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In 2018, a letter landed on Robert Chambers’ cell bars in a New York prison. It was from Ricki Stern, someone he knew from his prep school years on the Upper East Side. She was now a filmmaker and writing to ask if he’d participate in a docuseries she was making about the 1980s. He never replied.

In 1986, at 19, Chambers had strangled 18-year-old Jennifer Levin, an occasional lover, under an oak tree in Central Park. It was one of New York City’s most sensational cases, and Chambers would never shake the name tabloids gave him: Preppy Killer. He wasn’t surprised when, about a year after he received Stern’s letter, a trailer for a show about him appeared on the TV

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