Condit's DNA found on Levy's underwear

[The Straight Story]

Condit's DNA found on Levy's underwear

Washington (CNN) -- Former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's semen was found on underwear belonging to Chandra Levy, according to an FBI biologist testifying Wednesday in the trial of Ingmar Guandique, who is accused of murdering the Washington intern in 2001.

The panties were retrieved in May 2001 by investigators searching Levy's apartment in the days after her parents reported her missing. Her body was found over a year later in Washington's Rock Creek Park.

The testimony addresses the question of whether Condit, a sitting congressman from California at the time Levy vanished, was having an affair with the intern, who had just turned 24 when she disappeared.

The biologist, Alan Giusti, testified for prosecutors that no DNA was recovered from a separate pair of underwear and sports tights recovered from the crime scene.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/10/dc.levy.murder.trial/

[David Zephyr]

1. Now I've lost my appetite for lunch from gagging.

.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. ................

:spray: :rofl:

Is this news, though? I thought that it was pretty well established that he had had an affair with her but he denied being involved in her disappearance/murder. :shrug:

Talk about news you (don't) need.

[kestrel91316]

16. Funny, the thought of semen doesn't do that to ME........

but then, the process by which it winds up on panties has always appealed to me.

<<< Doesn't think sex is icky

[JuniperLea]

27. I think this kind of sex is icky...

The kind between a young subordinate and a married superior... :puke:

[RaleighNCDUer]

30. How?

Sex is sex. It was an affair, not a coerced relationship. Is it the older/younger thing that makes it 'icky'? Would it be icky if they didn't work together? If she was older and he, younger? Seriously, who really gives a fuck who is fucking who?

[JuniperLea]

34. The wife perhaps?

But you go ahead and support this...

[RaleighNCDUer]

43. That would be her business, not yours, and STILL not 'icky'.

Judge not...

[Bigmack]

28. I think he means sex that includes Repubs. That idea gags me, too....

kinda like bestiality.

[arcane1]

2. Wait, what? Am I missing something?

When did this start up again??

Damn, too much news to keep up with!

[lumpy]

10. The guy accused of her murder is currently on trial.

x

[arbusto_baboso]

3. And this proves what, exactly?

I hope, I hope, I hope Joey Scabs picks up this story and tries to run with it...

[haifa lootin]

5. Seems to prove she never washed her undies...

:shrug:

[arbusto_baboso]

6. Were she and Monica Lewinski part of some bizarre sorority...

where you don't wash your clothes that have "proof of your conquest" on them?

[haifa lootin]

9. Glurk...that thought is even more disturbing than the dirty panties themselves!

:scared:

[kestrel91316]

17. There are men who like to collect panties with evidence of "conquest"

on them. And no, I am NOT going to tell how I know this, lol.

[arbusto_baboso]

20. Oh, I'm aware of that.

I just thought women were far too classy to ever do something like that.

I should know better.

[Gaedel]

45. She may have had a few days laundry in the hamper nt

[leveymg]

11. Just like Monica's little blue dress. Common M.O., same honeytrap group at work?

Condit was on the House Intel Committee. Someone might have motive to try to blackmail him. Too bad for Chandra, Condit's district is thick with made men.

[gkhouston]

44. Or that she was murdered the day before laundry day. If she didn't have her

own washer/dryer and paid by the load, she'd probably wait until she had a full load or two of clothing before doing the wash. At least that's the way I used to do things, but maybe I'm a cheapskate. If they had sex frequently, is it that surprising there would be some semen-stained items that hadn't yet been laundered?

[Angry Dragon]

12. Isn't he the guy that killed that intern in his office,

set up a phony alibi, and hired a crooked ME??

[Jackpine Radical]

15. That would be the guy.

[haifa lootin]

22. I thought that guy was Joe Scarborough

now I'm really confused...

