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Dubbed the Preppy Killer and the Central Park Strangler, Chambers gained notoriety for the August 26, 1986, strangulation death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, for which he was originally charged with second degree murder.
A cyclist discovered Jennifer Levin‘s strangled, half-naked body on Aug. 26, 1986, while riding through an area of Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chambers, then 19, strangled Jennifer Levin, 18, to death in the case that became a tabloid sensation. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter after admitting in a taped confession to killing Levin...
A new AMC five-part true-crime docuseries promises to take viewers through evidence that couldn’t be revealed at trial to reexamine the 1986 murder of Jennifer Levin, the woman at the center of...
On August 26, 1986, 18-year-old Jennifer Levin is found dead in New York City’s Central Park less than two hours after she was seen leaving a bar on the city’s Upper East Side with...
Robert Chambers earned the nickname the “Preppy Killer” in 1986 when he was convicted of murdering Jennifer Levin in a sensational New York case that some lambasted as victim shaming....
Decades ago, Jennifer Levin was found strangled to death, abandoned in Central Park by a man she had thought was her friend — but after Robert Chambers' arrest, it would be Levin that was tried in the court of public opinion after Chambers' attorney launched an aggressive campaign to blame the victim for her own death.
