Chandra Levy - The Missing Intern and the Congressman: The FULL MK Confidential Series

The Megyn Kelly Show

This episode of The Megyn Kelly Show delves into the unresolved mystery of Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old intern who vanished in Washington, D.C., in May 2001. The

Key takeaways

• Chandra Levy was a driven young woman with clear ambitions to work in federal law enforcement, having pursued criminal justice studies and interned at the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
• Her final online activity—researching Rock Creek Park trails—suggests she may have planned to visit the park that day, though she never went there alone or jogged regularly.

Main topics

• The disappearance of Chandra Levy in May 2001
• Gary Condit's controversial relationship with the missing intern

Notable quotes

"Was there something that wasn't meant to be found out? What are they all covering up? There's a lot of lying and a lot of cover-ups." – Susan Levy

Conclusion

The story of Chandra Levy should not end with the men whose names became entangled in her disappearance, but with

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Speaker 2 (0:12) Hey, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and today's Sunday mega episode. Today, we bring you all five episodes of our MK Confidential series on Chandra Levy. What was true about Gary Condit's relationship with Chandra Levy and what became urban legend? The man arrested for her murder and why he is free today. Do we think he did it? Find all of our MK Confidential episodes on the Megan Kelly podcast feeds and YouTube channel. In the meantime, enjoy this one. And we are back on Monday. Speaker 3 (0:47) It is a beautiful late summer morning in September 2001, and the biggest missing person story in America is about to have its biggest day. Speaker 5 (0:57) Important new questions in the case of Chandra Levy. Speaker 3 (1:00) Missing intern Chandra Levy. The 24 Speaker 5 (1:02) -year Speaker 4 (1:02) -old woman disappeared without a trace. Will Chandra Levy ever be found? Speaker 3 (1:07) It has been the story all summer. A young woman who vanished in the nation's capital, and the married congressman whose name keeps turning up. alongside hers. It Speaker 2 (1:18) has run at the top of the newscasts and across the front pages of newspapers for months. Speaker 6 (1:23) D.C. police detectives and FBI agents out tonight looking for more clues in this most unusual missing persons case. Speaker 3 (1:33) And this is the morning it comes to a head. Across the country at this moment in California, Bob and Susan Levy are packing for a flight to Chicago, where they are booked to tell their daughter's story on Oprah. And then they will fly to New York for the Today Show. The congressman's son, Chad Condit, is preparing to defend his father on The View in New York City. For four months, the country has asked two questions nonstop. about a 24-year-old intern named Chandra Levy. Where is she? And was a sitting congressman, Gary Condit, involved in her disappearance? The Speaker 1 (2:12) parallels with the Clinton affair are both striking and obvious, although this time, because of Chandra's disappearance, much, much more serious. The police investigation is stalled until Chandra is found either dead or alive. Until then, this country remains in the grip of speculation. Speaker 3 (2:29) Today on live television, both sides are set to make their case. At 8.46 a.m. Eastern Time, American Airlines Flight 11 hits the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Yes, it's Speaker 2 (2:45) September 11th. Speaker 1 (2:46) This just in, you are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers. There is a major incident in lower Manhattan. We just got a report in that there's been some sort of explosion at... the World Trade Center in New York City. The interviews Speaker 3 (3:08) never happen. Within minutes, the satellite trucks that have been camped outside the Levy's home all summer start their engines and pull away. And by the end of the day, the story that consumed America is gone, vanished. But what happened to Chandra? I'm Megyn Kelly, and this is MK Confidential. Speaker 3 (3:34) That September morning was more than four months in the making. To understand it, we must go back to Chandra Levy's final months in Washington. At 24, Chandra Levy is nearly finished with what she came to Washington, D.C. to do. The 5'4", 110-pound brunette grew up in Modesto, California, in farm country, with a ranch house and a pool out back where her mother kept horses. Her father, Bob, is an oncologist. known for taking difficult cases, enough so that some patients call him Last Chance Bob. Her mother, Susan, is an artist, a painter, and quick with a big laugh. Speaker 2 (4:14) She was shy. She really liked being at home. Chandra is their first child and Speaker 3 (4:19) her father's princess. He has called her Ladybug since she was a little girl at summer camp. Speaker 6 (4:26) Chandra was really headstrong. We were on trips sometimes. She'd just walk away from us because she didn't want to be associated with us. Speaker 5 (4:32) our parents