But the Levy case proved difficult from the start. Chandra Levy Associated PressLevy was a 24-year-old intern for the Federal Bureau of Prisons when she disappeared in May 2001. At the request of prosecutors, a judge has dismissed the case against the man convicted of killing Chandra Levy, the Washington intern whose disappearance touched off years of speculation and led to the downfall of a California congressman. He refused to answer questions about his relationship with Levy, even as prosecutors said they’d found his DNA on clothes in her apartment. They had no murder weapon, no eyewitnesses and no definitive ruling from the medical examiner on what killed Levy.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2016 18:43 UTC