IniciGrupsConversesMésTendències
Cerca al lloc
Aquest lloc utilitza galetes per a oferir els nostres serveis, millorar el desenvolupament, per a anàlisis i (si no has iniciat la sessió) per a publicitat. Utilitzant LibraryThing acceptes que has llegit i entès els nostres Termes de servei i política de privacitat. L'ús que facis del lloc i dels seus serveis està subjecte a aquestes polítiques i termes.

Resultats de Google Books

Clica una miniatura per anar a Google Books.

S'està carregant…

Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery

de Scott Higham

MembresRessenyesPopularitatValoració mitjanaMencions
612426,627 (3.67)2
It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising intern, and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. By 2007, satellite trucks and reporters had long since abandoned the story of the congressman and the intern in search of other news, fresh scandals. Across the country, Chandra's parents tried to resume their daily lives, desperately hoping that someday there might be a break in the investigation. And in Washington, the old game of who's up and who's down played on without interruption. But Chandra Levy haunted. Six years after the young intern's disappearance, investigative editors of the Washington Post pitched two Pulitzer Prize winning reporters their idea: revisit the unsolved case and find out what happened to Chandra, a task that had eluded police and the FBI. The authors went to work. The result was a thirteen part series in the Washington Post that focused on a prime suspect the police and the FBI had passed over years before. They had wrongly pursued Condit and chased numerous false leads, including a claim that Chandra had been kidnapped and taken to the Middle East. But the most likely culprit was far less glamorous: an immigrant from El Salvador, a young man in the clutches of alcohol, drugs, and violence who had been stalking the running paths of Rock Creek Park, assaulting female joggers at knifepoint. He had attacked again, even as the police and the press concentrated on a congressman romantically linked to the intern. This book explores the bungled police efforts to locate the crime scene and catch a killer, the ambition and hubris of Washington's power elite and press corps, the twisted culture of politics, the dark nature of political scandal, and the agony of parents struggling to comprehend the loss of a child. Above all, it is a quintessential portrait of a cast of outsiders who came to Washington with dreams of something better, only to be forever changed.… (més)
Cap
S'està carregant…

Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar.

No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.

» Mira també 2 mencions

Es mostren totes 2
As a DC native who well remembers the media frenzy around this case, I was eager to read this book outlining the investigation. The book (and the news stories that spawned it) certainly highlighted the investigative failures that left this case unsolved for so long, and revealed troubling gaps between the various bodies that held pieces of the puzzle that eventually led to a viable suspect. I was also intrigued by the details of some of the news coverage of the case which early on painted Gary Condit as the prime suspect.

I thought the book was a little hard to follow in places as it jumped around between characters and timeframes. I also would have liked less focus on the media elements of the case which ultimately took up a larger chunk of the narrative than I expected. All in all though a great look at an interesting case. ( )
  ForeignCircus | Oct 4, 2010 |
“Finding Chandra” was a fascinating read for me. It was like going back in time…remembering the 24/7 coverage of the missing intern and the possibility that a United States congressman was involved in her disappearance.

This account is very clear and highly detailed…walking the reader through the events of April 2001 through the present as seen through the eyes of those most intimately involved. I had forgotten that the events of September 2001 took this story from front page/prime time all the time to a non-story…and later, that the D.C. sniper story caused the press to abandon the story again.

Chandra Levy died so young and so tragically, and I couldn’t help but ache for her loss of life and the incredible grief that her parents experienced. Any time the reader is allowed a view into their words and actions, their bewilderment and sorrow at the events surrounding their daughter’s death come across loud and clear. I can’t imagine going through what they did…holding out hope at the beginning that Chandra would return to them and then once that hope was dashed, their lack of closure as the case dragged on for so many years. How must have that have felt – having the country witness their pain day after day after day…only to become a shadowy side notes in the fall of that year?

What was also fascinating to me was the details about Gary Condit – the main suspect for so long in Levy’s disappearance. I think, if you asked 10 people on the street who followed the case at all in 2001 – 9 of them would tell you today that they thought Condit was responsible. So much was made of the details of Chandra’s disappearance…and so little was made of the man who is now the strongest suspect of the crime…who is NOT Gary Condit. The congressman certainly doesn’t come across as an honest or honorable man, but at times, I felt sorry for the havoc that his affair had wrought on his family and career.

“…and now it had come to this: his client, a United States congressman, standing in the darkness of a supermarket parking lot, opening his mouth so a detective could stick a long Q-Tip inside and take a sample of his saliva.”

I was engrossed in this story…which in a sense was more a book about a story than a book about a murder. This missing girl and her connection to a person in power held our country in thrall for so long and in a way that hadn’t happened many times before. Now, of course, there are many names that might be places alongside that of Chandra Levy in the 24/7 missing person stories…but this one stands out. ( )
1 vota karieh | Aug 16, 2010 |
Es mostren totes 2
Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Has d'iniciar sessió per poder modificar les dades del coneixement compartit.
Si et cal més ajuda, mira la pàgina d'ajuda del coneixement compartit.
Títol normalitzat
Títol original
Títols alternatius
Data original de publicació
Gent/Personatges
Llocs importants
Esdeveniments importants
Pel·lícules relacionades
Epígraf
Dedicatòria
Primeres paraules
Citacions
Darreres paraules
Nota de desambiguació
Editor de l'editorial
Creadors de notes promocionals a la coberta
Llengua original
CDD/SMD canònics
LCC canònic

Referències a aquesta obra en fonts externes.

Wikipedia en anglès (3)

It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising intern, and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. By 2007, satellite trucks and reporters had long since abandoned the story of the congressman and the intern in search of other news, fresh scandals. Across the country, Chandra's parents tried to resume their daily lives, desperately hoping that someday there might be a break in the investigation. And in Washington, the old game of who's up and who's down played on without interruption. But Chandra Levy haunted. Six years after the young intern's disappearance, investigative editors of the Washington Post pitched two Pulitzer Prize winning reporters their idea: revisit the unsolved case and find out what happened to Chandra, a task that had eluded police and the FBI. The authors went to work. The result was a thirteen part series in the Washington Post that focused on a prime suspect the police and the FBI had passed over years before. They had wrongly pursued Condit and chased numerous false leads, including a claim that Chandra had been kidnapped and taken to the Middle East. But the most likely culprit was far less glamorous: an immigrant from El Salvador, a young man in the clutches of alcohol, drugs, and violence who had been stalking the running paths of Rock Creek Park, assaulting female joggers at knifepoint. He had attacked again, even as the police and the press concentrated on a congressman romantically linked to the intern. This book explores the bungled police efforts to locate the crime scene and catch a killer, the ambition and hubris of Washington's power elite and press corps, the twisted culture of politics, the dark nature of political scandal, and the agony of parents struggling to comprehend the loss of a child. Above all, it is a quintessential portrait of a cast of outsiders who came to Washington with dreams of something better, only to be forever changed.

No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca.

Descripció del llibre
Sumari haiku

Debats actuals

Cap

Cobertes populars

Dreceres

Valoració

Mitjana: (3.67)
0.5
1
1.5
2 2
2.5
3 6
3.5 3
4 5
4.5 1
5 4

Ets tu?

Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing.

 

Quant a | Contacte | LibraryThing.com | Privadesa/Condicions | Ajuda/PMF | Blog | Botiga | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteques llegades | Crítics Matiners | Coneixement comú | 203,189,552 llibres! | Barra superior: Sempre visible