and kid brother. Speaker 3 (4:34) She keeps four birds and names them Franny, Zoe, Christmas, and Hanukkah. She becomes a vegetarian at age 14. And what she wants most of all is a badge. In high school, Chandra joins the Police Explorers, the program for teenagers who think they might want to work in law enforcement. Chandra's mother later recalled that early taste of police work in a documentary for Investigation Discovery. Speaker 8 (5:01) In high school, she actually got to work in the police department and she did parking tickets. She was very proud of the job and she was good at it. Speaker 3 (5:11) You sound like you're very content with the program and everything. Oh, yeah. Chandra studies criminal justice at San Francisco State and goes on to pursue a master's at USC. She wants a job with the FBI, maybe the CIA. Despite her ambition, Speaker 2 (5:27) she stays close to her family. Speaker 8 (5:29) Favorite memories were when we traveled, because that's when we were closest as a family. When we would drive from San Francisco back, they would say the whole Star War trilogy by heart, the dialogue for all three movies. In Speaker 3 (5:48) the fall of 2000, Chandra takes an internship in Washington, D.C. at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, working in its public affairs office. It is not glamorous, but it is a first step toward the federal career Chandra wants. She sublets a studio apartment in DuPont Circle, a neighborhood of row houses and coffee shops northwest of downtown. She's a long way from Modesto. In Washington, her life is quiet and repetitive. Metro to the bureau, the gym afterward, then home. She knows few people, and the person she speaks with most is her mother. By the last week of April 2001, Chandra has been working in Washington for eight months and her internship is ending. Chandra is preparing to leave Washington. She cancels her health club membership and keeps the receipt. She emails her landlord about the lease. She starts to pack up her belongings. The plan is to fly home, graduate from USC and begin applying for the federal career she has wanted since high school. On Sunday, April 29th, Chandra leaves a message for her aunt, Linda Zamsky, back in California. The internship is over, she says. She will pack up over the next week or so and head home for a while. It's a routine message about a plan everyone expects her to complete. It is one of the last times anyone hears Chandra's voice. The next day, April 30th, she works out at the Washington Sports Club. The people at that gym appear to be the last ones to have seen Chandra alive. Speaker 4 (7:23) She was very upbeat and looking forward to going home. Speaker 3 (7:27) The morning of Tuesday, May 1st, 2001, is the last ordinary day of Chandra Levy's life. She sits down at her laptop, set up on a makeshift desk in a hallway nook of her apartment. Investigators will later rebuild the morning, almost minute by minute. She signs on at 10.27 a.m. and moves from site to site. The Drudge Report, National Geographic, Amtrak, Southwest Airlines. At 10.45 a.m., she emails her mother a list of Southwest fares for the trip home. Six days out, she is still pricing the flight. At 11.26, she hits the Washington Post weather page. It calls for fair skies and temperatures near 80. At 11.33, She opens a Washington Post guide to Rock Creek Park. A minute later, she clicks a map of the park's hiking trails. At 12.24 p.m., she logs off. That is the last confirmed trace of Chandra Levy. She makes no more calls. She sends no more emails. She uses no credit card. On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, she closes her laptop in her own apartment. and seemingly steps off the face of the earth, no one who knew her ever hears from her again. The last place online Chandra looked up in those final minutes at her laptop was Rock Creek Park. And to understand the rest of this story, you have to know the geography of this place. This is not a manicured city park or a narrow strip of green, lush grass. It is 1,754 acres of real forest running straight up the middle of Washington, D.C. It is more than twice the size of Central Park in New York and one of the oldest natural urban parks in the country, reaching from the edge of downtown D.C. right up to the Maryland state line. It has bridle paths and a horse stable, picnic groves along the creek, and tucked into the trees, the only planetarium in the national park system. It also has long, steep, wooded ravines. Places where the trees close over the trails and the city seems a world away. Rock Creek Park has heavily used running paths, and women do run there alone. But it also has isolated wooded trails, where a runner can quickly find herself out of sight and entirely alone. Chandra's family and friends say she was not a jogger and did not like going into the park alone. Her apartment is about two miles away. Whether that trail map meant she planned to walk in the park that afternoon or meant nothing at all will become one of the central questions of this case. Speaker 3 (10:21) 2,800 miles away in Modesto. The days pass, and her parents cannot reach Chandra. Chandra