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Man Charged in Chandra Levy Slaying

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This story really gripped me when it was big news back in 2001. I’ll always have the mental image of Chandra Levy’s father sobbing to the news cameras to help him find his daughter. I normally don’t get that emotional about the news, but this broke my heart. I knew right away that she was dead, and I think he probably did, too. Her body wasn’t found until a full year later.

Today, nearly eight years after her death, a man has been charged with the first-degree murder of Chandra Levy:

A jailed laborer from El Salvador has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2001 slaying of federal intern Chandra Levy, authorities said Tuesday.

The suspect, Ingmar Guandique, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in California for two assaults in Washington’s Rock Creek Park that occurred around the time of Levy’s disappearance. Levy’s remains were found in the park …

Guandique has been imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution-Victorville, a medium-security facility, north of San Bernardino.

It’s just so scary to think that there are such horrible people out there, killing strangers in parks. I like to believe that only happens in the movies.

I hope this brings some closure to her family.

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  • Something needs to be done about these illegals. They commit so much crime in my area. What other country allows itself to be overrun like this?

      • Maybe you should tell these illegals, Jennifer. Take a bite out of crime. Let’s see how long you last voicing that opinion OUT LOUD.

    • Haha, OH PLEASE. Like the white people in this country never do anything wrong either. Illegals are only a part of the problem.

      • What do white people have to do with the fact that these people have no legal right to be here? I wonder how Mexicans would feel if a bunch of white people entered their nation illegally to commit crimes or take their tax dollars? 60% of the prison population in the state of California are illegal aliens, mostly Mexican gang members. Do you really want violent gang members from Mexico pouring into your neighborhood? Are you THAT stupid?

  • “The suspect, Ingmar Guandique, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in California for two assaults in Washington’s Rock Creek Park that occurred around the time of Levy’s disappearance. Levy’s remains were found in the park”

    Umm and they didn’t think of questioning him until now?

    • I live in the DC area. He’s an illegal immigrant (the papers don’t like to play that up too much here). He was in jail in California since shortly after Chandra Levy disappeared (he assaulted two other women in the same vicinity and was arrested after Chandra disappeared). DC cops eventually zeroed in on him after finally doing some real police work and discovering there was a similarity in the cases once her remains were found in the same area he had been operating in.
      He’s in jail in California because the District of Columbia has no “prison” and they ship their criminals to federal prisons around the country because no one has the guts to insist they build a prison within the DC city limits.