An FBI agent testified Thursday morning in the Chandra Levy murder trial of the difficulty in retrieving information from the slain intern’s computer.
Jane Domboski, now a supervisory special agent with the FBI, was a certified forensic examiner in 2001 and was asked to examine the laptop computer that D.C. police found in Levy’s Dupont Circle apartment.
On Tuesday, Det. Ronald Wyatt testified that the laptop computer was still on when he came across it. But after getting a search warrant and returning the next day, the computer wouldn’t work. “The operating system was obliterated,” he said.
Domboski testified Thursday that when she removed the hard drive for examination, the forensic exam station did not recognize the data. The laptop was sent to a data forensic recovery company. After receiving the CDs with the hard drive information, Domboski discovered the computer had last been used from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 1, 2001 — the day Levy went missing,
Investigators say Ingmar Guandique raped and killed Levy while she was jogging in Rock Creek Park. Her remains were found there a year later.
Guandique is on trial in D.C. Superior Court, charged with Levy’s murder.
