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Chandra Ann Levy ( Gary Condit , a Democrat representing California's 18th Congressional District and a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Though Condit was never called a suspect by police, the uproar led to his exit from Congress. While her body was found in Rock Creek Park , the circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear. LIFE AND BACKGROUND Levy was born in , earning a degree in journalism. After interning for the California Bureau of Secondary Education and working in the office of Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan , she began attending the University Of Southern California to earn a Master's Degree in Public Administration . As part of her studies, she moved to Washington, D.C., to become an intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, although shortly before her death, this was abruptly terminated when her academic eligibility was found to have expired. She had previously completed her degree requirements and was scheduled to return to California for graduation. CASE AND SCANDAL Disappearance and search On May 1 , 2001 , police said she had disappeared and controversy surrounding her disappearance was a main topic of the American news media for the months prior to the September 11, 2001 Attacks . The resulting publicity contributed to Condit's failure to win his party's re-nomination, and thus re-election, to his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Levy's parents, Robert and Susan Levy of Modesto, held numerous vigils and news conferences in an attempt to "bring Chandra home." (Mrs. Levy later participated in the efforts to find another Modesto woman, Laci Peterson .) Condit, a married man who represented the congressional district where the Levy family resided, at first denied that he had had an Affair with Chandra. His later statements left open the possibility of an affair. Even though police repeatedly stated that Condit was not a suspect, many in the popular media—along with Levy's family and much of the American public—suspected that Condit was still hiding important information about the intern's disappearance. This suspicion was deepened when Condit refused to submit to a lie detector test to be administered by the Washington D.C. police, which they requested on July 10 , 2001 . Additionally, Condit tried to avoid answering direct questions during a televised interview with news anchor Connie Chung on August 23 , 2001 . Condit later appeared before a District of Columbia Grand Jury investigating the disappearance. Condit subsequently lost the Democratic primary election in March 2002, and left Congress at the end of his term in 2003. Discovery of remains District of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey announced on May 22 , 2002 , that remains matching Levy's Dental Records were found by a man walking his dog and looking for turtles in Rock Creek Park near Levy's apartment in northwest Washington, D.C. Police had previously searched well over half the area of the 2,000-acre (8-km&2) park, which Levy had visited on many occasions, after determining that someone had used Levy's laptop computer to do an internet search for the park's Klingle Mansion on the day police believed she went missing. |
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