The Preppie Killer" was the sobriquet given by the media in 1986 to the strapping and fashionable looking Robert E. Chambers, Jr., who eventually pled guilty to manslaughter in the death of an 18-year-old girl with whom he had had sex.
The victim was Jennifer Levin, the place of the crime, New York City's Central Park.
Chambers was given his sobriquet because he had been a scholarship student at various prep schools before he entered and was thrown out of Boston University.
The victim's body was found the day after the killing not far from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The cause of death had been strangulation.
Chambers admitted having had sex with Levin after the two left a bar, but he claimed that she had demanded rough sex. His jury gave him 5 to 15 years.
He was released in 2003 and in 2004, he was arrested on drug charges. Having served a short term, Chambers, by this time 41, was again arrested in 2007 for selling drugs. This time his sentence as 19 years.
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