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Police Continue to Search Land, Cyberspace for Clues About Chandra Levy

Aired July 18, 2001 - 08:09   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Police in Washington are trying to shake loose any new leads in the Chandra Levy case. That's why they plan to release a list of Web sites the former intern visited before she disappeared.

CNN's Eileen O'Connor is in Washington this morning, with the latest on the search for this 24-year-old woman -- Eileen.

EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, police say that they are expanding their search. They're going to continue to search in Rock Creek Park, but they are now going to include some other small city parks in that search.

On Tuesday, 28 police recruits searched Rock Creek Park area for about six hours, and also Fort Dupont. They covered 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 blue running shoes and what they are describing as a utility knife. They sent in an evidence- collection team, and they took both items away. It's unclear if these items are related to the search for the missing woman. The area is one frequented by joggers. They say that Chandra Levy also liked to exercise and work out.

Today, they will also focus on parks in southeast Washington -- Fort Davis, Fort Chaplin, and Fort Mahan Parks. They have said they want to search any park areas in the vicinity.

Police are also going to release a list of Web sites that Chandra Levy was looking at. And they are contacting airlines and other transportation sites to see if they can jog anyone's memory, perhaps to see if it's possible that she had traveled somewhere under an assumed name. But they are really trying to reconstruct her state of mind, and they say that her computer, they believe, holds some keys. E-mails, they say, for instance that she sent, are indicative of her state of mind, and they say that, so far, they show nothing out of the ordinary.

Police say that while they are continuing their search, they are not going to now search landfills. They say it would take too much time and too much manpower and makes it far too costly -- Carol.

LIN: Thank you very much, Eileen -- an ongoing story there -- following in Washington.

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