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Police Continue Searching D.C. Parks for Missing Intern

Aired July 24, 2001 - 09:00   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Now, we have an update for you on the Chandra Levy mystery. The family is releasing some new photos of the missing former intern. Police, though, still have no new leads. Our national correspondent Eileen O'Connor joins us from Washington with the latest.

Eileen, good morning.

EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn. Police say it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, but they intend to keep looking. Police recruits will continue to search area parks, making their way through Rock Creek park. It's nearly 2,000 acres, but police say they are working along jogging paths and roads. They're looking for signs of a struggle and perhaps someone's attempt to hide a body in the underbrush.

They're interested in Rock Creek park, they say, because Chandra Levy's computer, according to a search they did of it, indicated she pulled up maps of some areas of the park.

Now, the Washington intern disappeared about three months ago. Her parents released some new video hoping to keep public pressure up. Her aunt says that Chandra Levy confided in her about the relationship, a relationship with Congressman Gary Condit. According to police sources, he has admitted a romantic relationship with her.

But the congressman's lawyer insists he was not involved in her disappearance. Representatives of the congressman say he will cooperate with police in their quest for another interview and another polygraph tests. His lawyer stresses that the congressman is not considered a suspect and he says that he passed a lie detector test already, but that test was administered privately.

Police say they have some specific questions they want answered to aide in the investigation. No agreement so far between the congressman's lawyers and the police as to when an interview or another lie detector test will be held -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Eileen O'Connor in Washington. Eileen, thank you.

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