The Megyn Kelly Show - August 04, 2026


The Missing Intern & The Congressman： The Vanishing — Ep. 1 ｜ MK Confidential


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00:00:00.000 It is a beautiful late summer morning in September 2001,
00:00:04.540 and the biggest missing person story in America is about to have its biggest day.
00:00:10.560 Important new questions in the case of Chandra Levy.
00:00:13.400 Missing intern Chandra Levy.
00:00:14.900 The 24-year-old woman disappeared without a trace.
00:00:18.040 Will Chandra Levy ever be found?
00:00:20.920 It has been the story all summer.
00:00:23.280 A young woman who vanished in the nation's capital
00:00:25.840 and the married congressman whose name keeps turning up alongside hers.
00:00:31.020 It has run at the top of the newscasts and across the front pages of newspapers for months.
00:00:36.540 D.C. police detectives and FBI agents out tonight looking for more clues
00:00:42.480 in this most unusual missing persons case.
00:00:46.600 And this is the morning it comes to a head.
00:00:50.100 Across the country at this moment in California,
00:00:52.860 Bob and Susan Levy are packing for a flight to Chicago.
00:00:55.840 where they are booked to tell their daughter's story on Oprah,
00:00:59.500 and then they will fly to New York for the Today Show.
00:01:03.160 The congressman's son, Chad Condit,
00:01:05.980 is preparing to defend his father on The View in New York City.
00:01:10.020 For four months, the country has asked two questions nonstop
00:01:14.300 about a 24-year-old intern named Chandra Levy.
00:01:18.860 Where is she?
00:01:20.300 And was a sitting congressman, Gary Condit, involved in her disappearance?
00:01:25.040 The parallels with the Clinton affair are both striking and obvious, although this time, because of Chandra's disappearance, much, much more serious.
00:01:33.320 The police investigation is stalled until Chandra is found, either dead or alive.
00:01:38.860 Until then, this country remains in the grip of speculation.
00:01:42.880 Today on live television, both sides are set to make their case.
00:01:47.700 At 8.46 a.m. Eastern Time, American Airlines Flight 11 hits the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
00:01:56.660 Yes, it's September 11th.
00:01:59.720 This just in, you are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there.
00:02:04.000 That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers.
00:02:10.600 There is a major incident in lower Manhattan.
00:02:13.300 we just got a report in that there's been some sort of explosion at the world trade center in
00:02:19.300 new york city the interviews never happen within minutes the satellite trucks that have been
00:02:26.100 camped outside the levy's home all summer start their engines and pull away and by the end of the
00:02:32.260 day the story that consumed america is gone vanished but what happened to chandra i'm megan
00:02:41.780 Kelly, and this is MK Confidential.
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00:03:57.440 in the description. That September morning was more than four months in the making to understand
00:04:03.500 it. We must go back to Chandra Levy's final months in Washington at 24. Chandra Levy is
00:04:09.940 nearly finished with what she came to Washington, D.C. to do. The 5'4", 110-pound brunette grew up
00:04:17.360 in Modesto, California, in farm country, with a ranch house and a pool out back where her mother
00:04:23.480 kept horses. Her father, Bob, is an oncologist known for taking difficult cases, enough so that
00:04:30.840 some patients call him Last Chance Bob. Her mother, Susan, is an artist, a painter, and quick with a
00:04:38.000 big laugh. She was shy. She really liked being at home. Chandra is their first child and her father's
00:04:44.900 princess. He has called her Ladybug since she was a little girl at summer camp. Chandra was really
00:04:51.300 headstrong. We were on trips sometimes. She'd just walk away from us because she didn't want to be
00:04:55.720 associated with her parents and kid brother. She keeps four birds and names them Franny, Zoe,
00:05:02.260 Christmas, and Hanukkah. She becomes a vegetarian at age 14. And what she wants most of all
00:05:09.000 is a badge. In high school, Chandra joins the Police Explorers, the program for teenagers who
00:05:15.780 think they might want to work in law enforcement. Chandra's mother later recalled that early taste
00:05:21.400 of police work in a documentary for Investigation Discovery. In high school, she actually got to
00:05:28.420 work in the police department and she did parking tickets. She was very proud of the job and she was
00:05:34.820 good at it. You sound like you're very content with the program and everything. Oh yeah. Chandra
00:05:40.000 studies criminal justice at San Francisco State and goes on to pursue a master's at USC. She wants
00:05:47.340 a job with the FBI, maybe the CIA. Despite her ambition, she stays close to her family.
00:05:54.160 Favorite memories were when we traveled, because that's when we were closest as a family.
