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real people real crimes real life drama the only reason I'm sitting here in front of you is because somebody's dead
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I've never intended anything to happen I never even tended to go out that night let alone hurt somebody Robert anything
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to say is 11 family or kill somebody did you think about Jennifer Levin every day
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[Music] he's having her way with me without my consent with my hands behind my back
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hurting me I swung my arm I struck her neck in the throat area and I pulled her off of me and to the side so that she
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speak again after she fell to the ground no [Music] I'd never seen a dead person before
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after you killed Jennifer Levin you want him you got undressed and you went to bed you know how callous
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and unfeeling that sounds do you know how callous and feeling it feels just tell us how it feels to be out of
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jail and what you're thinking right now I was response response question about that you
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admitted guilt but you did not intend to kill her I don't believe I intended to kill her at all it was an accident yes
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but if it was an accident why wouldn't you call an ambulance why wouldn't you call the police
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because I was scared everything he said about how she died is absolutely untrue this is the left
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side of his face there's one deep severe scratch Mark and there's another long Mark here that tells us that she was
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face to face with the person who was trying to kill her that tells us that she was frantically fighting for her
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life you had your hands around her neck and you squeezed no I did not it was not
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a struggle for life [Music] am I a monster no because if I were a monster I wouldn't
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care but I do I'll never be termed a great person we never be termed a good person
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but maybe one day I'll be a person that learned but that didn't happen as Troy Roberts
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and I will show you Robert Chambers was soon making headlines once again I'm Richard Schlesinger tonight on 48
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hours the preppy killer [Music] foreign [Music] 48 hours we'll be back in 90 seconds
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[Music] now in 2003 Robert Chambers walked out of prison after 15 years a free man
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still pursued by his own infamy 44.33 so that's what I got for 15 years he was 36 but people still remembered
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him from the summer of 1986 when he was 19. in New York a city where Killers get
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titles Robert Chambers quickly became known as the preppy murderer he looked the part and his face was everywhere the
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story of how he strangled a beautiful 18 year old named Jennifer Levin in Central
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Park was the Talk of the Town there was a horrible Grizzly murder of a beautiful
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young woman Pete Hamill was a columnist for the New York daily news there's a rule of thumb in the Tabloid business
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that a murder at a good address is better than your run-of-the-mill murder it happened on Manhattan's Tony
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have known more for money than murder Chambers and Levin had dated before and met the night of August 25th that
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dorian's red hand a bar that catered to the Sons and Daughters of the ridge Robert and Jennifer left dorians around
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4 4 30 in the morning at 6 20 a cyclist in the park found her body Jennifer's body was found under this
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tree Linda fierstein prosecuted Robert Chambers who became a suspect within hours of the murder she was a 48 Hours
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consultant the police went to Robert Chambers because they knew he was a friend of Jennifer's they went there so
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that he could help identify how she got separated from her friends oh so when they first met Robert Chambers he was
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not a suspect not in the least the minute the two detectives homicide detectives saw him they saw deep fresh
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bloody scratches on both sides of his face his first explanation that his cat scratched him quickly collapsed
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and after police brought him in for questioning he admitted killing Jennifer he said it was an accident
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I didn't mean to hurt her I liked her very much the story he told police seemed to blame Jennifer it was shocking
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and graphic he's raping you in the block Robert Collins having her way with me without my consent with my hands behind
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my back hurting me simply put chamber's story was in what came to be called rough sex Jennifer hurt him and he
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struck her to make her stop but I reached up like this and grabbed and I came down like that on my hand
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she came over this way and landed right there right next to the tree did you believe any of what you heard on
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that type everything he said in that statement about how she died is absolutely untrue when police
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undressed Chambers they discovered more scratches on his chest fierstein says these injuries were not from rough sex
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but from a violent struggle in the park they argued about something what it is Chambers was charged with second-degree
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murder as the trial approached Fair Stein began learning a lot about the so-called preppy murderer
