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-My dad used to say to me,
"It's a 1% chance
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that anything horrible
is gonna go wrong."
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And then the 1% happened.
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-It was the glorious '80s,
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and nobody wanted
to be responsible.
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-Parents were always away
at some country house,
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so we'd be in the city,
just having fun.
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-We were having
a wonderful time,
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but that doesn't mean that
people were, you know, okay.
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-The young woman's body
was found in Central Park.
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-Attractive, popular, a week
away from starting college,
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Jennifer Levin had so much
going for her,
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and then her life ended.
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-For us, Jennifer's murder
was almost like a 9/11 moment.
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-She was just a bubbly,
outgoing, wonderful kid.
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Beautiful girl.
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-My daughter's dead.
Will you get out of here?
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-What monster did this
to somebody's daughter?
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And that person has to pay.
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-A suspect is under arrest,
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and police say
he was not a stranger.
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19-year-old Robert Chambers,
described as a handsome preppy
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from an upper class
neighborhood.
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-I just can't see him
doing anything like that.
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-I think every girl in this
school had a crush on him.
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He's, like, the perfect guy.
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-Before O.J. Simpson,
the preppy killer
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was the trial of the century.
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-Lurid press accounts
have suggested Chambers was
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the victim,
forced into sex.
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-Jack Litman was
a fantastic manipulator.
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He knew how to use the press.
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-There seemed to be advances,
some sexual activity
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by Jennifer Levin
which led to this tragedy.
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-It was all choreographed
to denigrate my daughter.
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Unbelievable.
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-Robert was a symbol of white
male beauty, power, and money.
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That's how he was portrayed.
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-We discovered that this guy
was no altar boy.
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-My name is...
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-I was totally shocked.
-Oops.
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I think I killed her.
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-This was a dissolute,
sociopathic,
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drug addict who cared
about no one but himself.
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-This narrative has become
something
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completely different
than what it actually was.
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This story has never been told.
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-I lived on 90th and 3rd
in a walk-up, third floor.
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I was an equity trader
on Wall Street.
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I would ride my bike at hours
when the only people up
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are garbage trucks
and newspaper delivery trucks.
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Probably in hindsight,
was completely unwise.
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But maybe because I was a female
trader, I felt invincible.
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And that particular morning,
I rode over to the park.
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And when I approached
Panther Hill,
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there was a car with blacked-out
windows coming the wrong way.
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So that's a little odd
in and of itself.
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And then as I continue up
the hill,
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I looked over my left shoulder.
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And there was a young woman
under a tree.
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I was close enough to know
that it wasn't right.
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Her body wasn't
lined up correctly.
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Like, one arm was up,
one leg was back.
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The shirt was pushed up.
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First thing I thought of
was trying to call the police.
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And the first phone that I could
reach was Madison and 90th,
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and I called 911 from there.
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-911, what's the nature
of your emergency?
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-When I got back, I felt
that someone should be with her.
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I felt a sisterhood of sorts.
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It was almost like,
this could be me.
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I don't know how she got there,
but this could be me.
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After that day, I wasn't as --
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I don't know if it's brave
or careless,
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but that morning
changed everything for me.
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-We received a call about 6:00
in the morning.
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Dispatchers said we have a young
female, DOA, in the park.
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Investigate DOA.
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I was the commanding officer
of Manhattan
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detectives night watch.
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Anything that was homicide,
rape, shootings, likely to die,
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we would cover it.
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I said, get everyone together,
and saddle up,
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let's get out there.
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[Siren wailing]
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We went up there,
lights and sirens.
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We came in, and a little bit
past the Metropolitan Museum,
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there was a body.
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I remember the first thing
the sergeant said to me.
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He said, "Wally, I understand
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that a car came to the scene,
a brown car.
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Whether it was a Chevy,
a Pontiac, or a Buick,
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it was here
and dumped the body."
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And there were tire tracks,
and he showed me
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the tire tracks.
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And I called citywide,
the dispatcher,
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and I said, "Forthwith --"
I used "forthwith" a lot.
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It's a fluent cop terminology.
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I said, "Shut down
every entrance and exit,
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bridge and tunnel
that enters New York City."
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They closed off everything.
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[Indistinct radio chatter]
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[Siren wailing]
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-I remember coming into work
at Channel 5,
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and we heard a lot of chitchat
on the police radios
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about a young, white woman being
found murdered in Central Park.
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We don't know much more
at that moment,
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just the body has been found,
a young woman has died.
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-You know, it was tough times
in New York City.
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In Manhattan, Rosanna Scotto,
Fox News, Channel 5.
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The crime wave was probably
three times
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as high as it is now.
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Crack was a real big problem
in this city.
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A lot of urban violence.
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-Reporting live from Manhattan
Criminal Court,
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Magee Hickey, News 4.
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Back to you, Sue.
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-There'd be four or five murders
a day
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in other parts of the city.
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And we would always say,
"Oh, that's a drug murder.
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That one you
don't pay attention to."
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But if something happens
in Central Park
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to a white person in the 1980s,
everyone pays attention to it.
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[Indistinct radio chatter]
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-The media was very competitive
in New York City,
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so you get a lot
of media personnel there.
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So, let's expand the crime scene
as far as we can.
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Let's get tape and put it around
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as much as we can
to keep the public out.
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You don't want to contaminate
the crime scene in any way.
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I then got back to my dispatcher
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and asked him to get Manhattan
North Homicide on the phone,
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get 'em in forthwith.
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-I was assigned to the Manhattan
North Homicide Squad.
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We covered everything
from 59th Street
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to the northern tip
of Manhattan island.
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From river to river.
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And all the years
I was on the job as a cop,
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most of our homicides
were either in small apartments,
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a stairwell,
in between two parked cars.
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So what's the crime scene,
12x12, maybe?
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We got to this crime scene.
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It was yellow tape almost
as far as the eye could see.
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We nicknamed it the Ponderosa.
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-We had the tarp removed,
and I took a closer look.
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It was a young woman around
18 to 20 years of age.
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Her skirt was hiked up.
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Her bra and her blouse
were also above her breasts.
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It looked like this was a victim
of violent sexual assault.
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She had these tan lines
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that showed me
there were missing bracelets.
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There were marks from rings.
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They were all gone.
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And you could see perhaps
she was wearing
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some kind of earrings.
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And they were gone.
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So you say,
maybe this was a robbery.
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There were scratches
and heavy bruising
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all over the rest of her body.
