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[ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ]

A STUNNING DEVELOPMENT

IN THE 15-YEAR-OLD MURDER CASE
OF CHANDRA LEVY.

Narrator:
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST BAFFLING
MYSTERIES IN RECENT HISTORY.

WE ARE STILL ASKING,
"WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY?"

TONIGHT, OUR THREE-PART
INVESTIGATION REACHES

A REMARKABLE CONCLUSION,

WITH BOMBSHELL
COURTROOM REVELATIONS.

SHE LOOKED HIM IN THE EYE,
AND SHE SAID,

"YOU ARE LOWER
THAN A COCKROACH.

YOU SHOULD ROT
IN HELL."

A STAR WITNESS' EXPLOSIVE SECRET
THROWS JUSTICE INTO QUESTION.

HE STARTS SAYING
HE COULD KILL SOMEBODY

BY STICKING A SHANK

THROUGH THEIR EYEBALL,
INTO THEIR BRAIN.

WE SPEAK DIRECTLY
TO THE PRIME SUSPECT.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

Narrator:
AND, IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW,

THE LEVY FAMILY'S INVESTIGATOR

TELLS US WHAT HE THINKS
HAPPENED TO CHANDRA.

I'M SATISFIED THAT I KNOW
WHAT HAPPENED.

[ SUSPENSEFUL OUTRO PLAYS ]

Alexander:
THIS TRULY WAS THE CRAZIEST CASE
EVER TO HIT WASHINGTON, DC.

Dimond:
WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY?

Doyle: THE STORY GOES
FROM ZERO TO 60 VERY QUICKLY.

Dimond:
WHY IS A 53-YEAR-OLD CONGRESSMAN
CALLING A YOUNG INTERN?

Chung:
DID YOU KILL CHANDRA LEVY?

I DID NOT.

Grimm:
THEY SIMPLY FOUND BONES
IN A PARK ALMOST A YEAR AFTER.

Alexander:
THERE WERE NO EYEWITNESSES.

THERE WAS
NO MURDER WEAPON.

Dimond:
THEY'D FINALLY PUT IT
ALL TOGETHER,

AND IT POINTED TO ONE MAN:

INGMAR GUANDIQUE.

Grimm:
MR. MORALES WAS A JAILHOUSE
SNITCH, A RAT.

Velez-Mitchell:
THIS CASE THAT TOOK
SO MANY YEARS TO BUILD

HAS COLLAPSED OVERNIGHT.

[ DISTORTED TUNE PLAYS ]

Susan:
IT'S THE WORST THING
A MOTHER COULD EVER FACE.

**

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

FOR MONTHS, PROSECUTORS IN THE
CHANDRA LEVY INVESTIGATION

HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BUILD
A CASE AGAINST INGMAR GUANDIQUE.

MR. GUANDIQUE PLED GUILTY

TO ASSAULTING TWO WOMEN
IN ROCK CREEK PARK,

WITHIN A QUARTER MILE OF WHERE
MISS LEVY DISAPPEARED,

AND HE WAS SENTENCED
TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON.

THAT'S WHY THE GOVERNMENT
FOCUSED ON HIM AS A SUSPECT.

THE POLICE WERE CONFIDENT THAT
THAT WAS THEIR GUY.

Narrator:
HOWEVER, THE STATE'S CASE
IS ENTIRELY CIRCUMSTANTIAL.

THERE'S NO FORENSIC EVIDENCE
THAT CONNECTS HIM

TO CHANDRA LEVY'S DEATH,

AND HE INSISTS HE HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

IT'S HANGIN' BY A THREAD,
THIS CASE.

Narrator:
THEN, IN 2009,

A MAN STEPS FORWARD AND
TRANSFORMS THE INVESTIGATION.

IT WAS A JAILHOUSE INFORMANT WHO
CAUGHT EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE.

ARMANDO MORALES IS
A FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, NATIVE,

A LIFETIME CRIMINAL WITH
A LONG RECORD OF VIOLENT CRIMES.

MORALES SAID THAT
INGMAR GUANDIQUE TOLD HIM

HE KILLED CHANDRA LEVY

IN ROCK CREEK PARK.
[ EERIE MUSIC CLIMBS ]

Velez-Mitchell: THIS IS A BIG
BREAKTHROUGH FOR COPS.

IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER.

TODAY WE MAKE A VERY
SIGNIFICANT ANNOUNCEMENT.

WE ANNOUNCE THAT THE

METROPOLITAN POLICE
DEPARTMENT HAVE SECURED

AN ARREST WARRANT
IN THE HOMICIDE,

IN 2001,
OF CHANDRA LEVY.

THE ARRESTEE IS

INGMAR GUANDIQUE.

PROSECUTORS THINK
THEY'VE SOLVED THE CASE.

THEY'VE GOT THEIR GUY.

THIS CASE HAS BEEN
AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER.

WHEN GUANDIQUE WAS ARRESTED,
I JUST THOUGHT,

"FINALLY, FINALLY,
THIS CASE CLOSES."

Narrator:
ON OCTOBER 18,

NEARLY 10 YEARS
AFTER CHANDRA DISAPPEARED,

THE TRIAL IS SET TO BEGIN.

THERE'S CONSIDERABLE
ANTICIPATION ABOUT THIS TRIAL.

IT'S A JAMMED COURTROOM.

THERE ARE PROBABLY A DOZEN
OR MORE REPORTERS.

Narrator:
HELMING THE PROSECUTION IS
VETERAN LITIGATOR AMANDA HAINES.

SHE'S AN ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

SHE'S HIGHLY EXPERIENCED, HIGHLY
THOUGHT OF, VERY AGGRESSIVE.

Alexander:
AMANDA HAINES' BIGGEST
OBSTACLE IN THIS CASE?

THE FACT THAT
IT'S NINE YEARS OLD,

THERE'S NO DNA,

THERE IS NO FORENSIC EVIDENCE
LINKING GUANDIQUE TO THE CRIME,

THERE'S NO MURDER WEAPON,
AND THEY REALLY DON'T EVEN KNOW

HOW CHANDRA LEVY DIED.

Narrator:
FINALLY, THE PROSECUTION
AND DEFENSE

BEGIN TO MAKE THEIR
RESPECTIVE ARGUMENTS.

BOTH SIDES GIVE
THEIR OPENING STATEMENT.

PROSECUTION SAYS, "GUANDIQUE
MURDERED THIS WOMAN,

CHOKED HER, ROBBED HER."

THE PROSECUTION WAS SAYING
HE TOOK THIS POOR WOMAN APART.

Narrator:
THEN, HAINES BEGINS TO BUILD
HER CASE AGAINST GUANDIQUE

AND MAKES A CURIOUS DECISION.

PROSECUTORS,
MUCH TO EVERYONE'S SURPRISE,

CALLED A WITNESS
WHO NO ONE EXPECTED:

GARY CONDIT.

GARY CONDIT WAS
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

THAT HAD TO BE ADDRESSED
BY THE PROSECUTORS.

THEY KNEW HE WOULD BE COMING UP
AS A POTENTIAL

ALTERNATIVE SUSPECT
IN THE EYES OF THE DEFENSE.

