Video: 'The Preppy Killer | Full Episode'

(Tuesday, August 26, 1986, 6:15 a.m. EDT) — In the so-called “Preppy Murder Case,” 18-year-old Jennifer Levin was found strangled this morning in New York City’s Central Park near Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street, behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The police, who said she had apparently been sexually abused and strangled, arrested Robert Chambers, 19, and was charged with second-degree murder.

Chambers later pleaded guilty to manslaughter after a jury failed to reach a verdict after nine days of deliberation