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Labeled as the rough sex killing or the preppy murder, the 1986 murder of college-bound

teenager Jennifer Levin at the hands of so-called preppy Robert Chambers caught the attention of the entire country.

Her horrible death opened up discussions about the reckless and promiscuous world of teenagers

in her crowd.

In this time of the

Me Too movement, the medias and the defense attorney's attempts to blame

sexually active Jennifer for her own murder

seems especially relevant.

This was a classic case of victim blaming. But once we look into the life of Robert Chambers, we can see how he was raised to feel entitled and above the law.

Chambers had been kicked out of several schools.

He burglarized departments, sold drugs,

and he had once broken the arm of a girlfriend. Although he claimed that Jennifer was accidentally

killed during rough sex, her body was brutalized in a way that showed it was not a consenting

sex act. The nature of multiple wounds and evidence found for 25

feet around her body proved that she had made attempts to escape a brutal attack.

We're going to talk about all of this in today's quiet and

discussion, the Preppy Murder, but first of course Dick has a wonderful beer for

us to drink. This is a wonderful beer. I chose double dry hop, double mosaic dream, brewed by other half-bruing company in the borough of Brooklyn.

So it's a double IPA. And the name is kind of weird, so I thought I'd talk about that.

The double dry hop means it's hopped twice and the second hopping is with a mosaic hop of powder instead of the whole critter.

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