calls home. She always calls home. Always. Now the phone rings through to her voicemail. Again and again. Speaker 6 (10:37) We call her up, and she didn't answer the phone. Had a message machine. I kept calling and calling, and she never answered it. And I got worried about it. He Speaker 8 (10:45) got very upset. And he said he felt something was wrong. Speaker 3 (10:50) Susan is normally the free spirit of the family. By the second week of silence, she has gone quiet. Back in the Levy Ranch home, the phone becomes the center of everything. Every time it rings, they hope it's Chandra. The messages the Levy's leave on their daughter's machine grow more blunt and more desperate as each day passes. Damn it, Chandra, Bob says in one of them. Call me. Bob starts calling everywhere he can think of. He calls the Bureau of Prisons, where she interned. He calls the FBI, calls Washington hospitals, one after another, asking whether a young woman matching his daughter's description has come in as an accident victim. Every call comes back the same. Nothing. No trace. The plan was for Chandra to be home by now, days from graduating. To her family, that silence is not like Chandra at all. She's careful and responsible, the kind of daughter who checks in. She would not skip the ceremony Speaker 2 (11:49) for the master's degree that she crossed the country to earn. She got honors. Speaker 8 (11:55) She Speaker 2 (11:55) was top in her class. Speaker 8 (11:57) That would be exciting for her. Speaker 6 (11:59) It's not like her to not to call or be in touch. Maybe she ran off, had a schizophrenic episode or something like that. I'll think of all those things as a reason why she didn't turn up. Speaker 3 (12:11) On May 6th, Bob Levy calls the police in Washington and reports his daughter missing. Ronald Monroe was an assistant chief with the D.C. police. Speaker 5 (12:22) At the time that Chandra Levy was reported as missing, the number of missing persons in the district probably exceeded 200 to 300 a month. When the parents called, we sent an officer to just check on the welfare of the person. Speaker 3 (12:40) A police officer goes to her DuPont Circle apartment for a welfare check. The door is locked. There's no sign of a break-in, no sign of a struggle, nothing violent at all. The building's manager unlocks the door and the officer steps inside. The place looks like someone stopped packing in the middle of a move. Suitcases half-packed, clothes still hanging in the closet, dishes in the sink. a williams sonoma bag on the kitchen counter with a load of dirty laundry inside it jeans and socks her jewelry is still out earrings and an ankle bracelet and a necklace with a pendant on the answering machine 25 messages most from her parents and then there is the most telling sign of all her purse inside that her wallet her credit cards her driver's license and 31.50 Her cell phone left on the table. Her blue Sony laptop still open on the desk in the hall. What 24-year-old leaves home without any of it for weeks at a time? Nor does any of this seem like Chandra. What troubles the detectives most is not what is missing from the apartment. It is what still remains. Speaker 1 (13:55) She has no history of this. And based on the fact that... We went to her apartment to check on her welfare. We found all her identification in there, driver's license, credit cards, checkbook, jewelry, cell phones, anything that a normal person would take out with them when they go out on the street. All that was in the apartments. Speaker 2 (14:15) Brad Garrett, a veteran FBI agent who works the Chandra Levy case. Her Speaker 1 (14:20) driver's license, her credit cards, her cell phone, and her cell phone were still in the apartment. That's baffling. to me and others because the whole idea is when you're going to leave, you're at least going to take an ID. There were only two things missing, her keys and a ring. Her keys and a gold Speaker 3 (14:37) pinky ring with her initials CL that her parents had designed and given her. Wherever Chandra went that afternoon, she went with almost nothing. The apartment does not tell detectives whether she left voluntarily or something happened to her. Detective Jim Trainham spent years working homicides in Washington. Speaker 5 (14:56) Did she just drop off the face of the earth voluntarily? Is she missing under suspicious circumstances but still alive? Could she have been the victim of foul play? All of these are possibilities that you have to explore. Speaker 3 (15:09) In the nation's capital, Chandra is one missing name among a few hundred that month. In Modesto, she is the only one. Speaker 6 (15:18) Police went to her room and found everything there, you know, nothing. They didn't find her anywhere. We Speaker 5 (15:24) searched the area immediately around her DuPont Circle apartment. We searched the alleys, the dumpsters, hoping we would find something that was connected to her. We expanded the search through vacant properties in the city. Speaker 3 (15:38) Most of the missing cases in D.C., by the police department's own count, are teenagers who run away on their own and are back within a few days or