![]() His age was not unknown, but a 2006 story claimed he was 73, which would have made him close to 90.įor generations, the pub served as a second home to local patrons of the Upper East Side and a cadre of private school educated prepsters that made it their informal clubhouse. As one writer put it: 'It's where everyone (whose anyone) knows your name.' The recent passing of a beloved New York City pub owner on August 18 has dredged up the dark history of the bar - and a sensational murder that had the whole city on edge in 1986.įor decades Jack Dorrian presided over the iconic watering hole, Dorrian's Red Hand, that was opened by his father, an Irish immigrant in 1960. ![]() The recent passing of Jack Dorrian, the longtime proprietor of a beloved Manhattan watering hole has resurfaced the drinking establishment's dark entanglement to a sensational 1986 murder known as 'the Preppy Killer' Despite having grown up among privilege and wealth, Chambers was the son of an Irish-born nurse who worked hard to pay for her son's tuition to elite private schools.Chambers eventually confessed to the murder, claiming that it was an accident when Levin tied up his hands with her underwear and began to stimulate his genitals in the park as she demanded 'rough sex'.Police questioned Robert Chambers, 19, who noted that his face was covered in scratches similar to the ones of Levin's neck which he initially claimed it was from his cat - the press dubbed him 'the Preppy killer'.The battered body of Jennifer Levin, 18, was discovered in Central Park on August 26, 1986, hours after she had been brutally raped and murdered police were told that she was last seen at 'Dorrian's Red Hand'.Dorrian's Red Hand has been a local institution since 1960 and has served as a de-facto clubhouse for a cadre of preppy local private school kids retuning home from college. ![]()
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