The Disappearance of Chandra Levy
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
“It’s a mess and a nightmare and maybe it’s disingenuous to think you can turn the story of someone being murdered into anything else.”
Mike tells Sarah about a missing intern, a shady politician and a nationwide obsession. Digressions include speed dial, “La La Land” and Perry Mason. The Summer of the Shark gets a bonus debunking.
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- ”Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery”
- Gary Condit’s book, “Actual Malice”
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- An American Journalism Review article on how the Chandra Levy saga took off
- A deep dive on Condit’s Connie Chung interview
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| 0:00.0 | That's really how it is. We all just eventually live long enough to become problematic. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to You're Wrong About where we talk about the stories that scared the |
| 0:18.9 | Bajezas out of middle school aged Sarah and also other people. Is that true? You were scared of |
| 0:24.7 | this one? Yeah. This was one of the great white dead girl cases of my own white girl adolescence. |
| 0:32.0 | I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for the Having to Post. I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book |
| 0:35.7 | about the satanic panic. And we're on Patreon at patreon.com slash You're Wrong About and PayPal |
| 0:42.1 | and sell in t-shirts and cool if you don't want to buy a t-shirt or support us in quarantine. |
| 0:48.3 | I just love hearing how this this little pattern is going to go every time because I feel like |
| 0:53.6 | each time you're you're refining it to something a little bit shorter. And it's like we're |
| 0:58.3 | traveling via billions and I'm watching you opening in different towns. It's really nice. |
| 1:02.8 | And today we're talking about Shandra Levy who is yes one of the great missing white girls |
| 1:10.2 | in recent American history. And I believe she went missing in 2001. Yes. And it was one of the |
| 1:16.3 | last big news stories before September 11th. Yeah. This is one of the numbers that I came across |
| 1:20.8 | was that between June and September 11th the nightly news broadcasts ran 63 stories on Shandra |
| 1:29.8 | Levy. And then in the year after 9-11 they ran three. Oh, oh, oh, yeah. We moved on. Wow. I mean, |
| 1:40.3 | I do think like the central mystery of this episode is not just why Shandra Levy disappeared |
| 1:46.0 | and sort of what happened to her. But why this was a big deal in the first place. Like as people |
| 1:51.2 | have pointed out in 1999 a woman named Joyce Chang who was a congressional intern disappeared |
| 1:58.2 | and turned up murdered and nobody paid any attention to it. In the same time period that Shandra |
| 2:04.4 | Levy went missing 126 other women were missing that had been reported to the DC police. None of them |
| 2:11.0 | got any coverage. Yeah. And I'm guessing that there's a lot that went into this and there's a lot |
| 2:15.2 | of you know weird fluky things about the news cycle that privilege certain stories at certain |
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