The remains discovered in Rock Creek Park more than a year after federal intern Chandra Levy’s disappearance were those a female in the age range of 19 to 27, a forensic expert testified Tuesday afternoon.
Levy, 24, went missing in Rock Creek Park on May 1, 2001. Ingmar Guandique is on trial in D.C. Superior court, charged with attempted rape and first-degree murder.
David Hunt, a forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institute, testified that he was called to the crime scene on the afternoon of May 22, 2002 — the day after the remains were found.
Hunt testified there was a 90 percent accuracy the remains belonged to a female based on the shape of the pelvic region. He said the ancestry of the person was European, clarifying as being Caucasian when asked by prosecutors.
In addition, the height range of the person determined by reassembling the skeletal frame was about 4-foot-11 to 5-foot-4. Levy, according to her father, was 5-foot-3.
Hunt said evidence from examining the bones showed signs that animals had “been feeding or chomping” on the bones, which he estimated took six months to no more than a year to decompose.
