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...police were alerted to Levy's disappearance on May 6, 2001, when the parents of the 24-year-old intern in the Federal Bureau of Prisoners called to say they hadn't heard from their daughter in five days. The Levys and investigators quickly zeroed in on Gary Condit, an immaculately coiffed representative from Ceres, Calif. with a wife and two children - and with whom Levy was conducting a clandestine affair...
When her ties to Condit emerged, the familiar twist - the fresh-faced intern besotted with an older Washington power-broker - transfixed the country. As police combed Rock Creek Park in Northwest Washington for signs of the missing woman, tips rushed in: Levy was buried in Virginia, or at the bottom of the Potomac, or had become pregnant and fled. Not until the attacks of Sept. 11 did the media spotlight trained on the case begin to flicker. Finally, on May 22, 2002, a man walking his dog in a Rock Creek Park ravine discovered Levy's remains. What he thought...
...forcing a month-long delay before police were able to discover that she may have planned to visit the park on the day of her disappearance. The police were criticized for fanning the media fury and impeding the investigation by holding press conferences. Most significantly, they honed in on Condit at the exclusion of other suspects...
...Post, explaining how Guandique had been overlooked. (The paper's exhaustive investigation of the case is available online). But the exclusion of a key suspect exacted a steep price on many people. By exposing his adultery and painting him, however briefly, as a suspected murderer, the case torpedoed Condit's career and left his reputation in tatters. He was ousted in a 2002 primary challenge, and left the House when his term expired in 2003. Aside from a tumultuous stint running two Baskin-Robbins franchises, he and his wife have filed several lawsuits to rehabilitate his shattered image. Levy...
Despite media speculation about Condit's role, D.C. police said repeatedly that he was not a suspect. The controversy still cost him his 30-year political career. The Democrat lost his 2002 re-election bid and moved with his wife to Arizona in 2003. "He's a survivor, but [the defeat] crushed him," son Chad told Larry King last year. The Condits filed--and settled--defamation lawsuits against publications including the National Enquirer. Today Condit runs a couple of businesses, including a Baskin-Robbins--and avoids reporters...