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she believes the only thing preppy about him was his looks his button-down costume covered up a life of crime and
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addiction he looked like a male model people treated him like he was a graduate of an Ivy League college and
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had this Prep School background and yet in fact his days were really spent with the underbelly of New York drug life
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doing what stealing to get the money to buy drugs this videotape gave the public a peek at
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the real Robert Chambers Fair Stein believes it was made at a party Chambers attended while he was on bail Chambers
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holding a doll appears to mock Jennifer Levin's death I think I killed him Jennifer's mother
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Ellen appearing on the Larry King show thought Chambers showed his true colors on that tape I was horrified when I saw
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it but in a way I was also glad that he showed himself for what he really was during the tryout Chambers
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lawyer mounted a defense some described as lurid and salacious that tried to damage Jennifer's character I felt like
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I was Burying my daughter every time I opened the newspaper and read the horrible headlines you know attacking
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her reputation after almost three months of testimony and nine days of deliberating the jury
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appeared unable to reach a verdict so fairstein made a deal Chambers pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter it
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was a step down for murder but as part of the agreement Chambers had to admit in open court that he intended to hurt
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Jennifer when he killed her the love and family have gone through hell because of
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my actions and I am sorry despite all the evidence she had against Chambers Linda fierstein could never
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prove one crucial Point why Chambers would want to murder Jennifer you couldn't stand up in front of the
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jury and say ladies and gentlemen Robert Chambers killed Jennifer Levin because they argued about ex-wife absolutely you
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couldn't say that I could not did that hurt you oh yes it hurt tremendously I mean I can tell you as a matter of law
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that the prosecution does not have to prove motive I can tell you as a matter of fact that there's nothing that the
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jury would like to hear more than why that happened there is only one person alive who knows
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what happened that night he never spoke at his trial and he hasn't spoken since until now
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[Music] after his release from prison we brought Robert Chambers to a hotel outside of
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Washington D.C have you been able to take a walk by yourself yet uh I've been out for walks he'd reunite
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with his parents no there were a lot of people out walking around and for the first time talk publicly about his crime
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right now if I had a choice between talking to you right now and being back in the Box solitary
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I choose solitary in a second it's a lot easier than this I don't want to be here but Chambers
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felt by doing one major interview the media attention might ease up and he also had a Personal Agenda Robert
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Chambers wanted to talk about Jennifer Levin did you think about Jennifer Levin every day as the afternoon passed the
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interview would go on for four tense hours and every day I know that I'm in prison I'm in prison because somebody
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died and I am responsible for that it's not an easy feeling you don't get comfortable with it and it's part of my
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life for the rest of my life over and over again Chambers apologized for the way he lived his life I feel it
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in a way he had stolen Jennifer Levin's because I can never make up for the death of Jennifer Levin I can
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never make up for the pain I cause her family I've been a bad person am I a monster
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no as if I were a monster I wouldn't care but I do but to millions of Americans who saw this tape of a teenage party a
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belief had been built Robert Chambers had no concern for the 11 families endless pain
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the videotape of you at that party was perhaps the single most defining moment in this whole story
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more people out there who were willing to give you the benefit of the doubt until they saw you on that videotape
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what were you thinking huh if I was thinking I would never have been there I was stupid I was arrogant when
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everybody was acting silly and I acted silly reenacting a crime certainly not it was not no
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I reenacting a crime it sure did look like that to me I can see how it may be interpreted like that you weren't trying
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to give someone the impression that this was Jennifer Levin the doll no how could you be so dumb
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that seems to be a theme that runs through many things that I do rehearse lines from a con artist or Genuine
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repentance Chambers seem to want the world that had condemned him to reconsider its judgment
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and I think people at home May suspect that what you're doing right now is playing a
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role a role that you perfected pretty well as a teenager what do you say to that
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would I like to be forgiven I wouldn't even think of asking for that would I like the opportunity to
