESSENTIALLY, DAY-LABORER-TYPE OF JOBS: 603 00:28:02,688 --> 00:28:04,521 WORKING AT A LANDSCAPING COMPANY, 604 00:28:04,521 --> 00:28:06,321 WORKING AT A MASONRY COMPANY, 605 00:28:06,321 --> 00:28:08,188 WORKING ON A MAINTENANCE CREW. 606 00:28:08,188 --> 00:28:11,954 HE JUST DRIFTED, ESSENTIALLY, FROM JOB TO JOB, 607 00:28:11,954 --> 00:28:15,354 BUT HE FELL OFF THAT TRACK. 608 00:28:15,354 --> 00:28:18,088 Doyle: HE WAS DRINKING AND TAKING DRUGS. 609 00:28:18,088 --> 00:28:20,688 GUANDIQUE WAS A MAN WITH NOT A LOT OF PROSPECTS. 610 00:28:20,688 --> 00:28:22,388 HE WAS GOING NOWHERE. 611 00:28:22,388 --> 00:28:26,654 Narrator: IT'S NOT LONG BEFORE HIS NEW HABITS FUEL EXPLOSIVE BEHAVIOR. 612 00:28:26,654 --> 00:28:29,688 Moreno: I INTERVIEWED HIS GIRLFRIEND AND HER MOTHER. 613 00:28:29,688 --> 00:28:32,654 THEY TOLD ME HE WAS SOMEWHAT VOLATILE. 614 00:28:32,654 --> 00:28:33,988 THEY HAD FIGHTS. 615 00:28:33,988 --> 00:28:38,254 HE DID PUNCH HER ONE TIME, HIT HER IN THE FACE, 616 00:28:38,254 --> 00:28:40,188 BIT HER ABOVE HER BREAST. 617 00:28:40,188 --> 00:28:41,854 SHE HAD A BITE MARK THERE. 618 00:28:41,854 --> 00:28:43,788 AND I REMEMBER, WHEN I WAS IN THE APARTMENT, 619 00:28:43,788 --> 00:28:47,821 I SAW A HOLE IN THE WALL AND I SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED HERE?" 620 00:28:47,821 --> 00:28:49,088 AND THEY SAID, "OH, INGMAR DID THAT. 621 00:28:49,088 --> 00:28:51,654 HE GOT MAD AND HE PUNCHED THE WALL." 622 00:28:51,654 --> 00:28:54,854 I SAW, "WOW. THAT'S SOMEBODY WITH A REALLY BAD TEMPER." 623 00:28:54,854 --> 00:28:57,321 HE CAME TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE IN WASHINGTON, DC, 624 00:28:57,321 --> 00:29:01,521 BUT WHAT HE FOUND INSTEAD WAS TROUBLE. 625 00:29:01,521 --> 00:29:03,854 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS BEGIN TO PIECE TOGETHER 626 00:29:03,854 --> 00:29:06,288 A TIMELINE OF GUANDIQUE'S ACTIONS 627 00:29:06,288 --> 00:29:10,454 AROUND MAY 1st, THE DAY CHANDRA DISAPPEARED. 628 00:29:10,454 --> 00:29:12,088 DURING THE INTERVIEWS THAT OCCURRED, 629 00:29:12,088 --> 00:29:14,821 GUANDIQUE'S LANDLADY SAID THAT SHE SAW HIM 630 00:29:14,821 --> 00:29:19,088 WITH BRUISES AND SCRATCHES ON HIS FACE AROUND THAT TIME. 631 00:29:19,088 --> 00:29:21,421 SHE ASKED HIM, "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?" 632 00:29:21,421 --> 00:29:24,188 AND HE SAID, "OH, I GOT IN A FIGHT WITH MY GIRLFRIEND." 633 00:29:24,188 --> 00:29:27,454 BUT SHE ALSO THOUGHT HE WAS ACTING RATHER PECULIARLY 634 00:29:27,454 --> 00:29:30,788 AND, SUBSEQUENTLY, INVESTIGATORS DISCOVERED THAT 635 00:29:30,788 --> 00:29:33,454 HE HAD NOT GONE TO WORK ON MAY 1st. 636 00:29:33,454 --> 00:29:34,954 THIS IS A BIG BREAKTHROUGH FOR COPS 637 00:29:34,954 --> 00:29:38,088 BECAUSE THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, THE NOT SHOWING UP FOR WORK, 638 00:29:38,088 --> 00:29:39,488 HAVING THE SCRATCHES ON HIS FACE 639 00:29:39,488 --> 00:29:41,821 THE SAME DAY THAT CHANDRA DISAPPEARS? 640 00:29:41,821 --> 00:29:44,821 IT WAS A STUNNER FOR EVERYONE. 641 00:29:44,821 --> 00:29:46,754 Narrator: TO FURTHER BUILD THEIR CASE, 642 00:29:46,754 --> 00:29:49,754 INVESTIGATORS VISIT GUANDIQUE IN PRISON. 