Intensive coverage continued until news of the September 11 attacks supplanted the media's coverage of the Levy case.

However, the investigators on the Levy case did not interview the other Rock Creek Park victims.

In 2007, the editors of the Washington Post assigned a new team of reporters to take a year to re-examine the Levy case.

Newsweek magazine stated that the media may have become more skeptical of "herd mentality" and open to alternative suspects after the Levy case.

Even so, the media flame beneath the Levy case seems unusually intense.

They say that the Levy case is simply good television, with a compelling narrative and possible misdeeds by a federal official.

That reconstruction was delayed in the Levy case.

Mr. Murphy said he had misgivings about coverage of the Levy case from early on.

Mr. Murphy said "The Evening News" would continue its policy about the Levy case.

He also was critical of the police handling of the Levy case, saying "they waited too long to get an aggressive investigation going."