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apologize with actions behind it backing it up yes am I acting I don't know how to act I'm too scared
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to act right now you say I'm well mannered and everything I'm here holding my hands
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[Music] scared but I'm here [Music] [Music] Robert Chambers was a working-class kid
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in a white glove neighborhood of the museums all the cultural things the social situations the the fancy
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tuxedo balls that they have the debutant bowls [Music] it was something that was part of
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the culture of the area his father Robert senior was a credit manager his mother Phyllis an Irish immigrant was a
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private duty nurse it was her determination not any family fortune that gained Robert Chambers access to an
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exclusive world of privilege possibility and private schools you had to work tremendous hours to pay the bills yes
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but I never mind it doing it because my parents education was a very big and important area in their lives
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and you wanted to do the same thing for your son yes she wanted the best she always worked hard
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gave me what not only what I wanted but what I needed which might have been good education although you know I
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screwed that up myself Robert Chambers bounced from one prestigious Prep School to another in a blur of bad behavior and
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poor grades he eventually graduated and went on to college but just for a semester before he was asked to leave
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there too I'm running around partying all the time I didn't take life seriously I didn't take School seriously
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what were your hopes for him that he would pursue a good education be the best person he could be
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and help others he disappointed her terribly Robert yes I did how do you even begin to make it up to her
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how do you do that I think probably by letting her know that I take responsibility for everything I
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did but as a teenager responsibility was the last thing on Robert Chambers mind get high for three days and sleep for
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two days get up and do it again and somehow squeeze School in there if you could manage it partying with
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people often twice his age women were very attracted to you even at a very young age
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what did that do to your ego built it up so big you couldn't walk through a door but along with a swelled
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ego came a far more serious problem cocaine cocaine how often did you snort coke three times a week four times a
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week somewhere around there would you describe yourself as a drug addict yeah yeah I have an addictive personality so
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how much money were you spending when you're having probably two three hundred dollars a week how did you find 300 a
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week sometimes money for my family sometimes money from work and sometimes doing things that were wrong taking
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things selling things the homes of the scale neighborhood were Chambers targets police estimate he and a partner stole
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as much as seventy thousand dollars in jewelry and other valuables so you started burglarizing homes yeah I did
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it was this Robert Chambers a petty thief and drug addict who walked through these doors on August 25th 1986.
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dorian's red hand is a comfortable hangout on Manhattan's Upper East Side it was Summer's end unlike Chambers most
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of the young people at the bar were heading back to college young people full of Hope full of the
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future young people like Jennifer Don Levin by all accounts Jennifer was bright and
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ambitious having succeeded in the same types of schools where Robert Chambers had failed so miserably when did you
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first meet Jennifer lover I believe the first time that I was ever introduced to
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her was at a party describe Jennifer Levin tall dark hair pretty face funny laugh
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smart compassionate some of her friends saying Jennifer found Chambers intriguing
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wanting more of a relationship than he was really interested in so how many times did you did you go out with
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Jennifer before that night in August three times I think three times yeah and you were intimate with her yeah she was
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your friend um she was a friend to me I was not a friend to her I wasn't a friend to
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anybody at the time not even to myself Jennifer Levin and Robert Chambers had arrived separately at dorian's that
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night where they met by chance believe I looked over and I started sitting at the table with her friends
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did she approach you or did you approach her no at first it was just kind of like
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you know you know wave hey how you doing but something awkward and unexpected came up Chambers was dating another girl
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at the time and she was at the bar too when she saw him speaking with Jennifer Levin she grew angry confronted him and
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stormed out the district attorney would later suggest that argument so upset chambers that it was a motive for murder
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you know I wasn't angry I guess the best way to say that is so shallow at the time that
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all right I lost her relationship well try something new okay you yelled at me sorry I'll move on
