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Police Continuing Investigation in Chandra Levy Mystery

Aired May 24, 2002 - 13:12   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Now on to the nation's capital where Washington police say their search of Rock Creek Park last summer did not cover the spot where Chandra Levy's remains were found Wednesday morning.

CNN's Jason Carroll is in Rock Creek Park with the latest from there.

Hi there, Jason.

JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello there to you, Fredricka.

I'm actually standing in the area where Chandra Levy's skeletal remains were found. And as you say, D.C. police now say that they missed this area when they were initially searching for Chandra Levy last year. As you know, a man walking through Rock Creek Park on Wednesday came across Levy's skeletal remains. Police say that this is a very wide area, Rock Creek Park. They also want to remind people that the area where Chandra Levy's remains were discovered was a very dense area. They say that the park is some 1,800 acres. It would be virtually impossible, they say, to search every part of it.

In terms of the investigation, police will be reinterviewing a man by the name of Ingmar Guandeque. He's already serving a 10-year sentence for assaulting two women in the park. Police say it's too early to draw any conclusions from that. They point out that they'll be interviewing a number of people in this case. They'll continue to search the area where the remains were found.

And this morning they gave us a sense of what they were going to be doing today.

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SGT. SCOTT FEAR, U.S. PARK POLICE: Today we have U.S. Park Police is assisting Metropolitan Police with the total station. That's a mechanism where it helps diagram -- give a computer diagram of the area up there, the crime scene. It gives distances and measurements. Usually used on like a fatality accident for skid marks and impact, places like that, but it can also be used on crime scenes to determine the distance of where evidence was found and things like that.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CARROLL: Chandra Levy was 24 years old.

In addition to her skeletal remains, police also came across a sweatshirt, tennis shoes and also other clothing. D.C. police will be working with an anthropologist, they'll be working with a botanist and other forensic specialists to try and come up with a cause for exactly how Chandra Levy died -- Fredricka

WHITFIELD: And, Jason, are investigators saying any more as to whether they feel somewhat positive that they might be able to find any kind of DNA evidence on those clothes and shoes that were found?

CARROLL: Well, certainly, the clothes and the shoes and the other material that they found have been out here for quite some time, but there's always the possibility that they might be able to come up with fibers and things of that nature on any of these clothes. You know it's really just going to take time for them to be able to canvas the area where the skeletal remains were found, to try to come up with as much evidence as they can. And then, of course, they're going to need time to go over what they have indeed found -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks very much.

Jason Carroll from the nation's capital.

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