Washington DC police yesterday returned for a second time to search local Rock Creek Park for the missing intern, Ms Chandra Levy, following police revelations that she used a related Internet site on the day she went missing, reports Patrick Smyth.
In three hours on the Internet, she checked flights to her home in California as well as calling up a map site. She apparently checked several locations, including Klingle Mansion in Rock Creek Park, before logging off her laptop computer for the last time on May 1st, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
"We are exploring a lot of possibilities, one of which is that she met with foul play and if that's the case . . . where could you dispose of a body and that's really what we're looking for," Washington DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey said.
He also confirmed that an emergency 911 call was made from Ms Levy's apartment building in the early morning hours of May 1st. She was last seen in public on April 30th.
Speaking to ABC News with her face concealed, a resident of the building recounted how she had called police to report hearing screams in the building well before dawn on May 1st. "There were no audible words, but it was very loud. It was almost like in a scary movie when you hear someone that is screaming at the top of their lungs," the unidentified graduate student said.
Mr Ramsey said yesterday there was evidence that Ms Levy used her computer after the screams had been heard.
Meanwhile, the lawyer for Ms Levy's family, Mr Billy Martin, said on Sunday that the family believes she left her apartment to see someone she knew because she did not take her purse, wallet, identification or credit cards.
Before she disappeared, she told her family that her lover, Congressman Gary Condit, had demanded she should not carry identification when they were together, Mr Martin said.