feeding time at the zoo

As investigators in the 2001 slaying of Chandra Levy prepare an arrest warrant for a Salvadoran immigrant suspected in the former interns brutal murder, the media returns to her parents home--

Media zoo's upside: Closure at last
By JEFF JARDINE
February 24, 2009

"A smattering of television crews and other assorted media assembled in front of Bob and Susan Levy's north Modesto home Saturday....The scene, Levy said Monday, seemed mildly reminiscent of what her family experienced during the spring and summer of 2001, after daughter Chandra Levy disappeared in Washington, D.C.

Over the course of the summer, they became friends with the media regulars, some of whom had worked similar media sieges during the Montana Freemen standoff, the JonBenét Ramsey murder case and the Unabomber trial.

"We got to feed the press," Susan Levy said. "We had so much food from the neighbors -- they were so great -- that we gave (the media) the leftovers from our dinner."

Meanwhile, Susan Levy remained home awaiting the news she's so anxious to receive: the call from the D.C. police confirming they've charged her daughter's killer at last...

The zoo, if nothing else, is therapeutic."