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...page of the New York Post, stringy haired and glassy eyed under a headline demanding: ASK HIM. How did he come to figure in the sensational case of the nation's most famous missing person? Was there any evidence that he had anything to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy--other than the fact that he happened to be the brother of the Congressman with whom she had had an affair...
...question Darrell Condit, who was arrested Saturday on an unrelated charge (a DUI parole violation), served its purpose. It gave reporters a new angle to cover in a case that has been cold almost from the beginning. And that kept the pressure on police to continue looking for Chandra Levy--and on Congressman Gary Condit to provide whatever he may know about how and why she vanished...
...there is one reason Chandra Levy's is the only name you recognize among the roughly half a million people reported missing this year across the country, it is the determination of her desperate family to put her in the news and keep her there. By the standards police apply to most of their cases, Levy's disappearance--for all its sexual intrigue and despite her connection to a powerful politician--would have moved into the background by now. After three months of saturation coverage, Washington police chief Charles Ramsey says, "we still don't have a hard lead," despite...
...hunger for news in a newsless story. The family's lawyer, Billy Martin, saw plenty of missing-persons cases fall through the cracks in his 15 years as a federal prosecutor. From the start, he believed "p.r. was going to be key" to keeping that from happening to Chandra, says a source close to the Levys. So the team hired the high-powered Washington public relations firm Porter Novelli and later added another p.r. professional, Judy Smith, with whom Martin had worked when both were representing Monica Lewinsky's family. Martin, a popular figure with Washington police from his days...
...spend the August recess. Does he go home and hide out? Does he face public scrutiny or take a vacation? Such suffering, of course, means nothing next to that of the Levys, who have endured nearly 100 days of agony. In a move born of frustration, Susan Levy, Chandra's mother, hinted that the family may sue Condit in civil court, although for now such a suit seems unlikely. And it felt like desperate, heartbroken hope when Chandra's mother stood outside her Modesto, Calif., home late last week and quoted Matthew 10:26 to reporters: "There is nothing concealed...