The Missing Intern & The Congressman: "Did You Kill Chandra Levy?" — Ep. 2 | MK Confidential

August 4, 2026

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The Missing Intern & The Congressman: "Did You Kill Chandra Levy?" — Ep. 2

In 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. "There's a young woman, an intern who's missing from her apartment in Northwest DC, and she was having an affair with a congressman." Then the person hung up. That single anonymous sentence would soon transform a local missing persons case into a national obsession—one that would consume the media, derail a criminal investigation, and destroy a political career, all while a young woman remained missing.

How Chandra Levy Met Gary Condit

The story begins in October 2000, when 24-year-old Chandra Levy and her friend Jennifer Baker—both from Modesto, California—drop in unannounced at the Capitol Hill office of their congressman, Gary Condit. Condit, a 53-year-old Democrat and son of a Baptist preacher, 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. Chandra walks out with a crush.

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1 MK Confidential: The Missing Intern & The Congressman – Ep. 2
2 (01:00) **The Phone Call That Started It All** - A reporter receives an anonymous tip: a missing intern was having an affair with a congressman
3 (03:39) **The Parents Discover Condit** - Chandra's parents find Gary Condit's private number on her phone bill and confront him
4 (04:54) **How Chandra and Condit Met** - In October 2000, Chandra and a friend drop in unannounced at Condit's Capitol Hill office
5 (06:06) **The Only Person Who Knew** - Chandra's aunt Linda Zamsky is the sole family member told about the affair
6 (08:33) **Who Is Gary Condit?** - A 53-year-old married congressman with a carefully built image at risk
7 (09:51) **The Two Investigations Begin** - Police are pulled toward Condit "like magnets to steel"

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Guests on this episode

Chandra Levy Gary Condit

Show Notes

"MK Confidential" opens on a phone call. In the early summer of 2001, a reporter at NBC's Washington station picks up, and a police source gives her one sentence: a missing intern, a congressman, and an affair. Within days, nearly every camera in America has swung off the search for Chandra Levy and onto Gary Condit.

Megyn Kelly traces the paths of a 24-year-old from Modesto and a fifty-three-year-old congressman, from an unannounced office visit to a phone number, a private line with soft music on it, and a set of rules Chandra recites to exactly one person she trusts. Get off the elevator. Say you're visiting a sick friend. Never bring your ID.

Then, the story turns. A detective swabs a sitting congressman's cheek in a dark supermarket parking lot. A stranger watches Condit push something deep into a trash can in Alexandria and goes back to see what it was. Twenty-four million people watch him tell Connie Chung he did not kill her, and refuse to say what he did do. A man with something to hide is not the same as a man who knows what happened to Chandra Levy; but in the summer of 2001, the two look identical. This is Episode 2 of the Chandra Levy story.

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