SO THE PROSECUTION TEAM
SUMMONED MR. CONDIT

FOR THE PURPOSE OF DENYING
HAVING ANYTHING TO DO

WITH CHANDRA LEVY'S
DISAPPEARANCE.

Narrator:
CONDIT HAS NEVER
PUBLICLY ADMITTED

HE HAD A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP
WITH CHANDRA.

NOW, SOME OBSERVERS WONDER
IF THAT WILL FINALLY CHANGE.

SO, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
OF DECLINING TO SPEAK

IN ANY SORT OF VIVID DETAIL
ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP,

THERE WAS THIS
ANTICIPATION THAT,

UNDER THE PRESSURE OF HIS OATH
AND IN THE PRESENCE OF A JUDGE,

HE WOULD FINALLY
SPILL THE BEANS.

WHEN GARY CONDIT CAME
INTO THE COURTHOUSE IN 2010

FOR THIS TRIAL,
HE WAS A REGULAR CITIZEN,

BUT HE WAS STILL TREATED,
BY THE COURTS,

BY PROSECUTORS, AND BY POLICE,
AS A DIGNITARY.

Grimm:
EVERYONE'S ON THE EDGE
OF THEIR SEATS.

CONGRESSMAN CONDIT RAISES
HIS HAND TO TELL THE TRUTH,

[ HEARTBEAT ]
THEN HE WAS ASKED

ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP
WITH MISS LEVY.

HE TELLS THE COURT
THAT, INDEED,

THE PAIR HAD A FRIENDLY
RELATIONSHIP,

THAT HE WAS A MENTOR TO HER,

AND THAT THE PAIR NEVER
HAD ANY DISAGREEMENTS.

HE WAS VERY STEELY-EYED,
VERY CALM,

AND HE DID NOT GET EMOTIONAL.

HE EMPHATICALLY DENIES
HAVING ANYTHING TO DO

WITH CHANDRA'S
DISAPPEARANCE AND MURDER.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

SO GARY CONDIT WAS ON THE STAND
FOR ONE PURPOSE, ALONE,

FOR THE PROSECUTION, BUT,
AS PART OF THAT APPEARANCE,

HE HAD TO FACE
THE DEFENSE TEAM AS WELL.

THE DEFENSE WANTED TO GET MORE
ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN GARY CONDIT
AND CHANDRA LEVY.

THEY ASKED THE QUESTIONS
REPEATEDLY:

"DID YOU HAVE
A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP?"

CONDIT SAID, "MY RELATIONSHIP
WITH CHANDRA LEVY

HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH THIS CASE.

I AM NOT ON TRIAL, SO I DON'T
HAVE TO GO INTO ANYTHING

ABOUT MY RELATIONSHIP
WITH CHANDRA LEVY,"

AND THE JUDGE AGREED WITH THAT.

HE JUST LOOKED AT THE DEFENSE
LAWYER AND SAID,

"I HAD NOTHING TO DO
WITH HER DISAPPEARANCE,"

AND ESSENTIALLY CHALLENGED HIM.

"IF YOU GOT MORE, JUST BRING IT,
BUT I KNOW YOU DON'T"

AND THAT WAS IT.

AND...THE AIR SORT OF
COMES OUT OF THE BALLOON.

Alexander:
HE WAS ON THE STAND
FOR ALL OF 10 MINUTES.

PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS WAS
GOING TO BE AN EMOTIONAL,

A REVEALING, TESTIMONY,
BUT IT WASN'T.

THE CONGRESSMAN CAME ACROSS
AS DEFENSIVE

AND UNFORTHCOMING
AND UNHELPFUL AND ANGRY

AT THE POSITION
HE HAD BEEN PUT IN.

TO PUT CONDIT ON THE STAND,
BY THAT PROSECUTION,

WAS A VERY CLEVER AND
TACTICALLY SMART THING TO DO.

Narrator:
THEN, THE STATE ATTEMPTS

TO DIRECTLY LINK GUANDIQUE
TO THE CRIME.

THE PROSECUTION'S CASE:
THEY DIDN'T HAVE EYEWITNESSES,

THEY DIDN'T HAVE
FORENSIC EVIDENCE,

THEY DIDN'T HAVE
DNA, FINGERPRINTS,

ALL THE TRADITIONAL
STUFF JURORS LOOK FOR.

WHAT THEY HAD WERE OTHER WOMEN
THAT HAD RUN IN THE PARK.

Narrator:
CHRISTY WIEGAND
AND HALLE SHILLING

ARE CALLED TO THE STAND.

THE MOST EMOTIONAL TIME
WAS THE TESTIMONY OF THE WOMEN

WHO WERE ASSAULTED
BY INGMAR GUANDIQUE.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

Dimond:
THEY PUT THAT JURY
INSIDE ROCK CREEK PARK,

WHERE THEY WERE RUNNING.

THEIR TESTIMONY WAS CHILLING.

ONE WOMAN BROKE DOWN INTO TEARS.

THEY THOUGHT THAT THIS MAN
WAS GOING TO RAPE THEM,

THAT THIS MAN WAS GOING
TO STAB THEM AND KILL THEM,

AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME
THAT THE JURY HEARD

WHAT WAS POSSIBLY GOING
THROUGH CHANDRA LEVY'S MIND

AND THE JURY WAS RIVETED.

THE PROSECUTION WAS SAYING, "DO
YOU SEE HIM IN THE COURTROOM?"

AND SHE SAYS, "YES.
HE'S SEATED OVER THERE."

IT WAS SO DRAMATIC BECAUSE
THE MAN WHO ATTACKED THEM

COULD VERY WELL HAVE BEEN THE
MAN WHO ATTACKED CHANDRA LEVY

AND LEFT HER FOR DEAD
IN THAT RAVINE.

IT WAS COMPELLING.

I FELT LIKE HE WAS
IN A LOT OF TROUBLE

WHEN THAT TESTIMONY CAME IN.

Narrator:
TO PAINT A DETAILED PICTURE
OF CHANDRA'S FINAL MOMENTS,

THE STATE CALLS
ITS STAR WITNESS.

SO THE PROSECUTION
HAD ONE WITNESS

THEY BELIEVED
WOULD SEAL THIS CASE

AND THEY CALLED THAT
ONE WITNESS TO THE STAND.

THAT WAS ARMANDO MORALES.

HE HAD GLASSES, SOFT-SPOKEN,
AND HE TOLD A STORY

THAT HE WAS AN OLD-SCHOOL
GANGSTER FROM FRESNO,

BUT THAT,
OVER THE YEARS IN PRISON,

HIS LIFE HAD TURNED AROUND

AND HE HAD GIVEN UP
THAT GANGSTER LIFESTYLE.

AND HE SAYS THAT
HE HADN'T HAD

A PRIOR EXPERIENCE
WITH INFORMING.

Alexander:
HE SAID, "I'M JUST DOING THIS
BECAUSE I WANT TO HELP.

I'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE.

I'M UNCOMFORTABLE
DOING THIS,

BUT I WANT TO HELP
THE LEVY FAMILY."

Narrator:
MORALES THEN SHARES
WITH THE JURY

EXACTLY WHAT GUANDIQUE
TOLD HIM ABOUT THE CRIME.