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Chambers says he did not use cocaine that night but he had a few beers and two Tequilas and then around by 4 am
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closing time he and Jennifer Levin would lead dorians together heading towards Central Park and we started walking and
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we were talking and we ended up walking towards Fifth Avenue and we were near the museum
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Chambers says when he told Jennifer he wasn't really interested in a serious relationship she scratched his face but
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they then continued their walk into the park and what happened next we started fooling around we never got
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undressed undressed and she reached down and she grabbed my testicles and you know in
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just a couple of seconds you know talking fooling around the whole bit she squeezed and between the squeeze and
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possibly the nails it hurt and in pain shock even anger I reacted sat up I swung my arm and I hit her
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how hard I would have to say hard I made her fall to the side I made her fall off of my body
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where did you hit her Robert in the throat area in the throat area yeah and when she fell
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did she fall silent I don't remember any sense you speak again after she fell to the ground no
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at what point did you know she was dead well I stood up and try to gather myself together
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and she wasn't moving and I was saying let's go let's get out of here it's time to go let's go
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she didn't move her eyes were open and I knew something was wrong I didn't get down I
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didn't listen for the heartbeat I didn't get down I didn't do CPR I didn't do any
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of the things that a responsible person would have done if this was an accident Robert why
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wouldn't you call somebody why wouldn't you call 9-1-1 call an ambulance call the police if this was an accident if it
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wasn't your fault it was my fault but if it was an accident why wouldn't you call
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an ambulance why wouldn't you call the police because I was scared the shattered night still hung over New
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York Central Park Jennifer Levin lay dead and Robert Chambers inexplicably stayed there
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staring at the young woman he told us as he is always insisted he killed by accident
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[Music] I've never seen a dead person before her eyes are open and she's not moving
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and I was just scared I didn't do anything I just sat there as Dawn broke Chambers remained at the
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crime scene sitting quietly on a stone wall only a few feet away a woman on a bicycle
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noticed the silhouette of Jennifer Levin's body soon the police and an ambulance arrived
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I watch as everybody arrived it seemed the whole world arrived the whole world came to see what I did
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police started clearing the crowd and eventually he got to me and they said you go move the police told you to leave
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yeah they told me to leave after you killed Jennifer Levin you want him you got undressed and you went to bed
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and you slept I think I slept I don't know if I slept you know how callous and unfeeling that sounds
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do you know how callous and I'm feeling it feels no no you don't but I do for the rest of my life
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could Jennifer Levin's death have been an accident chat now on Twitter and Facebook
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foreign detectives arrived at the crime scene in Central Park on the morning of August 26
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1986. they found Jennifer Levin's partially clothed body under a large elm tree it looked like she had been in a fight
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for her life cuts and bruises marked her body and around her neck were bright red
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hemorrhages indicating strangulation body was lying on the ground some of the clothing on her had been pushed to the
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upper portion of her body the medical examiner estimated the time of death at approximately 6 a.m about
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two hours after Jennifer Levin left dorians with Robert Chambers I never intended for anything to happen
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I never even tended to go out that night let alone hurt somebody kill somebody when police showed up at Chambers home
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later that morning they were stunned at his appearance he had deep scratches on his face and arms and injuries to both
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hands Chambers first told police that the family cat had scratched him but under questioning at the precinct later
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that day he changed his story you know saying I'm interested in other people and that you're going away and I
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don't want to be bothered and doubt and she just she's like got up and knitting off in front of me and she just
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scratched my face and I had these marks and I didn't even notice until this morning the injuries you sustained
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indicated a struggle he had deep scratch marks on your face what happened she became upset about one thing
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and the one thing was that I did not take her seriously and with that she scratched me
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it's your time you should scratch her face and then you decided to still have sexual relations with them it
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wasn't that doesn't sound it was not looking you know that it wasn't done because I
