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Parents of Chandra Levy Speak Out on LARRY KING LIVE
Aired August 16, 2001 - 07:05 ET
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BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR: For an hour last night, the parents of Chandra Levy shared their sorrow and their suspicions with CNN's Larry King about the disappearance of their daughter.
As CNN national correspondent Bob Franken now reports, the Levys suggest that their daughter would be with them had she not become involved with Congressman Gary Condit.
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BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Although police repeatedly say that Gary Condit is not a suspect in the disappearance of Chandra Levy, her parents on CNN's "LARRY KING LIVE" disagreed with that more strongly than they ever have before.
LARRY KING, HOST: So you think he was somehow involved?
ROBERT LEVY, CHANDRA LEVY'S FATHER: Well, because he was involved with her, and she was there and waiting around and, you know...
(CROSSTALK)
KING: So somehow involved with her disappearance. Is that your feeling?
R. LEVY: Well, I do have deep suspicions about that.
KING: You do?
R. LEVY: Yes.
KING: And you do too?
SUSAN LEVY, CHANDRA LEVY'S MOTHER: I do.
FRANKEN: Susan Levy says Congressman Condit broke his promise to cooperate with their private investigators and lied to her about his relationship with her daughter.
In response, Condit's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, told CNN he had offered extensive information to the Levy's attorney and investigators. ABBE LOWELL, GARY CONDIT'S ATTORNEY: Five weeks ago now, July 13, I wrote a letter to the Levy's attorney. And in that letter, I said that we would be very happy to provide him and his private investigators with all of the information they need, because there is so much information out there that's wrong.
FRANKEN: It took three interviews with law enforcement officials before Condit admitted, according to police sources, that he had an intimate relationship with the former Washington intern.
The Levys say because of that, their detectives are not yet ready to dismiss him as a suspect.
R. LEVY: Well, they're suspicious of it. You know, if you really don't want to - if you have something to hide, you can't cooperate because you'll incriminate yourself, and you don't want to say anything.
FRANKEN: Bob and Susan Levy have had to endure watching the search in Washington for their daughter's body on television from their California home 3,000 miles away.
KING: What was it like for you looking at the search?
S. LEVY: Oh, it was horrible. Just painful.
KING: You want them to fail.
S. LEVY: Well, I wanted them to fail, and also, I sometimes think that they nonchalantly walked the grid and really, not really looking.
R. LEVY: Well...
S. LEVY: I mean, that's kind of how I feel.
R. LEVY: ... I know, I mean...
FRANKEN: Condit's attorney, Lowell, contends that the Levys are doing everything they can to keep the story of their daughter's disappearance in front of the public.
LOWELL: I think they have felt over the last couple of weeks, it began to fade. And I think the media has proven that the way you get this story back in the news is you say the name Gary Condit.
FRANKEN: The investigation has now dragged on for more than three months, each day chipping away at the Levy's hopes for their daughter's survival, each day a struggle to remember not to refer to her in the past tense.
R. LEVY: We don't want to do that.
S. LEVY: No.
R. LEVY: We don't want to do that. (CROSSTALK)
KING: ... people after a while, though.
R. LEVY: Yes. You know, it has been so long that we - you know, we can't help thinking like that, you know. It's just been our gravest - you know, so long.
FRANKEN: Bob Franken, CNN, San Francisco.
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