[arbusto_baboso]

23. Affectionately (?) know on DU as Joey Scabs.

[haifa lootin]

32. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....Joey Scabs. I can't believe I didn't catch that

sorry...and thanks.
:blush:

[Jackpine Radical]

25. I was referring to Scarborough.

Slimeball.

[TheUnspeakable]

26. that would be awesome...

I decided the other day to post this whenever Joe is mentioned...

A Death in the Congressman's Office
Does Anybody in the Press Care About Lori Klausutis?



as far as Condit, he admitted they were having an affair, so this doesn't mean much.

[Ozymanithrax]

7. So...They were consenting adults. n/t

[The Straight Story]

14. Could be worse, they could have been smoking in a bar with other consenting adults

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[Ozymanithrax]

18. Not unless tobacco smoke deposits semen on panties.

Or she was smoking a semen diseminater with her panties.

You are refering to a bizare new smoking law. I had to look that up.

[cbdo2007]

35. to be fair to Levy....they were consenting adults, who were having an affair while one

was the superior of the other one, who just happened to end up murdered.

And for some reason Condit didn't immediately come clean with the affair, with his intern who just happened to be murdered. You would think if he was innocent he would want to clear his name as quickly as possible, not still be keeping secrets.

He is still a suspect in this. Even if they aren't saying so publicly, it is just too many strange circumstances for him to not be involved somehow.

[originalpckelly]

38. Would you want to "come clean" if you were having an affair?

I doubt it, nor would I.

[cbdo2007]

39. Um....yes, in a freakin' split second. To take out any shadow of a doubt that

I didn't KILL someone??? Yes, in a micro-second.

And he was having affairs with other women as well. He should have just come clean at the beginning if he really was innocent.

[Ozymanithrax]

40. Actually, from everything I've read, he is no longer considered a suspect.

But it was still an affair between consenting adults.

[cbdo2007]

42. Until someone is convicted with concrete evidence....the "spouse" is always the main suspect.

And all of the "affairs" of the murdered individual should be brought to light and investigated until the killer is brought to justice.

It's strange all of the people here running to Condit's defense. Levy is the victim here...she's dead. She was having an affair with a very, very powerful man high up in the goverment who was also having affairs with other women and has lied repeatedly to investigators since the beginning of the investigation - yet people seem to be lining up to paint HIM as the victim. Let me guess...OJ Simpson was the "victim" in his case too??

[lumpy]

8. Condir was having an affair with Levy, hence Condit's DNA

was retrieved from Levy's undies found in her appartment. There was no DNA on undies found at the crime scene.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. This poor slob had his life wrecked by the media for a MURDER he had nothing to do with.

And you are piling on why?

[The Straight Story]

19. Me?

How am I piling it on? CNN (which has a bigger audience than DU) had the story.

[Warren Stupidity]

29. Oh of course, you are just a passive conduit of everything salacious

my mistake.

[Nye Bevan]

37. The "poor slob" also lied to the police, hindering their investigation

and drove way out to the suburbs to throw a gift box in a dumpster. He didn't murder the intern but did everything to cast the finger of suspicion on himself.

[seabeyond]

21. we really dont have to fuckin know everything about otehrs sex life. why not just leave

it alone

[cbdo2007]

24. Of course it was. They had a sexual relationship. He's obviously still hiding something.

[TexasObserver]

31. Unrecommended

A former Democratic congressman was hounded out of office over false charges.

We already know he had an affair with her. This story is salacious garbage.

[SoCalDem]

33. So? They were having an affair & she was leaving , to visit her family

It would NOT be unusual for a couple to "say goodbye"..and perhaps she planned on doing laundry when she returned.

Condit is a creep..not a murderer.. and she was just a silly young woman who thought she could "get her man", if only she could make him love her enough to leave his family..

sad all'round.

[Chorophyll]

36. Um, I thought it was established that they were having an affair.

But Condit's not on trial for the murder, so... whatever.

[Iggo]

41. Well, yeah...they were boning. We already knew that. So what?