| Is it just me or are this girls parents just a little creepy too???
Could it be that they know more than they let on??? Bill. |
Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Robalini's Note: For those who are unaware, April 30 is the witch's Sabbath, a fact unmentioned in the news reports. MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS WASHINGTON, May 22 � Police completed searching the apartment of missing intern Chandra Levy and said at this point there is no criminal case, NBC News learned Tuesday. Sources told NBC that all of Levy's personal belongings have been put in safekeeping and that her apartment is going to be shown to prospective renters. Levy, 24, has been missing since early May. May 21 � Charles Ramsey, chief of police in Washington, D.C., speaks with "Today" show Katie Couric about the Chandra Levy missing-person case. ON MONDAY, Levy's parents, said they feared speculation about her relationship with a California congressman may be interfering with the search for her. In an interview on MSNBC Cable, Robert and Susan Levy quickly changed the subject when asked what they know about their daughter's relationship with Democratic Rep. Gary Condit. "Can we talk about finding my daughter � rather than speculations about contacts that may have been made to create some kind of political scandal," Susan Levy said. Robert Levy added that he and his wife are concerned that the speculation about his daughter's relationship with Condit could detract from efforts to find her alive. " We don't know anything really about relationships. � We just want to focus on finding her," he said. The missing woman's father did say that Condit was eager to help when he contacted him. CONGRESSMAN `HAPPY ... TO HELP' "He said he knew her and he was happy to try to help," Levy said. The missing woman's parents stressed that she is "industrious" and "responsible," saying they could not envision her dropping out of sight on her own. They also released new details in the hopes they could help someone identify the 5-foot, 3-inch brunette, saying she was believed to be wearing a gold ring bearing the initials CL and a diamond chip and has a single rose tattoo above her right ankle. Advertisement Earlier, the police chief in the nation's capital said on NBC's "Today" show that investigators have examined "quite a few e- mails" sent before the Chandra Levy's disappearance. Police Chief Charles Ramsey declined to discuss the contents of the e-mails. One e-mail Levy reportedly sent last December hinted she was dating someone connected to Congress, fueling rumors that she was romantically linked to Condit. "Everything else here in DC is going good, my man will be coming back here when Congress starts up again, I'm looking forward to seeing him," Levy wrote in the Dec. 23 e-mail, which was leaked to several news organizations. Condit has said he was only friends with Levy, and Ramsey emphasized there is no evidence "to show that there's anything but a friendship." CONSULTATIONS WITH CONGRESSMAN Levy's parents have said previously that their daughter was consulting periodically with Condit, their representative in Congress, about her aspirations to be an FBI agent. Condit has been questioned by police about his connection to Levy, who kept a picture of the two of them on her desk. His neighbors also have been interviewed to find out if any of them ever saw Levy visiting his apartment. Condit helped post a $10,000 reward as Levy's friends spread through the city's streets with posters and fliers, asking for help finding her. Police last week scrambled to quash reports they were pursuing evidence of an affair between Condit and Levy, who had just completed an internship with the Federal Bureau of Prisons when she vanished. Levy, a native of Modesto, Calif., came to Washington after graduate school at the University of Southern California. She was planning to return to California to attend graduation ceremonies in Los Angeles at the time of her disappearance. Contact information in Chandra Levy search If you have information on her whereabouts: Washington D.C. Police Department 1-202-282-0043 Stanislaus County Sheriff Department 1-888-660-7391 Tipline 1-888-660-7391 (can leave anonymous tips) ***** Levy stands out By KERRY McCRAY BEE STAFF WRITER and MICHAEL DOYLE BEE WASHINGTON BUREAU (Published: Thursday, May 24, 2001) As a child in Modesto, the inquisitive Chandra Ann Levy delighted in spotting stars through a telescope. As a teen-ager, she impressed her Davis High School teachers with her confident attitude and the tough questions she asked in class. As a young woman, she captured her classmates' attention. It could have been her head of thick curls, her ready smile. It could have been her interest in politics or her ambitious plans for a career in the FBI. "You walk into a room," college classmate Matt Szabo said, "and she's the first person that you notice." Now, the 24-year-old Levy has gained another kind of attention, as a missing person. The FBI she talked of joining is now looking for her. Torment wracks the physician father to whom she is particularly close. Yellow ribbons flutter in her family's neighborhood, just north of Modesto. National media have taken hold of the story, in part because of her parents' efforts to keep the search in front of the public. Also fueling the coverage is speculation -- unproven -- about Levy's relationship with Ceres Rep. Gary Condit. The 53-year-old congressman, through his staff, calls Levy a "good friend" and denies having any romantic involvement with her. Levy disappeared in Washington, D.C., on April 30. Police found her driver license, credit cards and