Chandra Levy Case Essay

THE CHANDRA LEVY CASE

The Chandra Levy Case

In 2001, Chandra Ann Levy, a young, energetic and beautiful 24-year-old woman who was working as an intern at a federal office in Washington, D.C., mysteriously disappeared scandalizing the nation’s capital. Her disappearance immediately became the nation’s headline story. The mysterious case seemed to have come straight out of a Hollywood movie. Levy, was the daughter of a prominent wealthy Jewish family and student about to graduate from the University of Southern California. She had arrived in the U.S. Capital during the summer for an internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Chandra Levy arrived in Washington with the mission to secure a stable job before the completion of her internship

Apparently, Guandique confessed the crime to a prison mate. Without loosing time, in 2011, Ingmar Guandique was convicted for the murder of the intern Chandra Levy in Rock Creek Park. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison, and his sentence ended one of the most notorious murder cases in the U.S. capital (US Fed News Service, Including US State News, 2010). Ever since his sentencing, Ingmar Guandique’s defense maintained at all times his innocence and ensured he was the victim of a conspiracy, as there was no DNA evidence linking him to the case, no witnesses and the accused never confessed the crime to the police. Congressman Gary Condit was cleared of any involvement or participation in the case since all the evidence presented, in this case the testimony of his cellmate, coincided that Ingmar Guandique was the sole responsible for the murder of

The nature of the sexual relationship between the old congressman and the young woman is what aroused suspicions in the popular mind and dominated the media speculation. In 2001, “the jury convicted Guandique of first degree felony murder with the aggravating circunstances of kidnapping and attempted robbery” (US Fed News Service, Including US State News, 2010). In the new trial, Ingmar Guandique’s lawyers will do all they can to prove that his client did not commit the crime for which he was sentenced to 60 years in