weeks. Many of those kids are from the neighborhoods east of Rock Creek Park and across the Anacostia, where much of the city's violence plays out in the streets. Chandra is none of that. A 24-year-old woman who calls home like clockwork, gone without a trace from a quiet block in northwest D.C. In the days after her parents report Chandra missing, they stop waiting for answers and begin searching for clues themselves. They already pay their daughter's cell phone bills every month, so they open the latest bills and read them line by line, looking for anyone she might be with. Most of the numbers are ones they would expect. A few Washington numbers repeat, ones they do not recognize. Susan Levy starts dialing them. The first rings through to an answering machine playing soft background music and no name or voice recording. She dials the next. This one is not a friend or a boyfriend or a landlord. A recording tells her she has reached the office of Democrat Congressman Gary Condit. Susan recognizes the name immediately. Speaker 8 (16:57) I saw this number that was being called many, many, many times. I decided to call that number and it turned out to be Speaker 3 (17:07) Gary Condit. Gary Condit is the Levy's own Modesto congressman. 53 years old, married more than 30 years, one of the most recognizable politicians in their part of California. Speaker 6 (17:19) Gentleman from California is recognized for two minutes. It is a tremendous cost to the committee and to the taxpayers of this country. And they're confused why we can't work together. Speaker 3 (17:30) And his number is one that keeps turning up on their daughter's phone bills. Bob Levy decides to call him directly. The family finds a home number and Condit answers. Bob's voice shakes. He can barely get the words out. He tells the congressman that he is Chandra Levy's father. that his daughter is an intern in Washington, D.C., that his number is all over her phone bills, and that she is missing. Can he help? By the family's account, Condit is pleasant but offers nothing. He says he knows Chandra, that she's a lovely person, and that he has no idea where she is. The Levees do not believe him. They tell the D.C. police about the congressman and about the calls. By now, the police have taken Chandra's things, including her answering machine. Among the messages are two from a man. On May 3rd, days after she was last heard from, before Chandra had been reported to police. He never gives his name. Speaker 2 (18:52) The voice belongs to Gary Condit, the congressman who had just played down how well he knew Speaker 3 (18:57) Chandra to her father, Bob Levy. Ronald Monroe was an assistant chief of D.C. police at the time. Speaker 5 (19:04) It was a little bit unusual to us. He had indicated he barely knew her. He just knew her in pass. Speaker 3 (19:12) Two messages in his own voice left days after she vanished, asking Chandra Levy for her schedule and a call back. It is the first clear contradiction in the case. Speaker 8 (19:23) I kind of felt maybe he might be covering his checks. He just seemed to be concerned about himself. Speaker 3 (19:30) In the first week of May 2001, this is still officially a missing persons case. A young woman who closed her laptop, left her wallet on the table, and did not come home. There is no body. There is no crime scene. There's no witness, no ransom note, no proof that anything criminal has happened at all. But her parents have found a curious connection. Their own congressman's private numbers over and over on their daughter's phone bills. They have heard his voice on her answering machine, and they have heard him tell them directly that he knows nothing. Gary Condit's name is not in the news yet. That is about to change. I'm Megyn Kelly. And next time on MK Confidential, the secret Chandra kept, the other women who come forward, and 67 days of deceit from a congressman with everything to lose. In Speaker 2 (20:37) the early summer of 2001, a reporter at NBC's Washington station receives a phone call she will never forget. The voice on the line is a source. It gives her one sentence, and then it's gone. Speaker 1 (20:50) The first time I heard Chandra Levy's name, it was in the morning before I came to work. I might have been at the gym or something like that. And I got a phone call from a police source. And I'll never forget it. He phrased it exactly like this. There's a young woman, an intern who's missing from her apartment in northwest D.C. and she was having an affair with a congressman. And. The person hung up. A Speaker 2 (21:18) missing intern, a congressman, an alleged affair. One anonymous sentence. For about two weeks, Chandra Levy is a small, local story. A missing intern in a city with hundreds of missing persons cases a month. Then a congressman's name surfaces. And within days, it is the story the whole country is following. Nearly every camera in America pulled off the search for Chandra Levy. and onto democrat congressman gary condit i'm megan kelly and this is mk confidential Speaker 2 (21:54) By Speaker 3 (21:54) now, Chandra Levy has been missing for weeks. Her parents have no idea what's happened to