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Search for Chandra Levy Continues

Aired July 23, 2001 - 10:26   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: In Washington, D.C., police return to Rock Creek Park today. They continue their search for Chandra Levy. With leads to the missing intern scarce, investigators are considering what their next move could be.

Our national correspondent Eileen O'Connor has the latest -- Eileen.

EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Daryn, police want to talk to more people and probably to Congressman Gary Condit again, in their search for Washington intern Chandra Levy.

Police say they are continuing to search area parks today, sending some 50 recruits in total to two areas, one in southeast Washington and the other in Rock Creek Park. Last week's searches turned up nothing new. They say they are concentrating on areas in the southeast that are not heavily trespassed, areas that could be used to hide a body. Also, they are concentrating on areas in Rock Creek Park that Chandra Levy showed an interest in, pulling up maps of the area on her computer the morning of her disappearance.

The management of Chandra Levy's apartment building has been distributing memos to every unit in the building. The memos ask residents to call detectives if they have not been interviewed. Some have already been interviewed by police. In addition, desk clerks in the building were asked, over a month ago, to sign affidavits about what they had seen of Miss Levy in the days leading up to her disappearance.

Police sources say they will probably interview Congressman Gary Condit a fourth time. They would like to, and they have been talking about him talking another polygraph. The police chief was not happy with one that the congressman lawyer says that he took and passed. This polygraph was administered privately. The police say that they have specific questions that they want answered by the congressman.

Another source of concern for them, they say, is that police sources say they retrieved a watch case from a garbage can in a Virginia suburb. Sources say the congressman was spotted throwing the case there hours before his apartment was searched by police, on July 10. The box was traced to a California store and to a woman who police say says bought the watch for the congressman. Now, that watch case, according to police, doesn't appear to have any direct connection to Chandra Levy's disappearance -- Daryn. KAGAN: Eileen O'Connor, in Washington, thank you.

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