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Detectives investigate crime scene in Central Park where body of Jennifer Levin was found. Daily News front page August 27 Headline: HUNT KILLER OF SoHo Girl, Jennifer Levin. Daily News page 2, February 27 Headline: Preppie Killer Robert Chambers still blaming Jennifer Levin nearly two decades after slaying her in Central...
- Chambers Spied on NYPD Investigators at The Crime Scene
- Chambers Made Inconsistent Claims to Police
- Chambers Had History of Arrests — Before and After Levin’s Killing
- Chambers’ Crime Spawned Civil Lawsuit
- The Crime Became The Basis of Film and Songs
Police would learn that while they searched the crime scene for clues, Chambers was hiding in vegetation nearby, watching them. The crime scene was grisly. Levin was badly bruised and her underwear was found more than 100 feet from her body. She had numerous cuts on on her neck, caused by her own nails as she struggled to free herself from Chambers...
Detectives caught up to Chambers after learning he’d been seeing Levin, and that on the night of the killing, both were seen drinking at Dorrian’s Red Hand bar on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Police approached him at his home, and soon noticed the many scratches he had on his arms and face — which he blamed, at first, on his cat. However, once he w...
His arrest for Levin’s killing was not Chambers’ first time in handcuffs, and it wouldn’t be his last. Chambers had priors for disorderly conduct as well as petty thefts and burglaries — crimes he committed to fund his drug and alcohol abuse. Within two years of getting out of prison after Levin’s death — Chambers pleaded guilty to first-degree man...
Levin’s parents filed a civil suit against the owner of Dorrian’s Red Hand, contending the bar continued to serve Chambers well after it was apparent he was inebriated. The bar settled with Levin’s parents in 2009 for an undisclosed sum. The Levins then took Chambers to court, filing a wrongful death lawsuit he pleaded no contest to. As a result, t...
The crime resonated in pop culture, fitting into a narrative about an era popularly defined by excess and entitlement run amok. The case was the basis of a 1989 made-for-TV movie starring Billy Baldwin as Chambers and Lara Flynn Boyle portraying Levin. The producers of Law & Order based a 1990 episode on the crime. On HBO’s Oz, actor Mike Doyle sai...
In August 1986, police found the body of Jennifer Dawn Levin in New York's Central Park, at left. Levin's clothes were scattered around and there were large bruises on her neck. Witnesses told police that Robert Chambers had last been seen leaving an Upper East Side bar with Levin, which Chambers first denied.
Feb 19, 1988 · The pictures from the bar - taken by friends passing around a camera in August 1986 - were shown privately to the jury last month and were released by the judge, Justice Howard E. Bell, after a ...
Nov 13, 2019 · A cyclist found Levin’s body at about 6:15 a.m., but she is estimated to have died around 5:30 a.m. Police soon taped off the crime scene where Levin’s body was twisted and laying half-naked ...
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Feb 25, 2019 · Robert Chambers murdered 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in cold blood. And his run-ins with the law didn't end there. Getty Images Robert Chambers, the “Preppy Killer” who murdered 18-year-old Jennifer Levin, released from the Rikers Island jail on $150,000 bond in 1986. Handsome, well-educated, but deeply troubled: Robert Chambers was a total ...
Jun 27, 2008 · Less than two hours later, Jennifer Levin was found dead in Central Park. The police said that her clothes were disheveled and that she had been strangled. Later that day, they picked up Chambers ...
