Ingmar Guandique (mugshot)

Jury selection will begin today in the Chandra Levy murder case.  Ingmar Guandique, the man charged with killing Chandra, is on trial.  Opening statements may be heard as early as this Thursday.  The 28-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges.

Guandique was already serving a ten-year sentence in California for attacks on two other women in Rock Creek Park.  In 2002, Chandra’s remains were found in the same park where the attacks occured.  Investigators believe Chandra was murdered on May 1, 2001.  At the time of her death, Chandra was interning at the Federal Bureau of Prisons and was having an alleged affair with Congressman Gary Condit (D-Calif).  Condit was never named a suspect.