(FILES) This undated file photo released by DC Police authorities shows Chandra Levy.(Photo: -, AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — The man convicted in the 2001
death of a federal agency intern will be given a new trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Ingmar Guandique, 33 , who lived in the District of Columbia at the time, was convicted in 2010 of killing Chandra Levy, 24, of Modesto, Calif., whose disappearance made national headlines after she was linked romantically to then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif. A man walking his dog found Levy's remains in 2002 in Rock Creek Park here, and police who reconstructed search information on her computer believe that she had been on a running route through the park when she was attacked.
Prosecutors argued that Levy's death fit a pattern of attacks that Guandique committed on female joggers. He was convicted and given a 60-year sentence though he has maintained he is innocent.
Guandique's lawyers requested a retrial, saying a former cellmate and key witness, Armando Morales, lied during the initial trial.
Levy was finishing up a seven-month internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared, and only when she didn't return home as planned did authorities learn she was missing. Five days after she left her DuPont Circle apartment to go running, her dad called police, saying her family could not get hold of her.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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