MODESTO, Calif. — Chandra Levy, the former intern whose disappearance ended the congressional career of Gary Condit, was buried Tuesday, more than a year after her remains were discovered in a Washington, D.C., park.
Levy was buried during a quiet service attended by about 50 people, said Kim Petersen, a family friend. The burial was not held until now because the medical examiner just released Levy's remains on Friday, said Judy Smith, a family spokeswoman.
Levy, who had worked for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, was 24 years old when she disappeared in Washington on May 1, 2001. Her case drew national attention because of her relationship with Condit.
The congressman, then 54 and married, reportedly told police that he and Levy were having an affair.
Police do not consider Condit a suspect in Levy's death, but the months of negative publicity was cited as the main cause of Condit's re-election defeat in the March 2002 primary.
Levy's remains were discovered on May 22, 2002. At the time, she was wearing clothes that suggested she was going jogging when she left her apartment.
But an FBI laboratory analysis of her clothing provided no clues about her killer's identity, and an autopsy of her remains indicated her skull was fractured but did not yield enough evidence to determine how she was killed.