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And on her neck, there were
these reddish-brown marks,
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which really stood out.
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From the first moments,
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there's a million things
going through your head.
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Was there a dispute?
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Is this a boyfriend/girlfriend,
or is this a stranger?
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Was this an attempt at rape?
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Did somebody pull her
off of 5th Avenue?
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What happened to this poor kid?
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-At that time,
I was running the country's
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first sex crimes
prosecution unit.
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So it looked like this was gonna
fall under my watch,
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but it was an unlikely place
to think of a homicide
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because nobody would have
walked into Central Park
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late at night
of her own volition.
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The assumption we all had was
that this was a young woman
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who had been killed
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and then dumped
in Central Park by a stranger.
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And that the likelihood
of finding her killer
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was incredibly remote.
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The killer might never be found.
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-Obviously, it was so important
to find out who she is.
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She had a denim jacket
next to her,
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and she was tentatively
identified as Jennifer Levin.
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How do you beat a woman
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and just leave her
in Central Park, you know?
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I mean, who does that?
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That person has to be caught,
and that person has to pay.
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So, go out and find this guy.
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[Indistinct radio chatter]
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[Indistinct conversation]
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-I'm just gonna tell you
what we have here.
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-Right.
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-I'm not going to answer
a lot of questions.
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-You do have a name.
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-We have a tentative name
at this particular point.
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Our first efforts will be
to identify her
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and possibly find out what
her background is, et cetera,
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and where she may have been
prior to arriving here.
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Thanks, gentlemen.
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-In NYPD, we don't make
notifications of death by phone.
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We make face-to-face
notifications.
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My duty captain said,
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"Go with Mike down to the family
and make notification."
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So, I went with Mike down
to Steven Levin's house.
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And it was a tragic -- it was --
You know, you go to a house.
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You see pictures of Jennifer.
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Her father was there.
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You know, to lose a child
as a parent,
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someone that's so important
to you,
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someone you love,
that's your blood.
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It was very hard.
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-While we were in the apartment,
the buzzer was
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constantly ringing.
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Somewhere along the line,
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the address must
have leaked out.
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The press was all over.
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[Woman shouts indistinctly]
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-Sir, have you spoken
with the family yet?
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-No, I haven't.
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-We'd like to get out of your
way, but we need a photograph.
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-It's me, Ira.
I can't get up.
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Bunch of reporters.
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-Sir, have you spoken to --
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A couple of hours
after the family was informed
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about what happened to Jennifer,
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her uncle came down to speak
to reporters about the tragedy
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and about the woman
who was killed.
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-I am very, very hesitantly
coming to the conclusion
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that New York City is no longer
a fit place in which to live.
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I mean, it's an arm camp.
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I really think it's a social
experiment that's failed.
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I -- A lot of people feel
that way, people that I know.
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I don't know.
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It's just such
an unreal experience.
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-Sir, what did you make of this?
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Did she have friends that
the family was concerned about?
250
00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,753
-I don't have
the slightest idea.
251
00:14:15,789 --> 00:14:18,356
No, I don't think so.
She was very, very social.
252
00:14:18,391 --> 00:14:20,325
Always out, but a good kid.
253
00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,995
My brother was
a wonderful father.
254
00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:27,165
She was just a bubbly, outgoing,
wonderful, social kid.
255
00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:28,333
Beautiful girl.
256
00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:30,702
-Thank you very much.
257
00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,340
-There was a lot of people
in the house.
258
00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:38,343
I assume friends and relatives,
259
00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:41,713
and her maternal grandfather
said,
260
00:14:41,748 --> 00:14:44,048
"Oh, my God,
did anybody call Ellen?"
261
00:14:46,386 --> 00:14:48,553
Who's Ellen?
262
00:14:48,588 --> 00:14:50,855
He goes, "Her mother."
263
00:14:50,891 --> 00:14:52,290
-Does Mrs. Levin live here,
as well?
264
00:14:52,325 --> 00:14:53,791
-No, she doesn't.
-Okay.
265
00:14:53,827 --> 00:14:55,193
-I don't even know
if she knows about it yet,
266
00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:56,895
to tell you the truth.
267
00:14:56,930 --> 00:15:04,035
♪♪
268
00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:06,704
-I was at work.
269
00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:10,708
I got a telephone call,
and it was my dad,
270
00:15:10,744 --> 00:15:13,378
and he was crying.
271
00:15:13,413 --> 00:15:17,148
I never heard my dad cry.
272
00:15:17,183 --> 00:15:20,818
And he couldn't talk,
and I said, "What's wrong?
273
00:15:20,854 --> 00:15:22,553
What happened to Mom?"
274
00:15:22,589 --> 00:15:25,089
That's the first thing you ask.
275
00:15:25,125 --> 00:15:27,725
And he said,
"It's not Mom, Ellen.
276
00:15:27,761 --> 00:15:29,894
It's Jen."
277
00:15:29,930 --> 00:15:31,963
He said, "We lost her."
278
00:15:33,934 --> 00:15:36,067
And I started yelling,
"What do you mean you lost her?
279
00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:38,236
What do you mean she's lost?"
280
00:15:38,271 --> 00:15:42,073
I couldn't conceive
of what he was telling me.
281
00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:43,908
And he said,
"You have to come downtown.
282
00:15:43,944 --> 00:15:46,511
We're all at Steve's office."
283
00:15:46,546 --> 00:15:49,580
I got in a car down to Soho.
284
00:15:49,616 --> 00:15:51,015
I still didn't know
what was happening.
285
00:15:51,051 --> 00:15:52,417
-The murder of a young woman
286
00:15:52,452 --> 00:15:53,918
whose body was found
in Central Park...
287
00:15:53,954 --> 00:15:56,421
-And I hear on the radio,
288
00:15:56,456 --> 00:16:00,625
the body that was found
behind the Metropolitan Museum,
289
00:16:00,660 --> 00:16:02,794
was that of Jennifer Levin.
290
00:16:02,829 --> 00:16:06,998
And then I -- I really lost it.
291
00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:12,937
The only thing that fit
in my mind at that moment was,
292
00:16:12,973 --> 00:16:17,275
she was in an accident,
which it didn't help,
293
00:16:17,310 --> 00:16:21,179
but it was at least rational.
294
00:16:24,351 --> 00:16:28,286
We got to the loft in Soho,
295
00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:31,622
and the photographers
came running, screaming,
296
00:16:31,658 --> 00:16:33,558
"There's the mother!"
