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Detectives examine the crime scene in Central Park, behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the body of eighteen-year-old Jennifer Levin was... Judge Howard Bell looks at the scene where Jennifer Levin was murdered in Central Park during the Robert Chambers trial.
- 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.
Nov 14, 2019 · Chambers, the so-called "Preppie Killer," served 15 years for the murder of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park on Aug. 26, 1986. (Photo by Corey Sipkin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
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Feb 19, 1988 · The last three photographs of Jennifer Levin in the hours before her death, taken in an Upper East Side bar as she posed, tanned and smiling, with her friends, were shown to reporters and...
Jun 27, 2008 · For the young crowd at Dorrian’s Red Hand, the early-morning scene on August 26 was like an unplanned reunion. Many of the regulars at the Upper East Side bar were just back from their holidays ...
Aug 31, 2016 · Levin spoke with Sanders as part of this week's "TODAY's Update: True Crime" series nearly 30 years to the day after Jennifer, 18, was killed when she went to Central Park with Robert Chambers, 19 ...