packed luggage in her apartment. "She loved it in D.C.," recalled Szabo, a friend from the University of Southern California's graduate school. "It was the excitement of being in the capital and around the centers of power that we read about in books." Levy was born in Cleveland and moved to Modesto with her parents, Dr. Robert and Susan Levy, when she was 3. She attended preschool at the YMCA on McHenry Avenue, dance lessons at Juline School of Dance, and services with her family at Congregation Beth Shalom. Stargazing from Tioga Pass She picked up an interest in telescopes and microscopes from her father, an oncologist. Together, they enjoyed stargazing from Yosemite's Tioga Pass. As a child, she read books about baseball. She quit the Brownies, upset because the other girls teased one another. She wanted to be a model. When she became a young woman, her goals changed. She became a law enforcement Explorer, tracking down owners of dogs without licenses for local law enforcement. She wrote for the Davis High School newspaper, The Corinthian. "She was always very inquisitive, so she was into journalism," high school friend Lisa Bracken said. "She always wants to learn new things." Levy's senior quote in the Davis High School yearbook reads: "Always have dreams. Always make them a reality." She did not necessarily seek attention, but other students -- boys and girls -- gravitated toward her because of her upbeat personality, Bracken said. "She was always laughing," Bracken said. "You're drawn to people who are friendly and laugh and smile all the time." Levy helped students with emotional problems in the high school's peer counseling program. When something troubled her, she would turn to school counselor Julie Danielson. "If there was a problem, she was very open to people she trusted," Danielson said. "I just know she has confided in someone. If only that person would please come forward and let us know where she is." Levy made mostly A's and B's. But she did not care much about grades, history teacher Ed Arnold said. Instead, he said, her focus was learning. She asked the questions no one else thought of. "She did have opinions on issues and she was willing to talk about them," he said. "Her mind was percolating all the time." Sometimes, she would wear her Explorer uniform to school. "That really takes a lot of self-confidence," Arnold said. "She was her own person, even as a high school student." Levy went on to San Francisco State University, where she majored in journalism and minored in criminal justice. John Burks, chairman of the journalism department, remembers that she often spoke up during rousing class discussions. "I remember her being right in there," said Burks, her magazine writing instructor. "She was not the type to be a shrinking violet." Guarded about private life Friends say Levy was guarded about her private life, although one college classmate, Jesse Garnier, remembered Levy saying that she had dated at least one police officer. "I recall her mentioning that she had dated a cop or perhaps several in the past, but it was never a topic of conversation between us," he said. "All I can really say is that we're all hoping and praying she's OK and turns up soon." After college graduation, Levy returned to Modesto. She was a clerical worker for the Police Department during the day and took sports scores over the phone at The Bee at night. Her personality shined through over the phone. "She is very, very outgoing," said Mike Vanden Bosch, then a Bee sports clerk. "She had great charisma." Levy told Vanden Bosch that she dated older men, but never discussed specifics, he recalled. He said some men could have mistaken her sincere interest in people for romantic overtures. "She would smile and really extend a whole lot of warmth to the person," he said. "When a guy saw that, he'd say, 'This person wants to get to know me.'" At USC, Levy undertook a grueling schedule of classes en route to earning a master's degree in public administration. Fellow USC student Randy Tan recalled her as "very bubbly" and constantly smiling. She liked working out at the gym and watching the USC Trojans football team. She knew how to find fun. "There is a really popular restaurant on Venice Boulevard in Culver City called Versailles," Levy advised a USC friend in a November 1999 e-mail, provided to The Bee. "I want to try and go there before I leave since I heard it has really good food, music and dancing." Suzanne O'Keefe taught Levy as one of nine students in a public sector economics class in the fall of 1999. O'Keefe recalled Levy as hard-working, sweet and sincere. She is the kind of student, O'Keefe said, who "strove to work problems out for herself rather than ask for help." Her class presentations, classmate Szabo recalled, invariably involved law enforcement. Levy was an intern for Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, then moved on to Washington. She took a class at USC's Washington center, studying federal management systems. And, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, she worked as an intern in the public information office at the federal Bureau of Prisons. 