Reason First: How Could a Woman Rape a Man? The Preppy Killer

Looking like Ray Liotta in his youth, Robert Chambers walked around as a prep school example. He had been selling and using drugs and the reason for his rejection from Boston University stemmed from a stolen credit card. But that action would not be what he would be known best for in his life.

On August 26, 1986 in Central Park in New York City, a day trader found the body of a woman. This same woman, Jennifer Levin, hours earlier appeared at a bar with Chambers after he recently had been dumped by another woman, Alex Kapp.

The scene had been horrific. Levin’s bra had been disturbed and her panties had been found multiple yards away. What happened in all of this? Chambers alleged that Levin had engaged in rough sex with him and that he tried to fend off her sexual assault.

Levin’s strangulation caused her asphyxiation and therefore her death. Now, the truth about Chambers is that he felt sorry for the death of Levin. Though he would not be found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder, he showed remorse for the loss of life. Ultimately, Chambers would be found guilty of the more minor crime of first degree manslaughter and the judge sentenced Chambers to 5-15 years behind bars.

Chambers saw release on Valentine’s Day in 2003. Chambers would not stay free for long. He got busted on heroin and cocaine charges and lesser moving violations and forced to spend 90 days in prison and pay a $200 fine. Then, he continued his streak of infractions when he was sent back to prison for 19 years for pushing narcotics.

In all of this, Chambers pled guilty to the manslaughter charge because of his guilty conscience. Never mind his catapult from humble beginnings into spheres of preppiness, Chambers lacked the rationality and intelligence to understand that his actions led to a disgusting display of loss of life. Levin deserved more. And the fact that Chambers had no idea of the current state of drug laws showed that he couldn’t discern right from wrong.

What would be right is for drugs to be legalized across the board. Anyone should be able to push pounds of marijuana and kilos of cocaine. Chambers’ ugly soul led him to find more trouble unrelated to the Levin case because of his incompetence.

What he allegedly committed caused Assistant District Attorney Saracco to claim that Chambers was “the first man [he’d] seen raped in Central Park.” Chambers wanted to paint a picture of sex gone wrong in the park. Never mind all of the preppy idealism. His ideation to supposedly murder Levin and not to just manslaughter her came to a point where he could have let slip Levin’s life.

His lawyers put forth the idea that Levin had been the aggressor. Chambers put out the ideation that he was trying to protect himself.

This just did not match up well. Chambers strangled Levin, allegedly, and tried to make himself out to be the victim. This was in no way a case of the sexual advances of a 5’4” woman to 6’5”man to try to gain control over his body. He demonstrated irrationalism in his way of not being ready (or willing) to tell the truth. In interviews with Chambers, he disclosed ideas that he he had been forced by Levin to continue with their unusual sex acts.

But how could a man who was so much larger than her be unable to control her without injury?

Chambers definitely killed Levin. The only question that still remains was whether Chamber murdered the young woman or not. Chambers served all of the fifteen years that he was sentenced to because of his ill-actions. The powerlessness of the Preppy Killer will always be rooted in his inability to think.