643 00:29:49,754 --> 00:29:53,121 HE SEEMS LIKE, FOR POLICE, THE PERFECT SUSPECT, 644 00:29:53,121 --> 00:29:56,421 BUT, IN AN INTERVIEW IN PRISON, GUANDIQUE CLAIMS HE HAD NOTHING 645 00:29:56,421 --> 00:29:59,788 TO DO WITH CHANDRA'S MURDER, BUT, COPS HAVE TO SETTLE THIS, 646 00:29:59,788 --> 00:30:02,021 SO THEY GIVE HIM A POLYGRAPH. 647 00:30:02,021 --> 00:30:05,354 Narrator: WITH THE HELP OF A TRANSLATOR, POLICE PRESS GUANDIQUE 648 00:30:05,354 --> 00:30:08,788 ABOUT MAY 1st AND CHANDRA'S MURDER. 649 00:30:08,788 --> 00:30:11,988 THE RESULTS ARE SURPRISING. 650 00:30:11,988 --> 00:30:15,354 MR. GUANDIQUE SUCCESSFULLY PASSES THE POLYGRAPH, 651 00:30:15,354 --> 00:30:20,088 BUT IT'S STILL NOT SATISFACTORY TO SOME INVESTIGATORS. 652 00:30:20,088 --> 00:30:21,588 HERE'S THE PROBLEM: 653 00:30:21,588 --> 00:30:23,654 HE DOESN'T SPEAK VERY MUCH ENGLISH 654 00:30:23,654 --> 00:30:27,254 AND THE POLYGRAPH EXAMINER USED A TRANSLATOR, 655 00:30:27,254 --> 00:30:29,454 WHICH COULD SKEW THE RESULTS! 656 00:30:29,454 --> 00:30:33,954 SO, IN ESSENCE, WHO KNOWS?! 657 00:30:33,954 --> 00:30:37,521 Narrator: THE CASE AGAINST GUANDIQUE IS AT A STANDSTILL. 658 00:30:37,521 --> 00:30:39,654 THEY STILL DON'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE 659 00:30:39,654 --> 00:30:42,588 TO LINK HIM TO CHANDRA LEVY'S MURDER. 660 00:30:42,588 --> 00:30:44,854 THEY HAVE A GREAT CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE, 661 00:30:44,854 --> 00:30:46,921 BUT THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT HAS ENOUGH 662 00:30:46,921 --> 00:30:50,721 TO GET OVER THE HURDLE OF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. 663 00:30:50,721 --> 00:30:55,488 THE INVESTIGATION JUST KIND OF LIKE DIES OFF. 664 00:30:55,488 --> 00:30:59,488 Narrator: ONCE AGAIN, THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MURDER OF CHANDRA LEVY 665 00:30:59,488 --> 00:31:01,221 GOES COLD. 666 00:31:01,221 --> 00:31:03,621 WITH INGMAR OUT OF THE PICTURE, THERE ARE NO GOOD LEADS. 667 00:31:03,621 --> 00:31:05,988 UNTIL ANOTHER SUSPECT COMES ALONG: 668 00:31:05,988 --> 00:31:07,988 ALBERT COOK. 669 00:31:07,988 --> 00:31:10,721 COOK IS THIS VERY LARGE MAN 670 00:31:10,721 --> 00:31:15,554 WHO WAS CAUGHT ASSAULTING A WOMAN WALKING PAST HIS HOUSE. 671 00:31:15,554 --> 00:31:19,088 Narrator: THE 26-YEAR-OLD COOK IS FROM ASPEN HILL, MARYLAND, 672 00:31:19,088 --> 00:31:21,121 JUST OUTSIDE WASHINGTON. 673 00:31:21,121 --> 00:31:23,154 HE HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED 674 00:31:23,154 --> 00:31:27,288 OF INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING A WOMAN IN A SHOPPING CENTER. 675 00:31:27,288 --> 00:31:30,088 WHEN POLICE PICK HIM UP IN 2001, 676 00:31:30,088 --> 00:31:33,854 HE SUDDENLY CONFESSES TO A MURDER IN ROCK CREEK PARK. 677 00:31:33,854 --> 00:31:37,254 A 48-YEAR-OLD JOGGER, AN ASIAN AMERICAN WOMAN. 