Chandra Ann Levy
She was born April 14, 1977 in Cleveland, Ohio to Robert and Susan Levy.
As a child, she had a bold personality.
Later the family moved to Modesto, California, where Chandra attended Grace M. Davis High School.She then attended San Francisco State University, where she earned a degree in journalism.
She interned for the California Bureau of Secondary Education and worked in the office of Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.
After that, she began attending the University of Southern California to earn a master's degree in public administration.
She was interested in pursuing a law degree and had submitted her application for employment with the FBI.
Friday, September 14th, as part of her final semester of study she moved to Washington, D.C. and became an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
In October, 2000 she was assigned to the public affairs division at the bureau's headquarters.
Chandra calls the landlord around mid- January 2001.
She talks about the possibility of breaking lease to move in with an unidentified boyfriend.
Weeks later she tells the landlord it didn't work out.
Chandra's family comes to visit her on Friday, April 6th.
Her supervisor, Dan Dunne, was impressed with her work, especially her handling of media inquiries regarding the upcoming execution of Timothy McVeigh.
She spent Thanksgiving weekend with her aunt, on the eastern shore of Maryland.
Chandra reveals that she has an older boyfriend that is a congressman.
Saturday, December 23, she sends an email to a friend saying,
"Everything in D.C. else in D.C. is going good, my man will be coming back here when congress starts up again."
She talks about the possibility of breaking lease to move in with an unidentified boyfriend.
Weeks later she tells the landlord it didn't work out.
Chandra's family comes to visit her on Friday, April 6th.
They join up at Chandra's aunts house for Passover weekend in Chesapeake.
She tells her aunt that her boyfriend gave her a bracelet and he is Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif.
Guandique denied attacking Chandra.
In 2006, Cathy L. Lanier replaced the lead detective on the case with three veteran investigators who had more homicide experience.
Her internship was terminated in April 2001 because her academic eligibility was found to have expired in December 2000.
Monday, April 27th, was her last day of interning.
She had already completed her master's degree requirements and was scheduled to return to California in May 2001 for graduation.
Condit says that on Friday, April 27th was the last day he spoke to Chandra.
He told police that he last spoke to Chandra on April 29th.
Saturday, April 28th, Chandra left two messages on the landlord's machine saying that her job had ended,
She also e-mails that she would like to move out by May 5th or 6th.
She said that
"I have no real reason to stay around here."
Apparently Condit's wife arrived in Washington.
Sunday, April 29th, Chandra's aunt received a phone message from her.
She said in her message she needed to talk to her about something important.
The aunt doesn't return the phone call.
Monday, April 30th, Chandra cancels her membership to the Washington Sports club and leaves the gym sometime after 7 p.m.
Tuesday, May 1st, Chandra sends her last email to her parents.
She surfs the internet until 1 p.m.
No one hears from Chandra ever again.
After not hearing from their daughter for five days, Chandra's parents call the police.
After not hearing from their daughter for five days, Chandra's parents call the police.
Police search Chandra's apartment and it appears that she was packed up and ready to leave.
Her driver's license, credit cards and cell phone were still in the apartment.
Her keys were missing and her gold ring.
Her driver's license, credit cards and cell phone were still in the apartment.
Her keys were missing and her gold ring.
Friday, May 11th, Chandra misses her graduation ceremony.
Wednesday, May 16th, police say cadaver dogs have found nothing in parks or along the Potomac and Anacostia rivers.
Friday, May 18, 2001, the Washington Post quotes a deputy police chief saying Chandra had visited Condit's apartment several times and then later denies the statement.
Friday, May 18, 2001, the Washington Post quotes a deputy police chief saying Chandra had visited Condit's apartment several times and then later denies the statement.
Chandra's friends, family and supporters hold a vigil in Sacramento, Calif.
Friday, July 6, 2001 Condit finally admitted to police that he had a sexual relationship with Chandra.
Tuesday, July 10, 2001 Police and FBI forensics investigators enter and search Condit's apartment just before 11 p.m.
Washington as investigators consider whether the congressman may have tried to obstruct justice in the search for Chandra.
Wednesday, July 11, 2001, forensic investigators wrap up a three-hour search of Condit's apartment.
Thursday, July 12, 2001, Condit turns over a DNA sample to police.
Investigators search abandoned apartment buildings for signs of Chandra.
Monday, July 16, 2001, U.S. Park Police on horseback join police academy cadets in combing through the woods of Rock Creek Park in Northwest Washington, because they Chandra surfed an Internet site for directions to a historic mansion in the park on the day she vanished.
They believe she might have met someone there.
They found nothing.
On May 22, 2002, around 9:30 a.m., a man on a morning outing with his dog in Rock Creek Park, near Broad Branch Creek, swept away loose debris and uncovered skeletal remains that later matched Chandra's dental records.
Detectives found bones and personal items scattered, but not buried, in a forested area along a steep incline where they had not previously searched.
A sports bra, sweat shirt, leggings and tennis shoes were among the evidence that was recovered.
The remains were found about four miles from Chandra's apartment.
On May 28, D.C. medical examiner Jonathan L. Arden officially declared Levy's death a homicide.
Arden found damage to her hyoid bone.
On June 6, Private investigators hired by the Levys found her shin bone with some twisted wire about 25 yards from the other remains.
The Autopsy couldn't confirm she was pregnant, but before her death Chandra told at least one friend that she was and that it was the senator's baby.
In September 2001, an informant held in a D.C. jail, claimed to have knowledge of Chandra's killer.
The informant said that Ingmar Guandique, a 20-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador also being held in the jail, told him that Condit paid him $25,000 to kill Chandra.
In September 2001, an informant held in a D.C. jail, claimed to have knowledge of Chandra's killer.
Guandique had already admitted to assaulting two other women in the same park where Chandra's remains were found.
He failed to show up for work on the day of Chandra's disappearance.
His face appeared scratched and bruised at around that time.
The investigators on the Chandra's case did not interview the other Rock Creek Park victims.
In September 2008, investigators searched Guandique's federal prison cell in California and found a photo of Chandra that he had saved from a magazine.
Police interviewed acquaintances of Guandique and witnesses of the other Rock Creek Park incidents.
On March 3, 2009, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia issued an arrest warrant for Guandique.
April 22, Guandique was charged in D.C. with Chandra's murder.
He was indicted by a grand jury on six counts
Guandique pleaded not guilty.
Prosecution witness Armando Morales, who shared a cell with Guandique at the U.S. Penitentiary in Kentucky, stated that Guandique, a fellow member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, confided to him that he had killed Chandra while trying to rob her, but said that he did not rape her.
During closing arguments prosecutor Amanda Haines contended that Guandique bound and gagged Chandra after attacking her, leaving her to die of dehydration or exposure in the park.
On November 22, 2010, the jury found Guandique guilty of both remaining counts of first-degree murder.
On June 3, 2015, the defense said a new witness, a neighbor of Chandra's, called 911 at 4:37 a.m. on the last day Chandra's was alive to report hearing a 'blood-curdling scream'.
On June 4, 2015, Judge Gerald Fisher granted a motion for the new trial.
On July 28, 2016, prosecutors announced that they would not proceed with the case against Guandique and would, instead, seek to have him deported.
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