New York Times
Posted on 03/01/2006 12:53:03 PM PST by NativeNewYorker
NEW YORK -- She was a bright, photogenic graduate student who died in an unimaginable way: raped, strangled and left on the side of a remote service road in Brooklyn within sight of a "No Dumping" sign.
Beige-colored packing tape masked her entire face. A sock had been stuffed inside her mouth.
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Chills-down-the-spine for longtime Gothamites.
Particularly if you're drunk.
(Which may or may not have been the case with this girl.)
An unrepentant Chambers is out of jail, isn't he?
What kind of neighborhood was she from?
Chambers has actually been back to jail at least once since his release (drugs)...don't know where he is now. I still think of that murder whenever I pass that part of the park, which is often.
FWIW, I see the victim's name quite clearly mentioned in the third paragraph.
I think she was from West Roxbury,which is part of Boston but has a distinct middle class suburban feel to it.
She went to Boston Latin High School,which is an exam school that,at one time at least,had an excellent reputation for a public school.
I think he'd do it again, given the opportunity..
She grew up in Mission Hill.
On other related threads, much is made of the idea that since she was likely drunk, this type of miscalculation is understandable.
Having grown up here, I cannot IMAGINE planning a night that would leave me tipsy and alone, let alone drunk and weak and female around that neighborhood.
Hmmm.
She was out drinking with a friend who encouraged her to call it a night by 2 a.m., but she wanted to keep barhopping. The friend went home; the victim apparently got picked up by someone who killed her (according to the NY Post). I'm guessing her judgment was at least slightly impaired by alcohol.
In reality are only trolling for rape and murder..and eventually it finds them or they find their senses first..
Hmmm,interesting.I guess I was wrong about West Roxbury.
Mission Hill isn't the worst part of Boston,but it sure ain't one of the best.
I lived in New York City in the 80's. I was in my 20', single and it was my first time out of my families house. I went crazy with the freedom. I went out most nights and did the bar scene. I had a blast but now when I look back on it I could easily been this girl.
I remember one time I left my friends in the very upper west side (I was quite tipsy)and went walking the neighborhood for another bar I had heard about. I found myself walking on the outskirts of Harlem. A taxi cab driver stopped and asked if I needed a ride, I got in and the next thing I remember I was at my apartment. Young people do stupid things. Sometimes you are lucky to not have to pay for your mistakes.
Crimewise, NYC is one of the safest cities in the country these days. There are many, many parts of the city where even a drunk girl would be pretty safe walking the streets alone at 3 AM. New York being what is is, many popular areas are still quite crowded at 3 AM.
That being said, it's still probably not the smartest thing in the world to be in that state.
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