her, but have found their own congressman's private number on her phone bill. His name is Gary Condit, and when they called Speaker 2 (22:07) and confronted him, he had played down how well he knew their daughter. Chandra's mother, Susan, later recalled the discovery to ABC's Deborah Roberts. I saw this Speaker 8 (22:17) number that was being Speaker 2 (22:18) called Speaker 8 (22:19) many, many, many times. I decided to call that number, and it turned out to be Gary Connors, and he answered Speaker 2 (22:27) the phone. By the middle of May 2001, this is no longer a family's private suspicion. It is a national news story that will become an obsession. The Speaker 6 (22:37) congressman seen in this picture with Ms. Levy says she's a great person and a good friend. He says she frequently visited his Capitol Hill office. A staffer for the congressman says there was no romantic relationship between the congressman and Ms. Levy. And Speaker 2 (22:55) from this point on, there are, in effect, two investigations. One is trying to find a missing 24-year-old woman. The other is trying to find out what a congressman is hiding. Over that summer, the hunt for answers from the congressman all but replaces the search for Chandra Levy. To understand any of it, we must go back to how the two of them met in the first place. It is October of 2000. Chandra, new to Washington, is making every connection she can to help build a career. One afternoon, she and her friend from USC, Jennifer Baker, who is also from Modesto, drop in unannounced at the Capitol Hill office of their own congressman, Gary Condit. By all accounts, Condit is happy to see two friendly constituents. He gives them a tour, takes them to the House gallery to watch a vote, and the three pose for a photo together. Jennifer walks out with an internship in his office, and Chandra walks out with a crush. A few days later, Chandra stops by again, this time to see Jennifer at her brand-new congressional internship, and this time she and Condit exchange phone numbers. She calls him for career advice, which leads to dinner at Trist, a coffee shop in Adams Morgan, minutes from Condit's apartment and thousands of miles from Modesto and Gary's wife. And within weeks, by her aunt's later account, Chandra will be spending two and sometimes three nights a week in that apartment. For a long time, only one person in Chandra's life knew the name of the man she was seeing. Not her parents, far away in California. Not her friends. Only her favorite aunt, Linda Zamsky, who is closer to her age and lives an hour and a half up the road in Chesapeake City, Maryland. The family Chandra could actually get to. And the one person she trusts with the truth. Over Thanksgiving 2000 and Passover the following spring, on long walks and long conversations, Speaker 3 (25:03) Chandra Speaker 2 (25:03) tells Linda about Speaker 3 (25:05) her man in Washington. She calls him my guy, but the aunt knows he actually belongs to someone else. He has promised that one day he Speaker 2 (25:15) will leave his wife in Modesto, give up his seat in Congress, and start a family with Chandra. What she describes, according to her aunt, is not a fling. It's a plan, one to play out over the next five years, finish the internship, land the dream job in federal law enforcement, and then start the life she's been striving for. Her co-worker, Sven Jones, hears the same thing from Chandra and shares this with 2020. Speaker 4 (25:44) When she spoke of her relationship, she never offered a name. She just said, powerful person. Someone who she was in love with. Someone who she could see making a life with. Speaker 2 (25:57) The man her aunt knows is Gary Condit. And whatever Chandra believes about their future, the secrecy of the present runs on his terms. By Zamsky's account, there are rules, and Chandra recites them to her. Allegedly, if she and Condit ride the elevator in his apartment building and someone else gets on, Chandra is to get off on a different floor. If anyone asks, she is to say she is visiting a sick friend. She is never to carry her identification when she goes to see Gary Condit. To reach him, her aunt says, Chandra dials a private line, waits through soft music, and leaves a message. And one rule, Chandra tells her, matters more than all the others. Silence about their secret. If anyone ever finds out, her aunt says, Condit is emphatic. It's done. Chandra sees a future together. Condit, in her telling, builds a system to make sure no one else sees the present. Gary Condit is 53 years old. He's been married to his high school sweetheart, Carolyn, for 34 years. They have two grown children, Chad and Katie. His wife lives at their home in California. Gary lives in Washington in his condo alone. Carolyn comes to visit that spring, but only briefly for a luncheon hosted by First Lady Laura Bush. Condit is the son of a Baptist preacher, a Democrat from Modesto. Condit helped found the Blue Dog Democrats, a bloc of fiscally conservative moderate Dems who broke from their party's left. A mural of a big blue dog hangs in his congressional office beside a photo of Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich. Condit