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.The club of criminal justice students volunteered theirtime to try to solve cold cases as they trained to become investigators,victim advocates, and corrections officers.As they dug into the ChandraLevy case, they came to the conclusion that their prime suspect wasalready behind bars for two other assaults on women in the very parkwhere Levy s remains had been found.When Cathy Lanier became chief of the District of Columbia policein 2007, she set about revisiting some of her force s thousands of coldcases.She assigned three new detectives to the Levy investigation, andthree federal prosecutors joined them in their quest to finally put thecase to rest.They interviewed more than a dozen witnesses, two ofwhom claimed that Guandique had admitted that he killed Levy.Although there was no physical evidence linking Guandique to themurder, U.S.attorney Jeffrey Taylor believed that the cumulativeweight of circumstantial evidence pointed to convict.On March 3,2009, Guandique was finally charged with first-degree murder in con-nection with Levy s killing.He was arraigned in May in the District ofColumbia Superior Court on six counts, including first-degree murder,kidnapping, and attempted sexual abuse.He pleaded not guilty to allcounts.Judge Geoffrey Alprin set a two-week jury trial for January 27,2010, which has been moved to October 2010 pending further charges.Guandique is currently serving his 10-year sentence for his assaults ontwo other women at a federal prison in California.He is set for releaseon July 31, 2011, and he will face deportation back to El Salvador. Bringing Down a Congressman: The Death of Chandra Levy (2001) 377FURTHER READINGDaugherty, Ralph.Murder On a Horse Trail: The Disappearance of ChandraLevy.Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2004.Modesto Bee newspaper coverage.http://www.modbee.com/reports/levy/.Washington Post series on Chandra Levy case.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/chandra/.Wecht, Cyril, Angela Powell, and Mark Curriden.Tales from the Morgue:Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases Including the Scott Peterson &Chandra Levy Cases.Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005.Wright, David, and Don Gentile.Sex, Power and Murder: Chandra Levy andGary Condit The Affair that Shocked America.AMI Books, 2004. This page intentionally left blank Basketball star Bison Dele retired to travel the world on his catamaran.Getty Images.Murder on the HighSeas: The Case ofBasketball PlayerBison Dele (2002) 380 Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in AmericaThe bodies of former basketball star Bison Dele, his girlfriend, andthe skipper of their boat disappeared somewhere in the Pacific.Theyare believed to have been the victims of foul play, but their bodieshave never been found.It is highly unlikely that this case will everbe closed, particularly since the police s main suspect is also dead.For Bison Dele there was more to life than basketball.He was born inFresno, California, on April 6, 1969, the son of Eugene Williams ofthe 1950s singing group the Platters.His mother, Patricia Phillips, wasa Blue Cross claims supervisor who raised her sons alone after she andtheir father separated when the boys were young.After playing collegebasketball for the University of Arizona Wildcats, the Orlando Magicpicked him in the first round of the 1991 National Basketball Associa-tion draft.He spent eight seasons in the NBA with teams in Orlando,Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit.Dele played on the ChicagoBulls championship team in 1996 and 1997.Although Dele earned millions of dollars, he sometimes used a skate-board to get to work.He nearly quit basketball in 1993 while sufferingfrom clinical depression, but he made a comeback.In 1998, he changedhis name from Brian Williams to Bison Dele to honor his Cherokee her-itage and the first slave on his mother s side of the family.He alsoyearned for more from life than the basketball court.He played thetrumpet, flew his own airplane, loved skydiving, and was well read.One afternoon while Dele was playing with the Los Angeles Clippers,the team was in a Dallas hotel in between games.Clippers equipmentmanager Pete Serrano came downstairs in time to see a helicopter thatDele had rented was waiting in the parking lot.Serrano, Dele, a team-mate, and the pilot took a five-hour flightseeing tour over Texas. B wasn t going to spend the day in his room, Serrano later told areporter for ESPN. He needed to see things.He had to get out there. Over the years Dele traveled to, among other places, Pamplona inSpain, Cairo, Monaco, Havana, Mexico City, and Morocco [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]