THEY HEAR HOW INGMAR GUANDIQUE
IS HIGH ON DRUGS,

NEEDS MONEY TO HELP
WITH HIS DRUG HABITS,

AND HOW HE IS HIDING IN THE
BUSHES, LIKE HE DID PREVIOUSLY,

IN THOSE ATTACKS
THAT HE PLED GUILTY TO.

[ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ]

CHANDRA LEVY COMES THROUGH.

GUANDIQUE JUMPS
OUT THE BUSHES

AND ATTACKS CHANDRA
AND DRAGS HER INTO THE WOODS.

HE TRIES TO SMOTHER AND TRIES
TO STEAL HER MONEY POUCH.

BUT, DURING THAT COURSE
OF ACTION,

LEVY BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS.

HE LEAVES HER THERE
IN THE WOODS

AND HE GRABS HER MONEY
POUCH AND HE RUNS.

HE DID NOT THINK SHE WAS DEAD.

HE DID NOT KNOW
SHE WAS DEAD.

Narrator:
THE INFORMANT'S TESTIMONY
GRIPS THE COURTROOM.

Alexander:
MORALES WAS VERY CHARISMATIC.

HE WAS VERY FORTHCOMING.
HE SMILED.

HE LOOKED AT THE JURY FROM TIME
TO TIME, WHEN HE COMMENTED.

I WAS IMPRESSED WITH HIS CANDOR.

I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE FACT
THAT IT LOOKED LIKE

HE WAS HONEST ABOUT EVERYTHING.

IT JUST SEEMED VERY SURREAL.

I JUST LISTENED.

I SAID, "THIS IS DAMN PAINFUL."

Alexander:
HE WAS SUCH A POWERFUL
STAR WITNESS.

HE WAS SO KEY
TO THE PROSECUTION THAT,

AFTER HE TOOK THE STAND,
THE PROSECUTION RESTED.

[ SINISTER MUSIC CLIMBS ]
HE WAS ALL THEY NEEDED.

OR SO THEY BELIEVED.

Narrator:
WHEN GUANDIQUE'S
LAWYERS TAKE OVER,

THEY ATTEMPT TO POKE HOLES
IN THE PROSECUTION'S CASE.

THE DEFENSE HAS GOING FOR THEM
THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO PROOF

THAT THIS WOMAN
WAS EVEN MURDERED.

THEY SIMPLY FOUND BONES
AND REMAINS IN A PARK

ALMOST A YEAR AFTER.

Narrator:
THEN, TO CAST SUSPICION AWAY
FROM THEIR CLIENT,

THE DEFENSE INTRODUCES
AN ALTERNATE THEORY.

IT CENTERS ON
A LITTLE-REPORTED DETAIL

THAT EMERGED
AFTER CHANDRA DISAPPEARED.

IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING
BEFORE SHE VANISHED,

SOMEBODY CALLED 911,
SAYING THEY HEARD A SCREAM

COMING FROM THE VICINITY
OF CHANDRA LEVY'S APARTMENT.

COULD SHE HAVE EVEN BEEN
KILLED IN HER APARTMENT

AND MOVED AND DUMPED
IN THE PARK?

Narrator:
TO FURTHER SUPPORT THIS THEORY,

THE DEFENSE INTRODUCES
ANOTHER, CURIOUS, DETAIL.

WHEN THE LEVYS BECAME WORRIED

BECAUSE THEY HADN'T
HEARD FROM CHANDRA,

THEY CALLED THE BUILDING
MANAGER IN WASHINGTON, DC

AND SAID, "PLEASE, SLIP
A NOTE UNDERNEATH THE DOOR.

TELL HER TO CALL
HER PARENTS, CALL HOME."

THEY ASKED THE BUILDING MANAGER
TO DO THAT SEVERAL TIMES,

SO THERE WERE SEVERAL NOTES.

AT THE GUANDIQUE TRIAL,

THE DEFENSE BROUGHT UP
A FASCINATING LITTLE TIDBIT:

THAT THE NOTES WERE SCATTERED
ALL OVER THE APARTMENT,

NOT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE DOOR.

THIS, THE DEFENSE SAID,
WAS AN INDICATION

THAT SOMEBODY HAD BEEN
IN THAT APARTMENT

AFTER CHANDRA LEVY WAS THOUGHT
TO HAVE DISAPPEARED.

Narrator:
THE DEFENSE SUGGESTS IT MAY
HAVE BEEN CHANDRA'S KILLER

RETURNING TO
THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.

Grimm:
I THOUGHT THAT WAS
REALLY INTERESTING.

IF I'M A JUROR, I ALREADY
HAVE A REASONABLE DOUBT.

Narrator:
AFTER 10 DAYS OF TESTIMONY,
THE TRIAL CONCLUDES

AND THE JURY BEGINS
THE PROCESS OF DELIBERATION.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT

THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE
A HUNG JURY.

MUCH TO OUR SURPRISE,
3.5 DAYS LATER, THEY COME BACK.

THEY ANNOUNCE
THEY HAVE A VERDICT.

[ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ]

**

Narrator:
THE CHANDRA LEVY MURDER TRIAL
IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE.

NOW, AFTER 10 DAYS OF TESTIMONY,

THE FATE OF INGMAR GUANDIQUE
RESTS IN THE HANDS OF THE JURY.

I'M KEITH ALEXANDER, A PULITZER
PRIZE-WINNING REPORTER

WITH THE WASHINGTON POST.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT

THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE
A HUNG JURY.

WE DID NOT THINK ALL 12 JURORS
WOULD BE ABLE

TO COME BACK WITH A VERDICT.

MUCH TO OUR SURPRISE,
3.5 DAYS LATER, THEY COME BACK.

THE JURY FOREMAN ANNOUNCED
THEY HAD REACHED A VERDICT.

[ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ]

THE JUDGE SAYS
TO THE FOREPERSON,

"HOW DO YOU FIND THE DEFENDANT
ON COUNT 1 OF THE INDICTMENT,

MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE
OF CHANDRA LEVY?"

AND THE FOREMAN DOES NOT BLINK

AND HE SAYS, "GUILTY."

[ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ]

Alexander:
WHEN THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED,

GUANDIQUE, HE WAS LISTENING
TO A TRANSLATOR.

HE YANKED THE HEADPHONES OFF
AND THREW THEM DOWN ON THE TABLE

BEFORE HE WAS LED OUT
OF THE COURTROOM.

IT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL TIME.

[ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ]
THE JURY, JUST A SHORT TIME AGO,

HANDED DOWN A GUILTY VERDICT
IN CHANDRA LEVY'S MURDER TRIAL.

THIS IS CHANDRA LEVY'S MOTHER.

LET'S LISTEN TO HER.
-I'M SORRY.

I'M EMOTIONAL HERE.

THE RESULT OF THE VERDICT

MAY BE GUILTY, BUT I HAVE
A LIFETIME SENTENCE

OF A LOST LAMB,
MISSING FROM OUR FAMILY TREE.

Alexander:
THE PROSECUTION,
THEY WERE EXCITED.

AMANDA HAINES SAID,
"MIRACLES DO HAPPEN."

