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Chandra Levy's Family Is Not Giving Up Hope

Aired July 29, 2001 - 08:03   ET

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VINCE CELLINI, CNN ANCHOR: Chandra Levy's family says the nightmare continues, but they are not giving up hope. CNN's Patty Davis brings us up to date from Washington on the case of the missing intern. Good morning, Patty.

PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. This will begin week number three for Washington D.C. police to look through the areas heavily wooded parks for signs of Chandra Levy. They've also looked at abandoned buildings over the past few weeks. Now, on Friday police recruits came up empty handed after six hours of searches. Still no sign of the former intern or any firm lead.

Her father talked to reporters yesterday, still optimistic despite little progress.

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DR. ROBERT LEVY, FATHER OF MISSING INTERN: All the scenarios, you know, we go through all those. A lot of them are pretty bad, and some of them are still possible and positive. We just hope that good will triumph. That's all we hope for. You never know.

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DAVIS: The 24-year-old former intern has been missing now for almost three months. The reward for information leading to her safe return now at $205,000. Police are continuing to interview residents in her Washington D.C. apartment building, re-interviewing others, to find out what they know, share what they know what they know about what she may have been doing in the hours before her disappearance May 1.

Now, as for Congressman Gary Condit, police say that they interviewed him for a fourth time, along with the FBI, on Thursday. He admitted, they say, in the third interview that he had an intimate relationship with Chandra Levy. And law enforcement sources tell CNN that he helped them with "insightful and useful information concerning Chandra Levy's state of mind" -- Vince.

CELLINI: Thank you, Patty, very much.

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