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Post number 9032

sylloge — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:14:42 -0800

Police release composite photos of "showing what Chandra Levy may look like now if she has changed her appearance." OK gang, let's get to work.

By: gramcracker

gramcracker — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:19:38 -0800

Aren't the police supposed to have sophisticated software that actually generates composites? These look like an advanced 12-year-old's Photoshop skills at work...

By: fullerine

fullerine — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:25:23 -0800

Shit, I'd rather be kidnapped than make my hair do that

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:28:07 -0800

dear God. is it really necessary to humiliate this poor girl in this way?

By: Hildago

Hildago — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:35:43 -0800

Umm.. is it insensitive to suggest that photos of Chandra Levy right now would look very, very different due to the effects of decomposition? Doesn't look like the police took that into account.

By: m.polo

m.polo — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:39:02 -0800

I'm not sure I understand the intent of this... Think of Michael Jackson and how his appearance has been... "changed." For all they know, Chandra Levy could more closely resemble Ving Rhames right now than this picture (which when looked at quickly bears a disquieting resemblance to a smiling Gertrude Stein, not a concept I was sitting around wishing I could see, let me tell you). So what's the point of publishing a picture of her with almost-mullet-'do?

By: raysmj

raysmj — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:43:33 -0800

The hair in Pic No. 3 just has to come from a Whitesnake video. Remind me to never disappear.

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:45:32 -0800

These look like an advanced 12-year-old's Photoshop skills at work... Advanced??? More like a slow monkey's Photoshop skills.

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:48:26 -0800

pfft. like this matters? killing an intern never stopped ted kennedy, why would it stop this guy?

By: machaus

machaus — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:48:27 -0800

Is the Barbie digital makeover kit all the D.C. police force could afford? Geez, go out and write some parking tickets or something...

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:52:06 -0800

Looks like the new line of LA Looks products.

By: raysmj

raysmj — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:08:01 -0800

Mary Jo Kopechne was not an intern. And the incident did keep Ted Kennedy from ever being elected president, or even winning a Democratic nomination. Otherwise, he has the Kennedy name, which tends to carry a lot more clout or advantage than the Condit name does in California or anywhere else.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:10:28 -0800

No more parking tickets in DC, for the love of god, I've got to eat. If I were the person to discover Chandra Levy alive and well, and she had hair like that (any of those), the first thing I'd do would be sneak her into an underground hair salon before the press turned up on the scene with the cameras... after everything she'd been through, the poor girl would deserve at least that favor.

By: precipice

precipice — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:24:43 -0800

These pictures are sad -- but for the context they would be laughable, as though Conan O'Brien had been elected Chief of Police. In context, they simply support the charge that the D.C. police are trying harder to look busy than to be busy. See also Pat Oliphant's July 12th cartoon.

By: rodii

rodii — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:35:37 -0800

killing an intern never stopped ted kennedy, why would it stop this guy? Which guy is that?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:45:36 -0800

By: punkrockrat

punkrockrat — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:17:21 -0800

This pictures have to be the most dumbest thing I have ever seen in my life.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:28:28 -0800

You're on a roll today, aren't you, jc.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:36:19 -0800

great big fat self-blog

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:44:49 -0800

Which guy is that? you know that guy, who ah, did that thing, ya know, for that guy. The sandwich-off John R-by that one place.

By: ljromanoff

ljromanoff — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 15:57:27 -0800

I'm sorry, but this won't help me until they add a picture of her with a bright green mohawk. Or maybe a shaggy Beatles 'do.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:15:51 -0800

"rut-row, errs yaggy. RINKIES" -duntduntDuhhhhhhh-bedalo-duntdiddydunt diddy dunt. (small clock-window-door. small clock-window-door.)

By: ljromanoff

ljromanoff — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:19:50 -0800

And doesn't the second one look like it was made with this?

By: artlung

artlung — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:26:18 -0800

I caught those on yahoo most emailed content the other day. I considered metafiltering them with the tagline: Fire that PhotoShopper! Because, like, those are really sad composites. And for official police release, really really sad.

By: wsfinkel

wsfinkel — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:47:40 -0800

Is the third picture in the sequence supposed to be what she would look like if she has made herself black and white?

By: jragon

jragon — Sun, 15 Jul 2001 23:19:04 -0800

I'll just head over to filepile and wait for the levy remix inside joke meme things. (yawn) You know I'm right.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:08:57 -0800

[FBI agent typing on laptop keyboard] "Well, according to our computer aging program, she should look about...[turns computer screen around; it has a giant "25" on it] 25 years older." - "Mother Simpson"

By: spilon

spilon — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:26:43 -0800

I swear, I thought those pictures were from The Onion or a hacker's prank or something. Is that really the best the police can come up with? Sad sad sad...

By: jennak

jennak — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 07:36:44 -0800

Chandra wasn't allowed to take ID on dates w/ her man. Nice guy, this Condit man. Also, Levy might have been headed to Rock Creek park when she disappeared.

By: jkottke

jkottke — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:14:59 -0800

I think I found her!

By: raysmj

raysmj — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:23:19 -0800

jennak: Does that not strike you as awfully strange? The AP says she *told her family* that she couldn't carry ID when she was off with with her "boyfriend" and "secret lover." As in, apparently, Hey, mom, I'm going off with my secret lover today. Oh, and I can't carry an ID. Wow. Weird parents, or weird woman, or inaccurate report.

By: jennak

jennak — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:11:57 -0800

Inaccurate report...no. The report states what the lawyers said. The lawyers could be inaccurate, but the report is merely stating what the lawyers said.

By: Dreama

Dreama — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:55:53 -0800

Not meant to be anything other than just a question, because I can't find an answer and I know someone here can tell me -- isn't Rock Creek Park where Vince Foster's body was found?

By: jennak

jennak — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:38:55 -0800

On July 20, 1993, police and rescue personnel were called to Fort Marcy Park in suburban Northern Virginia. They found Mr. Foster lying dead with a gun in his right hand and gunshot residue-like material on that hand. I don't think so, but I'm too lazy to find the original document. FYI, Rock Creek is huge, and is a common dumping grounds for evidence, bodies.

By: precipice

precipice — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:42:30 -0800

Good god, she looked up a map of a location 2 miles from her house on her laptop and then disappeared, and it's taken the police more than 10 weeks to search that location? I'm wordless.

By: jennak

jennak — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:47:17 -0800

um...jinx, precipice. you owe me a coke. :)

By: precipice

precipice — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:52:35 -0800

jennak -- sorry not to credit you. I followed your link, I just could not believe what it said.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:05:30 -0800

Looks like LeFile has been reading Metafilter...

By: jennak

jennak — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:36:45 -0800

Condit's spokesperson "called into question Levy's character and sexual habits at the very moment the city's Metropolitan Police are scouring Washington's Rock Creek Park for her body." "It's the kind of hardball ploy you'd expect to find in the heat of a political campaign -- but not in a missing-person case involving a politician who officially isn't a suspect."