Former Rep. Gary Condit was a person of interest, but was never formally charged. Many questions remained about curious details of the case, and some thought Ms. Levy was killed because she "knew too much" about something or other. And Ingmar Guandique, convicted on the basis of an alleged jailhouse confession to a sketchy cellmate informant, always claimed innocence. See the second link below for voluminous background.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
New trial likely for man convicted of killing intern Chandra Levy
The man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy is expected to get a new trial after his attorneys argued a key witness in the 2010 trial lied.
By Keith L. Alexander and and Mary Pat Flaherty - May 22

The man convicted in the 2001 killing of federal intern Chandra Levy is likely to get a new trial after prosecutors on Friday dropped their long-standing opposition to defense efforts to have a new jury hear the case.

Since 2013, attorneys for Ingmar Guandique, 34, have argued that a key witness in the 2010 trial had lied when he testified that Guandique, his onetime cellmate, confessed to him that he killed Levy.

Guandique’s attorneys with the District’s Public Defender Service contend that the defense should have been told that the witness, a convicted drug dealer and gang member, had been cooperating with prosecutors in other cases. They said he made up the alleged confession from Guandique to gain favor with prosecutors....

~~~~~ CONTINUE AT: ~~~~~

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/new-trial-likely-for-man-convicted-of-killing-intern-chandra-levy/2015/05/22/d5c5ac20-00c4-11e5-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html

For detailed background on the case, see the Washington Post special report:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/