"At trial, Chambers had claimed that Levin's death was the result of a sexual encounter gone wrong. Rosanna Scotto, a Fox 5 news anchor who covered the case at the time, said Chambers looked like a Hollywood Adonis. Another described him as Kennedyesque. The fact that Chambers was an Upper East Side preppy added a whiff of ironyin these elite circles, violent crime just didn't happen."
"It soon turned into a cautionary tale about the '80s, the era of excess and inebriationyoung people in the throes of addiction, uninhibited and numb. Sure, there was crack, and the city was on fire, but that violence was mostly contained to the ghettos, where life seemed cheap. Jennifer Levin's killing made people question debauched culture itself, its ability to penetrate the moral insularity of the upper class. The show reminded the world how Robert Chambers was at the center of it all."
A true crime documentary about Robert Chambers aired on a prison cable package in 2020. In 1986 Chambers, nineteen, strangled eighteen-year-old Jennifer Levin under an oak tree in Central Park after a night of drinking at an upscale bar. At trial Chambers claimed Levin's death was the result of a sexual encounter gone wrong. Television anchors and tabloids emphasized Chambers's handsome, Kennedyesque appearance and Upper East Side preppy background. The killing challenged assumptions that violent crime did not occur in elite circles and became a symbol of '80s excess, addiction, and questions about debauched culture and moral insularity among the upper class.
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