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Episode 665: Robert Chambers: The Preppy Killer

21 Apr 2025

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Chapter 1: What happened to Jennifer Levin?

0.45 - 17.067 Elena

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Hey, weirdos. I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this is Morbid.

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This is the Beatle. Hi, everybody. Hello. What's up? Not a lot. No? No, it's not a lot.

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70.453 - 74.615 Elena

Oh. I haven't checked on my Finch today. Oh. Oh, my God.

74.695 - 82.657 Ash

I'm like 30 days into my Finch, so we're really rocking and rolling. Yeah, I'm like 20. I think today's day 28. I'm going to have to have you take the mic for me.

82.677 - 82.997 Elena

Yeah.

83.277 - 84.197 Ash

Let's start today.

84.217 - 96.809 Elena

Well, my Finch is in Sydney, Australia. Yeah. Mine is in Taipei. Hey, guys in Australia, if you see my Finch Gatsby walking around there, tell him I said hi.

Chapter 2: Who was Robert Chambers?

353.451 - 366.122 Ash

And her charm and affection wasn't just limited to friends, just not limited only to family. Once, just before she was scheduled to take her driving test, she talked a Manhattan cab driver into teaching her how to parallel park. Fucking iconic.

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366.142 - 371.924 Elena

What a savvy, savvy person. That is wild. And, like, picture a Manhattan cab driver.

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371.944 - 381.548 Ash

Yeah. They don't have time for your shit. No, they're always, like, on to the next. Somehow she had the charm to be like, listen, I got a test coming up and I got a parallel park. Can you help me out here? Yeah, help me, man. I love that.

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So after finishing junior high on Long Island, she moved in with her father and her stepmother in Manhattan, mostly so that she could attend the Baldwin School, which was a private high school on New York's Upper West Side. According to Arlene Levin, Jennifer's desire to attend private school was as much a matter of fear as it was anything else.

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She actually believed all urban public schools were dangerous places. She was very afraid to go to public school. Oh, okay. Which, I don't know, maybe at the time it was like a little bit rough. I'm not positive.

412.412 - 416.853 Elena

Yeah, I don't know how, like in that area, how they are now. Yeah.

417.854 - 438.4 Ash

I'm not sure. Yeah. But anyway, she thrived at Baldwin School and quickly developed her own really independent personality. She wasn't really your typical teenager. Her friends and classmates mostly kind of gravitated toward pop music and television, but Jennifer herself preferred adult contemporary music. Yeah. And she said that she'd rather work out than watch TV.

438.94 - 457.648 Ash

And she also became a vegetarian at a pretty young age just for the health benefits. Damn, she sounds cool as hell. She does sound cool. I want to be her friend. Yeah. Now, also, unlike her peers, who relied mostly on their parents for money, as soon as she was able to, Jennifer got a part-time job as a hostess at Flutie's, a bar in lower Manhattan.

457.708 - 473.933 Ash

I feel like, I don't know if I've been there, but I've definitely heard of it. That sounds so familiar. Yeah, right? Yeah. It really does. I don't know if it's like from something. But her manager said, never once did I see her come to work with anything but a smile. More on her job at Flutie's later. There's like another anecdote in my tale here.

Chapter 3: What was Jennifer's life like before the tragedy?

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The night itself seemed like nobody was really acting.

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How they typically would have.

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But I feel like that happens when these kind of things happen.

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It is what it is.

2391.859 - 2406.386 Ash

Even though you don't know that like something awful is going to happen, it can be like in the air sometimes. Yeah, there's just like some kind of tension happening. Yeah, exactly. So Robert and Jennifer entered the park around 4.50 in the morning at an entrance near the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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What happened next is only known to Robert himself, and he has changed his story multiple times over the years. So nobody really knows the exact truth. But this, in my opinion, is not the truth. According to him, he was not interested in Jennifer romantically and initially actually declined to go to the park with her. But Jennifer insisted, he said, so he finally relented and agreed to join her.

2430.573 - 2455.789 Ash

according to him she was clearly interested in him and he thought that she wanted to have sex in the park but he declined her advances and said he was interested in other people and he'd see her around but he said she freaked out she like got up and knelt in front of me and scratched my face what like that would have escalated so quickly and she knelt in front of him he said she got it like she like got up knelt in front of me and scratched my face

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