00:05:59.840 When we would drive from San Francisco back, they would say the whole Star War trilogy
00:06:07.380 by heart, the dialogue for all three movies.
00:06:11.980 In the fall of 2000, Chandra takes an internship in Washington, D.C. at the Federal Bureau of
00:06:18.100 prisons, working in its public affairs office. It is not glamorous, but it is a first step toward
00:06:23.920 the federal career Chandra wants. She sublets a studio apartment in DuPont Circle, a neighborhood
00:06:30.300 of row houses and coffee shops northwest of downtown. She's a long way from Modesto. In
00:06:37.040 Washington, her life is quiet and repetitive. Metro to the bureau, the gym afterward, then home.
00:06:43.760 She knows few people, and the person she speaks with most is her mother.
00:06:48.540 By the last week of April 2001, Chandra has been working in Washington for eight months,
00:06:54.120 and her internship is ending.
00:06:56.400 Chandra is preparing to leave Washington.
00:06:59.000 She cancels her health club membership and keeps the receipt.
00:07:02.420 She emails her landlord about the lease.
00:07:05.280 She starts to pack up her belongings.
00:07:06.840 The plan is to fly home, graduate from USC, and begin applying for the federal career she has wanted since high school.
00:07:15.300 On Sunday, April 29th, Chandra leaves a message for her aunt, Linda Zamsky, back in California.
00:07:22.500 The internship is over, she says. She will pack up over the next week or so and head home for a while.
00:07:28.380 It's a routine message about a plan everyone expects her to complete.
00:07:31.720 It is one of the last times anyone hears Chandra's voice.
00:07:36.840 The next day, April 30th, she works out at the Washington Sports Club.
00:07:42.220 The people at that gym appear to be the last ones to have seen Chandra alive.
00:07:47.940 She was very upbeat and looking forward to going home.
00:07:51.440 The morning of Tuesday, May 1st, 2001, is the last ordinary day of Chandra Levy's life.
00:07:59.620 She sits down at her laptop, set up on a makeshift desk in a hallway nook of her apartment.
00:08:05.240 Investigators will later rebuild the morning, almost minute by minute.
00:08:10.200 She signs on at 10.27 a.m. and moves from site to site.
00:08:14.840 The Drudge Report, National Geographic, Amtrak, Southwest Airlines.
00:08:20.140 At 10.45 a.m., she emails her mother a list of Southwest fares for the trip home.
00:08:25.980 Six days out, she is still pricing the flight.
00:08:29.220 At 11.26, she hits the Washington Post weather page.
00:08:32.680 It calls for fair skies and temperatures near 80.
00:08:37.040 At 11.33, she opens a Washington Post guide to Rock Creek Park.
00:08:42.980 A minute later, she clicks a map of the park's hiking trails.
00:08:47.260 At 12.24 p.m., she logs off.
00:08:50.680 That is the last confirmed trace of Chandra Levy.
00:08:54.680 She makes no more calls.
00:08:56.580 She sends no more emails.
00:08:58.660 She uses no credit card.
00:09:00.120 On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, she closes her laptop in her own apartment and seemingly
00:09:06.840 steps off the face of the earth.
00:09:09.600 No one who knew her ever hears from her again.
00:09:13.520 The last place online Chandra looked up in those final minutes at her laptop was Rock
00:09:19.420 Creek Park.
00:09:20.820 And to understand the rest of this story, you have to know the geography of this place.
00:09:25.440 This is not a manicured city park or a narrow strip of green, lush grass.
00:09:31.840 It is 1,754 acres of real forest running straight up the middle of Washington, D.C.
00:09:40.020 It is more than twice the size of Central Park in New York
00:09:43.440 and one of the oldest natural urban parks in the country,
00:09:47.820 reaching from the edge of downtown D.C. right up to the Maryland state line.
00:09:52.020 It has bridle paths and a horse stable, picnic groves along the creek, and tucked into the trees, the only planetarium in the national park system.
00:10:02.800 It also has long, steep, wooded ravines, places where the trees close over the trails and the city seems a world away.
00:10:11.900 Rock Creek Park has heavily used running paths, and women do run there alone.
00:10:16.500 but it also has isolated wooded trails where a runner can quickly find herself out of sight
00:10:22.780 and entirely alone. Chandra's family and friends say she was not a jogger and did not like going
00:10:30.440 into the park alone. Her apartment is about two miles away. Whether that trail map meant she planned
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00:12:02.760 The days pass, and her parents cannot reach Chandra.
00:12:07.780 Chandra calls home.
00:12:09.300 She always calls home, always.
00:12:11.580 Now the phone rings through to her voicemail, again and again.
00:12:16.600 We called her up, and she didn't answer the phone at a message machine.