297
00:16:33,593 --> 00:16:35,126
Go away.
298
00:16:35,161 --> 00:16:38,162
My daughter's dead.
Will you get out of here?
299
00:16:38,198 --> 00:16:41,966
And I still
didn't know what happened.
300
00:16:42,002 --> 00:16:44,635
They brought me up to the loft,
301
00:16:44,671 --> 00:16:48,973
and there was
my entire family, crying.
302
00:16:49,009 --> 00:16:56,314
And my mother said,
"They strangled my baby."
303
00:16:56,349 --> 00:17:00,218
And that's when I found out
how she died.
304
00:17:03,390 --> 00:17:05,490
I'm gonna take a break.
305
00:17:05,525 --> 00:17:06,824
Yeah.
306
00:17:06,860 --> 00:17:12,830
♪♪
307
00:17:12,866 --> 00:17:14,665
-Gentlemen, we realize
it's a difficult time.
308
00:17:14,701 --> 00:17:17,035
I assume you're here
to see the Levin family.
309
00:17:17,070 --> 00:17:18,603
Are you police officers?
310
00:17:18,638 --> 00:17:20,671
Oh, okay.
311
00:17:20,707 --> 00:17:22,507
-My lieutenant said,
312
00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:25,510
"We have to find out more about
what happened in the park."
313
00:17:25,545 --> 00:17:27,678
Go to the morgue.
314
00:17:27,714 --> 00:17:31,015
Try to document the injuries.
315
00:17:31,051 --> 00:17:33,017
Now she's in a clinical setting.
316
00:17:33,053 --> 00:17:36,287
Now you can really take a look.
317
00:17:36,322 --> 00:17:40,658
So, I went to the morgue to see
what else I could learn.
318
00:17:42,896 --> 00:17:43,861
I looked at the body.
319
00:17:43,897 --> 00:17:47,865
I was just totally shocked,
320
00:17:47,901 --> 00:17:50,568
like, what happened
to this poor kid?
321
00:17:50,603 --> 00:17:53,604
♪♪
322
00:17:56,308 --> 00:18:01,012
♪♪
323
00:18:01,047 --> 00:18:03,748
-Iad asked
the medical examiner
324
00:18:03,783 --> 00:18:07,852
to join me in the morgue.
325
00:18:07,887 --> 00:18:10,988
Jennifer was lying out
on a gurney,
326
00:18:11,024 --> 00:18:16,561
and we examined her
from head to toe.
327
00:18:19,365 --> 00:18:21,866
A little bit of time had passed,
328
00:18:21,901 --> 00:18:25,937
so some of these injuries
really come into focus.
329
00:18:25,972 --> 00:18:29,941
The bruising was
all over the face.
330
00:18:29,976 --> 00:18:33,945
The marks on her neck
were darker, deeper.
331
00:18:33,980 --> 00:18:37,849
It screamed at you like,
"Look at this."
332
00:18:37,884 --> 00:18:40,551
It looked like
she was strangled.
333
00:18:40,587 --> 00:18:43,855
Her teeth were loose.
334
00:18:43,890 --> 00:18:48,192
Her left eye was bulging
out of the socket.
335
00:18:48,228 --> 00:18:51,696
I asked, "What do you think
caused that damage to the face?"
336
00:18:51,731 --> 00:18:54,365
The medical examiner said,
"It looks like a blow."
337
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,202
From an instrument, or it
could be a blow from a fist?
338
00:18:58,238 --> 00:19:01,372
I noticed there were, like,
little half-moon marks
339
00:19:01,407 --> 00:19:04,041
right over here.
340
00:19:04,077 --> 00:19:09,814
What that was determined to be
was from her fingernails.
341
00:19:09,849 --> 00:19:13,584
Whatever was strangling her,
she was trying to pull it down.
342
00:19:13,620 --> 00:19:15,052
You could really see
that this kid
343
00:19:15,088 --> 00:19:17,822
put up the fight of her life.
344
00:19:17,857 --> 00:19:23,895
♪♪
345
00:19:23,930 --> 00:19:29,066
-I've always had this thing
in me, I owe it to the victim
346
00:19:29,102 --> 00:19:34,071
and to the victim's family
to find out what monster
347
00:19:34,107 --> 00:19:37,742
did this to somebody's daughter,
somebody's sister.
348
00:19:37,777 --> 00:19:43,681
♪♪
349
00:19:43,716 --> 00:19:49,587
♪♪
350
00:19:49,622 --> 00:19:57,094
-Yeah, that's in her room.
-Ohh.
351
00:19:57,130 --> 00:19:59,830
-Cute little baby.
352
00:20:02,969 --> 00:20:06,204
-From the moment
she could stand,
353
00:20:06,239 --> 00:20:11,976
she would listen to us playing
the Beatles, her father and I,
354
00:20:12,011 --> 00:20:15,947
and she'd start jumping up
and down in the crib, dancing.
355
00:20:15,982 --> 00:20:20,117
This tiny little baby banging
the crib against the wall
356
00:20:20,153 --> 00:20:22,253
in tune with the music.
357
00:20:24,324 --> 00:20:28,459
She had so much life,
and she was so happy.
358
00:20:28,494 --> 00:20:32,830
So we just let her party
with us.
359
00:20:32,865 --> 00:20:35,633
She did have that
kind of personality.
360
00:20:35,668 --> 00:20:39,437
She was born with a smile
on her face.
361
00:20:41,441 --> 00:20:45,009
-When she was a baby, I did feel
protective towards her,
362
00:20:45,044 --> 00:20:49,647
and for a while there,
she allowed me to be.
363
00:20:49,682 --> 00:20:51,916
She was fun.
she was goofy.
364
00:20:51,951 --> 00:20:56,654
A really full of life spirit.
365
00:20:56,689 --> 00:20:58,556
And so beautiful.
366
00:21:01,694 --> 00:21:03,828
-She was a character.
367
00:21:03,863 --> 00:21:07,098
I mean, she just --
Jennifer really loved life.
368
00:21:07,133 --> 00:21:16,173
♪♪
369
00:21:16,209 --> 00:21:21,012
We were living on Long Island,
and after my divorce,
370
00:21:21,047 --> 00:21:25,516
we started up
a whole new life, really.
371
00:21:25,551 --> 00:21:28,185
-Our family was really
in transition.