678 00:31:37,254 --> 00:31:41,288 HE ADMITS THAT HE GRABBED HER, TORTURED HER, RAPED HER, 679 00:31:41,288 --> 00:31:44,688 AND LEFT HER TO DIE IN THE PARK. 680 00:31:44,688 --> 00:31:48,888 THAT HAPPENED NOT LONG BEFORE CHANDRA LEVY GOES MISSING, 681 00:31:48,888 --> 00:31:50,854 AND THERE'S A LOT OF COMMONALITIES 682 00:31:50,854 --> 00:31:52,588 BETWEEN THIS JOGGER 683 00:31:52,588 --> 00:31:55,521 THAT ALBERT COOK BEAT AND LEFT TO DIE 684 00:31:55,521 --> 00:31:57,688 AND WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANDRA LEVY, 685 00:31:57,688 --> 00:32:01,621 WHO WAS STRIPPED NAKED AND DIED 686 00:32:01,621 --> 00:32:03,854 IN THE SAME PARK! 687 00:32:03,854 --> 00:32:05,888 Narrator: IN MAY 2002, 688 00:32:05,888 --> 00:32:09,088 COOK WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR HIS CRIMES 689 00:32:09,088 --> 00:32:11,988 AND, NOW, INVESTIGATORS SEEK HIM OUT. 690 00:32:11,988 --> 00:32:13,554 POLICE QUESTION HIM. 691 00:32:13,554 --> 00:32:16,688 HE FREELY ADMITS TO KILLING THE JOGGER, 692 00:32:16,688 --> 00:32:18,954 BUT HE SAYS HE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO 693 00:32:18,954 --> 00:32:20,888 WITH CHANDRA LEVY'S DEATH. 694 00:32:20,888 --> 00:32:24,821 Narrator: POLICE THEN DISCOVER SOMETHING THAT GIVES THEM PAUSE. 695 00:32:24,821 --> 00:32:27,521 COOK WAS INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED 696 00:32:27,521 --> 00:32:30,388 AND THE CRIME THAT HE HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF PREVIOUSLY 697 00:32:30,388 --> 00:32:33,254 HAD OCCURRED NEAR HIS HOME. 698 00:32:33,254 --> 00:32:35,221 Narrator: BUT CHANDRA'S REMAINS WERE FOUND 699 00:32:35,221 --> 00:32:38,921 FAR FROM HIS HOME, ABOUT 10 MILES AWAY. 700 00:32:38,921 --> 00:32:41,521 INVESTIGATORS DETERMINE THAT, FOR COOK, 701 00:32:41,521 --> 00:32:44,621 NAVIGATING THAT DISTANCE WOULD BE A CHALLENGE. 702 00:32:44,621 --> 00:32:47,654 POLICE BELIEVED THAT IT WAS IMPLAUSIBLE TO THINK 703 00:32:47,654 --> 00:32:51,354 THAT HE WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO COMMIT AN ASSAULT ON CHANDRA, 704 00:32:51,354 --> 00:32:53,388 SO, ULTIMATELY, HE WAS CLEARED. 705 00:32:53,388 --> 00:32:55,721 [ OMINOUS CHORDS STRIKE ] 706 00:32:55,721 --> 00:32:58,954 Narrator: ONCE AGAIN, THE CASE LANGUISHES. 707 00:32:58,954 --> 00:33:03,988 IT WILL BE ANOTHER FIVE YEARS BEFORE NEW INFORMATION EMERGES. 708 00:33:03,988 --> 00:33:08,554 IN 2008, THE WASHINGTON POST DECIDES TO DO AN IN-DEPTH SERIES 709 00:33:08,554 --> 00:33:11,921 LOOKING INTO CHANDRA LEVY'S DISAPPEARANCE AND MURDER, 710 00:33:11,921 --> 00:33:13,854 AND, BOY, WHAT THEY FIND? 711 00:33:13,854 --> 00:33:15,788 BLOCKBUSTER. 712 00:33:15,788 --> 00:33:18,721 THEY MAY HAVE EVEN TRACKED DOWN CHANDRA'S KILLER. 713 00:33:18,721 --> 00:33:20,754 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 714 00:33:23,454 --> 00:33:24,988 Narrator: IN 2008, 715 00:33:24,988 --> 00:33:26,788 THE WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHES 716 00:33:26,788 --> 00:33:32,088 A 13-PART INVESTIGATION ON THE CHANDRA LEVY CASE. 717 00:33:32,088 --> 00:33:34,421 I'M KEITH ALEXANDER, A PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING REPORTER 718 00:33:34,421 --> 00:33:36,088 WITH THE WASHINGTON POST. 719 00:33:36,088 --> 00:33:38,721 IT WAS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE FROM THE OUTSIDE 720 00:33:38,721 --> 00:33:41,854 HAD REALLY EXPOSED WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THIS CASE 721 00:33:41,854 --> 00:33:46,121 AND SOME OF THE MISTAKES THAT LED THE CASE TO GO COLD. 722 00:33:46,121 --> 00:33:49,088 Narrator: THREE MONTHS AFTER CHANDRA DISAPPEARED, 723 00:33:49,088 --> 00:33:50,988 THE POLICE CHIEF GAVE INSTRUCTIONS 724 00:33:50,988 --> 00:33:54,721 TO SEARCH THE PARK'S ROADS AND TRAILS. 