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New York's 'Preppy Killer' heading back to jail

Posted on: Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 15:33 CDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robert Chambers, the "Preppy Killer" who served 15 years behind bars for strangling a young woman in Central Park, is going back to jail after pleading guilty on Tuesday to possessing heroin.

Chambers, 38, admitted having heroin in his car on Nov. 23, 2004, and to driving with a suspended license.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Gerald Harris said he would sentence Chambers on Aug. 29 to 90 days in jail and fine him $250.

Chambers was released from jail in February 2003 after serving his full 15 year sentence. He spent about one-third of his time in solitary confinement and was rejected for parole on five occasions after repeatedly disobeying prison rules.

In 1988, Chambers confessed to strangling 18-year-old Jennifer Levin two years earlier during "rough sex" in Central Park. After more than a week of jury deliberations, he pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter.

Known as the "Preppy Murder Case," its lurid details of freewheeling sex among the city's privileged youth made tabloid headlines for almost two years.

Although not from a wealthy family, Chambers was known as the "Preppy Killer" because he hung around with a "preppy" crowd of teenagers who went to expensive private preparatory schools. The night of the killing, he and Levin had been drinking at a bar on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side that was popular with the fast-moving teen-age crowd.

Separately, Levin's family are trying to get Chambers to begin making payments under a $25 million wrongful death judgment against him. Chambers says he has no money.

Source: REUTERS

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