Chandra Levy Murder Case: Judge Orders Sealed Documents of Murdered Intern to Be Released
A judge ordered sealed documents and transcripts from court proceedings related to the murder case of Chandra Levy to be released on Monday. Levy's murder made international news after she was linked to linked to then-California Rep. Gary Condit.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher ruled that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia should release secret correspondence held between lawyers and the judge during the 2009 case. In February 2009 Ingmar Guandique was arrested for Levy's murder.
Levy initially disappeared in 2001 while working in Washington as an intern for the Bureau of Prisons. Former Rep. Gary Condit was questioned as a suspect in the case after it was unveiled that the two were having an affair. However after Levy's body was discovered in Washington's Rock Creek Park in 2002, investigators turned their focus to Guandique.
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Guandique was already in prison for attacking two other women in the park where Levy's body was found. He also allegedly made comments to other inmates that he had murdered Levy. Armando Morales, a convicted felon and former gang member, testified at Guandique's 2009 trial that Guandique confessed to killying Levy.
Morales had provided evidence in at least three murder cases, however, prompting Guandique's defense attorney, Jonathan Anderson, to question Morales' credibility.
The sealed information in the case pertains to conversations held between lawyers and the judge while at the judge's bench. Those present in the courtroom could not overhear the conversations. A group of media outlets requested the release of the papers. Condit, who served in Congress until 2003 and is now on the board of directors of the Phoenix Institute of Desert Agriculture, was never charged in the case although the media sensation caused by it cost him a re-election.
