The Missing Intern & The Congressman: The Man in the Park — Ep. 4 | MK Confidential

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It's an unbelievable feeling when you're enjoying a punch. At the same time, Reacher is enjoying punching people. Wow, he's still punching people. Entertainment meets fast delivery in Sun Prime. On the evening of May 14th, 2001, Halley Shilling ties back her blonde hair grabs her yellow

walkman and drives down to Rock Creek Park for a run. She is 30, a journalist, athletic, 5 foot 10, and she has been running for nearly 20 years. She is not a woman who rattles easily. In the parking lot near the old purest mill, she notices a young Hispanic man sitting on a curb watching her.

He makes her uncomfortable, but men stare at Halley, she thinks, and she starts on her jog anyway. She heads up an empty trail that vanishes into the trees. Near the rise above the creek, the sun disappears behind the clouds, it feels ominous.

“Enough so that she picks up a stick off the ground for protection, but it's rotten and”

she tosses it back. Then she realizes the Hispanic man is jogging behind her, closing fast.

She keeps looking back over her shoulder and he is always there.

She speeds up, he speeds up, she slows down, he's still there. Then he sprints and closes the distance, grabbing her, and throws her off the path and down into the trees, he has a knife. His arms lock around her neck, and something in Halley flips like a switch. Two things hit her mind at once.

The first is that the traffic on Beach Drive across the creek is loud enough to bury any sound she makes. No one will hear her scream. The second is a decision. There is no way she's going to let this man have her without a fight, a huge fight.

She goes berserk, she screams, she twists, and she sees the flash of the knife. He tries to shush her, and that more than the knife blade is what enrages her.

Years before Halley's shilling took a self defense class, the thing she has never forgotten

is the instructor's helper, a man in a padded rubber suit who stood there in body armor at the end of each session and let the students hit him, so they would know what it feels like to strike another human being. On the ground in Rock Creek Park, that feeling comes back to Halley. She goes for his eyes, misses, then works a hand into his mouth and digs her fingernails

into the soft flesh under his tongue. He bites down on her fingers hard, but she is already tearing loose, onto her own shock he turns, and runs off the way he came. Halley is up, and she is running up the slope. She makes her way to the park police station with help from two other runners she meets

minutes after she breaks loose. She walks into the station house, wild-haired, and the officers move at once. A wall of police rushes out under the trail after the man with the knife. It is fast and professional. The one thing that needles her, Halley will write later, is that the officer taking her

statement keeps calling her over the radio, the victim. She fought, she thinks, and she is alive. Two weeks earlier, in this same park, Shondra Levy disappeared. She would be found on a wooded slope about half a mile from the trail, where Halley shilling just saved her own life.

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The first female jogger, the one that was attacked about 700 yards from where Levy's

body was found, said she saw Gwendike in the Pierce Mill parking lot. And if you look at where a shinner Levy lived, the logical route would have taken her right through the Pierce Mill parking lot. For a year, the search for Shondra Levy points at a congressman, but while the whole country watches Gary Condit, something else is happening on the trails of Rock Creek Park.

That spring in a sudden burst, a man is attacking women in the park one after another, yet somehow no one connects any of it to Shondra. One of the women he grabs will tell her story in public. Molly Shilling, the runner at the start of the episode, is a journalist, and in the spring

of 2002, she publishes a first person account of her attack in the Washington Post, describing

“how that self-defense class saved her life on a rock creek park trail.”

Pally does not name the man who came at her with a knife because of the time no one has connected him to anything larger. When she writes is that these days she sticks to a gym treadmill instead of the park trails, but takes comfort in one thing. The man who attacked her is off the streets.

He was caught weeks later after he went after another woman, Christy Wygan, near the same stretch of trail, and the park police tied the two attacks together. On May 22, 2002, five weeks after Halley's essay runs in the post, a man walking his dog finds a human skull in rock creek park, half a mile from where Halley was attacked. The connection is not lost on her.

She reads the coverage and understands that could have been me. It is not lost on reporters either. Guantique's name has surfaced in "Roll Call," the newspaper that covers Capitol Hill. The reporters pull the quart file, find the names of the women he attacked, and dig through databases until they turn up Halley's article.

