The parents of Chandra Levy, an intern whose case remains unsolved, have broken their silence 25 years after her disappearance. They suggest their daughter might have stumbled upon information she “wasn’t supposed to know.”

Susan and Robert Levy shared these intriguing insights during an interview on NewsNation’s Jesse Weber Live this week, as they marked the somber anniversary of Chandra’s disappearance on May 1, 2001.

At the time, Chandra was a 24-year-old intern for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington DC. Her sudden vanishing turned into one of the most talked-about mysteries in the capital.

Although her remains were found in a park a year later, the circumstances surrounding her death have never been fully explained, leaving a trail of unanswered questions.

Recently, her parents expressed their belief that Chandra’s interest in UFOs may have played a role in her untimely demise, suggesting she might have known more than was safe.

Robert suggested that events unfolding in Washington at the time, including a conference featuring UFO whistleblowers and individuals on the Central Higher Intelligence Committee, may have played a role in his daughter’s death.

He said Levy once mentioned learning about UFO-related topics connected to political figures in Washington.

While the Levys acknowledged they do not have proof of a connection, they said the unanswered questions continue to haunt them decades later.

Chandra Levy was 24 and about to graduate college was she disappeared while in Washington DC where she worked as an intern

Her parents, Susan and Robert Levy, spoke out about their daughter’s disappearance and death, suggesting it was due to her knowledge of UFOs

‘Chandra mentioned something that she knew about the UFOs, that Congressman [Gary] Condit was on the (House Intelligence) Committee to learn about UFOs,’ Robert told NewsNation. 

‘She says, “Oh, he believes in UFOs like I do,” and that he deals with this stuff. So then it left me thinking, knowing Chandra, she’s very inquisitive. Could she have known something that she wasn’t supposed to know? And could she have been wiped out because she knew too much?’ Susan added. 

She also said that about three years ago, at the ‘Contact in the Desert’ UFO conference, she experienced what she described as a ‘strong, intuitive’ feeling that her daughter’s death could be connected to CIA activity. 

‘We don’t know what really goes in the government. So many of us don’t know the truth about many things,’ Susan added. And as you know, the fuel situation and people who are controlling the politics in the world, they’re not always given the truth.’

Speaking to host Jesse Weber, Robert recalled how his daughter’s time in Washington coincided with a conference organized by ufologist Dr Stephen Greer that featured whistleblowers discussing unidentified aerial phenomena.

‘Around the same time Chandra was in Washington, Dr Stephen Greer had his UFO conference in the first couple of weeks of May,’ Robert said during the interview on NewsNation’s Jesse Weber Live.

‘He presented a lot of witnesses, a lot of whistleblowers on the UFO subject. And at that time, Chandra mentioned something that she knew about the UFOs that Congressman [Gary] Condit was on the committee to learn about UFOs,’ he added.

Susan said the idea that her daughter might have known sensitive information has lingered in her mind for years.

The 24-year-old Federal Bureau of Prisons intern vanished while living in Washington DC , in a case that quickly became one of the capital’s most infamous unsolved mysteries 

Levy’s body was discovered in a park a year after she disappeared

‘Knowing Chandra, she’s very inquisitive,’ she said. ‘Could she have known something that she wasn’t supposed to know? … And could she have been wiped out because she knew too much?’

Despite their suspicions, the Levys emphasized that they cannot definitively link their daughter’s death to any specific theory.

Susan and Robert were believed to be the last people to hear from Levy after she emailed them the morning of May 1 to inform them about her travel plans.

She had ended her lease and cancelled her gym membership in the area, saying she was moving back home to California.

Her parents called for three days before contacting the police on May 5 to report that they had not heard from their daughter.

Levy’s disappearance led to the dredging up of reports linking her romantically to then-California Congressman Gary Condit, who represented her hometown of Modesto. 

In the months after her disappearance, more and more details were revealed about her relationship with Condit, which led him to hire a criminal defense team while still denying he had anything to do with her disappearance.

A search of the park where the young woman often jogged turned up no evidence suggesting Levy had been in the area when she went missing.

Robert acknowledged that a suspect, Ingmar Guandique, had previously been charged in connection with the case in 2010, though legal proceedings later complicated the outcome.

‘Yes, quite possibly, although, you know, he’s still a suspect,’ Robert said when asked whether Guandique could have been responsible.

Guandique spent six years in jail for the killing, until the charges were dropped in 2016 due to an ‘unforeseen development’.

It was reported that vital testimony from Guandique’s former cellmate, Armando Morales, was found to be fabricated.

Morales told jurors at Guandique’s trial that he had confessed to killing Levy while the pair shared a jail cell.

However, after his release, Morales confessed to a neighbor that he had invented the story to gain credibility with prison officials, the Washington Post reported.

Over the years, the Levys said they have struggled with the emotional toll of living without clear answers about what happened to their daughter.

