Stardate 20010922.1915 (On Screen): Notice how Chandra Levy suddenly disappeared off the news radar screen? There are two good reasons why: the obvious one, of course, but also that it was rapidly becoming evident that there wasn't really a story there. Levy's parents' publicist had done a remarkable job trickling out news items over a period of a couple of months to keep it on the front page, but until someone finds a body, there's not really a great deal left to do -- and I suspect that the DC police now have a lot more important things to investigate than the disappearance of one young lady without a trace. And that may never happen, as this news story makes clear. A 14 year old girl disappeared in Florida in 1987, and a man was convicted of her murder in 1994 and sentenced to death. As part of a bargain to get his sentence commuted, he just told investigators where he hid the body and they just found bones, almost certainly belonging to the victim. After 14 years, the only way they found her was because her killer told them where to look. In the case of Levy, they don't even have any idea who the murderer might be -- which leaves the entire US to search, inch by inch, for unknown graves.
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