They are on her doorstep within days. The detectives working Sean Relieveys murder are not. For the seven years after reporting her attack from 2001 to 2008, Halley's Shilling Weights for a call from the DC police, a call that does not come, and cannot understand why the detectives on the most notorious murder in the city seem so uninterested in a woman

who survived an attack in the same park two weeks after Sean are vanished. It is not until December, 2008, after the Washington Post's 13 part series, who killed Sean Relieveys forces the case back open that the Relievey detectives come to Halley's Shilling. They bring her into Rock Creek Park and walk with her up the trail to the spot where the

man attacked her, and she takes them through it. Her father stands a few feet away, silent, as he watches, he finds himself shaking with anger, understanding for the first time how close he came to losing his daughter. The next day investigators call Halley before a grand jury, weighing whether to charge Juan Dica with Sean Relieveys murder.

Halley's own attack had been prosecuted years earlier. Now prosecutors want the jury to hear what Juan Dica did to another woman on those same trails. More than seven years after Halley escaped him, DC detectives and the prosecutor apologize

for never interviewing her as part of the Levy investigation.

One investigator shakes his head and says he cannot believe Gary Condit was ever a suspect. It's summer of 2002 after Shondra's remains are found, an FBI agent named Brad Garrett and a DC detective named Jim Traenum bring a geographic profiler into the case, a man named Kim Rosmo, who studies where violent crimes happen and what the pattern of their locations can tell you about the perpetrator.

Kim's really good at looking at a crime scene and helping you understand what is it about the scene that kind of contributed to the crime occurring at that location. Rosmo lays out a map of Rock Creek Park and marks the attacks on loan women from the spring of 2001.

“For me, one of the most important early questions was how common are these attacks in Rock Creek”

Park? We took a look at the data from the park's place about their crimes in 18-month period building up to there and was very clear that crimes of this nature were just so rare. One stretch of the park lights up and isolated run of trail near the pure smell.

They stop the week a single man is arrested on those trails and taken to jail.

“That man is already in prison. He has been since the summer of 2001, serving 10 years”

or attacking Halley Schilling and Christie Wygan in Rock Creek Park. A man at whom no one working the leavey case has ever seriously looked. His name is Inmar Guantique. Rosmo says a violent offender is not random. He tends to strike where he feels safe on ground he knows. We break a crime down to its constituent parts. So for a murder, we're going to have an encounter

to place where the offender first sees the victim. Then we're going to have the point where

he first attacks or then we have the actual murder scene itself, then finally we have where the body gets disposed of. So Rosmo takes a hard look at Rock Creek Park. Years later he will lay out when he found

“in a documentary on Shondra Levy for investigation discovery.”

Rosmo goes to the attack scenes, three of them. Shondras and the two women who lived. Each is the same kind of place, a secluded spot, near a ravine or a steep bank, hidden from the trail behind dense brush. Each of the women had been carrying a walkman. The Hispanic man demanded nothing and took nothing. No money, no jewelry. For Rosmo, these are not robberies. They are attempted to sexual assault and he comes to believe

the same thing was done to Shondra Levy. Look at how remote this is. It's quiet. There aren't any other witnesses. So this is an ideal spot for a predator to attack somebody. When Rosmo lays the attacks out by date, they fall into a tight cluster in the spring

“of 2001 on that one isolated stretch of trail near the pierce mill. Holly Shilling”

attacked in mid-May two weeks after that. A man exposing himself to a massage therapist

on the same ground that same month. Christy Y again pulled into a ravine on the first

of July and then nothing. The attacks end completely. The week the man is caught. We took a look at the location where Shondras body was found and then we looked at the locations where the attacks on the two female joggers had occurred. There's no one else around. Tax like that in the park are really rare. When he's got three of them in a very short time period, that calls for them to be looked at as being connected crimes. We know that he lived just

to the east of Rock Creek Park and there were no similar attacks after the arrest him. It made one D.C. stand out like a neon sign. He had to be considered a viable suspect and needed to be explored further. There is one more thing the map shows. The place where the man attacked Tally Shilling is about half a mile from the ravine where Shondras remains are found. Seven weeks after those remains turned up in July of 2002,

Levy detectives finally walked the ground or Halley fought free and they put it in their investigative report in plain words. This site is easy walking distance from Levy crime scene. So what do we know about the man already in prison? One D.C. came to the United States illegally from El Salvador. He made his way through Mexico. He swam across the Rio Grande into Texas. He made his way to Houston and then he made his way to Washington, V.C.

And he's got a family in El Salvador that's deeply impoverished. He was born in 1981 in the early years of El Salvador's Civil War, which takes his father before he's born. When Guantique's mother is three months pregnant his father is killed by a government death squad. The boy grows up in a house with a dirt floor, his mother remarries and Guantique will later say his stepfather and mother beat him. He struggles in school and drops out in the seventh grade at 14

he is working in the fields. Now in Washington, D.C. Guantique is 19 and takes whatever work a man without papers confined and for a while holds it together. But now for long. He drinks heavily. He smokes marijuana and snorts cocaine when he can get it. He drifts from job to job. By the time the D.C. detectives come looking for him, Guantique has been in and out of the prison system for years, moving from one facility to the next. In one prison, he males

obscene drawings to a woman he's never met. In another, he exposes himself to the female guards.