372
00:21:28,221 --> 00:21:30,721
My dad moved to the city.
373
00:21:30,757 --> 00:21:32,623
He had this really cool loft,
374
00:21:32,659 --> 00:21:36,060
and Jen just thought it'd be
a fun idea to live in the city.
375
00:21:38,231 --> 00:21:42,533
-Jennifer moved in
with her father in Soho,
376
00:21:42,568 --> 00:21:46,203
'cause she was starting school
in the city.
377
00:21:46,239 --> 00:21:50,141
Me and Danielle were still
in Long Island,
378
00:21:50,176 --> 00:21:52,877
but I had some friends
in the area called Tribeca,
379
00:21:52,912 --> 00:21:56,314
which very few people
even knew existed.
380
00:21:56,349 --> 00:22:00,384
And I moved in within the year.
381
00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:05,056
Jen was in walking distance
from me,
382
00:22:05,091 --> 00:22:08,059
and that's when she became
a real city girl.
383
00:22:08,094 --> 00:22:14,332
♪♪
384
00:22:14,367 --> 00:22:18,736
Jen was totally in her element
in New York City.
385
00:22:18,771 --> 00:22:22,273
She was always fun
and excited about life,
386
00:22:22,308 --> 00:22:27,178
but she met the people here that
just had the same energy as her.
387
00:22:27,213 --> 00:22:30,081
She was confident,
and you know --
388
00:22:30,116 --> 00:22:31,415
-Confident and independent.
389
00:22:31,451 --> 00:22:34,285
-And independent, yeah.
390
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,956
So, I don't think
there was much worry.
391
00:22:38,991 --> 00:22:42,593
-Honestly, I didn't
see it coming.
392
00:22:42,628 --> 00:22:44,095
It was shocking.
393
00:22:44,130 --> 00:22:49,934
♪♪
394
00:22:49,969 --> 00:22:52,970
-Every single case,
you have to go back
395
00:22:53,005 --> 00:22:54,839
over the last steps
of your victim.
396
00:22:57,176 --> 00:23:01,812
What brought this beautiful girl
to Central Park?
397
00:23:01,848 --> 00:23:04,115
Who was she with?
398
00:23:04,150 --> 00:23:07,485
Where was she in the hours
preceding her death?
399
00:23:10,089 --> 00:23:13,190
And then from that story,
you can usually solve the case.
400
00:23:15,261 --> 00:23:19,130
You begin by questioning people
who knew her.
401
00:23:19,165 --> 00:23:21,799
Jennifer's father
and stepmother said
402
00:23:21,834 --> 00:23:23,467
she had spent the night
on the Upper East
403
00:23:23,503 --> 00:23:26,604
Side with her friend,
Alex LaGatta.
404
00:23:29,208 --> 00:23:33,477
-Two detectives go up,
and they interview Alex LaGatta,
405
00:23:33,513 --> 00:23:36,680
and that's how the whole story
came into place.
406
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,288
-Two detectives went up
to the Upper East Side
407
00:23:44,323 --> 00:23:48,359
to talk to Jennifer's friend,
Alex LaGatta,
408
00:23:48,394 --> 00:23:51,529
who basically sets the scene.
409
00:23:51,564 --> 00:23:56,300
They learned she was at a bar
called Dorrian's.
410
00:23:56,335 --> 00:23:59,470
-By questioning the victims'
friends to track her movements
411
00:23:59,505 --> 00:24:02,039
Monday night, detectives learned
she had been
412
00:24:02,074 --> 00:24:03,808
to Dorrian's Restaurant,
413
00:24:03,843 --> 00:24:07,878
a so-called preppy hangout
where the fatal sequence began.
414
00:24:07,914 --> 00:24:10,881
-Dorrian's Red Hand
was kind of a legendary bar
415
00:24:10,917 --> 00:24:13,551
on the Upper East Side.
416
00:24:13,586 --> 00:24:15,052
It also had a reputation.
417
00:24:15,087 --> 00:24:17,488
It was a place where
a lot of well-heeled,
418
00:24:17,523 --> 00:24:19,924
privileged kids would go.
419
00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:22,560
-It was like a preppy hangout.
420
00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:27,398
White, Upper East Side,
wealthy families, kids
421
00:24:27,433 --> 00:24:30,167
who lived a life of privilege.
422
00:24:30,203 --> 00:24:36,907
♪♪
423
00:24:36,943 --> 00:24:40,244
-We loved Dorrian's because
it was this place
424
00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:43,080
where we could all gather.
425
00:24:43,115 --> 00:24:45,883
Jennifer and I used to
go there all the time.
426
00:24:48,488 --> 00:24:50,454
This is a good photo.
427
00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:52,756
This is Peter Davis,
my best friend,
428
00:24:52,792 --> 00:24:59,296
Jennifer, my other best friend,
and there I am.
429
00:24:59,332 --> 00:25:03,033
I met Jennifer in 1984.
430
00:25:03,069 --> 00:25:05,436
We worked together in Soho
431
00:25:05,471 --> 00:25:08,138
at French Connection.
432
00:25:08,174 --> 00:25:12,476
She was this kind of
starry-eyed, young teenager
433
00:25:12,512 --> 00:25:15,546
coming from Long Island.
434
00:25:15,581 --> 00:25:20,551
To live in Soho in the early
'80s was a big deal.
435
00:25:20,586 --> 00:25:22,219
The streets were dark.
436
00:25:22,255 --> 00:25:25,990
There was people living
in raw lofts with no one around,
437
00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:29,293
and it was not gussied up
the way it is now.
438
00:25:29,328 --> 00:25:32,830
Her father ran this
real-estate company,
439
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:35,900
and Jennifer was a downtown kid,
440
00:25:35,935 --> 00:25:39,637
and there was a kind
of fast friendship.
441
00:25:39,672 --> 00:25:42,806
-I met Jennifer through Jessica
because it was, like,
442
00:25:42,842 --> 00:25:46,176
her people are my people
and vice versa.
443
00:25:46,212 --> 00:25:48,412
So, I met Jennifer,
444
00:25:48,447 --> 00:25:52,116
and immediately,
I thought she was cool.
445
00:25:56,188 --> 00:25:58,689
Everything that was different
about Jennifer
446
00:25:58,724 --> 00:26:01,525
was what attracted me to her.
447
00:26:01,561 --> 00:26:03,093
The fact that she was Jewish
448
00:26:03,129 --> 00:26:05,162
and not a WASP
from the Upper East Side.