SHE WAS SO ELATED THAT
THERE WAS A GUILTY VERDICT.

PROSECUTION DID AN OUTSTANDING
JOB ON THE CASE.

THEY CALLED CONDIT.

THEY KILLED THAT DEFENSE.

THEY SET UP THE STAGE
FOR MR. MORALES,

PUT HIM ON THE STAND.

HE WAS GOOD.
HE WAS VERY GOOD.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

Narrator:
NEARLY 3 MONTHS LATER,

GUANDIQUE'S SENTENCING
HEARING COMMENCES.

AS IS CUSTOM, THE VICTIM'S
FAMILY IS INVITED TO SPEAK.

CHANDRA LEVY'S MOTHER
GOES TO THE PODIUM

AND SHE TALKS
ABOUT HER DAUGHTER.

AND THEN SHE DID SOMETHING
I'D NEVER HEARD.

VICTIMS AREN'T SUPPOSED TO TALK
TO THE PERSON WHO

DID THE DEED.

SHE LOOKED HIM IN THE EYE
AND SHE SAID,

"YOU KNOW, YOU ARE
A HIDEOUS CREATURE.

YOU ARE LOWER THAN A COCKROACH.

YOU SHOULD ROT IN HELL"
AND IT WAS VERY DRAMATIC.

AND THEN SHE LOOKS
AT MR. GUANDIQUE AND SAYS,

"FINALLY, MR. GUANDIQUE,
[BLEEP] YOU"...

[ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ]

AND TURNS AND SITS DOWN.

GUANDIQUE IS SENTENCED
TO 60 YEARS BEHIND BARS.

IT'S CONSIDERED A BIG WIN
FOR PROSECUTORS.

NOW, GUANDIQUE WOULD BE
AT LEAST 80 YEARS OLD

BEFORE HE COULD
FIRST BE RELEASED.

THE JUDGE SENTENCING HIM SAID
HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE,

IF HE LIVED LONG ENOUGH
TO BE RELEASED,

THAT HE WOULD NOT BE
A DANGER TO SOCIETY.

Narrator:
FOR THE LEVYS, IT SEEMS THAT
JUSTICE HAS FINALLY BEEN SERVED.

FOR THE LEVYS,
THIS CASE IS CLOSED.

BUT, EMOTIONALLY,
THERE IS NO CLOSURE.

THEY STILL DON'T
HAVE THEIR LOVED ONE.

THEY WILL NEVER HAVE
THEIR LOVED ONE BACK.

BUT IN TERMS OF SOMEONE BEING
HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS CASE,

THEY WERE VERY
APPRECIATIVE OF THAT.

[ SUSPENSEFUL OUTRO PLAYS ]

[ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ]
Narrator: THE LEVYS

RETURN TO CALIFORNIA AND ATTEMPT
TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES.

BUT THEN, ALMOST 5 YEARS LATER,

A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE
STEPS FORWARD,

WITH A BIZARRE TALE THAT, SHE
SAYS, IS RELATED TO THE CASE.

THIS WOMAN, WHO GOES BY THE NAME
OF BABS PROLLER,

SHE COMES TO THE WASHINGTON POST
AND SHE HAS SOME INFORMATION.

SHE'S AN OCCASIONAL ACTRESS

WITH THE NETFLIX SERIES
"HOUSE OF CARDS."

WE HAD NO IDEA
THAT THIS WOULD BE THE WOMAN

WHO WOULD BLOW
THE ENTIRE CASE APART.

Narrator:
PROLLER EXPLAINS TO THE POST
THAT SHE'S RECENTLY DIVORCED

AND HAS BEEN LIVING AT A HOTEL
IN ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.

THERE, SHE HAD
AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER.

IT WAS ON ONE PARTICULAR DAY

THAT SHE WAS WALKING
WITH HER DOG

WHEN THE DOG GOT
CAUGHT IN THE DOOR.

AND THIS MAN KIND OF
SWOOPED IN OUT OF NOWHERE

AND SAVED HER DOG.

AND, IN AN ACT OF CHIVALRY,
THIS GUY PICKS THE DOG UP

AND CARRIES THE DOG
INTO THE HOTEL

AND SHE THINKS,
"OH, HE'S AN ANIMAL LOVER."

Narrator:
THE FELLOW HOTEL GUEST
INTRODUCES HIMSELF AS PHOENIX

AND EXPLAINS THAT
HE'S VISITING THE AREA.

THE TWO OF THEM BEGAN TALKING
AND THEY STRUCK UP A FRIENDSHIP.

THEY TALKED ABOUT BUDDHISM.

THEY TALKED ABOUT LOVE OF DOGS.

THEY TALKED ABOUT LIFE,
SO SHE FELT SAFE WITH THIS MAN.

Narrator:
THE TWO BEGIN SOCIALIZING

AND, SOON, PHOENIX CONFIDES
A DARK, PERSONAL HISTORY.

OVER SEVERAL DATES, HE BEGAN
TALKING ABOUT HIS PAST,

HIS CRIMINAL PAST, AND THAT
HE SPENT TIME IN PRISON.

HE STARTS TALKING LIKE A CON

AND TALKING ABOUT
HIS VIOLENT TENDENCIES

AND SAYING HOW
HE COULD KILL SOMEBODY

BY STICKING A SHANK THROUGH
THEIR EYEBALL, INTO THEIR BRAIN.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO PROLLER,
PHOENIX'S TALK QUICKLY TURNED

FROM BOASTFUL TO MENACING.

AT ONE POINT, THEY'RE
HAVING A CONVERSATION

AND HE BEGINS TO THREATEN

AN INDIVIDUAL
WHO HAD ROBBED HER.

HE OFFERS TO KILL THE MAN

WHO RECENTLY STOLE
SOME JEWELRY FROM HER.

HE SAID, "LOOK.
HE STOLE FROM YOU

AND SO I WILL TAKE CARE OF HIM."

Velez-Mitchell:
SHE SUDDENLY BECOMES AFRAID
FOR HER OWN SAFETY.

I MEAN, WHAT IS THIS GUY
CAPABLE OF?

COULD HE DO SOMETHING TO HER?

Narrator:
PROLLER EXPLAINS THAT SHE THEN
TOOK PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.

SO SHE BEGAN SECRETLY RECORDING
THEIR CONVERSATIONS.

SHE WAS RECORDING HIM
JUST FOR SAFETY.

AND, DURING THESE HOURS
AND HOURS OF CONVERSATION,

HE ALSO TELLS BABS PROLLER
SOMETHING ELSE.

ONE OF THE THINGS HE REVEALS
IS THAT HE WAS A WITNESS

IN A HIGH-PROFILE MURDER CASE.

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ]

ACCORDING TO HER,
HE GOES ON TO REVEAL

THAT, NOT ONLY
WAS HE A WITNESS,

BUT HE LIED ON THE STAND.

HE TELLS BABS HE ACTUALLY
FABRICATED HIS STORY

IN ORDER TO IMPROVE
HIS SITUATION IN PRISON.

HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
THE CHANDRA LEVY CASE.

HER NEW FRIEND,
WHO SHE BONDED

AND TALKED TO
AND SECRETLY RECORDED?

