In the five-part AMC-SundanceTV docuseries ThePreppyMurder, directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg offer a timely excavation of the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin
The #MeToo movement has empowered women to reveal long-buried stories of assault and harassment in part by re-examining the societal narratives of victim shaming that served to muzzle survivors. In the five-part, directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg offer a timely excavation of the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin, who was strangled to death by Robert Chambers in Central Park on Aug. 26, 1986, days before Levin was due to start college in Boston.
“It was very natural for people to say, she asked for it, she walked into Central Park on her own two legs at 4 in the morning, what do you think she wanted?” says Linda Fairstein, who prosecuted Chambers and by then had spent ten years running the Manhattan District Attorney’s sex crimes unit. “That was the most common defense at the time — for the cases that even got to the level of being prosecuted. This was just the most over-the-top example of it.
Chambers’ mother — an Irish immigrant and private nurse to wealthy Manhattan families including the Hammersteins and Kennedys — spearheaded an influence campaign, pressing Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Chambers’ godfather and at the time the Archbishop of Newark, to come forward as a character reference for her son.
The five-part film, which bows Nov. 13 at 9 p.m. and will be simulcast on SundanceTV and flagship AMC, also puts the crime into anthropological context of Manhattan in the mid-1980s when the city was still defined by its pulsing night life, the swagger of Wall Street traders and Lower Manhattan was still a graffiti-festooned enclave colonized by artists.
“I said to Annie, if anyone’s going to make this series it’s going to be us,” adds Stern. “We need to set the record straight.”
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