449
00:26:05,197 --> 00:26:06,997
She lived in Soho.
450
00:26:07,033 --> 00:26:08,832
We lived Uptown,
451
00:26:08,868 --> 00:26:14,338
and we were already ingrained
an enmeshed in this world.
452
00:26:14,373 --> 00:26:16,674
We grew up in this bubble
of rich,
453
00:26:16,709 --> 00:26:20,377
Upper East Side preppy kids.
454
00:26:20,413 --> 00:26:24,048
And she wasn't in that bubble.
455
00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:27,217
But at the same time,
I think Jennifer kind of thought
456
00:26:27,253 --> 00:26:31,355
our lives were super cool.
457
00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:33,791
-We were a community
of privileged people
458
00:26:33,826 --> 00:26:38,195
who live in big apartments
and fancy neighborhoods.
459
00:26:38,230 --> 00:26:42,566
We would have weekend parties
at different people's house.
460
00:26:42,602 --> 00:26:44,702
-I was part of that preppy,
Upper East Side,
461
00:26:44,737 --> 00:26:46,704
private school community.
462
00:26:46,739 --> 00:26:48,539
Lots of friends.
463
00:26:48,574 --> 00:26:51,375
Parents were at their country
house or out in the Hamptons,
464
00:26:51,410 --> 00:26:52,876
so you could always find someone
465
00:26:52,912 --> 00:26:55,980
who had their apartment
to themselves.
466
00:26:56,015 --> 00:26:58,549
We had an enormous
amount of freedom.
467
00:26:58,584 --> 00:27:03,721
-There was an opening for a lot
of nefarious activity.
468
00:27:03,756 --> 00:27:06,390
We had booze and pot smoking,
and you know,
469
00:27:06,425 --> 00:27:08,892
kids were left on their own.
470
00:27:08,928 --> 00:27:10,394
-It's 10:00 p.m.
471
00:27:10,429 --> 00:27:14,098
Do you know
where your children are?
472
00:27:14,133 --> 00:27:20,571
-And in ninth and tenth grade,
it was clubs.
473
00:27:20,606 --> 00:27:23,073
It was a time of Studio 54,
474
00:27:23,109 --> 00:27:26,510
and we would get these passes
somehow or another,
475
00:27:26,545 --> 00:27:28,278
and we would go.
476
00:27:28,314 --> 00:27:31,248
There was a promoter,
this kind of like, white,
477
00:27:31,283 --> 00:27:33,751
WASPy type with round specs.
478
00:27:33,786 --> 00:27:37,087
He got all the private
school kids to come in.
479
00:27:37,123 --> 00:27:39,123
And there was
this bouncer there.
480
00:27:39,158 --> 00:27:40,758
He loved me.
481
00:27:40,793 --> 00:27:46,030
And I just roll up, and he'd,
be, like, "You, in."
482
00:27:46,065 --> 00:27:47,931
-Massive night clubs.
483
00:27:47,967 --> 00:27:50,868
People doing drugs in the back
allies, partying like crazy,
484
00:27:50,903 --> 00:27:52,269
and taking their clothes off.
485
00:27:52,304 --> 00:27:54,438
And I was just there.
486
00:27:54,473 --> 00:27:59,276
♪♪
487
00:27:59,311 --> 00:28:01,445
-As a teenager in New York,
488
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,648
I became very savvy
as to who worked the door,
489
00:28:04,684 --> 00:28:07,451
who worked inside,
who had drink tickets.
490
00:28:07,486 --> 00:28:09,953
I was on it.
491
00:28:09,989 --> 00:28:13,791
-It was the glorious '80s,
and we were loving it.
492
00:28:13,826 --> 00:28:16,226
We were having a wonderful time.
493
00:28:16,262 --> 00:28:20,798
But that doesn't mean that
people were, you know, okay.
494
00:28:20,833 --> 00:28:22,566
-In New York, there's
a phenomenon of what I call
495
00:28:22,601 --> 00:28:24,134
the gilded latchkey children.
496
00:28:24,170 --> 00:28:26,637
Kids who were sort of
doing their own thing.
497
00:28:26,672 --> 00:28:28,639
Their parents worked very hard,
professional, upper,
498
00:28:28,674 --> 00:28:30,474
middle income people.
499
00:28:30,509 --> 00:28:35,012
And for New York, these clubs
or restaurants like Dorrian's
500
00:28:35,047 --> 00:28:37,648
is what the shopping malls
are to other kids.
501
00:28:37,683 --> 00:28:39,483
It's a place
where the parents feel,
502
00:28:39,518 --> 00:28:42,686
well, if they're all together
somewhere, maybe they're safe.
503
00:28:44,857 --> 00:28:48,592
-Dorrian's was really
one up from a dive bar.
504
00:28:48,627 --> 00:28:50,994
And they would just let you in.
There was no bouncer.
505
00:28:51,030 --> 00:28:52,496
You had the worst fake IDs,
506
00:28:52,531 --> 00:28:55,666
and they didn't even
really ask for that.
507
00:28:55,701 --> 00:28:59,670
And it just became this
meeting place for underaged,
508
00:28:59,705 --> 00:29:02,873
New York City
private school kids.
509
00:29:02,908 --> 00:29:05,042
It was like a clubhouse.
510
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:08,612
A private, preppy club
that you had to know about it,
511
00:29:08,647 --> 00:29:12,349
like an insider's secret.
512
00:29:12,384 --> 00:29:14,852
But it was always, to me,
a place to start the night
513
00:29:14,887 --> 00:29:17,187
and never to finish.
514
00:29:17,223 --> 00:29:22,359
I always wanted to go downtown
with people I thought were cool.
515
00:29:22,394 --> 00:29:25,529
I remember Jennifer often wanted
to stay at Dorrian's
516
00:29:25,564 --> 00:29:27,865
because downtown
was where she lived.
517
00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:30,367
Dorrian's probably seemed
so much more fun
518
00:29:30,402 --> 00:29:34,037
and different and exotic.
519
00:29:34,073 --> 00:29:37,775
I think she thought that was
where the fun action was.
520
00:29:41,247 --> 00:29:44,715
-You captured this in this
little photo booth box
521
00:29:44,750 --> 00:29:46,984
with your best friend.
522
00:29:47,019 --> 00:29:52,890
It's a completely innocent act,
and you have no clue, right,
523
00:29:52,925 --> 00:29:55,392
what is to come to pass.
