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Police Continue to Search Land, Cyberspace for Signs of Chandra Levy

Aired July 18, 2001 - 07:03   ET

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COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR: Here are the latest developments in the Chandra Levy disappearance. Police searches of two city parks are expected to resume today. So far, those searches haven't turned up any clues.

Police are working with the FBI on a profile of Levy. They're trying to figure out her state of mind at the time of her disappearance.

And police today plan to release a list of Web sites that she surfed on May 1, hoping to jog the public's memory.

CNN's national correspondent Eileen O'Connor has more now, from Washington.

Good morning -- Eileen.

EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Colleen.

Police say that they are going to continue their search of Rock Creek Park and Fort Dupont. On Tuesday, 28 police recruits searched the park for about six hours, covering an area that seemed to be of interest to Chandra Levy. A map of that and other areas in the park that they are searching were on her computer. The police did find a pair of running shoes, and what they're describing as a utility knife, a box knife. They sent in an evidence collection team, and they took both items away.

It is unclear if they are related to the search for the missing woman. The area is one frequented by joggers. They said that she often liked to work out, to jog.

Police are also going to release a list of Web sites, as you indicated, that Chandra Levy was looking at on the day of and right before her disappearance. And they're contacting airlines to see if this information can jog anyone's memory, if perhaps she did travel under an assumed name. Her computer, they believe, holds some keys. E-mails, for instance, that she sent, indicative of her state of mind, they say, showing nothing out of the ordinary.

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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, CO-HOST, "BURDEN OF PROOF": Does e-mail suggest what she was doing, who she might be seeing?

ASSISTANT CHIEF TERRANCE GAINER, D.C. METROPOLITAN POLICE: Well, it does, at least, suggest, I think, a state of mind, and it appeared, given the tone and tenor of those e-mails, that there was nothing unusual going on in her life. She talked about going back for her graduation and giving up the apartment and her desire to travel -- nothing specific.

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O'CONNOR: Police say while they are going to continue the search in the parks, they are not going to search landfills that they had said they would search, citing cost and time considerations -- Colleen.

MCEDWARDS: Eileen, was there anything about the Web sites that she visited that police find strange or instructive in any way, or are they really just looking for a needle in the haystack here?

O'CONNOR: Well, they say it is really a search for a needle in a haystack, and it's a very big haystack. Some of the Web sites were regarding travel plans and that she was looking up airfares. So that indicated that she was looking to travel back, as she had indicated to her parents, for her graduation.

Also there were some Web sites that she looked up that related to the House Agricultural Committee, a committee that Congressman Gary Condit was on. They're not sure why she was looking at that site. So again, they're just going to give this list out and see if, perhaps, maybe some friends or someone she might have spoken to -- that it can sort of jog their memory as to why she might have been looking at that, showing her state of mind, what she was planning to do, perhaps -- Colleen.

MCEDWARDS: Get it out there and see what happens.

Eileen O'Connor, thanks very much.

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