725 00:33:54,721 --> 00:33:57,454 HOWEVER, THE SEARCH WAS ONLY DONE 726 00:33:57,454 --> 00:33:59,921 LIKE 100 YARDS OFF OF ALL THE ROADWAYS, 727 00:33:59,921 --> 00:34:01,621 AND NOT THE TRAILS. 728 00:34:01,621 --> 00:34:03,654 BECAUSE THE SEARCH WAS ONLY LIMITED 729 00:34:03,654 --> 00:34:06,888 TO THAT AREA OFF THE ROADS, 730 00:34:06,888 --> 00:34:09,854 THE AREA WHERE HER BODY WAS ULTIMATELY FOUND 731 00:34:09,854 --> 00:34:11,688 WAS NOT SEARCHED. 732 00:34:11,688 --> 00:34:15,521 Narrator: IF NOT FOR THIS CONFUSION, CHANDRA MIGHT'VE BEEN FOUND 733 00:34:15,521 --> 00:34:17,121 10 MONTHS EARLIER. 734 00:34:17,121 --> 00:34:19,554 WHEN THE WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE CAME OUT, YOU KNOW, 735 00:34:19,554 --> 00:34:21,421 WE WERE HAPPY TO TALK TO THEM AND THEY BROUGHT IT OUT, 736 00:34:21,421 --> 00:34:24,288 THEY TRIED TO SOLVE IT AND GET JUSTICE DONE. 737 00:34:24,288 --> 00:34:26,888 THEY WERE ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO SO MUCH 738 00:34:26,888 --> 00:34:30,454 OF THE INSIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION. 739 00:34:30,454 --> 00:34:33,488 Narrator: IN ADDITION TO EXPOSING HICCUPS IN THE SEARCH, 740 00:34:33,488 --> 00:34:36,421 THE POST POINTS TO A FORMER SUSPECT. 741 00:34:36,421 --> 00:34:38,421 THEY'D FINALLY PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, 742 00:34:38,421 --> 00:34:40,621 AND IT POINTED TO ONE MAN: 743 00:34:40,621 --> 00:34:42,588 GUANDIQUE. 744 00:34:42,588 --> 00:34:44,721 THE NEWSPAPER PRESENTS NEW EVIDENCE 745 00:34:44,721 --> 00:34:46,688 THAT HAD SLIPPED THROUGH THE CRACKS. 746 00:34:46,688 --> 00:34:49,121 THE WASHINGTON POST TRACKS DOWN A WOMAN 747 00:34:49,121 --> 00:34:52,121 WHO SAYS SHE SAW INGMAR GUANDIQUE 748 00:34:52,121 --> 00:34:55,488 IN THE PARK ON THE SAME DAY THAT CHANDRA LEVY DISAPPEARS, 749 00:34:55,488 --> 00:34:57,288 AND SHE EVEN RAN AWAY FROM HIM 750 00:34:57,288 --> 00:35:00,088 BECAUSE SHE FELT LIKE HE WAS GOING TO ATTACK HER! 751 00:35:00,088 --> 00:35:03,588 ANOTHER BOMBSHELL IS THAT, YEARS EARLIER, 752 00:35:03,588 --> 00:35:05,588 WHEN GUANDIQUE WAS ARRESTED, 753 00:35:05,588 --> 00:35:10,388 HE WAS SHOWN A FLYER OF THE THEN-MISSING CHANDRA LEVY. 754 00:35:10,388 --> 00:35:13,921 HE SAID, "OH, YEAH. I SAW HER IN THE PARK 755 00:35:13,921 --> 00:35:16,321 AND SHE'S ATTRACTIVE." 756 00:35:16,321 --> 00:35:17,854 HERE'S THE WORST PART: 757 00:35:17,854 --> 00:35:22,321 UNBELIEVABLY, PARK POLICE NEVER COMMUNICATED THAT INFORMATION 758 00:35:22,321 --> 00:35:23,988 TO METRO POLICE, WHO WERE WORKING 759 00:35:23,988 --> 00:35:26,354 CHANDRA LEVY'S DISAPPEARANCE. 760 00:35:26,354 --> 00:35:27,788 THEY HAD NO IDEA. 761 00:35:27,788 --> 00:35:30,354 NOW, THAT, TO ME, IS A SHOCKER. 