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A Missed Connection
Two months after Chandra Levy went missing in 2001, Ingmar Guandique was arrested for attacking two women in Rock Creek Park.
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Green told Guandique that the jogger said he had a knife. Guandique said no, she probably saw the glint off his gold bracelet and mistook it for a knife.
Green recalled another unsolved attack in the park -- the May 14 incident involving Halle Shilling. He asked Guandique if there were any other times he had accidentally bumped into someone in Rock Creek Park.
No, Guandique said at first. But then he changed his story. Yes, he said, there was something a month or two earlier. He had seen a tall woman with long hair running with a yellow radio; he jogged behind her, and she looked over her shoulder, causing her to fall. Guandique said he tried to help her up, but she screamed, so he ran off.
Guandique had just implicated himself in the attack on Shilling.
He was charged with assault and kidnapping in the attack on Wiegand, who had identified him. But the Shilling case would have to await a photo lineup.
Green later told The Washington Post that he posed one more question to Guandique.
He showed him a D.C. police flier with a photograph of Chandra Levy, the missing intern. Have you ever seen this woman in Rock Creek Park? Green asked.
Guandique said he had.
He saw her one day when he was hanging around the parking lot near the Peirce Mill. Green then asked Guandique if he thought she was attractive. Yes, he said, but he never saw her again.
Green did not include any comment by Guandique about Chandra in his report, and he does not remember telling any other officers at the time. Back then, it didn't seem important. He said he was focused on the assaults on Wiegand and Shilling.
Chandra could be anywhere. Her disappearance was not a Park Police case.
"It wasn't mine to pursue," he said recently.
Staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.
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