HIS NAME WAS ARMANDO MORALES.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

ARMANDO MORALES, THE MAN WHO
PUT INGMAR GUANDIQUE IN PRISON.

[ SUSPENSEFUL FLOURISH PLAYS ]

Narrator:
STUNNED BY THE CONFESSION,
PROLLER DECIDES

TO TAKE THE RECORDINGS
TO THE WASHINGTON POST.

WHEN WE LISTENED
TO ARMANDO MORALES,

HE DIDN'T SOUND
LIKE THE SAME MAN

WHO TESTIFIED IN COURT
YEARS AGO.

HE STILL SOUNDED LIKE SOMEONE

WHO WAS STILL VERY MUCH
INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.

Narrator:
BUT, IN ALL THE HOURS
OF RECORDINGS,

ONE PARTICULAR DETAIL
IS MISSING.

SHE TOLD US THAT ARMANDO MORALES
LIED ABOUT THE FACT THAT

INGMAR GUANDIQUE ADMITTED TO HIM
THAT HE KILLED CHANDRA LEVY

AND WE FOUND OUT
THAT WASN'T THE TRUTH

WHEN WE LISTENED TO THOSE
RECORDINGS OURSELVES.

IT'S SUSPICIOUS THAT THIS WOMAN
WOULD TELL THE WASHINGTON POST

THAT ARMANDO MADE
THIS CONFESSION,

WHICH CALLS INTO QUESTION
HER CREDIBILITY AND LEGITIMACY.

**

Narrator: WEEKS LATER,

PROLLER ALSO REACHES OUT
TO THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE,

AND HER TIMING IS MOMENTOUS.

SOON AFTER GUANDIQUE'S
SENTENCING IN 2011,

HIS DEFENSE TEAM
BEGAN INVESTIGATING

THE CREDIBILITY
OF THE STATE'S STAR WITNESS.

ON THE STAND, ARMANDO MORALES
WAS BELIEVABLE, IN PART,

BECAUSE HE SAID HE'D HAD
NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE

AS AN INFORMANT.

WELL, IT TURNED OUT
THAT WAS FALSE.

ARMANDO MORALES
HAD PROVIDED ASSISTANCE

TO FRESNO COUNTY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS,

TO BUREAU OF PRISONS OFFICIALS,
AND OTHERS,

ABOUT CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.

THIS INFORMATION HAD APPARENTLY
NOT BEEN KNOWN BY THE TRIAL TEAM

AND WAS DEFINITELY NOT KNOWN BY

INGMAR GUANDIQUE'S
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS.

HE HAD MAYBE PERJURED
HIMSELF IN THE FIRST TRIAL.

HE WAS A JAILHOUSE SNITCH,
A RAT, A CREEP, A LIAR.

I WASN'T EVEN CERTAIN
HIS NAME WAS MORALES.

SO YOU HAVE ISSUES
WITH CREDIBILITY

THAT HAVE NOW SURFACED,
INVOLVING THEIR STAR WITNESS,

AND, AS A RESULT,
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ARE SAYING,

"DATE THE MAN A NEW TRIAL,"

FOR THEIR CLIENT
INGMAR GUANDIQUE.

Narrator:
AFTER AN INQUIRY
INTO MORALES IN 2015,

GUANDIQUE'S CONVICTION
IS VACATED

AND A NEW TRIAL IS ORDERED.

BUT THE TAPES BROUGHT
FORWARD BY BABS PROLLER

THROW A WRENCH IN THE
PROSECUTION'S NEW CASE.

IN 2010, WHEN ARMANDO MORALES
TOOK THE WITNESS STAND,

HE WAS THE ONLY PIECE
OF EVIDENCE

THAT DIRECTLY LINKED
INGMAR GUANDIQUE TO

THE DEATH OF CHANDRA LEVY.

FAST-FORWARD TO 2016.

HE IS STILL THE ONLY
PIECE OF EVIDENCE.

AFTER PROSECUTORS LISTENED
TO THOSE RECORDINGS THEMSELVES

AND THEY HEARD MORALES,
SOUNDING LIKE SOMEONE

WHO WAS STILL
IN THE LIFE OF CRIME,

THEY REALIZED THEY COULD NOT
PUT HIM ON THE STAND AGAIN.

Narrator:
ON JULY 28, 2016,

THE STATE MAKES
A REMARKABLE ANNOUNCEMENT.

A STUNNING DEVELOPMENT
IN THE 15-YEAR-OLD

MURDER CASE OF WASHINGTON, DC
INTERN CHANDRA LEVY.

PROSECUTORS SUDDENLY DROPPED
THE CASE AGAINST THE MAN

WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN
CONVICTED OF THAT CRIME.

INGMAR GUANDIQUE IS NOW SET
FOR DEPORTATION.

THIS TRULY WAS THE CRAZIEST CASE
EVER TO HIT WASHINGTON, DC.

THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT
HOLLYWOOD WRITERS

COULD NEVER EVEN DREAM OF.

Narrator:
STUNNED BY THE TURN OF EVENTS,

THE LEVYS ARE LEFT QUESTIONING
THE ACTIONS OF BABS PROLLER.

WELL, I'M PRETTY ANGRY
BECAUSE WHY DID SHE DO THAT?

I MEAN, WHAT WAS
THE POINT OF THAT?

WAS SHE TRYING TO HELP US?

NO, SHE WAS TRYING TO MAKE
A NAME FOR HERSELF.

MAYBE SOMEONE PAID HER.

Susan:
HOW COULD THEY LET
GUANDIQUE JUST GO?

IT JUST SEEMS SO STRANGE TO ME.

NOW WE ARE LEFT WITH THE SAME
QUESTIONS WE BEGAN WITH:

WHAT TOOK CHANDRA
TO ROCK CREEK PARK?

WHAT HAPPENED TO HER THERE?

WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY?

AND WHY?

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORDS STRIKING ]

Narrator:
INGMAR GUANDIQUE'S

DEFENSE TEAM IS PREPARING
FOR A RETRIAL

FOR THE MURDER OF CHANDRA LEVY.

BUT WHEN THE PROSECUTION'S
STAR WITNESS IS DISCREDITED,

THE CHARGES ARE DROPPED.

THE PAST 15 YEARS,
COVERING THE CHANDRA LEVY CASE,

HAVE BEEN AN EXERCISE

IN THE INABILITY
TO PREDICT THE FUTURE.

THERE'S BEEN ONE SURPRISE
AFTER ANOTHER,

ONE TRAUMA AFTER ANOTHER.

Narrator:
IN THE WAKE OF THE
SHOCKING NEWS,

IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT
THE STORY IS STILL EVOLVING.

IN PRETRIAL HEARINGS,
BEFORE THE CHARGES WERE DROPPED,

GUANDIQUE'S LAWYERS LAID OUT
PLANS FOR AN EXPLOSIVE DEFENSE.

AND, THIS TIME AROUND,
THE DEFENSE TEAM

WERE LASERING IN
ON GARY CONDIT.

IN A COURT HEARING,
THE DEFENSE ARGUED

THAT CONDIT WAS MORE LIKELY
THE PERPETRATOR

BECAUSE HE HAD MOTIVE
TO COVER UP

A RELATIONSHIP
WITH CHANDRA LEVY,

WHEREAS INGMAR GUANDIQUE
WAS A RELATIVE STRANGER.

DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WERE ASKING
FOR ALL TYPES OF INFORMATION,

ALL EVIDENCE, RECORDINGS,
INTERVIEWS,

INVOLVING GARY CONDIT.

Narrator:
IT SEEMS THAT THEY ARE
PARTICULARLY INTERESTED

IN ONE ASPECT
OF THE CONGRESSMAN'S PAST.

THE DEFENSE TEAM INTENDED
TO DEPOSE FORMER GIRLFRIENDS

WHO CLAIMED THE CONGRESSMAN
WAS INTO S&M AND BONDAGE

AND THE DEFENSE TEAM ARGUED THAT
CHANDRA MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED

IN A SEX ACT
GONE HORRIBLY WRONG.

AND WHY THAT'S SO IMPORTANT
IS BECAUSE,

WHEN CHANDRA LEVY'S SKELETAL
REMAINS WERE FOUND,

HER RUNNING TIGHTS
WERE ALSO FOUND,

AND BOTH LEGS OF THE TIGHTS
WERE TIED INTO KNOTS

WHICH, SOME SUGGESTED,
WAS HOW LEVY'S KILLER

BOUND HER AND RESTRAINED HER
BEFORE HE KILLED HER.

Narrator:
BUT WHEN BABS PROLLER'S
RECORDINGS EMERGED

AND THE CHARGES WERE DROPPED,

GUANDIQUE'S LAWYERS FILED AWAY
THE PROVOCATIVE DEFENSE.

WITH SO MANY
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

CIRCLING AROUND GARY CONDIT,
WE'VE ARRANGED

AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH HIS FORMER ASSOCIATE.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]
MY NAME IS VINCE FLAMMINI.

I WAS GARY CONDIT'S DRIVER,

CLOSE, CLOSE FRIEND,
AND BODYGUARD.

THE FIRST TIME I MET GARY,
HE WAS A YOUNG MAN

THAT WAS MAYOR OF CERES.

IT WAS ABOUT 1976.

I THOUGHT HE WAS REALLY
AN INTERESTING PERSON.

HE WAS FULL OF ENERGY
AND HE WAS NICE-LOOKING.

HE WAS REALLY A NEAT PERSON.

GARY LIKED TO WORK OUT
AND THAT WAS MY MAIN THING,

SO I TAUGHT HIM HOW TO TRAIN
AND WE GOT TO BE PARTNERS,

WORKING OUT TOGETHER
AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

Narrator:
VINCE CLAIMS THAT, OVER TIME,

THE CONGRESSMAN,
KNOWN FOR SECRECY,

BEGAN TO CONFIDE IN HIM.

Flammini:
WE HAD LOCKER-ROOM TALK.

HE'D TELL ME ABOUT
DIFFERENT GIRLFRIENDS

AND, IN FACT, I HAD TO MEET 'EM
BECAUSE YOU GOTTA REMEMBER:

I'M HIS DRIVER.

I MEAN, WHO KNOWS
BETTER THAN THE DRIVER?

IN SUMMER 2000, I PICKED
HIM UP AT THE AIRPORT.

HE DESCRIBED THAT A GIRL HE WAS
SEEING HAD BLACK, CURLY HAIR.

SHE HAD A BEAUTIFUL BODY.

SHE HAD BEAUTIFUL, ROUND
BREASTS, LIKE LITTLE MELONS.

HE WAS EXPLAINING IT ALL TO ME
'CAUSE HE WAS BRAGGIN'.

AND SHE WAS JEWISH.

AND THEN HE JUST GIVES ME
THE WHOLE PICTURE AND TELLS ME,

"SHE'S GOIN' WITH A COP.
HER FATHER'S A DOCTOR."

Narrator:
CONDIT NEVER MENTIONED
HER BY NAME,

BUT VINCE BELIEVES THE
DESCRIPTION WAS UNMISTAKABLE.

IT WAS CHANDRA.

IT WAS HER.
I MEAN, HOW MANY GIRLS

CAN YOU MATCH THAT WITH?

Narrator: IN 2001,
FLAMMINI WAS ABRUPTLY FIRED.

HE CLAIMS THAT THE TERMINATION
WAS IN KEEPING

WITH THE CONGRESSMAN'S
DISPOSITION.

I WAS WALKING ON EGGS MOST
OF THE TIME, AROUND GARY,

BECAUSE HE HAD A TEMPER
THAT JUST WAS UNREAL.

HE'D JUST BLOW UP,
TURN BRIGHT RED, BLOW UP,

AND HIS EYES WOULD GET PIERCING
LIKE YOU SEE ON TELEVISION.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO VINCE,

THE ALLEGATIONS THAT CONDIT'S
REPORTED PRACTICE OF S&M

CAUSED CHANDRA'S DEATH
DON'T RING TRUE.

Flammini:
THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE
THAT DIDN'T LIKE HIM.

THEY SAID, "WELL, MAYBE HE WAS
HAVING ONE OF THOSE SEX THINGS

WHERE YOU TIE A NECKTIE AROUND
HER NECK AND YOU CHOKE HER."

AND I SAYS, "I DON'T KNOW.

I DON'T KNOW OF HIM HAVING
THOSE SEX THINGS, EITHER."

Narrator:
THEN, WHEN CONDIT BEGAN
MAKING PUBLIC DENIALS

ABOUT THE MISSING INTERN,
VINCE BECAME ALARMED.

BUT NOW THAT HE SAYS
SHE WAS NEVER HIS GIRLFRIEND,

HE NEVER HAD
A RELATIONSHIP WITH HER,

AND HE DIDN'T MURDER HER,
ALL IN THE SAME LINE,

IT SCARES ME. I'M GOING,

"I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT HE HAD
A RELATIONSHIP WITH HER,

'CAUSE HE TOLD ME SO."

Narrator:
THE CRIME-SCENE LOCATION
ALSO GAVE HIM CONCERN.

I REALLY GOT UPSET
BECAUSE

HE WAS ALWAYS IN THAT PARK.

HE TOLD ME ABOUT THE PARK
AND THAT'S WHERE SHE'S MURDERED?

HE USED TO GO THERE
ALL THE TIME.

HE WENT THERE WITH OTHER
GIRLS, BEFORE CHANDRA.

IT'S A PLACE TO WALK AND IT'S
A PLACE TO SPEND SOME TIME

AND YOU CAN ALSO BE ALONE
BACK IN THE WOODS, I GUESS.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO VINCE, HE COULDN'T
KEEP WHAT HE KNEW TO HIMSELF.

I TRIED TO TELL THE FBI.

I TRIED TO TELL DIFFERENT PEOPLE

THAT, YOU KNOW,
SOME OF THE THINGS GARY DID,

AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR IT.

GARY WAS TAKING HIS LESSONS
FOR KARATE.

I TOLD THEM THE GUY'S NAME
THAT WAS TEACHING 'IM.

I TOLD THEM THAT GARY
WAS TAKIN' LESSONS,

HOW TO PUNCH SOMEBODY IN THE
THROAT AND TAKE 'EM OUT.

