# Talk:Killing of Chandra Levy

This statement is incorrect based on testimony given by FBI in Guandique trial:
"The last search at 12:24 p.m. was for the location of the Pierce-Klingle Mansion,[7] a historic house in Rock Creek Park that is used as the park's administrative office."
I pulled up two news articles from my 2001 archives that states she signed off internet about 1 p.m. This was widely reported and I document in my book Murder on a Horse Trail.
Then in 2010 Guandique trial, it was specified in more detail:
McClatchy 
October 28, 2010
....FBI supervisory special agent Jane Dombowski traced Levy’s last virtual steps....
At 12:59 p.m. May 1, with a final, unexplained search for information on the French province of Alsace-Lorraine, the user of Levy’s computer signed off the Internet.
“That was the last Internet file I was able to find,” Dombowski testified....
end quote
Generally when incorrect information is posted in this article, it's to further an agenda of Chandra being a jogger in Rock Creek Park. This also for some reason a time given which is supposed to bolster Condit not being involved because he had a meeting with Cheney at 12:30.
In any event this information posted in the article has no basis whatsoever and is in direct conflict with testimony given by FBI. I'm not comfortable just editing the article but if moderators could consider who entered this info and based on what this incorrect information could be replaced with the FBI testimony I quoted above. Note the [7] and [8] references are to generic information about the Rock Creek Park building. The last search at 12:24 on Rock Creek Park implies that she was off the internet a half hour earlier, is meant to coincide with Condit's meeting, and implies as last thing she did that she then went there. This of course is all false and has an agenda behind it.
I will post this on my site and at least alert who I can of this scam. It came to my attention tonight because a cable host of a crime show is citing this information in documentaries on Chandra for said agenda.
Thanks for your consideration.--Ralphdaugherty (talk) 06:03, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

The addition of 12:24 pm as the timing of the last internet search was introduced to the article with this edit in December 2010, the edit performed by KimChee, a veteran editor who was very much interested in a wide variety of crime topics on Wikipedia. The text added by KimChee is partly supported by the cited source, the Washington Post piece by Sari Horwitz published in July 2008. All of that makes me conclude there was no agenda-driven Wikipedia editor trying to mislead the reader.
I think the next thing to do here is to take out the contradictory "last search" statement being 12:24 pm and add the 12:59 last search supported by the McClatchy news piece from October 2010. Binksternet (talk) 07:04, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

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I formally propose renaming to "Murder of Chandra Levy", as the article overwhelmingly focuses on the murder.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Volvlogia (talk • contribs) 

You are IMO absolutely 100% correct. However, look through the archives ... you'll see that in 2013 and 2016 formal proposals to rename the article appropriately were sufficiently opposed by dubious arguments to fail.If you want to start another one, especially now that it's been more than 20 years since the disappearance and death of a non-notable young woman became a notable event (as you have noticed), go ahead, but be forewarned. Daniel Case (talk) 20:28, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello,
Any thoughts on adding a section titled "In popular culture", there are many television episodes reporting on the Chandra Levy case.
Thank you,
Vwanweb (talk) 04:49, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello, all. Perhaps it's just me, but I really feel that the following sentence requires clarification:
"Police commanders ordered the search perimeters to 100 yards of each road and trail but a miscommunication had the officers only searching within 100 yards of every road."
I'm quite confused about what this means as phrased. Can someone perhaps clarify it? It's an important point vis-a-vis the mishandling of the search for Levy, so it seems to me it warrants correction.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.110.242.175 (talk) 22:13, 8 May 2018 (UTC) 

Not sure if adding Italics does enough to emphasize that they didn't search 100 yards from trails, but that's what I've done. Rivselis (talk) 14:34, 22 May 2019 (UTC)