524
00:29:55,427 --> 00:29:57,561
Fragments of a captured life
525
00:29:57,596 --> 00:30:04,902
that was then less than a year
later taken, ripped. It's --
526
00:30:04,937 --> 00:30:06,570
[Sputters]
527
00:30:06,605 --> 00:30:12,075
♪♪
528
00:30:12,111 --> 00:30:14,111
-The police knew
Jennifer had been at Dorrian's
529
00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:16,914
with her friend, Alex LaGatta.
530
00:30:16,949 --> 00:30:22,753
Alex named other friends who had
been at Dorrian's with Jennifer,
531
00:30:22,788 --> 00:30:25,322
so police began
to question those friends.
532
00:30:27,626 --> 00:30:30,928
-You know, it's the old X, Y, Z.
533
00:30:30,963 --> 00:30:36,600
You talk to X, and X goes,
"I left, she was with Y and Z."
534
00:30:36,635 --> 00:30:40,637
Y goes, "Well, I left
five minutes after X,
535
00:30:40,673 --> 00:30:43,273
then she was with Z."
536
00:30:43,309 --> 00:30:46,443
-The group kept getting smaller
and smaller,
537
00:30:46,478 --> 00:30:50,147
and a name kept coming up.
538
00:30:50,182 --> 00:30:52,115
-Robert Chambers.
539
00:30:52,151 --> 00:30:56,119
Oh, who was Robert Chambers?
540
00:30:56,155 --> 00:30:59,790
"He's one of the crowd.
He's one of us."
541
00:30:59,825 --> 00:31:02,192
All right, well,
we'd like to talk to him.
542
00:31:04,830 --> 00:31:08,498
-Everybody at that point in time
was looking for a stranger
543
00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:13,136
who might have abducted her,
pulled her into a car,
544
00:31:13,172 --> 00:31:14,805
done these terrible things
to her,
545
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,641
then dumped her in Central Park.
546
00:31:17,676 --> 00:31:21,144
And when the detectives
went to Mrs. Chambers' home
547
00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:25,148
on East 90th Street,
asking for Robert,
548
00:31:25,184 --> 00:31:27,818
they went there because
he was Jennifer's friend
549
00:31:27,853 --> 00:31:33,023
and was probably one of the
last people to see her alive.
550
00:31:33,058 --> 00:31:36,493
Mrs. Chambers answered the door,
gracious woman.
551
00:31:36,528 --> 00:31:39,496
She said, yes, Robert was asleep
in his bedroom.
552
00:31:39,531 --> 00:31:42,666
They asked if they
could speak to him.
553
00:31:42,701 --> 00:31:46,003
He presented himself,
and in that moment,
554
00:31:46,038 --> 00:31:49,172
Robert Chambers went
from being a friend
555
00:31:49,208 --> 00:31:52,542
of Jennifer Levin's
to a person of interest.
556
00:31:52,578 --> 00:31:56,380
♪♪
557
00:31:58,983 --> 00:32:01,685
♪
558
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:06,323
-When the detectives went
to Robert Chambers' home,
559
00:32:06,358 --> 00:32:08,926
they were assuming
he was Jennifer's friend
560
00:32:08,961 --> 00:32:12,429
and perhaps is gonna help them.
561
00:32:12,464 --> 00:32:14,765
He came out of the bedroom,
562
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:19,236
and he had deep,
fresh scratches on his face.
563
00:32:21,373 --> 00:32:23,340
-It's obvious
to the two detectives
564
00:32:23,375 --> 00:32:26,510
that he has fresh scratch marks
on his face.
565
00:32:26,545 --> 00:32:30,447
But they would never
show their hand.
566
00:32:30,482 --> 00:32:33,517
And Chambers says,
"What do you need from me?
567
00:32:33,552 --> 00:32:35,385
To come to the precinct?
568
00:32:35,421 --> 00:32:37,854
Sure, I'll come
to the precinct."
569
00:32:37,890 --> 00:32:39,356
And he went,
and he got his Filofax,
570
00:32:39,391 --> 00:32:41,024
and he had all these
phone numbers in there,
571
00:32:41,060 --> 00:32:43,760
and all of the different people
that he could call.
572
00:32:46,899 --> 00:32:51,068
And he came in voluntarily
to help the cops.
573
00:32:54,907 --> 00:32:57,407
I went in.
I introduced myself.
574
00:32:57,443 --> 00:33:01,044
He certainly looked the part
of a super-rich kid
575
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,982
from the affluent
Upper East Side.
576
00:33:05,017 --> 00:33:07,217
Tremendous presence.
577
00:33:07,252 --> 00:33:10,487
So, we shook hands.
578
00:33:10,522 --> 00:33:14,992
And his right hand
clearly had been damaged.
579
00:33:15,027 --> 00:33:17,227
It was the fifth metacarpal,
580
00:33:17,262 --> 00:33:20,931
so it's right in here,
classic boxer's injury.
581
00:33:20,966 --> 00:33:23,834
this was an impact fracture.
582
00:33:23,869 --> 00:33:27,237
But you never want to act
surprised.
583
00:33:27,272 --> 00:33:30,907
You have to develop some kind
of rapport with the person.
584
00:33:30,943 --> 00:33:32,909
I said,
"Where'd you go to school?"
585
00:33:32,945 --> 00:33:36,179
He said, "I graduated
from New York Prep."
586
00:33:36,215 --> 00:33:38,582
I know that school.
Oh, yeah, really?
587
00:33:38,617 --> 00:33:41,918
I said, "Yeah, I'm from
the neighborhood, you know."
588
00:33:41,954 --> 00:33:46,923
He was very well-spoken,
and he was very relaxed.
589
00:33:46,959 --> 00:33:50,293
Finally, I said,
"Tell me about your face."
590
00:33:50,329 --> 00:33:52,763
"Oh, well, I was throwing
my cat up in the air,
591
00:33:52,798 --> 00:33:55,098
and he came down
and scratched me."
592
00:33:55,134 --> 00:33:59,936
And he goes,
"You think this is bad..."
593
00:33:59,972 --> 00:34:03,807
And he lifted up his shirt,
594
00:34:03,842 --> 00:34:05,876
and there were these
scratch marks
595
00:34:05,911 --> 00:34:10,047
from his upper left shoulder
right down to his stomach.
596
00:34:10,082 --> 00:34:12,849
And they were also fresh.
