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Episode 39: Intern Chandra Levy & the Wichita Horror

Let's Go To Court!

Let's Go To Court!

True Crime, History, Comedy

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

Chandra Levy had her life together. She was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons and was just a few days shy of graduating with a master’s degree in public administration. She had dreams of working for the FBI. Maybe the CIA. So when she suddenly went missing in early May of 2001, her parents were alarmed. Their alarm swelled when they learned that Chandra’d been having an affair with Congressman Gary Condit. Was Condit to blame for Chandra’s disappearance? Had he done something to her? Despite a damn good alibi, suspicion enveloped Condit.

In the winter of 2000, two men terrorized Wichita, Kansas. Over a short period, their random crimes escalated. First they robbed a man. Then they shot a woman. Then, they raped and terrorized a group of five, twenty-something friends. The men murdered four of the five friends. The lone survivor lived through the ordeal when the killers’ bullet deflected off her barrette. She played dead, then sought help. Ultimately, her testimony helped put the men behind bars.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“Who Killed Chandra Levy?” Washington Post investigative series by Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham, Sylvia Moreno
Season 38, Episode 48 of 20/20
“Chandra Levy,” Wikipedia
“Gary Condit,” Wikipedia

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“The Wichita Horror” by Denise Noe, Crime Library
“True Crime: The Wichita Massacre” by Kara Kovalchik, MentalFloss.com
“High court overturns death penalty sentences for Carr brothers, upholds conviction” by Sherman Smith, The Topeka Capital-Journal
Supreme Court restores death sentences in heinous Kansas murder spree” by Richard Wolf, USA Today

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.7

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0:23.3

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0:25.6

One semester of law school. One semester of criminal justice. Two experts.

0:31.6

I'm Kristen Pitts. I'm Brandy Egan. Let's go to court.

0:35.6

On this episode I'll talk about intern Shandra Levy and I'll be talking about the witch-a-talk.

0:43.2

I have no idea what yours is about. But I'm terrified because I know that you're about to do a murder

0:49.5

one and it's going to be bad. Okay. So last week at the end of the episode, I promised

0:59.3

that I would do a murder this week and I promise that it would be a really bad one with lots of blood.

1:06.4

God. And I may have over-delivered. Over-delivered? This is the worst murder case I've ever

1:16.4

talked about on the podcast. Oh, no. I recommended it to me. So I left here. So, you know,

1:21.1

we record on Wednesdays. Then we got a lunch and then I bowed a bowling league on Wednesday.

1:25.1

So I went to bowling last Wednesday and I was like, Dad, I have got to come up with a really

1:29.6

good murder case to do next week. What should I do? And he's like, oh, well, you know what you should

1:36.0

do. And like I've had this case like in the back of my mind for a long time. Yeah. And he was like,

1:41.0

you got to do it. And I was like, okay, I'm going to do it. But it's bad. Oh my God. It's really bad.

1:48.7

You know how I get with these. I'm not good with these. I hope there's a weird sexual element

1:54.4

because that's really my forte. You're going to wish he hadn't said that. Oh, no.

1:59.7

Oh, God. All right. So should we just jump right in? No, we shouldn't. Oh, you know why?

2:11.8

Because this episode is sponsored by the gaming historian. He's so cute. I've got to have what?

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