Man Charged in 2001 Slaying of USC Student Chandra Levy

Devon Pollard, TrojanWire

It has been nearly eight years since Public Administration masters student Chandra Levy disappeared while interning with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington D.C. Her remains weren't found until over a year later, in a remote area of a D.C. park.

Shortly after her disappearance, the case instantly reached national notoriety when Ms. Levy'a family revealed the 23-year old was having an affair with "pro-family" congressman Gary Condit, leading to a spate of television and print tabloid allegations accusing Condit of foul play. Her disappearance became such an interest of popular culture that rapper Eminem immortalized the USC student in his 2003 release of the song Business: "How can sh*t be so easy? / How can one Chandra be so Levy?" Condit, while questioned, was never formally considered a suspect in her disappearance.

Now eight years later, Condit's name may finally be cleared as D.C. Federal Prosecutors have charged Salvadorian illegal immigrant Ingmar Guandique, 27, with first degree murder of Chandra Levy. Guandique, who has been serving 10 years in Federal Prison for attacking two other women in the same park where Levy disappeared, around the same time as Levy's disappearance.