Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Long Island native SCOTT HIGHAM will speak about and sign his new book, Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery.
Six years after the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising Washington intern with romantic ties to Congressman Gary Condit, investigative editors of the Washington Post pitched two Pulitzer Prize– winning reporters their idea: Revisit the unsolved case and find out what happened to Chandra, a task that had eluded police and the FBI.
Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz went to work. The result was a thirteen-part series in the Washington Post that focused on a prime suspect the police and the FBI had passed over years before, an immigrant from El Salvador. Finding Chandra explores the bungled police efforts to locate the crime scene and catch a killer, the ambition and hubris of Washington’s power elite and press corps, the twisted culture of politics, the dark nature of political scandal, and the agony of parents struggling to comprehend the loss of a child.
Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning member of The Washington Post's investigations unit. He has conducted numerous investigations for the news organization, including an examination of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, and waste and fraud in Homeland Security contracting. The Abu Ghraib investigation was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, and the series on contracting won the Investigative Reporters and Editors award for large newspapers.
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