Somewhere along the way, he joins MS-13 the violent Salvadoran gang. This is the man to whom Rosmos map keeps pointing back.

Juan D.C. does not show up or work. Days later, his landlady sees him with a fat lip, a bloody eye,

“scratches at his throat. She asks him what happened. He tells her he got in a fight with his girlfriend”

that she hit him. The landlady doesn't believe him because she knows they broke up and his girlfriend is small. Whoever did this fought back hard. 17 months later, in October of 2002, a pair of snipers begins shooting people out the back of a car across the Washington D.C. area. Spoiler alert, we are covering this story on MK confidential soon. The FBI pulls Brad Garrett off Levy case to help hunt the D.C. snipers. The press goes to. The Levy case receives once again.

Juan D.C. sits in prison for the two park attacks. No one is building a murder case against him. Law enforcement is not focused on Shandra Levy and her case goes cold again. Five years later, the Shandra Levy case is revived thanks to a new police chief and a

“newspaper. Charles Ramsey is gone, replaced by Kathy Linier. In 2007, soon after she takes over”

Linier meets Susan Levy at police headquarters. When Susan holds out her hand, Linier hugs her instead and comes out of the meeting, vowing to solve the Shandra case. One of the two original detectives has retired. Linier removes the other Ralph Durant and hands the case to two veterans, Todd Williams and Anthony Brigidini. The new detectives pull Shandra's clothing and Juan D.C. as well out of the evidence lockers and send

both for the DNA testing no one had run in 2001 and they start monitoring Juan D.C.'s mail and phone calls from prison. When the results come back, the DNA does not establish a tie between Juan D.C. and Shandra. The testing that was supposed to break the case, why it opened, hands

“them nothing. They can put in front of a jury. What finally shakes the case loose is a newspaper.”

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In the summer of 2008, the Washington Post runs a 13-part investigation, who killed Shandra Levy, by Sari Horowitz, Scott Higgum, and Sylvia Moreno. Not enough attention was being paid to a suspect who was hiding in plain sight. The series clears Gary Condott and names Guandike as the most likely killer, though it offers little in the way of hard evidence. It puts the reinvestigation and everything the police had missed on the front page for 13 straight days. A few days before

it starts, Horowitz asks police chief linear what she hopes it will do. Stir things up,

linear says, sometimes people do come forward. It was the first time anyone from the outside had

really exposed what was going on in this case and some of the mistakes that led the case to go cold. The reinvestigation also services something buried since 2001. When the park police first arrested Guandike, he told an officer he had seen Shandra Levy in Rock Creek Park and that he found

report. Through all of it, one thing never changes. Guandike does not leave prison.

“From his arrest in the summer of 2001, through the cold years and the reinvestigation,”

he stays locked up for the two park attacks. When the detectives finally go looking for their man, they already have him in his cell in California. In September of 2008, two months after the series of articles, a team of DC detectives flies to the federal prison at Victorville in the California desert where Guandike is finishing his sentence for those park attacks. The detectives have done their homework. They have read the park police reports from 2001 and they know how an officer

named Joe Green once talked Guandike into admitting the two park attacks by offering him a less despicable version of the story. They sit Guandike down. They ask him for a DNA sample and then they run a bluff. They tell him they already have his DNA on evidence from the Shondra Levy case and they wait. Guandike doesn't flinch. If they have his DNA, he tells them they should charge him with murder. They press him. Why would his DNA be on Shondra Levy's things? He gives them a line that detectives

will not forget. One that is not a confession and not quite a denial either. So what if I touched her? It is the closest thing to an admission. Anyone will ever get from Guandike.

“Not, I never met her. Not, I never touched her. Not, who's Shondra Levy? Instead, so what if I did?”

