MK Confidential opens on the morning of July 25th, 2001. Twenty-eight police recruits stand shoulder to shoulder along Glover Road in Rock Creek Park, beating the brush, calling Chandra Levy’s name. The order from headquarters was to search a hundred yards from the roads and the trails…but most of the team hears roads. By one o’clock it is 91 degrees, the search is called off, and the recruits climb onto a bus. Ten months from now, Chandra will be found 79 yards below a trail no one walked that day.
Megyn lays out the summer the investigation came apart. Police fail to retrieve security footage from Chandra’s apartment building, and it’s overwritten. An untrained sergeant switches on Chandra’s laptop and corrupts the drive. And on the trails of that same park, a man is dragging women into ravines. Two of them fight him off and live. When he is finally caught, a detective slides Chandra’s missing flier across the table and asks whether he has ever seen her. Yes, he says — once, near the Peirce Mill parking lot. He thought she was pretty. The detective never writes it down. Then, the September 11th attacks take the cameras and the federal agents off of Chandra Levy. The tip line goes quiet. Gary Condit loses his primary election and leaves D.C. And on May 22, 2002, a man walking his dog steps off a trail, brushes away leaves, and finds a human skull. Two weeks later, the family’s own investigators return to the released crime scene with garden rakes and find more. This is episode 3 of the Chandra Levy story.
WATCH EPISODE 1: The Missing Intern & The Congressman: The Vanishing
WATCH EPISODE 2: The Missing Intern & The Congressman: ‘Did You Kill Chandra Levy?’
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