The Preppie Murder is a TV movie

Television movie

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 starring William Baldwin

William Baldwin

William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners , Backdraft , Sliver , Fair Game , Virus , Double Bang , as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom , Art Heist , The Squid and the Whale , as himself...

 as Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers (killer)

Robert Emmet Chambers, Jr. , nicknamed the "Preppie Killer", is an American who pled guilty to manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin...

 and Lara Flynn Boyle

Lara Flynn Boyle

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 as Jennifer Levin. The film aired on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 in 1989. It was based on the events of a murder committed by Rob Chambers

Robert Chambers (killer)

Robert Emmet Chambers, Jr. , nicknamed the "Preppie Killer", is an American who pled guilty to manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin...

, nicknamed the Preppie Killer. The film co-stars Danny Aiello

Danny Aiello

Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby, The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, Léon, Two Days in the Valley, and Dinner Rush...

, Joanna Kerns

Joanna Kerns

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 and William Devane

William Devane

William Joseph Devane is an American film, television and theater actor.-Life and career:Devane was born in Albany, New York in 1937 or 1939 , the son of Joseph Devane, who was Franklin D. Roosevelt's chauffeur when he was Governor of New York...

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The TV movie is particularly memorable in that it helped launch the careers of then unknown Baldwin and Boyle, as well as that of Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock

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, Diedrich Bader

Diedrich Bader

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 and Chris Isaak

Chris Isaak

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, who provided the soundtrack to the film. The lead police detective in the real case, Mike Sheehan, also makes a cameo appearance.