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    Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder
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    Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder
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    Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder

    Written by Linda Wolfe

    Narrated by Pete Cross

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    About this audiobook

    On an August night in 1986, Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. Linda Wolfe goes beyond the headlines and media hype to re-create a story of a teenager whose immigrant mother was determined to make a better life for her son, a petty thief and drug user who'd been expelled from the best schools. It's all here, from the initial police investigation, during which Chambers claimed Levin died accidentally during rough sex, to the media frenzy of the courtroom, where Chambers took an eleventh-hour plea. Wasted powerfully depicts the freewheeling 1980's society that spawned a generation steeped in violence and the fatal impulses that drove Robert Chambers to kill.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJan 24, 2017
    ISBN9781520052410
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    Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder
    Author

    Linda Wolfe

    Linda Wolfe is the author of five true-crime books including The Professor and the Prostitute and Other True Tales of Murder and Madness. She is also the author of My Daughter, Myself, a memoir. Wolfe's has written for a wide variety of magazines, among them Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, and New York Magazine, of which she was a contributing editor. She currently writes a column about books for the website www.FabOverFifty.com.

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    • 3/5
      Jennifer Levin was found dead in Central Park and the NYPD found their suspect in Robert Chambers. Although they were both raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, they ended up on very different paths. Jennifer was a friendly empathetic person who had a bright future ahead of her while Robert was on the fast path to jail. Jennifer ended up dead and Robert ended up exactly where he belonged.


      This case was huge when I was growing up in New York. You couldn't see a news program without hearing about the Preppie Murder. Wolfe did a wonderful job of telling the story of Jennifer and Robert's lives and how they slowly came to intertwine. Linda Wolfe takes us through Robert's lies and confession and how they played out in court. She also takes on the way the media and those who had an opinion on the case felt that "victim blaming" was the way to go because Jennifer was not a girl that sat there and was quiet.