is well-liked. He's telegenic, good-looking. Chandra thinks he looks like Harrison Ford. So well-groomed that colleagues call him Mr. Blow-Dry. And there is talk he could go higher still, which is the point. He is a man with a long marriage, a family, and a career he has spent decades building, all of it resting on a certain image. All of it at risk if the truth comes out about an affair with a missing intern. In public for months from the moment his name surfaces, he will not admit the relationship was ever romantic. Not to the reporters camped outside his condo, not on national television, not to the country. The Washington, D.C. chief of detectives, Jack Barrett, sees his investigators pull toward Condit like magnets to steel for one reason. Speaker 7 (28:31) From the very beginning, he was trying to protect his professional reputation as a congressman. Please excuse Speaker 6 (28:37) me. Speaker 7 (28:38) He was the one that created this problem for himself. We had no place to turn other than to try and focus on him. In Speaker 2 (28:45) private, however, the story is not quite so one-dimensional. Behind closed doors and interviews with police, Condit acknowledges more. When detectives first sit down with Condit, he acknowledges that Chandra had come to his apartment and on a few occasions had stayed the night. When a sergeant asks him point-blank whether the relationship was intimate, Condit refuses to be explicit. Quote, I don't think we need to go there, he says, and you can infer what you want with that. Weeks later, in a third police interview, according to Washington Post journalists Scott Higgum and Sari Horowitz, Gary finally admits to the detectives that there had been a sexual affair, an admission that promptly leaks, and that he never once repeats in public. Years later, long after it no longer matters, This is as close as Gary Condit would come to publicly admitting to an affair with Chandra. Here's what he tells Dr. Phil in 2016. Speaker 6 (29:44) I saw her one time outside the office at a restaurant, and she came by my condo Speaker 1 (29:49) once. She came by your condo once? Speaker 6 (29:52) Well, maybe twice. I think it was twice she Speaker 2 (29:54) came Speaker 6 (29:55) by. Speaker 2 (29:55) And here is the distinction on which the rest of this story turns. A man who has something to hide. is not necessarily the same as a man who knows what happened to Chandra Levy. But in the summer of 2001, the two appear identical to some. There is also the question of where Condit has been. By his own account, on the day Chandra vanished, Condit is on Capitol Hill. Around midday, close to the hour she logs off her computer for the very last time, Condit is in a meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney about California's energy crisis. Cheney's office would later confirm the meeting took place. That afternoon, Condit casts two votes on the House floor. Those events place Condit on Capitol Hill for portions of the day, though they do not account for every hour. That evening, he says he is home at his D.C. condo with his wife Carolyn, who's in town. The detectives are not the only ones pressing on Gary Condit. Chandra's mother, Susan, comes to Washington and will not leave quietly. She goes on any program that will have her and turns to cameras with a plea. Speaker 8 (31:03) Mr. Conant, would you please step forward and share whatever you know? You may have been one of the last people to really have spent any Speaker 2 (31:12) time with Chandra. With the police producing no timely answers, the Levees hire a public relations team. The strategy is deliberate. Release what they know a piece at a time. Keep reporters interested and make sure Chandra does not vanish. from public view. It works almost too well. Chandra stays in the headlines, in the small print, below the actual headlines, which are all about Gary Condit. It soon becomes clear Condit has many secrets. As reporters dig into his private life, other women begin to emerge. The first is a former legislative aide named Jolene Argentini. who had her own long relationship with Condit years earlier and who once gave him an expensive watch. The second is a flight attendant with United named Anne-Marie Smith, who says she was involved with Condit right up until that spring of 2001. She says that after Chandra vanished, Condit's staff asked her to sign an affidavit swearing there had been no sexual relationship between her and the congressman. She refused, and she goes public. telling Fox News she Speaker 3 (32:25) was afraid. I stayed in my own hotel Speaker 1 (32:27) rooms on my layovers. I moved to a place where nobody knows my address, nobody knows my phone number. I was very concerned for my own safety. These Speaker 2 (32:36) women have nothing to do with Chandra's disappearance, but each tells a version of the same story. Secrecy, denial, and the strict Condit rulebook. Together, they make Condit's insistence on privacy look less like respect for a grieving family and more like a habit of protecting himself. What none of it does is help anyone find Chandra. For weeks, Condit's affairs have been