I SAYS, "DON'T YOU GUYS
EVEN WANNA KNOW?

THAT COULD'VE
HAPPENED ACCIDENTALLY."

AND THEY GO, "NO, NO.
THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT."

Narrator:
AFTER CONSIDERING
EVERYTHING HE KNOWS,

VINCE HAS DRAWN
HIS OWN CONCLUSIONS.

PERSONALLY,
I'VE KNOWN HIM SO LONG.

HE'S NOT A MURDERER.
I MEAN, JEEZ.

YOU DON'T THINK OF YOUR
BEST FRIEND BEING A MURDERER

AND, TO THIS DAY, I DON'T KNOW!

I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE
GARY WOULD MURDER SOMEBODY.

Narrator:
IN THE EYES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT,

THE DROPPED CHARGES
AGAINST GUANDIQUE

DID NOT CHANGE CONDIT'S
STATUS IN THE CASE.

THERE'S STILL NO EVIDENCE
THAT CONNECTS HIM TO THE MURDER

AND HE IS NOT A SUSPECT.

TO THIS DAY, THEY SAY THEY STILL
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE

TO LINK HIM
TO CHANDRA LEVY'S MURDER.

Narrator:
BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN
ABOUT THE MAN

WHO WAS ONCE CHARGED
WITH THE CRIME.

BECAUSE GUANDIQUE'S
CONVICTION WAS VACATED

AND THE SUBSEQUENT
CHARGES DROPPED,

DOUBLE JEOPARDY DOES NOT APPLY.

THE GOVERNMENT DISMISSED IT,

BUT THEY DISMISSED IT
WITHOUT PREJUDICE,

WHICH MEANS THEY'RE
LEAVING OPEN THE CHANCE

THAT THEY COULD CHARGE, INDICT,
AND RETRY MR. GUANDIQUE AGAIN

WITH ALL THE TRAPPINGS:
NEW JUDGE, NEW JURY, EVERYTHING.

Narrator:
AND SOME BELIEVE HE SHOULD,
INDEED, BE PUT ON TRIAL AGAIN.

HE WAS A LEGITIMATE SUSPECT,
AND HE IS, TO THIS DAY.

Narrator:
WITH THE HELP OF JOURNALIST
SYLVIA MORENO,

WE'VE ARRANGED TO SPEAK
WITH GUANDIQUE HIMSELF.

[ Speaking Spanish ]

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

[ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS,
CHORD STRIKES ]

Narrator: WHEN IT'S DISCOVERED
THE STAR WITNESS

IN THE CHANDRA LEVY MURDER
TRIAL LIED ON THE STAND,

THE PROSECUTION DROPS CHARGES
AGAINST INGMAR GUANDIQUE.

THERE ARE SOME WHO BELIEVE,
EVEN AS THE CASE FELL APART,

THAT HE'S STILL
THE MOST LIKELY MAN

TO HAVE COMMITTED THIS CRIME.

HE WAS A LEGITIMATE SUSPECT,
AND HE IS, TO THIS DAY.

NOW, JOURNALIST SYLVIA MORENO
IS INTERVIEWING GUANDIQUE

OVER THE PHONE,

FROM AN IMMIGRATION DETENTION
FACILITY IN VIRGINIA.

INGMAR?
-[ Speaking Spanish ]

AH, OKAY.

Narrator:
MORENO BEGINS BY ASKING
GUANDIQUE ABOUT THE ATTACKS

ON THE TWO JOGGERS THAT
LANDED HIM IN JAIL IN 2001.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

Narrator:
GUANDIQUE CLAIMS THAT ANOTHER
FORCE MOTIVATING HIS ACTIONS

WAS DRUGS.

MM-HMM.

[ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ]

[ OUTRO PLAYS ]

Narrator:
WHEN INVESTIGATORS QUESTIONED
GUANDIQUE IN PRISON IN 2008,

ONE OF HIS TATTOOS
CAUGHT THEIR ATTENTION.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

[in Spanish] No.

Sí.

MM-HMM.

**

[ SINISTER MUSIC CLIMBS ]
[in Spanish] No.

Narrator:
GUANDIQUE EXPLAINS THAT
ONE MOMENT FROM THE TRIAL,

AN ENCOUNTER WITH SUSAN LEVY,
HAS STAYED WITH HIM.

[ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ]

**

Narrator:
WHEN REFLECTING ON HIS FATE,
GUANDIQUE DRAWS A COMPARISON

TO ANOTHER PERSON OF INTEREST
IN THE CASE:

GARY CONDIT.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]
Moreno: I WOULD SAY

THAT GUANDIQUE'S POSITION
IS VERY CONSISTENT.

HE HAS ALWAYS REITERATED,

EVEN GOING BACK TO MY FIRST
COMMUNICATION WITH HIM,

VIA LETTER IN 2002,

THAT HE NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO
WITH THE CHANDRA LEVY MURDER.

Narrator:
NONETHELESS, IT'S LIKELY
THAT HE'LL SOON BE EXPATRIATED

TO EL SALVADOR.

AS A CRIMINAL ALIEN, UNDER
U.S. LAW, HE SHOULD BE DEPORTED,

BUT HE'S FIGHTING A CASE
TO STAY IN THE UNITED STATES

AND NOT BE DEPORTED
BACK TO EL SALVADOR.

Narrator:
NOW, WITH NO NEW EVIDENCE,
THE CASE HAS GONE COLD.

THE TRAGIC IRONY OF THIS CASE
IS THAT, AFTER ALL THIS WORK,

WE'VE COME FULL CIRCLE,
BACK TO

WE DON'T KNOW
WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY.

Narrator:
BUT ONE MAN BELIEVES
HE HAS THE ANSWER:

THE LEVY FAMILY'S
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR.

I HAVE MY THEORY AND
I'M CONVINCED OF MY THEORY

AND EVERYTHING
THAT WENT AROUND IT.

I'M SATISFIED THAT I KNOW
WHAT HAPPENED.

[ OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS ]

Narrator:
THE CHANDRA LEVY CASE

HAS ENDURED COUNTLESS
TWISTS AND TURNS

OVER THE LAST 16 YEARS.

THE TRAGIC IRONY OF THIS CASE
IS THAT, AFTER ALL THIS WORK,

WE'VE COME FULL CIRCLE,
BACK TO

WE DON'T KNOW
WHO KILLED CHANDRA LEVY.

OR WHY.

Narrator:
MANY BELIEVE ONE
UNANSWERED QUESTION

COULD BE THE KEY
TO SOLVING THIS MURDER.

WHAT WAS SHE DOING
IN ROCK CREEK PARK?

THERE ARE A WHOLE BUNCH
OF PEOPLE BELIEVES

THAT SHE WAS JOGGING
ALONG A TRAIL THERE.

SHE WAS SOMEONE
WHO TOOK CARE OF HER BODY,

LIKED TO EXERCISE EVERY DAY.

THE PARK OFFERED
A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY,

THE PERFECT PLACE TO DO THAT.

Narrator:
BUT SOME POINT
TO THE PARK'S LANDSCAPE

AND REACH
A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION.

