Patreon Upcycle: Red Hand - The Murder of Jennifer Levin

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🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Since it's Thanksgiving, we're giving you a sneak peek at one of our Patreon subscriber exclusive episodes this week! This one is the story of one of New York City's most notorious murders: A beautiful, privileged young woman brutally strangled in Central Park after a night out with friends. The crime initially looked to be sexually motivated, but the experienced detectives felt something was amiss--the scene was almost a caricature of a sex crime, as though the killer had staged it to look that way. What was this murder really about? Join us for a story of envy, greed, revenge and ego--one that illustrates the way media narrative can shape a murder case, for better or for worse.

Sources:
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/news/a7587/jennifer-levin-robert-chambers-preppy-killer/#:~:text=Thirty%20years%20ago%20today%2C%20on,Central%20Park%20by%20Robert%20Chambers.&text=They'd%20walked%20into%20Central,marks%20of%20a%20violent%20struggle.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a29712185/robert-chambers-preppy-murder-central-park/
https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/the-preppy-murder-how-robert-chambers-defense-victim-blamed-jennifer-levin
Documentary: "The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park"
CBS "48 Hours," "The Preppy Killer"

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:17.1	Hello babies, and welcome to your January patrons only episode.
0:28.6	The story we're telling you today is pretty infuriating, mostly of course it's about
0:34.0	a young woman who lost her life for no good reason.
0:38.0	But it's also about perception and how a media narrative can tap into our collective beliefs
0:43.7	or prejudices or fears and change the outcome of a case.
0:49.3	Would this case play out differently if it happened today?
0:52.7	This is Red Hand, the murder of Jennifer Levin.
1:14.8	So campers, for this one we're in New York, New York, August 26, 1986 at 6.30 in the morning.
1:22.9	A cyclist discovered the body of a young woman under a tree in Central Park.
1:27.8	When investigators arrived a few minutes later, they found the young woman partially
1:31.4	undressed her legs spread.
1:33.9	Her bare legs and arms and hands were covered in scratches and abrasions.
1:38.1	Her face was swollen and she had angry red marks on her neck.
1:41.6	Clearly she'd been beaten.
1:43.6	This poor girl looked like she'd been in a mighty struggle for her life.
1:47.4	The lead investigator on the case was Mike Shean, a veteran homicide detective with a
1:51.4	CSI's neck for reading crime scenes.
1:54.2	He just had an eye for it.
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