Students to Tackle Unsolved Chandra Levy Case

The Modesto Bee, the hometown newspaper of Chandra Levy, has reported that criminal justice students at Bauder College in Atlanta will be opening their own investigation into the 2001 murder of Levy, which remains unsolved.

Bauder offers students credit within its Cold Case Investigative Research Institute for combing through unsolved cases. Students at the school will also investigate the disappearance three years ago of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Previous students researched the 1996 shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.

Levy's case, as you'll no doubt recall, generated national headlines because of her relationship with former Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.), for whom she had interned. Condit denied any involvement with Levy's disappearance, but his political career was effectively destroyed by the controversy and he was defeated in a Democratic primary the following year.

The Bauder students will turn over their work to the MPD at the end of the semester. Susan Levy, Chandra's mother, met with MPD Chief Cathy Lanier in May of this year to discuss the ongoing police investigation. The Levy family maintains a web site called WhoKilledChandra.com designed to collect anonymous tips that could lead to a suspect.