WASHINGTON — A jury convicted a Salvadoran illegal immigrant of two counts of first-degree murder today in the killing of intern Chandra Levy, a case that was based on circumstantial evidence and lacked any DNA or forensic evidence.
The Superior Court jury reached the verdict for Ingmar Guandique, 29, on the fourth day of deliberations, capping a nine-year march to justice for the death of the Washington intern, who was romantically linked to then U.S. Rep. Gary Condit.
Chandra Levy’s mother, Susan, who attended the trial, smiled when the verdict was announced; Guandique had no reaction, WUSA-TV reported.
Afterward, she spoke outside the courthouse before a throng of reporters and thanked the prosecution, defense and judge but said she found no closure or peace in the verdict.
She called the murder of her daughter “a lifetime sentence. I live with it everyday.”
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