Investigators probing intern Chandra Levy’s disappearance removed massage oils and a long, brown hair from Rep. Gary Condit’s Washington apartment early yesterday morning and sent recovered items to the FBI crime lab, police sources said.
Police sources said the hair found in Condit’s D.C. apartment did not come from the married California Democrat, who reluctantly admitted having an affair with Levy, an attractive 24-year-old brunette.
Cops carted off several boxes during the search of the apartment, which began shortly before midnight Tuesday and lasted for over three hours.
Investigators said there were no immediate signs of violence, foul play or any other evidence that would lead them to Chandra, who disappeared on May 1.
Cops plan to send several items they confiscated to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Va.
Flight attendant Anne Marie Smith, who claims to have had a 10-month affair with Condit, told Fox News Channel last night that she found “a mess of brown hair” in Condit’s apartment.
When the redhead asked him whose it was, he replied, “It’s yours.”
“I said, ‘No it’s not.'”
The discovery of the oils and hair was revealed as federal prosecutors and FBI agents spent six hours grilling Smith.
Smith said she believes Condit is hiding information about Levy.
“I think there’s a lot more that he knows that he’s not telling,” Smith said last night.
The flame-haired Smith refused to discuss specifics, but said she told authorities “things they did not know” about their relationship. “I was surprised,” that they didn’t know the information, she said.
Smith, who returns for more questioning today, said Condit asked her to sign a false affidavit denying the two were lovers, telling her that “the case will never go to trial.”
“Clearly asking me to sign the affidavit kind of put a shadow on his credibility,” the 39-year-old flight attendant said. Asked if she thought there were more affidavits from other women Condit may have been involved with, Smith replied, “I have a feeling there are a few floating around.”
She said she didn’t know what would happen if he takes the lie-detector test sought by police and the Levy family.
“I’m not sure what the results would be,” Smith said. “He can be very manipulative.”
Chandra, who had just completed a six-month internship with the Bureau of Prisons, disappeared on May 1 after e-mailing her parents to say she was returning home to Modesto, Calif.
Last week, her aunt, Linda Zamsky, disclosed that Chandra confided she was having an affair with the congressman and hoped to marry him when he left Congress in five years.
That revelation prompted Condit to reveal – in his third interview with police Friday – that he had a long-term sexual relationship with Chandra.