By Linda Wolfe
Referred to as the so-called "Rough intercourse Killing," the 1986 homicide of college-bound youngster Jennifer Levin by the hands of preppie Robert Chambers stunned and horrified the state, receiving as a lot recognition and media hype because the O.J. Simpson case that quickly in a while. In Wasted, which was once named a "Notable publication of the Year" by way of the New York Times, veteran journalist Linda Wolfe is going at the back of the headlines to inform the entire tale of this chilling crime. With never-before-revealed information, Wolfe re-creates in bright element the reckless global of the prosperous young ones of the Nineteen Eighties, the vicious court docket battles that tried to color sexually-free Jennifer as chargeable for her personal demise, the startling jury-room wars that avoided the jurors from achieving a verdict on Chambers' culpability, and the secrets and techniques in the back of the preppie's last-minute plea discount. a real crime vintage, this story of 2 childrens who attached - and crashed - within the speedy lane of...
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By the time Jennifer Levin had been dead a week, people throughout the city were discussing the case at their breakfast tables, on their coffee breaks, on supermarket lines. And at parties and dinners the subject of what had actually happened between Jennifer and Robert was a principal topic of conversation. The media fed the public’s obsession. What was quickly dubbed “the preppie murder” became front-page and top-of-the-hour news, and battalions of reporters marched forth to dig up any information, however peripheral, that would shed light on the principals and their circle of fun-loving pampered city teenagers.
She was Arlene Voorhust, a young Catholic woman who had been widowed and had no children. Jennifer thought her beautiful. Not that her mother wasn’t beautiful, too. In fact, Arlene and Ellen Levin looked something alike. But Arlene was darker, slimmer, more glamorous. Jennifer admired her. But like many little girls who imagine when their fathers divorce their mothers that they have won the Oedipal battle only to discover they have a new rival for their father’s love, she also resented her. When she was eight, Steve and Arlene married.
In Merrick, four-year-old Jennifer was displaying a passion for dress-up and, once in costume, would strut and sing and spin around like a whirling human top. Sometimes she was a bit too lively. The mothers of playmates found her hyperactive and difficult to control. One mother mentioned this to Jennifer’s father, and he suggested that when Jennifer visited she be given diet soda instead of Pepsi or Coke, because sugar overstimulated her. But Jennifer’s frivolity served her well. It brought her attention, friends.