'Political field trips' Levy and classmate Jennifer Baker would embark on what Baker termed "political field trips." The two women would stop by congressional offices and sometimes get pictures taken with members of Congress. In November, the women decided to visit Condit, Levy's home district congressman. Levy and Baker posed with Condit for a photo after following him to the House floor for a vote. Within a week, Baker was working as an unpaid intern in Condit's office. Occasionally, Levy would stop by for lunch, but Baker said she never saw Condit and Levy together. "I don't know of any other interactions," Baker said. When Levy disappeared, Condit issued a statement calling her a "great person and a good friend." Within days, the media began running the photo of Condit, Levy and Baker -- often with Baker cropped out. Condit's comments about Levy have been confined to two written statements. He has declined to answer reporters' questions, although he has talked with police. Levy's friends say the young woman, ever the private person, would be sick at speculation over her personal life. "Right now, she'd be having a fit to see all the media attention," said Bracken, the high school friend. "It would drive her nuts." Bee staff writer Kerry McCray can be reached at 578-2358 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bee Washington Bureau reporter Michael Doyle can be reached at (202) 383-0006 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***** 'I Just Want My Daughter Alive' Sonia Chopra Susan Levy toyed with scores of Jewish names for her yet unborn daughter 24 years ago before she zeroed in on an Indian name, Chandra. Perhaps her abiding interest in India and the Bhagvad Gita had something to do with that decision. "Chandra means higher than the moon and the stars. She's really great," says Levy as she talks of her daughter Chandra Ann Levy, who has been missing for over three weeks now. Chandra's story has been splashed across national newspapers, particularly after her name was linked to a congressman from her home state California. "I just want my daughter alive and to come home safe so that our family can be complete," says Levy in a phone interview. The 5-foot-3, 110-pound student with thick black curly hair and hazel eyes went missing in Washington, DC, where she was finishing a six- month internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Chandra, whose father Robert Levy is a prominent oncologist in Modesto, California, (Susan is a dedicated community organizer), was last seen on April 30 at the Washington Sports Club near her apartment in Dupont Circle. She was preparing to return home to attend her graduate school commencement ceremony at the University of Southern California and receive her master's degree in public health. The Washington police found her identification, credit cards and cell phone in her apartment, but her keys were missing. Her parents spend their days between their home in Modesto, where they and their neighbours have put up yellow ribbons and fliers with their daughter's photograph, and Washington, where they meet law enforcement officers and elected representatives. They pray for the safe return of their only daughter, both privately and in the glare of the national media. While Susan is a Jew, she has spent years searching Eastern and Western religions for spiritual answers. Chandra too has been drawn to India. "The Bible says 'the truth will set you free' and that's what I want now. We are in agony and I want to know where my daughter is," she says. Her faith in God is holding her together and she is grateful for the support she has received and the prayers for Chandra in churches and Hindu temples. The Dalai Lama, who visited northern California last week, asked Buddhist monks to pray for Chandra. "It is often tragedy that brings us together because we are all mothers and fathers," notes Susan. "No mother should ever have to go through this and I hope the prayers of all the faiths, all the force of nature will have an impact," she says. In the past weeks, through her erratic meals and sleepless nights, she's been constantly reminded of her month-long odyssey in India four years ago, where she'd travelled in search of spiritual enlightenment. "My friend told me it was a dangerous place if you don't know your way around. The trip had its ups and downs and there was uncertainty," she recalls. She'd also gone to collect material for her book, whose working title is Life is An Illusion, or Is It? She had hoped to publish it soon, but for now, except for successfully tracing her beloved daughter, everything else is insignificant and irrelevant for Susan Levy. As she puts it philosophically, spirituality lies not in places but in people. While the Levys focus on their daughter, their neighbours hover around them protectively. Janet Neal, who lives directly across from the Levys, is co-ordinating meals for the couple whom she describes as being "exhausted" from the commuting between California and Washington, DC, and "drained" by the ordeal. "We just want to support them and let them know we care. I wish we could do more," says Neal. Barbara Bolton, who has known the family since she moved into the neighbourhood 16 years ago, has a special relationship with them. "Seven years ago, when I discovered I had breast cancer, Dr Levy treated me and I am still his patient. It's a terrible thing to happen to any parent, not knowing where their daughter is or what happened," she says. "When I heard the news, I just went up to him and put my arms around him and said 'I am sorry'." Friends, family, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Gary Condit's office are offering a $30,000 reward for any information leading to Chandra's safe return. The family has created a Web site, www.findchandra.com and are updating it regularly. Anyone with information about her whereabouts may call: Washington DC Police Dept: 1-202-282-0043 Stanislaus County Sheriff's Dept: 1-888-660-7391 Tipline: 1-888-660-7391 (anonymous information accepted) If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit: http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