The Levys have been searching for answers about their daughter’s dispparance and death for 25 years

Susan described coping with the loss one day at a time, particularly as the anniversary approaches each year. ‘Day by day, one step at a time, one breath at a time,’ she said.

Robert added that the pain of losing their daughter never truly fades.

‘I’m still working, but, you know, it’s always on my mind,’ he said. ‘You just can’t keep it in your mind all the time. You have to go on living. It’s tough to think about.’

The couple also expressed frustration over what they believe were failures during the investigation and trial.

Robert said they do not believe the case is currently being actively pursued.

‘No. Not as far as we know,’ he said when asked whether investigators were still working on the case.

Susan added that mistakes during legal proceedings left them without confidence in the official outcome.

‘So, we don’t know the real truth,’ she said. ‘But so many things have happened since then that we have other ideas.’

The Levys also said they believe their daughter’s curiosity and interest in public service may have placed her in situations where she encountered sensitive information.

Susan described her daughter as deeply committed to her beliefs and public duty, saying: ‘She had high moral standings. She really did believe in the government and believed in the Constitution.’

Even decades later, the Levys said they remain hopeful that new information could eventually shed light on what happened.

Susan said she continues to call for transparency and accountability surrounding unresolved cases like her daughter’s.

‘I’m stepping on a limb,’ she said. ‘I’m asking for disclosure. Someone knows the truth of what happened to my daughter, our daughter, Chandra.’

She added that she believes answers may exist not only for daughter’s case, but for other disappearances that remain unexplained.

‘And what has happened to a lot of other people that have disappeared, gone missing, that have demised in some mysterious ways,’ Susan said.

Twenty-five years after their daughter vanished, the Levys said their search for answers continues, driven by the belief that someone, somewhere, still knows the truth.

Two and a half decades have passed since Washington intern Chandra Levy disappeared, leaving behind a high-profile case that remains unsolved and continues to provoke questions about whether initial investigative errors allowed a potential killer to escape justice.

The case garnered national attention in 2001, largely driven by relentless media focus and the public’s fascination with Levy’s connection to a then-serving congressman. However, the primary suspect identified by federal prosecutors was an undocumented immigrant, previously convicted twice for assaults on other women in the vicinity of Levy’s presumed murder in the same park.

Ted Williams, a former homicide detective in Washington, D.C., and current Fox News contributor, has been closely monitoring the case for years. He has criticized the authorities for not conducting a thorough search of Rock Creek Park from the outset, which delayed the discovery of Levy’s remains and potentially compromised an investigation that heavily relied on circumstantial evidence.

Fox News Digital has contacted the city police for their comments on the matter.

In a striking image from May 22, 2002, a Washington Metropolitan Police Officer is seen standing behind police lines in Rock Creek Park, where a skull and other remains were unearthed. These remains were later confirmed to belong to Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old former intern who vanished in May 2001. (Photo Credit: REUTERS/William Philpott WP/HB)

Levy’s skeletal remains were found in a remote area of the park in May 2002, just over a year after she vanished.

“They did conduct a grid search of portions of Rock Creek Park, but they never went really down into the ravine, the area in which Chandra Levy’s remains were found,” he told Fox News Digital. “And the only way that those remains were discovered was that there was a man who, walking his dog, came upon the remains. Absent that, we may very well still be looking for Chandra Levy.”

If a more thorough grid search had been conducted earlier in the investigation, investigators may have been able to recover physical evidence linking the suspect to the crime, Williams said.

“Twenty-five years later, because of the manner and the reckless manner in which they conducted the investigation, we are still left with a question mark as to who killed Chandra Levy,” he said.

Chandra Levy is shown in this undated handout photo from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. (REUTERS/Metropolitan Police Department/Handout)

Levy, a California native, was a 24-year-old intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. She was last seen in public at a gym near her apartment in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2001. Investigators tracked her internet usage the following morning, showing she was still alive at 1 p.m. on May 1.

Chandra Levy, a Washington intern who went missing, is shown in this photo. (Mai/Getty Images)

On May 6, her parents called D.C. police and their congressman, then-Rep. Gary Condit, a California Democrat who would later be alleged to have been carrying on an affair with the missing woman.

The affair ended Condit’s political career, leading to a loss in the Democrat primary in his district in 2002. Attempts to reach him for comment were unsuccessful.

“I don’t think that the congressman really had anything to do with her having gone missing,” Williams said.

Then-U.S. Congressman Gary Condit (D-CA) pushes past news media after leaving his apartment building in the Adams Morgan section of Washington, July 12, 2001. Condit admitted to police authorities that he was romantically involved with Chandra Levy before her disappearance. (Reuters)

However, the congressional tie ignited a scandal that likely distracted investigators, Williams said.

“Because he was a member of Congress, it appears as though law enforcement officers were intimidated by his status, and they were not able to get a great deal of information out of him,” he said.

Police later cleared him as a suspect and refocused on another man.

