Reminds me of something i once said

The Chandra Levy case may be close to an arrest.

It disappeared from the headlines for years. Any chance this is the reason?

At times, media coverage of criminal matters seems like a reversion to our primitive history. Watching Nancy Grace or Greta van Sustren brings to mind images from the Roman Coliseum. The goal isn't truth or justice, it is closure. Closure demands that someone must pay for the crime. Someone can easily become anyone, guilty or not.

I suspect that this is why the tabloid media continues to bash Aruba, but has lost interest in Chandra Levy. Both crimes are unsolved, but the DC police get a pass. Levy's murder, though, did cost Gary Condit his seat in Congress. Someone paid. That he was innocent of her murder is of little concern.

I'm interested in what the DC police have as evidence. I hope they found the guy who did it. But there is always a good chance that they are just trying to close an embarrasing cold case. (Their record as investigators is not good at all.

UPDATE: Here's an article from 2002 by a reporter who pointed to Ingmar Guandique at the height of Condit-mania. Oddly enough, her beltway colleagues were not interested.

Note as well how those journalists just assumed that someone fed her the information. Why was it so hard to believe that a reporter could find a scoop through independent digging?