597
00:34:14,987 --> 00:34:18,922
And at that point, I went
right about questioning him.
598
00:34:21,427 --> 00:34:24,294
You know, "How long
do you know Jennifer?
599
00:34:24,329 --> 00:34:26,730
When's the last time
you saw her?"
600
00:34:26,765 --> 00:34:28,365
Right in front of Dorrian's.
601
00:34:30,502 --> 00:34:34,671
And his story seemed
to be pretty on point.
602
00:34:34,706 --> 00:34:38,642
"I walked outside with her.
I said good night.
603
00:34:38,677 --> 00:34:43,313
She went her way.
I went my way."
604
00:34:43,348 --> 00:34:47,517
But he had this cockiness
about him, like,
605
00:34:47,553 --> 00:34:49,486
"I'm not worried.
606
00:34:49,521 --> 00:34:52,823
You civil servants
are not gonna break me.
607
00:34:52,858 --> 00:34:54,458
I'm Robert Chambers."
608
00:34:57,129 --> 00:35:02,833
And we continued to talk,
like, a couple of hours.
609
00:35:02,868 --> 00:35:06,169
And now, the tone was changing.
610
00:35:06,205 --> 00:35:09,506
The mood in the room
was a little more tense.
611
00:35:09,541 --> 00:35:13,677
I want you to tell me
one more time what happened,
612
00:35:13,712 --> 00:35:16,079
and he went,
"Pay attention."
613
00:35:18,217 --> 00:35:21,184
"You have all my attention.
I swear."
614
00:35:21,220 --> 00:35:24,855
He says, "We went outside,
and we walked up 86th Street."
615
00:35:24,890 --> 00:35:26,490
Bam.
616
00:35:29,394 --> 00:35:31,528
For the past two hours,
he's been telling me
617
00:35:31,563 --> 00:35:34,064
that he said goodbye to her
in front of Dorrian's.
618
00:35:34,099 --> 00:35:36,967
Now you're gonna tell me
you walked up 86th Street
619
00:35:37,002 --> 00:35:39,703
in the direction
of Central Park?
620
00:35:39,738 --> 00:35:42,706
Come on.
It's time to tell me the truth.
621
00:35:42,741 --> 00:35:45,075
So what happened?
622
00:35:45,110 --> 00:35:47,744
And you could see his eyes
filling up with tears,
623
00:35:47,779 --> 00:35:52,582
and he mumbled,
"What's mother going to say?"
624
00:35:52,618 --> 00:35:56,219
I thought, this guy could go,
you know,
625
00:35:56,255 --> 00:35:58,922
he's gonna tell us
the whole story.
626
00:36:02,194 --> 00:36:04,561
-Mike called me at home.
627
00:36:04,596 --> 00:36:08,098
I had just finished dinner
with my wife.
628
00:36:08,133 --> 00:36:11,568
There was a girl murdered
in Central Park, Jennifer Levin.
629
00:36:11,603 --> 00:36:14,938
"We have a guy up here
in Central Park
630
00:36:14,973 --> 00:36:19,075
precinct who looks good.
631
00:36:19,111 --> 00:36:20,777
Can you get involved?"
632
00:36:23,482 --> 00:36:26,583
When I got there,
Robert Chambers hadn't asked
633
00:36:26,618 --> 00:36:28,752
for a lawyer
up to this point.
634
00:36:28,787 --> 00:36:32,756
He was talking freely.
635
00:36:32,791 --> 00:36:35,592
I felt that if he's willing
to give a videotaped statement,
636
00:36:35,627 --> 00:36:40,330
it was gonna be done
before he changed his mind.
637
00:36:44,303 --> 00:36:46,536
Everybody has their own style,
638
00:36:46,572 --> 00:36:48,972
but there are certain
basic 101 stuff
639
00:36:49,007 --> 00:36:50,840
when you're gonna take
a statement.
640
00:36:54,646 --> 00:36:56,046
I read him his rights.
641
00:36:56,081 --> 00:36:57,847
I'm from the district
attorney's office.
642
00:36:57,883 --> 00:37:00,116
The woman, Jennifer Levin,
was found dead in Central Park.
643
00:37:00,152 --> 00:37:01,551
It appears she's been strangled.
644
00:37:01,587 --> 00:37:03,520
Is there anything you want
to say?
645
00:37:10,195 --> 00:37:14,297
And you let him go as long
as he wants.
646
00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:21,838
♪♪
647
00:37:21,873 --> 00:37:27,143
♪♪
648
00:37:27,179 --> 00:37:28,478
-I got to Dorrian's late.
649
00:37:28,513 --> 00:37:32,916
I got there about 11:30,
and I just --
650
00:37:32,951 --> 00:37:34,317
I was hanging out
with my friends.
651
00:37:34,353 --> 00:37:35,485
We were just talking.
652
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,754
I hadn't seen Jennifer yet.
653
00:37:37,789 --> 00:37:41,825
And then I guess about --
sometime around midnight,
654
00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:44,194
she came over
and started talking to me.
655
00:37:44,229 --> 00:37:46,529
Started talking about herself
and her trip to California
656
00:37:46,565 --> 00:37:48,164
and her tan.
657
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:54,838
And I really wasn't
all that interested.
658
00:37:54,873 --> 00:37:56,873
And -- Yeah.
659
00:37:56,908 --> 00:37:59,576
And I kept making faces
about it and stuff.
660
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,180
Some of her friends
had already left,
661
00:38:04,216 --> 00:38:05,849
and she said she wanted
to go outside
662
00:38:05,884 --> 00:38:08,952
and talk to me
about something important.
663
00:38:08,987 --> 00:38:12,022
So I went outside,
and I met Jennifer.
664
00:38:12,057 --> 00:38:15,325
And then we started walking
up towards 86th Street.
665
00:38:20,065 --> 00:38:21,698
I was fine.
666
00:38:21,733 --> 00:38:24,668
I wasn't feeling drunk or high
or anything like that.
667
00:38:27,406 --> 00:38:30,206
We just talked about whatever,
what we're doing,
668
00:38:30,242 --> 00:38:31,875
where we're gonna go to school,
669
00:38:31,910 --> 00:38:33,543
what we want to do
in the future.
670
00:38:33,578 --> 00:38:35,612
Just talking.
671
00:38:37,616 --> 00:38:40,884
We walked up towards
Central Park,
672
00:38:40,919 --> 00:38:42,419
and she said,
"Let's go in the park."