The detectives write it down word for word. It's nowhere near enough to charge a man with murder,

but it is the first time Guandike has placed himself anywhere near Shondra Levy and he's done it

in his own words. The detectives turned to the fat lip and the scratches from May 1st, 2001, seven years earlier. He tells them two men robbed him. They remind him he had told his land lady it was his girlfriend. Guandike splits the difference. The lip from the robbery, the scratches from the girlfriend. While the detectives are in the room with him, prison officials are searching his cell. Talked among his things kept by his bed. They find a photograph of Shondra

clipped from a magazine. It is an odd thing for someone with allegedly no connection to her to have

“bedside seven years after she vanished from a city 2000 miles away. They saw a photo of Shondra Levy”

in his cell, right by his bed, which was very odd. And as they were talking to Guandike, they saw something else that really struck them as odd. They saw a tattoo of a woman or his body. And as they look at this tattoo, they believe that resembled Shondra Levy. There is one more thing they learned about the man at Victorville. In early 2009, as the murder case against him is coming together, an inmate, tips off prison officials that Guandike

is planning to break out. On February 26, Guards pulled him from his cell and searched it. They find the makings of a weapon and an escape kit, loose razor blades, and AA battery, a filed-down sliver of toenail clipper, and a homemade knife. Two of the blades lash together with strips of plastic. Guandike will not be going anywhere. So the detectives move on to the one thing that could actually make a case, a witness.

That witness is a man named Armando Morales, and you'll be hearing quite a bit about him. Armando Morales is a Fresno California native, a lifetime criminal with a long record of violent crimes, guns, drugs, and so on. He was a Selme of the Marguan D. Gay in Kentucky in 2006. Morales comes forward in 2009, while the reopened Levy case is searching for anyone who can tie Guandike to the killing. He's been in federal prison since the 1990s,

serving a long sentence on drug charges, a lifelong criminal with a violent record, and Morales is not the kind of man, juries, usually trust. What makes prosecutors listen is that Morales asks for nothing. He is also not the first inmate to say Guandike has talked.

Over the years, several jailhouse witnesses did, and their stories did not always match.

Guandike's defense will seize on this back later. But Morales is the witness around whom the prosecution decides to build its case. Guandike and Morales belong to allied gangs, and for six weeks in a Kentucky cell, they talked. Armando Morales and Inward Guandike

They were honest with each other, they looked out for each other, in prison, they talked about

“everything together. According to Mano Morales, one of the things they talked about was the whole”

charge of the leavey case. According to Morales, Guandike was desperate to correct one thing in particular. In prison, a man marked as a rapist, is a target, and Guandike knew the word was, he had raped and killed the intern. Morales said Guandike wanted Morales to understand that he had only done one of those two things, the killing. Morales's account carries one detail in particular on which prosecutors seize. He says Guandike confessed that he grabbed Shandra from

behind on the trail, dragged her into the bushes, and took her fanny pack before he ran.

To prosecute her, Amanda Haynes that fanny pack is critical. She argues it is exactly the kind of

inside detail only the killer could know, and that Morales could only have gotten it from the man who committed the crime. However, even Haynes does not actually know whether Shandra was carrying

“a fanny pack. None has ever recovered, not at the scene, not anywhere, nothing in the physical”

evidence and no witness other than Morales, ever establishes that Shandra was carrying one that day. The single source for the detail, the prosecution, sees as so damning, is Morales. There is no corroboration that there ever was a fanny pack, never mind that Guandike took it. On the stand, he tells the jury he wants nothing for his testimony, that he is here only to give a grieving

family its answer, and that he has never been an informant before in his life. Hold on to that last

part. So what about Gary Condit? For a year the congressman was the story. By the time the Guandike case reaches trial, investigators no longer treat Gary Condit as a suspect in Shandra's murder. Police had checked his account of his whereabouts on May 1st, and it held. No physical evidence ever tied him to her death. The DNA in Shandra's underwear supported what Condit had spent the summer of 2001 denying that he in Shandra had been sexually involved, but nothing beyond that.

On March 3rd 2009 police chief Linier stands at a lectern at police headquarters, flanked by the DC mayor, the U.S. Attorney, and the three detectives who built the case. She announces that Ingmar Guandike will be charged with the first to remurder of Shandra and Levy. She says that she called Bob and Susan Levy that morning to prepare them. Today we make a very significant announcement. We announce that the Metropolitan Police Department

have secured an arrest warrant and homicide on 2001 of Shandra Levy. The arrest is Ingmar Guandike. With that, Linier does something that a department has not done

in eight years. She points the case at another man, and she never once says the name Gary Condit.

Congressman Condit was never charged with anything. He was interviewed multiple times. I interviewed him with my FBI partner. Did people think that he was a rope possibility sure

“that it ever make any sense to me the answer is now?”

The trial opens in Washington on October 25th, 2010, more than nine years after Shandra disappeared. The lead prosecutor Amanda Haynes. Amanda Haynes was one of the most senior homicide prosecutors in Washington, DC. She was so good. They put her on the most difficult assignments and that's Caucasus. Amanda Haynes had a way of relating to the jury. She can tell us stored and make people see the crime scene and see the final moments of the victims' lives.

