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The Search for Chandra: Police No Closer to Solving Case

Aired July 30, 2001 - 07:10   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Turning now to the Chandra Levy investigation. Law enforcement sources tell CNN material taken from Representative Gary Condit's apartment does not help in the search for the former government intern. And police admit they are no closer to solving the case than when it first started.

CNN's Bob Franken is live in Washington with the latest on this case.

Bob, are they resuming any of the search today though in Rock Creek Park?

BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they have finished with Rock Creek Park. There are some wooded areas around Washington where the searches will resume. Thus far, the searches, every approach they have taken has resulted in a dead end. And we are approaching three months since Chandra Levy disappeared -- is unaccounted for.

Nearly three months of an intensive investigation, fueled in large part, of course, by the fact that Congressman Gary Condit was involved in a romantic relationship with Chandra Levy. That is something he has now acknowledged to investigators after over the longest period of time refusing to admit to that. But it is an investigation that the police chief now says stands a 50/50 chance of not being solved, at least for a long time.

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CHIEF CHARLES RAMSEY, D.C. METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT: ... quite frankly is the most frustrating is the fact that we have not found anything to point in one direction or the other. Whether or not she left on her own, or whether or not she met with foul play.

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FRANKEN: Now, the police are saying that when they resume their search of the wooded areas this week before they finish up, for the most part they will be retracing their steps -- Carol.

LIN: All right. Thank you very much, Bob Franken. And, Bob, I know you are going to join me later on. We are going to be interviewing the assistant chief of the Washington, D.C. police department. So I'll see you then. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.