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American Morning

Chandra Levy Now Missing for 100 Days

Aired August 08, 2001 - 10:08   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Now the latest on the Chandra Levy investigation. The former intern has been missing for a hundred days now. Authorities are still looking for the all important lead that will give them a break in the case. So far nothing.

Joining us now to talk more about the investigation, Mike Brooks, former D.C. police detective, has been very helpful throughout this whole 100 days in letting us know how the police department and these type of investigations work.

Mike, good morning.

MIKE BROOKS, CNN CONSULTANT: Good morning, Daryn.

KAGAN: A hundred days. Is that just a milestone that we in the media make up or is that significant within a police department as well?

BROOKS: Well, I think it's more on this one that a little more of what the media makes up. It's nowhere being a cold case. A lot of people have...

KAGAN: It is not, even though a hundred days?

BROOKS: Not at all. Some people like to put 120 days as a cold case increment, a year, two years. But as long as they still have leads to follow, it would be a cold case.

KAGAN: But that's the problem, there haven't been any leads.

BROOKS: Well, they're going back right now looking at statements. They're looking at all the statements that they took before, going through with a fine tooth comb, trying to find one piece that they might be able to link together with maybe another statement to try to find something at all that may lead to finding Chandra Levy.

KAGAN: You, we heard earlier the assistant chief of the police department say that we in the media, perhaps, and also people at home have watched too many detective movies, have watched too many half hour shows where everything gets wrapped up neatly. In the world of missing person cases, is a hundred days a long time or a short amount of time?

BROOKS: It's fairly a long time. Most missing person's cases end, usually end to a successful conclusion, the person coming back or them finding the person who's missing within 48 hours. This, again, a hundred days. There are still tips coming in. There's still leads coming in to the Metropolitan Police Department, also to Billy Martin's office, the attorney that was hired by Chandra Levy's family. They are on an every day basis turning over information that they receive. So there's dozens of calls coming in every day and as long as these calls come in the police will continue to investigate.

KAGAN: As long as they have something, some lead to follow. But where does it go from here otherwise?

BROOKS: It, again, it's a very tedious process now, going back over. They're doing reinterviews. They're talking about who they need to reinterview again. And again, as a hundred days go by, people who have been interviewed before, well, they may, something may jog their memory...

KAGAN: Like oh, yes, I should have told you that but I didn't.

BROOKS: Exactly. So, again, that's what they're doing. They're just, again, fine tooth comb, a very tedious process, but it's something that has to be done.

KAGAN: Very tedious, especially for the family, I would imagine.

BROOKS: Absolutely.

KAGAN: Mike Brooks, thank you so much.

BROOKS: Thank you, Daryn.

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