‘Preppy Killer’ Robert Chambers is out of prison after more than 15 years

Side by side photos of Robert Chambers aka the "Preppy Killer" from 1983 and 2007

Robert Chambers, the so-called “Preppy Killer,” accompanied by his father, Robert Chambers Sr., arrives at New York City Criminal Court, Dec. 12, 1986, in New York. (Left: AP Photo/Mario Suriani); Robert Chambers is led in handcuffs into Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007, in New York. (Right: AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

Robert Chambers, also known as the “Preppy Killer” after he strangled a teenage girl to death in New York City’s Central Park over 30 years ago, has been released from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for unrelated drug and assault charges.

Chambers, 56, was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2008 for dealing narcotics though he ultimately served 15 years for those crimes. He will remain on parole until 2028. His stint in jail for drugs and assault came a few years after he finished serving time for the death of 18-year-old prep school student Jennifer Levin.

Levin’s partially nude, disheveled and brutalized body was found in Central Park by a cyclist in August 1986. When arrested in connection to Levin’s murder, Chambers initially told police she died after the two engaged in consensual “rough sex” following drinks at a local bar in New York City, Dorrian’s Red Hand.

Chambers, a York Preparatory School student, was popular, handsome and in high demand: The night he strangled Levin, according to New York magazine, he had a blow-out with his then 16-year-old girlfriend at Dorrian’s. It was reportedly that exchange that prompted Levin to pursue Chambers that evening. She and Chambers flirted until the early morning before leaving the bar just before dawn. Levin was found dead later that morning.

Chambers’ murder trial stretched for nine days in 1988 and ended with jurors unable to reach a verdict. Mid-deliberation, a deal to plead guilty to the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter was offered by prosecutors and Chambers took it. For the manslaughter of Levin, he would be sentenced to 15 years in prison. In a morbid twist of fate, he was released on Valentine’s Day 2003.

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