The Missing Intern & The Congressman: Buried in the Park — Ep. 3 | MK Confidential

August 5, 2026

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The Search That Walked Past Her

On July 25, 2001, twenty-eight police recruits lined up along Glover Road in Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek Park—a vast wilderness twice the size of Central Park. The command from police headquarters was to search 100 yards from roads and trails. But many on the search team that day heard it as 100 yards from the roads only. So they beat the brush along the pavement, calling Chandra Levy's name, while the deeper ravines thick with vines and fallen trees went untouched. By one o'clock, with the temperature at 91 degrees, the sergeants called off the search. Ten months later, Chandra Levy's remains would be found on that very hillside, just 79 yards below the Western Ridge Trail—ground this search never reached.

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1 The Missing Intern & The Congressman: Buried in the Park — Ep. 3 | MK Confidential
2 (01:08) **The Failed Search Begins** - 28 police recruits line up along Glover Road in Rock Creek Park to search for Chandra Levy on July 25, 2001
3 (04:33) **The Levy Family Fights Alone** - Bob and Susan Levy navigate the press while hiring their own investigators to supplement the floundering official search
4 (07:24) **A Department Unprepared** - The DC police force handling the Levy case is overwhelmed by unsolved homicides, a full morgue, and thin public trust
5 (09:00) **The Surveillance Tapes Are Lost** - Police fail to secure the building's 13-camera recording system before it overwrites itself
6 (10:18) **The Laptop Is Damaged** - A police sergeant turns Chandra's laptop on without proper protocol, corrupting the hard drive
7 (11:31) **The Map That Sent Searchers to the Wrong Spot** - The recovered browsing history finally sends investigators into the park, but the search is fatally limited

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Guests on this episode

Chandra Levy Hallie Schilling Ingmar Guandique

Show Notes

"MK Confidential" opens on the morning of July 25th, 2001. Twenty-eight police recruits stand shoulder to shoulder along Glover Road in Rock Creek Park, beating the brush, calling Chandra Levy's name. The order from headquarters was to search a hundred yards from the roads and the trails...but most of the team hears roads. By one o'clock it is ninety-one degrees, the search is called off, and the recruits climb onto a bus. Ten months from now, Chandra will be found seventy-nine yards below a trail no one walked that day.

Megyn Kelly lays out the summer the investigation came apart. Police fail to retrieve security footage from Chandra's apartment building, and it's overwritten. An untrained sergeant switches on Chandra's laptop and corrupts the drive. And on the trails of that same park, a man is dragging women into ravines. Two of them fight him off and live. When he is finally caught, a detective slides Chandra's missing flier across the table and asks whether he has ever seen her. Yes, he says — once, near the Peirce Mill parking lot. He thought she was pretty. The detective never writes it down.

Then, the September 11th attacks take the cameras and the federal agents off of Chandra Levy. The tip line goes quiet. Gary Condit loses his primary election and leaves D.C. And on May 22nd, 2002, a man walking his dog steps off a trail, brushes away leaves, and finds a human skull. Two weeks later, the family's own investigators return to the released crime scene with garden rakes and find more. This is Episode 3 of the Chandra Levy story.

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