762 00:35:30,354 --> 00:35:33,088 Narrator: THE POST's REPORTING IS A DAMNING INDICTMENT 763 00:35:33,088 --> 00:35:35,854 OF THE POLICE'S MISHANDLING OF THE CASE. 764 00:35:35,854 --> 00:35:39,821 Trainum: THE ERRORS ARE NOW OUT THERE FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE 765 00:35:39,821 --> 00:35:41,788 AND WE'RE EMBARRASSED. 766 00:35:41,788 --> 00:35:45,721 IT DEFINITELY CAUSED US A LOT OF PUBLIC-RELATION PROBLEMS. 767 00:35:45,721 --> 00:35:48,821 PEOPLE WONDERED WHY THERE HAD BEEN MANY MISTAKES, 768 00:35:48,821 --> 00:35:51,721 ERRORS, AND MISHAPS IN THE COURSE OF THE INVESTIGATION. 769 00:35:51,721 --> 00:35:55,388 THE WASHINGTON POST SERIES REALLY AMPS UP THE PRESSURE 770 00:35:55,388 --> 00:35:58,788 FOR POLICE TO SOLVE THIS CASE, ONCE AND FOR ALL, 771 00:35:58,788 --> 00:36:01,254 WHATEVER IT TAKES. 772 00:36:01,254 --> 00:36:04,588 WHAT THAT DID WAS THAT TOTALLY REENERGIZED THE CASE 773 00:36:04,588 --> 00:36:07,588 BECAUSE NOW THE MEDIA ATTENTION IS BACK ON THE DEPARTMENT, 774 00:36:07,588 --> 00:36:09,854 SO WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. 775 00:36:09,854 --> 00:36:11,221 Velez-Mitchell: AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING 776 00:36:11,221 --> 00:36:13,754 BECAUSE INGMAR GUANDIQUE'S SENTENCE IS RUNNING UP. 777 00:36:13,754 --> 00:36:15,254 HE COULD SOON BE RELEASED! 778 00:36:15,254 --> 00:36:16,888 SO THEY BETTER CHARGE HIM, 779 00:36:16,888 --> 00:36:19,721 IF THEY'RE GONNA CHARGE HIM, ASAP. 780 00:36:19,721 --> 00:36:22,088 Narrator: IN RESPONSE TO THE MOUNTING PRESSURE, 781 00:36:22,088 --> 00:36:25,088 A RISING STAR IN THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 782 00:36:25,088 --> 00:36:26,788 TAKES OVER THE CASE. 783 00:36:26,788 --> 00:36:29,221 Alexander: AMANDA HAINES WAS ONE OF THE MOST SENIOR HOMICIDE PROSECUTORS 784 00:36:29,221 --> 00:36:30,754 IN WASHINGTON, DC. 785 00:36:30,754 --> 00:36:34,388 SHE WAS SO GOOD, THEY PUT HER ON THE MOST DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENTS, 786 00:36:34,388 --> 00:36:36,121 AND THAT'S COLD CASES. 787 00:36:36,121 --> 00:36:39,454 AMANDA HAINES HAD A WAY OF RELATING TO THE JURY. 788 00:36:39,454 --> 00:36:42,888 SHE CAN TELL A STORY AND MAKE PEOPLE SEE THE CRIME SCENE 789 00:36:42,888 --> 00:36:47,388 AND SEE THE FINAL MOMENTS OF THE VICTIM'S LIVES. 790 00:36:47,388 --> 00:36:49,521 Narrator: THE STATE'S CASE AGAINST GUANDIQUE 791 00:36:49,521 --> 00:36:52,621 IS STILL ENTIRELY CIRCUMSTANTIAL. 792 00:36:52,621 --> 00:36:54,888 IN HOPES OF UNCOVERING NEW EVIDENCE, 793 00:36:54,888 --> 00:36:57,788 INVESTIGATORS VISIT HIM IN PRISON. 794 00:36:57,788 --> 00:37:01,854 WHEN DETECTIVES GO TO THE PRISON TO INTERVIEW INGMAR GUANDIQUE, 795 00:37:01,854 --> 00:37:03,188 THEY THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE JUST A REGULAR, 796 00:37:03,188 --> 00:37:05,321 NORMAL INTERVIEW, BUT WHEN THEY GOT THERE, 797 00:37:05,321 --> 00:37:06,921 THEY NOTICED SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 798 00:37:06,921 --> 00:37:08,688 THEY SAW SOMETHING THAT THEY HAD NOT EXPECTED. 