March 3rd, 2009, at 2:52 pm | 
The recent announcement that an arrest warrant has been issued in the Chandra Levy murder investigation seems to finally put punctuation on one of the most bungled police investigations in recent memory.
For those that don’t remember, Chandra Levy was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., when she disappeared in 2001. It was later disclosed that she was having an affair with Gary Condit, then a United States congressman from California.
Essentially persecuted by the press, Condit was widely presumed to have played a role in Levy’s disappearance simply because of their affair. Police were irrationally laser focused on his actions, the nature of the affair, and his whereabouts during the week of her disappearance.
That’s not to say I’m a Condit fan: the guy’s a douche of the highest order if only for being evasive and less-than-honest during the investigation. However, police could have focused more on Ingmar Guandique, the Salvadoran immigrant the recent arrest warrant was issued for.
Labeled as only a “person of interest,” Guandique was known to have assaulted two women in the same park where Levy’s remains were discovered. Police questioned him late in the investigation, even going as far as submitting him to a polygraph test, which he passed.
One has to wonder why police considered Guandique only a “person of interest” and instead hounded Condit so mercilessly.
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Most murders are crimes of passion, hence the focus on Gary Condit.
Also, there isn’t enough time for donuts and to investigate a “person of interest.”
Donuts won.
Do you remember that South Park Episode when Butters went missing and it was blamed on “some Puerto Rican Man”? Then they had OJ Simpson, Jon Benet Ramsey’s Parents and Condit all blame it on the same “some Puerto Rican Man”.
Well it was “some salvadorian man”. I heard this morning he is being charged with her murder. If it wasn’t for Condits involvment this case would have probably gone unsolved b/c it wouldn’t have gotten the attention it did.
I’m not sure Condit had much to do with the high profile of the case. Sure, it was salacious/scandalous, but it was already making news before Condit’s involvement was known. It seems more likely the media attention was the result of “Missing White Woman Syndrome.”