Ingmar Guandique, the 29-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador sentenced to 60 years in prison earlier this month for the murder of former congressional intern Chandra Levy, had a history of violent attacks on women pre-dating his unlawful entry into the United States via the Texas border — as thousands like him continue to do every year. It’s a one-way ticket to America with no questions asked. According to U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen’s sentencing memorandum filed with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on Feb. 8, “the government learned, and then confirmed, that [Guandique] fled El Salvador because he was suspected of attacking a woman at knife point on an isolated trail in the village of Cooperativa San Jacinto” on June 13, 1999 — two years before Levy’s murder. Federal agents eventually tracked down the victim, identified only as “Gloria,” who said she was walking on an isolated dirt trail when she spotted a young man armed with a knife hiding in the bushes behind her, “crouching slightly off the trail on a mildly elevated hill.” When he realized she had spotted him, he started running after her.

” ‘Gloria’ fled in terror. She realized that the young man was clearly gaining on her and turned around just as he reached her. At that point, the young man pushed ‘Gloria’ down to the ground and stabbed her between her shoulder blades, injuring her spinal cord.