NYC’s ‘Preppy Killer’ launched from jail on separate drug fees

Robert Chambers, who become referred to as the “Preppy Killer” after he strangled a girl in New York Town’s Central Park in 1986, was once launched from jail this week on separate drug fees. 

Chambers, 56, served 15 years of his 19-year sentence at Shawangunk Correctional Facility for drug and attack fees and was once launched on Tuesday. He’ll stay on supervised unlock till 2028. 

He was once arrested in 2007 for promoting medication out of his rental, 4 years following his unlock from jail after pleading accountable to manslaughter for strangling Jennifer Levin within the park in the summertime of 1986 when they left a bar in combination.

On the time, his protection crew claimed he and Levin were having “tough intercourse” and he strangled her to dying by chance as a result of she was once hurting him, consistent with FOX 5. 

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Robert Chambers was once launched from jail on separate drug fees on Tuesday. (AP Picture/Louis Lanzano, Record)

Levin’s frame was once discovered partly bare and it was once transparent there were a fight. 

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In 1988, he was once sentenced to fifteen yr and was once launched in 2003. 

The case impressed the 1989 TV film “The Preppie Homicide” with William Stanley Baldwin as Chambers and Lara Flynn Boyle as Levin. It additionally influenced a couple of episodes of the “Regulation & Order” franchise, Mike Doyle’s personality within the HBO sequence “Oz.,” Illeana Douglas’ personality in “Cape Worry” and was once maximum not too long ago the topic of a docuseries exploring the sufferer blaming that went on throughout the trial. 

“She was once so much shorter than me. Robert’s even taller,” Levin’s pal Peter Davis stated at the 2019 AMC and SundanceTV docuseries “The Preppy Homicide: Demise in Central Park.” 

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“There’s the misunderstanding that she was once this wild, tricky woman who can dominate a large man being silly. That’s simply ridiculous. When you put them subsequent to one another, any person would doubt that would ever occur,” he added. 

Fox Information’ Stephanie Nolasco and The Related Press contributed to this record.