THE LEADING PROPONENT
OF THIS IDEA IS

LEVY FAMILY INVESTIGATOR
JOE McCANN.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, EVER,

HE DISCUSSES IT ON-CAMERA.

I LOOK AT THE TRAIL THAT SHE'S
SUPPOSED TO BE JOGGING ON,

AND IT IS A HORSE TRAIL.

IT IS COVERED WITH ROCKS, ROOTS.

IT IS DIFFICULT TO JOG ON,

AND IT WOULDN'T BE
YOUR FIRST CHOICE.

YOU'D TWIST YOUR ANKLE.

I CAN TELL YOU SHE WASN'T
JOGGIN' ON THAT TRAIL.

SHE HAD ALSO EXPRESSED TO
FRIENDS THAT SHE WAS CONCERNED

ABOUT GOING TO REMOTE PLACES,
AS A WOMAN, ALONE,

SO WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT?

IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

Narrator:
McCANN BELIEVES ONE PIECE
OF EVIDENCE OFFERS INSIGHT

INTO WHY CHANDRA
LEFT HER APARTMENT.

I REMEMBER
BACK IN HER APARTMENT,

THERE WAS ONE THING
THAT WAS OUT OF PLACE.

THERE WAS A BLANKET
THAT WAS THROWN

JUST INSIDE HER FRONT DOOR.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO McCANN,

THIS INDICATES
THAT SHE LEFT IN A RUSH.

MAYBE THAT BLANKET WAS
IN THE DRYER

AND SHE RUSHED AND PULLED IT
OUT OF THE DRYER,

THREW IT ON THE GROUND,
AND LEFT.

Narrator:
IF SHE WAS, INDEED, IN A HURRY,
IT BEGS THE QUESTION: WHY?

ONE THEORY THAT THE POLICE
WERE WORKING UNDER

IS THAT CHANDRA LEVY
DELIBERATELY WENT

TO ROCK CREEK PARK
TO MEET SOMEONE.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THIS THEORY,
SHE WAS KILLED,

NOT BY A STRANGER,
LIKE GUANDIQUE;

BUT BY SOMEONE SHE KNEW.

MAYBE SHE GOT A CALL
AND MET SOMEBODY OUTSIDE

AND THEY DROVE
TO ROCK CREEK PARK.

WHOEVER SHE MET WITH, MAYBE,
COULDN'T GO HOME WITH HER,

AND SHE COULDN'T
BE SEEN WITH SOMEBODY

AND NOW, TOGETHER,
THEY WALK UP THE TRAIL.

AND, AT SOME POINT,
ON THAT TRAIL,

SHE WILLINGLY DECIDES
TO GO DOWN THE TRAIL

OR DOWN THE HILL
WITH THIS PERSON,

AND SOMETHING BAD
HAPPENED THERE.

Narrator:
McCANN HAS THE NAME
OF A SUSPECT IN MIND.

BUT WON'T REVEAL WHO.

I HAVE MY THEORY.

I DON'T NECESSARILY DISCUSS
THAT, ESPECIALLY NOT ON-CAMERA.

THAT'S MY OWN THING.
AND I CAN'T PROVE IT.

BUT I'M SATISFIED
THAT I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.

Narrator:
DESPITE HIS CERTAINTY,
McCANN FEELS THE EVIDENCE

CONNECTING HIS SUSPECT
TO THE CRIME IS LACKING

AND THE METRO PD IS
NO LONGER WORKING THE CASE.

ONCE AN ARREST IS MADE,
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS

TO THE PERSON AFTER THAT ARREST,
THE CASE REMAINS CLOSED.

WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S GONNA BE
ANY MORE ENERGY DEVOTED

TO TRYING TO SOLVE THIS THING,

I DON'T KNOW
WHERE ELSE THEY CAN GO.

[ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ]

**

Narrator:
IT SEEMS THE IDENTITY
OF THE PERPETRATOR

COULD FOREVER REMAIN A MYSTERY.

THE POOR WOMAN WAS MURDERED

AND THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE
MAY NEVER BE FOUND.

MAYBE HE WAS FOUND AND THE
GOVERNMENT SCREWED IT UP.

NOW WE'RE 15 YEARS LATER.

WE HAVE NO ADDITIONAL
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

WE HAVE NO EYEWITNESSES, SO,

IN MY MIND, IT'S EVEN
MORE DIFFICULT TO SOLVE.

WHEN IT COMES TO COLD CASES,
OR CASES LIKE THIS,

YOU LIVE FOR THE LONG SHOT.

IT MAY NEVER HAPPEN,

OR SOMETHING
MAY COME UP TOMORROW.

ONE THING THAT HAUNTS ME IS

THAT I MIGHT'VE MISSED
THAT LEAD THAT CAME IN.

I MIGHT'VE READ IT
AND JUST BLEW IT AWAY

AND THAT WAS THE THING THAT
WOULD'VE SOLVED THIS CASE.

TO THIS DAY,
I STILL THINK ABOUT THAT.

[ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ]

[ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ]

[ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ]
THIS HAS BEEN A VERY EMOTIONAL

AND VERY PHYSICALLY DIFFICULT
CASE FOR THE LEVY FAMILY

AND, FOR IT TO CONTINUE,

INDEFINITELY, AT THIS POINT,
IS SO UNFAIR TO THE FAMILY.

ANYTIME A YOUNG ADULT
LOSES THEIR LIFE,

IT BECOMES A TRAGEDY BECAUSE

THERE IS SO MUCH POTENTIAL
THERE THAT'S NEVER REALIZED.

WE DON'T LIKE THE WORD CLOSURE.

NOBODY REALLY LIKES IT,
WHO'S LOST ANYBODY.

YOU KNOW, WE HATE THAT WORD.

I THINK YOU LEARN TO SEE WHAT
IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE IS

AND WHAT TRIVIAL THINGS
THERE ARE.

Narrator:
THROUGHOUT THEIR DAYS,

THE LEVYS CELEBRATE
THEIR DAUGHTER

IN A UNIQUE AND UNEXPECTED WAY.

WE CELEBRATE LADYBUGS.

-YEAH, LADYBUGS.
-MESSAGES.

WE CELEBRATE SIGNS
AND MESSAGES.

HER SECRET NAME
WAS LITTLE LADYBUG

AND, WHEN WE TRAVEL,

SHE SHOWS UP IN UNIQUE WAYS.

LAST YEAR, WE WERE
IN INNER MONGOLIA.

IT'S REMOTE
AND WE STOPPED TO EAT.

AND, ON BOB'S PANTS
SHOWS UP A LADYBUG

AND IT STAYED QUITE A WHILE.

AND I ASKED EVERYBODY
IF THEY'D EVER SEE LADYBUGS?

IT'S THE FIRST TIME.

IN RUSSIA, BOB SAID HE SAW
A WOMAN DRIVE BY, ON A BIKE,

THAT LOOKED LIKE CHANDRA.

ALL OF A SUDDEN,
THERE'S A LADYBUG ON THE BUS.

THEN IT HAPPENED
IN GERMANY.

Robert:
IT'S BEEN A WHILE NOW, AND YOU
JUST GET USED TO EVERYTHING.

YOU HATE TO GET USED TO IT,
BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO
BUT GO ON?