00:12:20.360 I kept calling and calling, and she never answered it, and I got worried about it.
00:12:23.920 He got very upset, and he said he felt something was wrong.
00:12:29.880 Susan is normally the free spirit of the family.
00:12:32.760 By the second week of silence, she has gone quiet. Back in the Levy Ranch home, the phone becomes the
00:12:40.000 center of everything. Every time it rings, they hope it's Chandra. The messages the Levy's leave
00:12:46.300 on their daughter's machine grow more blunt and more desperate as each day passes. Damn it,
00:12:51.880 Chandra, Bob says in one of them. Call me. Bob starts calling everywhere he can think of. He
00:12:58.320 calls the Bureau of Prisons, where she interned. He calls the FBI, calls Washington hospitals one
00:13:04.080 after another, asking whether a young woman matching his daughter's description has come
00:13:08.380 in as an accident victim. Every call comes back the same. Nothing. No trace. The plan was for
00:13:16.520 Chandra to be home by now, days from graduating. To her family, that silence is not like Chandra
00:13:22.220 at all, she's careful and responsible, the kind of daughter who checks in. She would not skip the
00:13:28.520 ceremony for the master's degree that she crossed the country to earn. She got honors. She was top
00:13:35.280 in her class. I thought it would be exciting for her. It's not like her to not to call or be in
00:13:40.520 touch. Maybe she ran off, had a schizophrenic episode or something like that. I'll think of
00:13:47.420 all those things. That's a reason why she didn't turn out. On May 6th, Bob Levy calls the police
00:13:53.200 in Washington and reports his daughter missing. Ronald Monroe was an assistant chief with the DC
00:13:59.680 police. At the time that Shondra Levy was reported as missing, the number of missing persons in the
00:14:07.760 district probably exceeded 200 to 300 a month. When the parents called, we sent an officer to
00:14:15.900 just check on the welfare of the person. A police officer goes to her DuPont Circle apartment for a
00:14:22.620 welfare check. The door is locked. There's no sign of a break-in, no sign of a struggle,
00:14:29.100 nothing violent at all. The building's manager unlocks the door and the officer steps inside.
00:14:35.580 The place looks like someone stopped packing in the middle of a move. Suitcases half-packed,
00:14:41.200 clothes still hanging in the closet, dishes in the sink, a Williams-Sonoma bag on the kitchen
00:14:47.040 counter with a load of dirty laundry inside it, jeans and socks. Her jewelry is still out,
00:14:52.920 earrings and an ankle bracelet and a necklace with a pendant. On the answering machine,
00:14:58.420 25 messages, most from her parents. And then there is the most telling sign of all,
00:15:04.220 her purse inside that her wallet her credit cards her driver's license and 31 and 50 cents
00:15:12.140 her cell phone left on the table her blue sony laptop still open on the desk in the hall
00:15:19.120 what 24 year old leaves home without any of it for weeks at a time nor does any of this
00:15:26.740 seem like chandra what troubles the detectives most is not what is missing from the apartment
00:15:32.160 it is what still remains. She has no history of this, and based on the fact that we went to her
00:15:39.380 apartment to check on her welfare, we found all her identification in there, driver's license,
00:15:45.440 credit cards, checkbook, jewelry, cell phones, anything that a normal person would take out
00:15:50.960 with them when they go out on the street. All that was in the apartments. Brad Garrett, a veteran FBI
00:15:56.100 agent who works the Chandra Levy case. Her driver's license, her credit cards, her cell phone, and her
00:16:01.960 cell phone were still in the apartment. That's baffling to me and others, because the whole idea
00:16:07.860 is when you're going to leave, you're at least going to take an ID. There were only two things
00:16:11.900 missing, her keys and a ring. Her keys and a gold pinky ring with her initials CL that her parents
00:16:19.360 had designed and given her. Wherever Chandra went that afternoon, she went with almost nothing.
00:16:26.000 The apartment does not tell detectives whether she left voluntarily or something happened to her.
00:16:31.560 Detective Jim Trainham spent years working homicides in Washington.
00:16:35.580 Did she just drop off the face of the earth voluntarily?
00:16:38.660 Is she missing under suspicious circumstances?
00:16:41.740 But still alive?
00:16:43.200 Could she have been the victim of foul play?
00:16:46.000 All of these are possibilities that you have to explore.
00:16:48.620 In the nation's capital, Chandra is one missing name among a few hundred that month.
00:16:54.540 In Modesto, she is the only one.
00:16:57.760 Police went to a room and found everything there.