673
00:38:42,454 --> 00:38:44,421
And I was saying, "No, no,
I want to go home."
674
00:38:44,456 --> 00:38:45,889
And she was, like, "No,
let's just go sit
675
00:38:45,924 --> 00:38:47,557
in the park and talk."
676
00:38:47,592 --> 00:38:49,259
So I said fine.
677
00:38:52,798 --> 00:38:54,898
We took this path that goes
right along the museum
678
00:38:54,933 --> 00:38:56,900
into the park,
679
00:38:56,935 --> 00:38:58,401
and I was trying to explain
to Jennifer
680
00:38:58,437 --> 00:39:00,970
that I wasn't interested,
and I wanted to go home.
681
00:39:04,376 --> 00:39:05,608
No, I wasn't interested at all.
682
00:39:05,644 --> 00:39:07,444
I didn't even want to be
with her.
683
00:39:09,548 --> 00:39:12,982
Well, yeah, she was.
684
00:39:15,220 --> 00:39:17,420
And then she said, "Let's go
over here across the road
685
00:39:17,456 --> 00:39:20,590
and sit under this tree."
686
00:39:20,625 --> 00:39:22,025
So while we're there,
687
00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:23,660
I was saying I'm interested
in other people,
688
00:39:23,695 --> 00:39:26,596
and you're going away,
and I don't want to be bothered.
689
00:39:26,631 --> 00:39:30,433
And she freaked out.
690
00:39:30,469 --> 00:39:32,302
She got up and getting all
in front of me,
691
00:39:32,337 --> 00:39:34,270
and she just scratched my face.
692
00:39:34,306 --> 00:39:35,672
And I have these marks here.
693
00:39:35,707 --> 00:39:37,273
I didn't even notice
until this morning.
694
00:39:37,309 --> 00:39:39,476
And I got all upset,
695
00:39:39,511 --> 00:39:41,144
and I stood up,
and I was saying, I'm gonna go.
696
00:39:41,179 --> 00:39:42,312
I'm gonna go.
This is crazy.
697
00:39:42,347 --> 00:39:43,713
-She's still remaining sitting?
698
00:39:43,749 --> 00:39:46,116
-She was kneeling.
699
00:39:46,151 --> 00:39:47,951
And she said, "Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry.
700
00:39:47,986 --> 00:39:49,352
Sit down.
Sit down."
701
00:39:49,388 --> 00:39:50,954
And I said,
"I'll sit and talk with you,
702
00:39:50,989 --> 00:39:53,289
but then I'm gonna go."
703
00:39:53,325 --> 00:39:55,225
'Cause I was really pissed off
at this time.
704
00:39:55,260 --> 00:39:57,293
She didn't really say anything,
didn't call me any names.
705
00:39:57,329 --> 00:39:59,329
She just had this look on her.
706
00:39:59,364 --> 00:40:01,464
She was -- I don't know.
She was insane.
707
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:04,634
I don't know what was wrong
with her.
708
00:40:04,669 --> 00:40:08,338
And she said, "Well, let me
go to the bathroom."
709
00:40:08,373 --> 00:40:10,540
And I said, "All right,
I'll wait here."
710
00:40:13,178 --> 00:40:15,311
She came back.
711
00:40:15,347 --> 00:40:16,813
And she came up behind me,
712
00:40:16,848 --> 00:40:19,149
and she started
to give me a massage
713
00:40:19,184 --> 00:40:20,683
and saying how cute I looked,
714
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,487
and that I would look cuter
if I were tied up.
715
00:40:24,523 --> 00:40:26,556
I thought she was just
horsing around.
716
00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:30,660
Because it just didn't seem
like Jennifer,
717
00:40:30,695 --> 00:40:32,095
at least the way
I knew her.
718
00:40:32,130 --> 00:40:35,265
And --
719
00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:38,501
Yeah, I started to say
that this was crazy, whatever,
720
00:40:38,537 --> 00:40:40,036
and then she's scooting
my hands
721
00:40:40,071 --> 00:40:42,505
with both of her arms
and held them together.
722
00:40:42,541 --> 00:40:45,708
Took her underwear,
723
00:40:45,744 --> 00:40:48,344
and she wrapped her underwear
around my wrists
724
00:40:48,380 --> 00:40:50,213
so they were locked,
and they were behind my back
725
00:40:50,248 --> 00:40:52,115
because I was leaning
on my hands.
726
00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:54,184
And she just pushed me
back like this
727
00:40:54,219 --> 00:40:58,721
and got on top of my chest,
and she was facing my feet.
728
00:40:58,757 --> 00:41:03,693
And she began taking off
my pants,
729
00:41:03,728 --> 00:41:04,861
and she started
to play with me.
730
00:41:04,896 --> 00:41:08,064
She started jerking me off.
731
00:41:08,099 --> 00:41:10,967
And she was doing it really
hard, and it really hurt me.
732
00:41:11,002 --> 00:41:14,370
I started to say, "Stop it,
stop it, it hurts."
733
00:41:14,406 --> 00:41:16,706
And she just kind of laughed
in a weird way,
734
00:41:16,741 --> 00:41:20,543
more like a cackle
or something.
735
00:41:20,579 --> 00:41:22,045
She was just having her way,
736
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,581
and then she dug her nails
into my chest,
737
00:41:24,616 --> 00:41:29,586
and I have scratches right here
of where she scratched.
738
00:41:29,621 --> 00:41:31,387
See?
739
00:41:31,423 --> 00:41:33,556
I was screaming in pain.
740
00:41:33,592 --> 00:41:34,991
I couldn't take it anymore,
741
00:41:35,026 --> 00:41:37,260
and I managed to get
my left hand free.
742
00:41:37,295 --> 00:41:40,363
So I kind of sat up a little
and just grabbed at her.
743
00:41:42,367 --> 00:41:44,501
I just grabbed her and yanked
her as hard as I could,
744
00:41:44,536 --> 00:41:47,570
and she just flipped over me and
landed right next to the tree.
745
00:41:47,606 --> 00:41:50,240
And then she didn't move.
746
00:41:50,275 --> 00:41:57,947
♪♪
747
00:41:57,983 --> 00:42:00,750
-You have a dead body.
748
00:42:00,785 --> 00:42:04,420
You have a guy who says,
"I did it."
749
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All in all, I thought, this is
the simplest case in the world.
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But I had no idea.
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♪♪
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