Michaelr,

The Levy family managed to maintain a high-pitched national dialog in their search for Chandra while, as another on this thread pointed out, other interns also went missing. Were it not for airliners slammed into skyscrapers it might have stayed in the headlines. If the Levy's had tried to tie Chandra's disappearance into a Green River kind of missing person story, it wouldn't have stayed in the headlines. Condit was their straw man. As was also pointed out here, most people who cheat on their spouses manage to do so without committing murder in the process. Condit was a convenient figure for that family to latch onto and rail about--when in my personal opinion the money and publicity would be better directed at investigating the string of missing young-women-with-similar-features interns.

I don't blame them for their desperate attempt to find their daughter. I attribute their acts as the product of a news system that has created and panders to an audience of millions who will only pay attention if there are soap opera-like histrionics involved. Under other circumstances, I expect Condit is your average effective nice guy who was getting a bit on the side. No one comes out of this media circus without stinking of it.

SRS