799 00:37:08,688 --> 00:37:12,188 THEY SAW A PHOTO OF CHANDRA LEVY IN HIS CELL, 800 00:37:12,188 --> 00:37:15,354 RIGHT BY HIS BED, WHICH WAS VERY ODD, 801 00:37:15,354 --> 00:37:17,388 AND, AS THEY'RE TALKING TO GUANDIQUE, 802 00:37:17,388 --> 00:37:20,088 THEY SAW SOMETHING ELSE THAT REALLY STRUCK THEM AS ODD. 803 00:37:20,088 --> 00:37:22,521 THEY SAW A TATTOO OF A WOMAN ON HIS BODY, 804 00:37:22,521 --> 00:37:24,821 AND AS THEY LOOKED AT THIS TATTOO, 805 00:37:24,821 --> 00:37:28,288 THEY BELIEVE THAT IT RESEMBLED CHANDRA LEVY. 806 00:37:28,288 --> 00:37:29,921 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS ARE STUNNED 807 00:37:29,921 --> 00:37:33,488 BY GUANDIQUE'S SEEMING OBSESSION WITH THE YOUNG WOMAN. 808 00:37:33,488 --> 00:37:35,854 WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 809 00:37:35,854 --> 00:37:37,988 THERE'S ALWAYS DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS 810 00:37:37,988 --> 00:37:39,821 THAT YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER. 811 00:37:39,821 --> 00:37:41,521 IT COULD BE BECAUSE HE KILLED HER 812 00:37:41,521 --> 00:37:44,988 AND HE WANTED THIS MEMORY OF THE EVENTS, FOR WHATEVER REASON. 813 00:37:44,988 --> 00:37:46,588 IT COULD BE BECAUSE HE KNOWS 814 00:37:46,588 --> 00:37:49,621 THAT HE'S BEEN UNDER ALL THIS INVESTIGATION. 815 00:37:49,621 --> 00:37:52,421 SENSING THAT THEY INDEED HAVE THEIR PERP, 816 00:37:52,421 --> 00:37:57,154 INVESTIGATORS ATTEMPT TO BAIT HIM INTO SEALING THEIR CASE. 817 00:37:57,154 --> 00:38:00,454 THE INVESTIGATORS TOOK SOME EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES, 818 00:38:00,454 --> 00:38:03,954 THAT INCLUDED SETTING UP WHAT AMOUNTED TO A STING OPERATION, 819 00:38:03,954 --> 00:38:06,488 CREATING A FALSE PERSONA OF AN INDIVIDUAL 820 00:38:06,488 --> 00:38:10,488 WHO WROTE LETTERS TO GUANDIQUE, WITH AN APPARENT INTENT 821 00:38:10,488 --> 00:38:14,154 TO GET HIM TO INCRIMINATE HIMSELF IN WRITING. 822 00:38:14,154 --> 00:38:16,488 Alexander: ONE OF THE DETECTIVES POSED AS A WOMAN 823 00:38:16,488 --> 00:38:19,321 WHO WAS WRITING HIM LETTERS, TRYING TO GET HIM TO CONFESS 824 00:38:19,321 --> 00:38:22,788 ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH CHANDRA LEVY, 825 00:38:22,788 --> 00:38:25,921 BUT HE DENIED HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH CHANDRA LEVY. 826 00:38:25,921 --> 00:38:29,454 HE NEVER REALLY CONFESSES TO WHAT THE MURDER WAS. 827 00:38:29,454 --> 00:38:32,821 Narrator: THEN, OUT OF NOWHERE, A MAN APPROACHES HAINES 828 00:38:32,821 --> 00:38:35,988 AND HER FELLOW PROSECUTORS WITH SHOCKING INFORMATION. 829 00:38:35,988 --> 00:38:40,888 IT WAS A JAILHOUSE INFORMANT WHO CAUGHT EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE. 830 00:38:40,888 --> 00:38:42,654 Dimond: WHO WAS THIS MAN? 831 00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:44,388 WHAT DID HE KNOW? 832 00:38:44,388 --> 00:38:46,721 COULD HE BE THE BREAK IN THE CASE? 833 00:38:46,721 --> 00:38:48,754 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 834 00:38:48,754 --> 00:38:51,354 ** 835 00:38:53,088 --> 00:38:54,221 Narrator: AS PROSECUTORS 836 00:38:54,221 --> 00:38:56,354 LOOK TO INDICT INGMAR GUANDIQUE 837 00:38:56,354 --> 00:38:58,388 FOR THE MURDER OF CHANDRA LEVY, 838 00:38:58,388 --> 00:39:00,821 AN INFORMANT STEPS FORWARD. 