00:17:00.120 You know, nothing. They didn't find her anywhere. We searched the area immediately around her
00:17:06.200 DuPont Circle apartment. We searched the alleys, the dumpsters, hoping we would find something that
00:17:12.080 was connected to her. We expanded the search through vacant properties in the city. Most of
00:17:18.340 the missing cases in D.C. by the police department's own count are teenagers who run away on their own
00:17:24.280 and are back within a few days or weeks. Many of those kids are from the neighborhoods east of
00:17:29.000 Rock Creek Park and across the Anacostia, where much of the city's violence plays out in the
00:17:34.460 streets. Chandra is none of that. A 24-year-old woman who calls home like clockwork, gone without
00:17:42.000 a trace from a quiet block in northwest D.C. In the days after her parents report Chandra missing,
00:17:49.480 they stop waiting for answers and begin searching for clues themselves. They already pay their
00:17:55.280 daughter's cell phone bills every month, so they open the latest bills and read them line by line,
00:18:00.940 looking for anyone she might be with. Most of the numbers are ones they would expect.
00:18:05.900 A few Washington numbers repeat, ones they do not recognize. Susan Levy starts dialing them.
00:18:14.040 The first rings through to an answering machine playing soft background music and no name or
00:18:20.160 voice recording. She dials the next. This one is not a friend or a boyfriend or a landlord.
00:18:27.480 A recording tells her she has reached the office of Democrat Congressman Gary Condit.
00:18:33.720 Susan recognizes the name immediately. I saw this number that was being called many, many,
00:18:41.180 many times. I decided to call that number and it turned out to be Gary Condit. Gary Condit is the
00:18:49.020 Levy's own Modesto congressman. 53 years old, married more than 30 years, one of the most
00:18:55.200 recognizable politicians in their part of California. Gentleman from California is
00:18:59.740 recognized for two minutes. It is a tremendous cost to the committee and to the taxpayers of
00:19:05.880 this country. And they're confused why we can't work together. And his number is one that keeps
00:19:12.140 turning up on their daughter's phone bills. Bob Levy decides to call him directly. The family
00:19:19.100 finds a home number and Condit answers. Bob's voice shakes. He can barely get the words out.
00:19:26.700 He tells the congressman that he is Chandra Levy's father, that his daughter is an intern
00:19:31.620 in Washington, D.C., that his number is all over her phone bills and that she is missing.
00:19:39.560 Can he help?
00:19:41.340 By the family's account, Condit is pleasant but offers nothing.
00:19:46.360 He says he knows Chandra, that she's a lovely person, and that he has no idea where she is.
00:19:53.520 The Levy's do not believe him.
00:19:55.900 They tell the D.C. police about the congressman and about the calls.
00:19:59.620 By now, the police have taken Chandra's things, including her answering machine.
00:20:04.660 Among the messages are two from a man.
00:20:07.060 on May 3rd, days after she was last heard from,
00:20:11.640 before Chandra had been reported to police.
00:20:14.660 He never gives his name.
00:20:16.580 It's 1145. Sorry, I've been fired up a lot today.
00:20:19.520 So give me a call. Give me a rundown on kind of what the schedule is.
00:20:24.760 Things are looking pretty good for me today.
00:20:27.520 I think I haven't heard from you. Anyway, give me a call.
00:20:30.880 The voice belongs to Gary Condit,
00:20:33.100 The congressman who had just played down how well he knew Chandra to her father, Bob Levy.
00:20:38.980 Ronald Monroe was an assistant chief of D.C. police at the time.
00:20:43.940 It was a little bit unusual to us.
00:20:47.020 He had indicated he barely knew her.
00:20:49.380 He just knew her and passed.
00:20:51.520 Two messages in his own voice left days after she vanished,
00:20:56.020 asking Chandra Levy for her schedule and a call back.
00:20:59.260 It is the first clear contradiction in the case.
00:21:02.600 I kind of felt maybe he might be covering his checks.
00:21:06.240 He just seemed to be concerned about himself.
00:21:10.060 In the first week of May 2001, this is still officially a missing persons case.
00:21:15.780 A young woman who closed her laptop, left her wallet on the table, and did not come home.
00:21:21.780 There is no body. There is no crime scene.
00:21:25.120 There's no witness, no ransom note, no proof that anything criminal has happened at all.
00:21:30.380 But her parents have found a curious connection, their own congressman's private numbers over and over on their daughter's phone bills.
00:21:39.940 They have heard his voice on her answering machine, and they have heard him tell them directly that he knows nothing.
00:21:47.840 Gary Condit's name is not in the news yet.
00:21:51.520 That is about to change.
00:21:53.860 I'm Megan Kelly, and next time on MK Confidential,
00:21:57.740 the secret Chandra kept, the other women who come forward,
00:22:01.800 and 67 days of deceit from a congressman with everything to lose.