In April 2009, they arrested an illegal immigrant from El Salvador named Ingmar Guandique, also known as Ingmar Guandique-Blanco, who had attacked other women in Rock Creek Park around the time of Levy’s murder.

Ingmar Guandique pictured in federal custody in an undated photo provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When prosecutors declined to bring him to court for a retrial in the murder of Chandra Levy, the purported MS-13 member was deported to El Salvador. (ICE)

Guandique, described by the government as an MS-13 member, had been accused of stalking a woman in the park on the same day of Levy’s disappearance. He was convicted later that year of attacking two more women in the park with a knife, one on May 14, two weeks after Levy’s murder, and another on July 1.

He served a decade in prison for the knife attacks. Then jurors found him guilty of Levy’s murder after a trial in 2010, partly thanks to the testimony of a fellow inmate who described a jailhouse confession.

ICE released this image of a deportation flight preparing for takeoff along with an announcement that Ingmar Guandique had been deported to El Salvador after prosecutors dismissed their case against him in the murder of Chandra Levy. (ICE)

But his attorneys convinced a judge to grant a new trial in 2016 amid concerns over the witness’ credibility.

In a courtroom surprise, prosecutors moved to dismiss the case due to “unforeseen developments” rather than try him a second time. So the case was dropped, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent him back to El Salvador.

“They deported perhaps a killer rather than to put him on trial a second time,” Williams said. “That is also a mystery.”

While he said he still believes Guandique is an important suspect, the case officially remains unsolved 25 years later.

“I’m just very clear that the family will never be able to get over the death of this promising young girl who came to Washington as an intern,” Williams said.

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The U.S. Treasury Department has announced significant sanctions against three major Iranian currency exchange firms and over a dozen associated front companies, according to sources from The Post. These entities are accused of laundering billions in foreign currency, which allegedly funds Tehran’s military operations and proxy networks.

This action forms a key part of the Trump administration’s “Economic Fury” strategy, aimed at exerting maximum pressure on Iran. The sanctions specifically target clandestine banking systems that facilitate the conversion of illicit oil revenues.

As these revenues are primarily paid in Chinese yuan, these networks play a crucial role in transforming funds into U.S. dollars, euros, and other currencies that the regime can utilize.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent emphasized that these sanctions are aimed directly at disrupting the financial channels sustaining Iran’s military efforts.

“Iran is the epicenter of global terrorism,” Bessent stated. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Treasury is taking assertive action through Economic Fury to cut off the Iranian military’s financial support. Our efforts will persistently target the regime’s capacity to generate, transfer, and reclaim funds.”

The targeted exchange houses—Opal Exchange, Radin Exchange, and Arz Iran Exchange (also known as Tahayyori Guarantee Society)—along with their owners, allegedly orchestrate sophisticated networks of front companies. 

These networks handle tens of billions of dollars in annual trade for Iran’s sanctioned entities, including its central bank and the National Iranian Oil Co.

Treasury issued the designations under an executive order aimed at Iran’s financial sector. 

Key operators and owners—Iranian nationals Pedram Pirouzan, Hossein Mohammad Rezaei, Masoud Mohammad Rezaei, Nasser Ghasemi Rad, and Ehsan Tahayyori—were also personally hit with Friday’s blocking sanctions.

To operate seamlessly, these exchanges rely on shell companies registered to their owners, who frequently list citizenship from Dominica or St. Kitts and Nevis. 

This tactic successfully masks their Iranian ties, allowing them to open foreign bank accounts and move money for Iranian importers, exporters, and military-linked entities, Treasury officials noted.

Friday’s actions sweep up 15 specific front companies scattered across multiple jurisdictions. 

Collectively, these illicit networks have processed hundreds of millions of dollars in cross-border transactions, the department said.

Friday’s move compounds more than 1,000 Iran-related designations issued since February 2025 national security diktat signed by President Trump.

It directly follows earlier actions targeting Iranian “rahbar” companies tied to specific banks and digital asset platforms used to dodge sanctions.

Under these penalties, any assets the designated individuals or companies hold within the United States or under US jurisdiction are immediately frozen, and Americans are barred from doing business with them. 

Furthermore, foreign parties risk secondary sanctions for knowingly facilitating the blocked entities’ activities.

Treasury officials emphasized that the ultimate goal is not mere punishment but behavioral change—forcing Tehran to pay a significantly higher price for its destabilizing regional actions. Violations can trigger severe civil or criminal penalties. 

Officials said whistleblowers providing actionable intelligence may qualify for lucrative awards through FinCEN’s program.

These new designations arrive as Iran continues selling oil on the global market despite years of stringent U.S. sanctions. Tehran utilizes an elaborate web of intermediaries to keep cash flowing to its military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and proxy militias across the Middle East.

By striking the currency exchanges acting as the regime’s crucial financial middlemen, Treasury aims to make it exponentially harder and more expensive for Tehran to fund its ambitions.