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hate you I wasn't happy but I mean was I in a rage no I wasn't in a rage during the interrogation Chambers would
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go on to tell detectives that Levin tied his arms behind his back with her panties
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definitely in the park she hit me like how did she molest you you see we're talking about what girls girls cannot
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girls the media would call it rough sex and it would become Central to Chambers defense
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you're a big guy yep you could have defended yourself without hurting her seriously I could have
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pushed I could have yelled I could have pulled her hair to the side why didn't you do any of those things because I
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wasn't thinking about what I should do in the situation if you sought medical attention
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they could have saved her it's very possible and this is something that will be in my mind forever would it have made
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a difference I don't know would it have helped me sure the police precinct is 50 yards away why
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didn't you go there why didn't I do so many things I was scared I froze when you hear all these experts say it
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just couldn't have happened the way you're describing it certain experts the District Attorney's experts it's very
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clear from the medical examiner's evidence and from from the Pathologists that you choked Jennifer 11. it wasn't
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just a Split Second you had your hands around her neck and you squeezed no I did not I don't know
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the cuts and bruises she didn't sustain from any talk any discussion like that the bruises that she sustained came when
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I struck her you've done your time and this is the moment to set the record straight
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and this is your story yes this is the story you'll die with yes and my story has not changed
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there is nothing to change it's not a story that's Pleasant it's not a story people like
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it's not a story that fits into people's perceptions you know why because it's not a story
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the truth but according to the evidence in this case says Linda ferrstein who prosecuted
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Chambers nothing could be further from the truth she didn't believe Chambers in 1986 when she first heard his version of
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how Jennifer died and she doesn't believe him now how would you characterize Chambers
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claim that there was no struggle that night I characterize it as ludicrous and completely incredible Fair Stein studied
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the pattern of wounds determined by the medical examiner to be strangulation marks on Jennifer's neck they were lines
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long lines going in different directions every pathologist who looked at them told me clear indications of repeated
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applications of force so many marks on the neck that it's completely inconsistent with one blow
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Jennifer Levin had wounds and bruises all over her body far too many according to fairstein to believe Chambers story
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that she died from a single blow to the neck he would literally have her and I don't mean to ridicule this bouncing
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down a hill in the park to have to have received all of these injuries it's just
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a an absurd story and ferstein says those scratches on Chambers are more evidence of a violent confrontation than
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the heated argument he describes this is the left side of his face there's one deep severe scratch Mark and Jennifer
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had Nails there's another long Mark here there's smaller ones a long one a long one going in different direction again a
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different direction behind that another one what does that tell you she was doing that tells us that she was face to
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face with the person who was trying to kill her that tells us that she wanted him off her body that tells him as she
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wanted him to stop to let go of her to let her breathe and she she was frantically fighting for her life and on
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chamber's hands photographed the day Jennifer was killed ferstein says you can see bite marks she believes Jennifer
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bit Chambers when he put his hands over her mouth to stop her from screaming Chambers argues he did nothing to help
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Jennifer after he noticed she wasn't moving because in his words I was scared I froze I don't buy it he's never
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reported to his friends that he froze fairstein says Witnesses talk to Chambers while he was sitting on this
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stone wall watching the police that morning as they worked the crime scene around Jennifer's dead body and when
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they said should we do something to help he said now there's nothing to do the police are handling it and then he got
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up and walked away and went home and went to sleep I don't call that freezing what do you call that I call that
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complete sociopathic behavior and fair Stein believes Robert Chambers hasn't changed very much despite all the time
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he spent Behind Bars is it possible that maybe he thinks now that maybe he does really have remorse he's older and he's
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done 15 years of hard time he's done 15 years of hard time made harder because of his own drug abuse in state prison
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I'm not willing to buy his words I'm looking forward to seeing what his actions are in the next 15.
