It sounds like Gary Condit was destroyed over nothing.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2009/02/new-development.htmlABC News' Rhonda Schwartz, Imtiyaz Delawala and Pierre Thomas report: Over the last several months FBI agents have been reviewing evidence in the 2001 "cold case" murder of Chandra Levy and have revisited longtime suspect Igman Andique.
Andique has been in jail since approximately July 2001 for two similar but non-fatal, attacks on women in Washington DC's Rock Creek park, according to case FBI agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett.
Andique attacked a woman two weeks after Chandra's disappearance in the middle of May 2001 and another in July. The women were jogging in Rock Creek Park, when he "clotheslined" them and dragged them down the hill. There was a struggle, they escaped and he ultimately was caught and pled guilty.
Andique is now serving a 10-year sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary-Victorville in Adelanto and is eligible for parole in 2011. The FBI most likely wants to close the case before his parole date, Brad Garrett tells ABC News.
Guandique was the focus of the last three parts of a 12-part series on Levy's disappearance in the Washington Post metro section last year. He told the Post then he had nothing to do with Levy's disappearance:
"Regarding the case of the girl, Chandra Levy: I don't know anything about that case. In 2001, the FBI went to see me when I was in the
. That was when I learned about that girl," Guandique said. "Before that, I had never seen her and I don't understand the reason why the police started to suspect me. ... I have nothing to do with the death of that girl. I am innocent and I am not afraid of the police investigation."
After the Post series, D.C. and FBI cold case squad detectives reexamined their evidence. The problem had always been a lack of conclusive physical evidence to tie this suspect to the murder.