In her opening, Haynes names the thing that had caused the case so many years. The investigation she tells the jury had been pulled off course by the affair between the intern and the Congressman. This case she says is also about the secrets of a man named Gary Condit. Then she sets Condit aside and turns to the man in the defendant's chair. This is not an easy case to prove. There is no physical evidence tying

Guantique to the scene. She admits that. There is no confession on the record. The medical examiner working from remains that lay out in the open for more than a year could never determine how Shandra died only that it was a homicide. What the state has is the pattern in the park. Guantique's own shifting stories and a jailhouse witness named Morales, who says the defendant told him he did it.

Morales is the case. When Amanda Morales took the witness stand, he was the only piece of evidence that directly linked in Guantique to the death of Shandra leaving. To reporters watching in the courtroom Morales is strong on the stand, he is calm, he is specific,

Shandra, only killed her, and account that cuts against the defendant and against the prosecution's

“own earlier assumption that Shandra had been sexually assaulted, which is exactly why it lands.”

For the jurors it will come down to whether they believe Morales. There is no weapon to hold up, no fingerprints, no video, no DNA linking him to the crime. There is the pattern in the park, and there is the man from the Kentucky cell. The defense tells a very different story. Guantique's public defender's argue that the government has taken a man guilty of two ugly park attacks and used those crimes to pin a murder on him, it could not otherwise solve.

It's not a hard story to tell. For years, the police have chased the wrong man in full public view and have been mocked mercilessly in the media. Now the defense says they need a conviction, so they've reached for the easiest target, an illegal immigrant with no alibi and a record

“of violence in that very park. Morales, they say, is a career criminal telling a jailhouse story”

no one can verify in a case with no cause of death, no physical evidence, and no confession anyone recorded. Suspicion is not proof. They tell the jury, similarity is not identity. The defense has one more card. A small amount of DNA from an unknown man was found on Shandra's leggings, matching no one who was tested, not Guantique, not conduct, not the technicians who handled the leggings. The prosecution calls it contamination. The defense asks the jury to consider

that it might belong to the actual killer. In her closing argument, prosecutor Amanda Haynes tells the jury how she thinks Shandra died. It is a story Haynes tells with confidence but one

Shandra's remains could never prove. She describes a young woman attacked on the trail,

bound and gagged, Haynes theorizes, left unable to call for help, dying alone in the ravine of exposure and thirst. Then Haynes says the thing the defense will seize upon. No one really knows how Shandra Levy died. What Haynes asks the jury to know is who killed her. The jury takes the case on a Friday, deliberations run into a third day, then a fourth. Notes come out of the room. Everyone in the courthouse starts watching the jury room door. A lot of people thought that this was

going to be a hung joy. We did not think all 12 drawers would be able to come back with a birding. Much to our surprise, three and a half days later, they come back. On November 22nd, 2010,

after three and a half days, the jury comes back with a verdict. guilty of first-degree murder.

Guantique tears the translation headphones from his ears. Outside the courtroom, Shandra's mother Susan Levy speaks. She has waited nine years for this. The result of the verdict may be guilty, but I have a lifetime sentence of a lost limb. Missing from our family tree. Three months later, on February 11th, 2011, Guantique is sentenced to 60 years in prison. At the hearing Susan Levy stands a few feet from him and speaks to him directly.

She looked him in the eye and she said, "You know, you are a hideous creature. You are

“lower than a cockroach. You should wrought and hell." And it was very dramatic.”

She then pleaded for the truth about Shandra's murder. Did you really take her? She asked, "Look into my eyes right now and tell me." Guantique shakes his head. The judge interrupts and tells Susan she cannot speak to Guantique directly. Susan looks at the judge and back to the man convicted of killing her baby girl. She adds one line and finally, "Fuck you." And then she sits down. When his turn comes, Guantique tells the court he is

sorry for what happened to Shandra Levy, but that he had nothing to do with it. For the Levy family, after nine years and nine months, it is the closest thing to an answer, anyone has ever handed them. A jury heard the case and found that the man in the park killed their daughter. Bob and Susan Levy fly home to Modesto, believing it's finally over. But the whole of that verdict rests on the word of one man, Armando Morales.

He has told the jury he wanted nothing for his testimony. He has told the jury he had never been

an informant in his life. Neither of those things was true. That man has not told the jury everything. Next time on MK confidential, a woman with seven hours of secret recordings,

undone by a single witness.

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