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foreign [Music] Chambers murder trial had all the electric buzz of a New York City media
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event the newspaper columnists were dissecting your entire life sure just as they will when they see this
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they will look at every time I move my thumb if I jiggle my leg if I sit forward if I
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lean back they're going to look for it the plea bargain required that Chambers admit in court that he intended to harm
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Jennifer Levin something he had and always continues to deny on March 25th 1988 Robert Chambers pled
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guilty to manslaughter one and for the first time I had to take responsibility for this
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but you didn't want to oh if I could have you know jumped in an airplane and flown to the Moon I would
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have done it he would be sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison it's rough it's dangerous it's scary
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how were you treated inside by the other inmates um I think in the beginning it was more
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hands-off I think everybody just watched to see how I would act you were never sexually assaulted no
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were you ever assaulted physically no your entire 15 years Chambers says the older inmates taught
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him the ropes but how he actually did his time cut straight to the heart of his story and perhaps his character and
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the question of whether or not Robert Chambers will ever stay out of trouble 27 disciplinary violations
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for everything from weapons possession drugs possession assault dissipating direct orders you know when you hear
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this you're thinking this guy hasn't learned anything he hasn't learned a single thing
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and you know and had you been a model prisoner people would have maybe believed you had changed maybe you had
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learned something that what this demonstrates to folks is that you hadn't Chambers says many of the
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charges were minor even trumped up but because of his poor disciplinary record he'd spend more than four years in
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solitary confinement you read you write letters do a lot of thinking the plumber from
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the paralegal course I had taken Chambers did take college courses even making the Dean's List criminal law
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94-98 and he claims to have beat one Habit in prison that he found impossible to shake on the streets you're clean
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sure you are clean yes I am how long 93 94. I smoke marijuana in jail this is a stupid thing to do wrong choice
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I did heroin No Coke no but this inmate misbehavior report from Greenhaven prison shows that on June 19
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1997 a corrections officer found heroin hidden in chamber cell so when it was time for Chambers to face
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the parole board they were unimpressed with his efforts at Rehabilitation particularly when eight years after
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Jennifer Levin's death Chambers appeared anything but remorseful I want to read to you what you told them okay I guess I
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could give the party line and say I have learned my lesson but that's not how I feel at the moment reading this it
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sounds like you're arrogant you're a flip and you know what in many of those instances that you just said you're
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probably right probably arrogant probably angry Robert Chambers is trying he says to get
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on with his life he has a girlfriend someone he met after his arrest in 1986 and has supported him
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ever since she didn't want us to show her face or divulge her name but she says that
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Chambers has learned now how to be a friend she stood by you for 15 years yes she
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has were you surprised yeah did you ever say why in a roundabout way but sometimes you
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don't want to push your luck I don't think it's too bad out today there are some people who say that
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young women aren't safe to be around you but you're a threat that you're a dangerous charmer should women be afraid
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of you no there's no reason to be he claims to have no money of his own he says he wants to earn a college degree
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and find Steady work it doesn't matter if it's a restaurant Car Wash whatever it may be just
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something to feel normal and something to be responsible that's the only way you can start one
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step at a time what are you willing to do anything Chambers owes the Levin Family
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25 million dollars the result of an uncontested civil suit and if he lands a job any job ten percent of his pay goes
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to the levans for the rest of his life do you plan on writing a book or participating in a movie deal I have no
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plans to write a book I do not want to write a book and I have no interest in any type of movie deal my I have not
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made any money off this my family and my friends have not made any money off this
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none of us ever intend to is is Robert Chambers sincere about turning his life around has he really changed what little
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we saw of him Robert Chambers appeared measured and sober his mother Phyllis setting the tone
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this is not a time of Celebration you told me no why not I do not feel celebrate Robert's homecoming
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and Jennifer is never coming home it's a sad time this is real life this is real death
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somebody's dead there has to be some action after the words my action of doing 15 years
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no that's just the beginning it's not an end the trial didn't end the trial of lives with me every day
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I'm on trial [Music] in 2004 the year after our interview Robert Chambers was arrested and charged
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with possession of a controlled substance and driving with a suspended license preppy killer Robert Chambers
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walked out of criminal court today to face yet another gaggle of reporters he pled guilty and spent 100 days in jail
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three years later Chambers was arrested again he and his girlfriend were charged
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with selling drugs out of their apartment Robert Chambers was allegedly selling enough cocaine out of his 17th
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floor apartment to put the so-called preppy killer away for Life his girlfriend pled guilty to a lesser
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charge and was sentenced to five years probation Robert Chambers pled guilty in exchange for a sentence of 19 years
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his earliest release date from prison is in 2024 Jennifer Levin's mother he got more time
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in jail for selling drugs than he did for murdering my daughter which is pretty amazing
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elevens have never accepted any apology from Robert Chambers this year Jennifer would have been 48 years old
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[Music] do you think Robert Chambers can stay out of prison when he's released chat
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now on Twitter and Facebook [Music] Juliana she was like a magnet to a lot of men
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the DNA was all female this was a whodunit there was no DNA who shot Greg I have my assumptions
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we're really screwed cbsn live news streaming to you cbsn CBS News always on [Music]