839 00:39:00,821 --> 00:39:02,188 INFORMANTS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART 840 00:39:02,188 --> 00:39:04,654 OF ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT INVESTIGATION. 841 00:39:04,654 --> 00:39:08,121 ARMANDO MORALES IS A FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, NATIVE, 842 00:39:08,121 --> 00:39:10,588 A LIFETIME CRIMINAL WITH A LONG RECORD 843 00:39:10,588 --> 00:39:14,554 OF VIOLENT CRIMES, GUNS, DRUGS, AND SO ON. 844 00:39:14,554 --> 00:39:17,088 HE WAS A CELLMATE 845 00:39:17,088 --> 00:39:21,321 OF INGMAR GUANDIQUE IN KENTUCKY IN 2006. 846 00:39:21,321 --> 00:39:23,988 ARMANDO MORALES AND INGMAR GUANDIQUE 847 00:39:23,988 --> 00:39:26,821 BELONGED TO A SIMILAR GANG AFFILIATION 848 00:39:26,821 --> 00:39:29,654 AND, AS A RESULT, THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES BROTHERS. 849 00:39:29,654 --> 00:39:30,921 THEY WERE HONEST WITH EACH OTHER. 850 00:39:30,921 --> 00:39:33,088 THEY LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER IN PRISON. 851 00:39:33,088 --> 00:39:35,454 THEY TALKED ABOUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER. 852 00:39:35,454 --> 00:39:36,988 ACCORDING TO ARMANDO MORALES, 853 00:39:36,988 --> 00:39:38,854 ONE OF THE THINGS THEY TALKED ABOUT 854 00:39:38,854 --> 00:39:41,254 WAS THE WHOLE CHANDRA LEVY CASE. 855 00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:43,188 Narrator: MORALES TELLS PROSECUTORS 856 00:39:43,188 --> 00:39:46,488 THAT GUANDIQUE REVEALED HIS DARKEST SECRET. 857 00:39:46,488 --> 00:39:48,554 HE SAID THAT GUANDIQUE CONFESSED TO HIM 858 00:39:48,554 --> 00:39:51,221 THAT HE KILLED CHANDRA LEVY. 859 00:39:51,221 --> 00:39:54,721 MORALES CLAIMS GUANDIQUE ADMITTED TO THE CRIME 860 00:39:54,721 --> 00:39:57,921 TO AVOID BECOMING A VICTIM HIMSELF. 861 00:39:57,921 --> 00:40:02,288 RAPISTS, IN PRISON, ARE OFTEN TARGETED FOR RAPES THEMSELVES. 862 00:40:02,288 --> 00:40:05,121 THE REASON WHY HE OPENED UP, ACCORDING TO ARMANDO MORALES, 863 00:40:05,121 --> 00:40:08,788 WAS HE WAS AFRAID THAT THE RUMOR WOULD SPREAD 864 00:40:08,788 --> 00:40:11,354 THAT HE HAD ACTUALLY RAPED AND KILLED CHANDRA LEVY 865 00:40:11,354 --> 00:40:14,721 AND SO HE WANTED TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO ARMANDO MORALES 866 00:40:14,721 --> 00:40:17,654 THAT HE DID NOT RAPE CHANDRA LEVY, 867 00:40:17,654 --> 00:40:21,188 THAT HE ONLY KILLED HER. 868 00:40:21,188 --> 00:40:23,521 Narrator: MORALES's TELLING INCLUDES A DETAIL 869 00:40:23,521 --> 00:40:25,654 THAT INTRIGUES AUTHORITIES. 870 00:40:25,654 --> 00:40:28,421 THE INFORMANT SAID GUANDIQUE CAME TO HIM 871 00:40:28,421 --> 00:40:31,954 AND SAID THAT HE ATTACKED CHANDRA IN THE PARK, 872 00:40:31,954 --> 00:40:35,621 KILLED HER, AND STOLE HER FANNY PACK. 873 00:40:35,621 --> 00:40:39,688 Narrator: TO INVESTIGATORS, THIS IS NEW AND PLAUSIBLE INFORMATION. 