May 28, 2002

Prediction time: No one will

Prediction time: No one will ever be convicted for the murder of Chandra Levy. I base this on the following quotes of Dr. Jonathan Arden, D.C.'s chief medical examiner:

In this case there was not sufficient evidence to ascertain conclusively the specific injury that caused her death.

It is possible that we will never know the specific injury that caused her death.

I cannot determine whether she died there or was brought there.

Dr. Arden doesn't know where she died, what she died from, or when she died. Nevertheless, he thinks she was murdered. She probably was, but to convict requires evidence. If the police find anyone with the motive and opportunity to kill her, the suspect will have a field day with the medical examiner. It wouldn't take Johnny Cochrane to turn a prosecutor's case into a sieve.

This should be my first and only five minutes on this story. Case closed. Move on and let true crime writers like Anne Rule figure out what happened.

"Chandra Levy Was Murdered, Examiner Says"