The Chandra Levy case unraveled from a secret audio recording a House of Cards actress made of the prosecution's star witness, it has been revealed.
Ingmar Guandique was found guilty of killing the Washington DC intern in 2001 after Armando Morales, his former cellmate, claimed he confessed to the murder.
But all charges were dropped against Guandique last week after actress Babs Proller revealed Morales admitted to fabricating his entire testimony.
The bombshell has rocked one of the country's most notorious murder mysteries and has devastated Levy's parents, who question Proller's own motives.
But Proller, 51, said it was pure coincidence that led her to meeting Morales at an Annapolis Hotel earlier in July.
The actress, who appeared briefly in the Netflix series as an uncredited 'Clerk of Courts', was in the middle of moving homes and staying at a Country Inn & Suites.
She struck up a friendship with Morales, 55, who helped her one day with her dog, and soon learned he had recently been released from prison.
But things quickly turned sour when Morales threatened to hurt her ex-husband and a man who allegedly stole jewelry from her.
Proller said she was merely trying to protect herself when she made the decision to record Morales, who she knew was the star witness in the Levy murder case.
Levy's name became headline - and tabloid - fodder for years after the 24-year-old intern disappeared while out on a jog in 2001.
It would soon be revealed she was having an affair with California Congressman Gary Condit at the time of her murder, and he quickly became a prime suspect.
It would be a year before Levy's remains were found in Rock Creek Park, and eight more before Guandique was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the murder.
Morales appeared to be a model witness when he took the stands to testify against Guandique, who he once shared a cell with at a federal Kentucky prison in 2006.
The five-time convicted felon and gang leader, who was serving a 21-year sentence for drug and weapon possession, said he was a changed man.
'I got tired of all the violence,' Morales told jurors and he described his experience in a 'life skills' mentoring program, according to the Washington Post.
But a seven-hour recording Proller made, and obtained by the paper, proves otherwise.
Morales can be heard bragging about shooting gang rivals and his ability to make prison shanks out of foam cups.
He told Proller how the shank could then be stuck into somebody's eye and 'penetrate that shell into their brain and take their life'.
In the recording provided to the Post, Proller can be heard coaxing Morales to admit that he fabricated his testimony against Guandique in 2010.
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