874 00:40:39,688 --> 00:40:42,488 PROSECUTORS ARE MAKING THIS BIG DEAL, SAYING, 875 00:40:42,488 --> 00:40:44,854 "WELL, NOBODY KNEW ABOUT THE FANNY PACK. 876 00:40:44,854 --> 00:40:47,588 HOW ELSE WOULD HE HAVE KNOWN ABOUT SOME FANNY PACK, 877 00:40:47,588 --> 00:40:50,421 UNLESS GUANDIQUE TOLD HIM?" 878 00:40:50,421 --> 00:40:52,421 Narrator: MORALES'S INSIDE KNOWLEDGE 879 00:40:52,421 --> 00:40:55,954 IS EXACTLY WHAT PROSECUTORS HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR. 880 00:40:55,954 --> 00:40:59,854 IN MAY 2009, HAINES AND HER COLLEAGUES REMAIN CONVINCED 881 00:40:59,854 --> 00:41:02,821 THEY HAVE ENOUGH TO FINALLY LAY CHARGES, 882 00:41:02,821 --> 00:41:04,354 AND THAT THEY DO, 883 00:41:04,354 --> 00:41:08,088 INDICTING INGMAR GUANDIQUE WITH SEVERAL COUNTS, 884 00:41:08,088 --> 00:41:09,954 INCLUDING FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. 885 00:41:09,954 --> 00:41:12,421 NOW, THEY HAVE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE 886 00:41:12,421 --> 00:41:13,621 THAT THEY THINK IS STRONG ENOUGH 887 00:41:13,621 --> 00:41:16,788 TO SEND HIM AWAY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. 888 00:41:16,788 --> 00:41:20,488 Narrator: GUANDIQUE PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO CHANDRA'S MURDER, 889 00:41:20,488 --> 00:41:24,854 WHICH SETS UP AN EPIC TRIAL IN DC SUPERIOR COURT. 890 00:41:24,854 --> 00:41:29,988 DO PROSECUTORS FINALLY HAVE THEIR MAN? 891 00:41:29,988 --> 00:41:34,354 NEXT TIME, ON "CHANDRA LEVY: AN AMERICAN MURDER MYSTERY"... 892 00:41:34,354 --> 00:41:38,488 WE STILL HAVE SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. 893 00:41:38,488 --> 00:41:40,921 A SHOWDOWN IN FEDERAL COURT. 894 00:41:40,921 --> 00:41:43,221 THEIR TESTIMONY WAS CHILLING. 895 00:41:43,221 --> 00:41:45,254 SHE LOOKS HIM DIRECTLY IN HIS FACE 896 00:41:45,254 --> 00:41:47,854 AND SHE SAYS, "EFF YOU." 897 00:41:47,854 --> 00:41:50,954 A JAILHOUSE INFORMANT TAKES CENTER STAGE. 898 00:41:50,954 --> 00:41:53,088 ARMANDO MORALES SOLD THE STORY 899 00:41:53,088 --> 00:41:55,421 EXTREMELY WELL TO THE JURY. 900 00:41:55,421 --> 00:41:59,121 A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE EMERGES FROM THE SHADOWS. 901 00:41:59,121 --> 00:42:01,888 SHE TOTALLY THROWS 902 00:42:01,888 --> 00:42:04,188 A MURDER INVESTIGATION UPSIDE DOWN. 903 00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:08,221 WE CONSIDER CURIOUS NEW EVIDENCE FROM CHANDRA'S FINAL DAYS... 904 00:42:08,221 --> 00:42:11,121 HOURS BEFORE SHE VANISHED, SOMEBODY CALLED 911, 905 00:42:11,121 --> 00:42:14,088 SAYING THEY HEARD A SCREAM COMING FROM THE VICINITY 906 00:42:14,088 --> 00:42:16,554 OF CHANDRA LEVY'S APARTMENT. 907 00:42:16,554 --> 00:42:19,921 REVISIT THE SECRET LIFE OF GARY CONDIT, 908 00:42:19,921 --> 00:42:24,421 AND SPEAK EXCLUSIVELY WITH THE MAN WHO CLAIMS HE KNEW HIM BEST. 909 00:42:24,421 --> 00:42:26,454 I TRIED TO TELL THE FBI 910 00:42:26,454 --> 00:42:28,388 SOME OF THE THINGS GARY DID. 911 00:42:28,388 --> 00:42:29,888 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CLIMBS ] THEY DIDN'T WANNA HEAR IT. 912 00:42:29,888 --> 00:42:30,921 [ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ] 913 00:42:30,921 --> 00:42:32,088 [ STATIC 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