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Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 14:49:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Rick Turpin"
To: newsworld@yahoo.com
I don't get it. I was watching CNN yesterday and prior to the discovery
of Chandra Levy's body, everybody was calling her death a murder. When
her body was found, it was called a 'death investigation'. I understand
the attempt to give forensics the opportunity to provide an indisputable
conclusion, but this absolute abandonment of every semblance of reason
was eerily creepy. Larry King even went so far as to say "she could have
been jogging and had a heart attack right?" Give us a break. This reporting
is one step below the National Enquirer, and this so called 'death investigation'
is living proof that the media is sleepwalking on this one.
Thank You for reporting the truth, and under the circumstances, it is an
understatement to say that your reporting is refreshing because you are
the only people who are in fact reporting. I used to rely on CNN for the
news but it has become comic relief -except the reporting on the Chandra
Levy case is very sad and disappointing. I hope there is a change, for the
sake of others because I have stopped watching. The Internet has become
my preferred choice for news and information.
thanks for the news
We share the frustration of readers who, in our estimation, reflect the simple, common sense of people who
are informed and we do not understand how somebody like CNN can be so out of touch. On May 23rd, CNN
aggressively spun stories that
Chandra Levy had been murdered while jogging, and even showcased an
overzealous Prosecutor
who wanted to force a confession out of a petty criminal who was serving a 10 year
prison
sentence for trying to assault two female joggers. Needless to say, CNN has no trouble
slandering a
proven loser who is serving time for being beaten up by the women he failed to assault, but it is
folly to blame
this criminal for making Chandra Levy disappear. When CNN challenged our sanity with their reporting, we
researched newsgroup public opinion, and this is what we found;
Date: 2002-05-23 07:53:56 PST
(Steve Franklin) wrote in news:dd60515e.0205230422.33e312f@posting.google.com:
Also might make it less likely that Condit is responsible since it's hard to imagine
a scenario where he killed her while she was jogging.
Talk about leaping to conclusions. That's what this case has been
about all along: the incredible ability of people, even the so-called
investigators of the police, to swallow whatever cover story the
perpetrators of this crime have constructed without so much as the
hint of a questioning thought.
Have you looked at a map? Are you telling me Chandra levy *jogged*
from her apartment at New Hampshire and M Street to a point in the
park north of Brandywine? That's a distance of about 3 1/2 miles as
the crow flies, and a good 4 1/2 miles on the ground--the park twists
and turns. That's 9 miles round trip assuming she was planning on
turning around at that very spot, which she probably wasn't. Was she
practicing for a marathon or something? If not, then she got to that
point in some manner other than running all the way there.
Who says she ran there? Bodies can be transported.
Conclusion? There are other people involved in this who are counting
on the utter lunk-headedness of the police.
Needless to say, the disparity between media reports and simple common sense is glaringly obvious. We can go
First and foremost, the body of evidence has been replaced by skeletal remains, making the effort to flesh out an
Untrained investigators do not understand the potential or the limits of science, and allow their prejudices to fall
Competent investigators draw reasonable conclusions, they are not blinded by the mindless dictum that scientific facts are
Savvy, veteran homicide investigators understand the fact that planting a gun in the hand of an alleged suicide victim simulates
The murder of Chandra Levy was not a random killing, it was a targeted hit. Chandra Levy was not robbed and it was her practice
The obsession to close the book on a murder investigation does not influence the competent investigator.
Chandra Levy's remains were placed under a foot of leaves to create the impression that her body was in Rock Creek Park since she
Clearly, the most difficult challenge of the criminal investigator is to expose intent, and given the fact that it is a relatively
Given the fact that Chandra Levy's killer or killers managed to keep the body hidden for 387 days, it is safe to assume that they
It appears as though Chandra Levy's murderers planted skeletal remains at Rock Creek park, not because they sought to expose, but
They had nothing to lose and everything to gain by moving the body to Rock Creek Park because it had disintegrated to the point where
Fortunately, it is not reasoable to suggest that the body was recovered by chance after missing for 387 days. The preposterous suggestion
On May 26, 2001, police sent dogs into the Rock Creek Park area where there is heavy underbush and they were not looking for Chandra Levy's
When Levy family lawyer Billy Martin said that Chandra was a victim of a "well-planned kidnapping and removal" it sounds like he was
Forensic scientists clearly understand the disparity between an undisturbed crime scene and a staged, shallow grave, but ignorant murderers
David Sween
on and on extolling the common sense of ordinary people, and we have done nothing more than provide a tiny
sample of the reaction that the Chandra Levy case is producing. We can continue to allow CNN to dazzle us with
the dramatic, and absolutely useless "breaking news" bulletins, which facilitate the plot to cover up the truth
about the murder of Chandra Levy, or we can accept the simple fact that the questions that you raise are what
must be answered, to get to the bottom of the Chandra Levy murder. The following email illustrates the point:
From: "David Sween"
To: newsworld@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:14:37 -0500
I will keep this email as short as possible because lengthy media distortions are too numerous to economically counter.
accurate portrait an immense challenge. Moreover, thee circumstances of the Levy disappearance appear to be complex,
disturbing and dominated by the obsession to cover up a murder.
victim to speculative rather than reasonably investigated, probable cause. People need to understand that forensic science
corroborates, it does not define probable cause. Needless to say, the capacity to solve the Levy murder mystery relies upon
the intelligence to determine the motivation behind the murder of Chandra Levy, and this ability is unfortunately too rare to
inspire confidence that this crime will ever be solved.
supposed to produce.
the authority of science and that an incompetent Medical Examiner gives the police the answers they expect. At its best, science
can be used to conclusively prove murder and at its worst, it can be abused to implicate an innocent peson.
to jog on a treadmill, not at Rock Creek Park where her disintegrated remains were conveniently placed, to permit the speculation
that a known criminal who was convicted for failing to assault two joggers is responsible for this planned hit.
disappeared, and that is the sort of forensic tampering that betrays the complexity of the Levy murder investigation.
impossible task as long as people are extremely deceptive, it is unfortunately necessary to theorize or to interpret the acts.
are deceptive cover up artists who think that they have successfully denied forensic scientists the opportunity to do their work.
because they sought to obscure the truth, and knowing that authorities do not even require a body to make an accusation, they obviously
understand the tendency to associate the fake, crime scene victim with known, Rock Creek Park criminals.
it was forensically useless, but at the same time, the evidence betrayed the organized capacity to keep a body hidden for a significant
amount of time.
that a search party combed the area immediately to the left and to the right of where Chandra Levy's remains were found is not credible,
removing doubt about the fact that Chandra Levy's murderers were obsessive about diverting blame.
skeletal remains. They were looking for a fly infested mess of maggots on a body, and if Chandra Levy had been murdered at that spot,
they would have found it.
following the evidence. When the Police searched Levy's apartment on May 6, 2001, her luggage was packed and her driver's license, money
and credit cards were inside her wallet. Chandra Levy was getting ready to leave town when she was abducted and murdered and then, her
desperate killers conveniently dumped her remains to create the false impression that Rock Creek Park was the crime scene. There are
some who are gullible enough to say that placing a foot of leaves over skeletal remains simulates a shallow grave, and that is what
ultimately betrays the plot to cover up the truth about the murder of Chandra Levy.
overestimate their intelligence.