WASHINGTON, July 13 (UPI) -- The failure to find the killer of Washington political intern Chandra Levy is a tale of missed chances and ignored leads, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The newspaper launched a 12-part "serial" focusing on the 2001 slaying of the 24-year-old Levy, a crime that was the subject of a media frenzy in the weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Initial suspicions focused on former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., but no arrests have ever been made in the case.
Levy's body was found in July 2001 in a Washington park, 10 months after she had disappeared from her Dupont Circle apartment. By that time, the investigation had already suffered setbacks, the newspaper said. For instance, Levy's laptop computer, found opened in her apartment, was mishandled by a police sergeant who accidentally corrupted its search history.
The mistake, it said, set the investigation back because it would take technicians a month to produce an accurate list of the last Web sites Levy visited.
Detectives also didn't find out Levy's apartment building had multiple security cameras until it was too late, because images were taped over every seven days on a loop, the Post said.
