The Post-Columbo Era

THINK the cops are having a tough time cracking the Chandra Levy case? Try this one on for size. Samiya Haqiqi, a 24-year-old law student at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut, drove to New York City on a Friday night in November 1999 to meet her boyfriend for dinner. She intended to break up with him. The next day her car was found abandoned in a Grand Union supermarket parking lot. She has not been seen since.

Suspicion quickly fell on the boyfriend. He claimed she never made the dinner engagement. When police asked further questions, he hired an attorney and invoked his Fifth Amendment rights. Although Haqiqi’s relatives urged the Queens district attorney to issue a search warrant for the boyfriend’s apartment, the D.A. refused, saying there was no “probable cause.” Shortly afterward, the boyfriend moved to Canada.

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William Tucker

Mr. Tucker is author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey.

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THINK the cops are having a tough time cracking the Chandra Levy case? Try this one on for size. Samiya Haqiqi, a 24-year-old law student at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut, drove to New York City on a Friday night in November 1999 to meet her boyfriend for dinner. She intended to break up with him. The next day her car was found abandoned in a Grand Union supermarket parking lot. She has not been seen since.

Suspicion quickly fell on the boyfriend. He claimed she never made the dinner engagement. When police asked further questions, he hired an attorney and invoked his Fifth Amendment rights. Although Haqiqi’s relatives urged the Queens district attorney to issue a search warrant for the boyfriend’s apartment, the D.A. refused, saying there was no “probable cause.” Shortly afterward, the boyfriend moved to Canada.