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Interview With Candice DeLong

Aired September 29, 2002 - 18:16   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In Washington, a person familiar with the Chandra Levy investigation says police want to re-administer a lie detector test to Ingmar Guandique.
He was tested once but the source says there was some kind of discrepancy so rather than ask questions through a translator, investigators want a bilingual technician administering the test to be the one to ask the questions in Spanish. Levy's remains were found in a D.C. area park last May, a year after she disappeared. Guandique is serving a ten-year prison sentence for attacking two women in the same area.

Former FBI profiler, Candice DeLong wrote a book, "Special Agent, My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI" and she joins us from San Francisco this evening, hi Candice.

CANDICE DELONG, FORMER FBI PROFILER: Hi, Carol.

LIN: So what do you think of this case? Do you think this man should be retested?

DELONG: Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with retesting him. I doubt that the outcome is going to be much different than it was before but I think it's good that they're retesting him since there apparently is a language discrepancy.

LIN: I mean, does this happen very often?

DELONG: No. It would seem to me that if he's a native Spanish speaker he should have been tested by a bilingual examiner to begin with, but nevertheless they've caught the error and they're taking care of it now.

LIN: Well, you sound pretty skeptical that he actually killed Chandra Levy.

DELONG: Well, I'll tell you what, Carol. I would be surprised if he did. Of course it's possible. He has not been alibi'd out, as we say, of it but I would be surprised and this is the reason why. In an analysis of the behavior, the criminal behavior, generally speaking sexual predators, such as this man, with each subsequent attack they escalate their level of violence and these two women that he is incarcerated for attacking were attacked after Chandra went missing and we now know that Chandra probably was killed around the time she went missing on May 1. So, I would be surprised from that alone if he did. LIN: So what does that tell you about the quality or the nature of the D.C. Police's investigation into this matter? I mean first they dismissed him as a suspect early on because he passed a lie detector test. Now they're finding flaws with their own lie detector test, and meanwhile at that time, the public was raising a lot of questions about whether they actually had the real killer in custody because of a similar profile. I mean what's going on within that department?

DELONG: Well, it's hard to say, of course. I'm not a part of that investigation. But for whatever the reason is, I think it's good that they're going back now and redoing this lie detector. However, I can tell you, I'm sure you're aware that lie detectors are not admissible in court. They have their failings.

If he were to flunk this polygraph after it's administered by a bilingual examiner, that wouldn't particularly concern me. I wouldn't say well, that means he killed her. Similarly, if he were to pass it, doesn't mean he didn't. There are other things that they are going to have to use to link him to this crime, if he did it, and frankly I doubt that he did.

LIN: All right, so it doesn't sound like we're any further along in finding Chandra Levy's killer yet.

DELONG: I'm afraid not.

LIN: All right, thank you very much Candice DeLong.

DELONG: You're welcome.

LIN: Good to see you.

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Aired September 29, 2002 - 18:16   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In Washington, a person familiar with the Chandra Levy investigation says police want to re-administer a lie detector test to Ingmar Guandique.
He was tested once but the source says there was some kind of discrepancy so rather than ask questions through a translator, investigators want a bilingual technician administering the test to be the one to ask the questions in Spanish. Levy's remains were found in a D.C. area park last May, a year after she disappeared. Guandique is serving a ten-year prison sentence for attacking two women in the same area.

Former FBI profiler, Candice DeLong wrote a book, "Special Agent, My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI" and she joins us from San Francisco this evening, hi Candice.

CANDICE DELONG, FORMER FBI PROFILER: Hi, Carol.

LIN: So what do you think of this case? Do you think this man should be retested?

DELONG: Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with retesting him. I doubt that the outcome is going to be much different than it was before but I think it's good that they're retesting him since there apparently is a language discrepancy.

LIN: I mean, does this happen very often?

DELONG: No. It would seem to me that if he's a native Spanish speaker he should have been tested by a bilingual examiner to begin with, but nevertheless they've caught the error and they're taking care of it now.

LIN: Well, you sound pretty skeptical that he actually killed Chandra Levy.

DELONG: Well, I'll tell you what, Carol. I would be surprised if he did. Of course it's possible. He has not been alibi'd out, as we say, of it but I would be surprised and this is the reason why. In an analysis of the behavior, the criminal behavior, generally speaking sexual predators, such as this man, with each subsequent attack they escalate their level of violence and these two women that he is incarcerated for attacking were attacked after Chandra went missing and we now know that Chandra probably was killed around the time she went missing on May 1. So, I would be surprised from that alone if he did. LIN: So what does that tell you about the quality or the nature of the D.C. Police's investigation into this matter? I mean first they dismissed him as a suspect early on because he passed a lie detector test. Now they're finding flaws with their own lie detector test, and meanwhile at that time, the public was raising a lot of questions about whether they actually had the real killer in custody because of a similar profile. I mean what's going on within that department?

DELONG: Well, it's hard to say, of course. I'm not a part of that investigation. But for whatever the reason is, I think it's good that they're going back now and redoing this lie detector. However, I can tell you, I'm sure you're aware that lie detectors are not admissible in court. They have their failings.

If he were to flunk this polygraph after it's administered by a bilingual examiner, that wouldn't particularly concern me. I wouldn't say well, that means he killed her. Similarly, if he were to pass it, doesn't mean he didn't. There are other things that they are going to have to use to link him to this crime, if he did it, and frankly I doubt that he did.

LIN: All right, so it doesn't sound like we're any further along in finding Chandra Levy's killer yet.

DELONG: I'm afraid not.

LIN: All right, thank you very much Candice DeLong.

DELONG: You're welcome.

LIN: Good to see you.

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