Time Warner CEO's Son Tortured, Slain For $800

NEW YORK - The son of Time Warner's chief executive was tortured

to reveal the access code to his ATM card, and then killed with a shot to the head, according to published reports today.

The killer then went to a nearby Chase Manhattan Bank cash machine and withdrew $800 from Jonathan Levin's account, the New York Daily News said.

Cash and an ATM card were missing from Levin's wallet, police said.

Levin, 31, an English teacher at Taft High School in the Bronx, was found dead Monday in his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side after co-workers alerted police that he had missed classes. His feet were bound, he was stabbed in the chest and shot in the head, police said.

Police believe he was killed Friday, the Daily News and the New York Post said.

Police also believe there may have been more than one killer, the Post said.

Because there were no signs of forced entry into the apartment, police were trying to determine whether Levin's killer was someone he knew from school and met on the street.

Among the more than 1,100 mourners who packed the Park Avenue Synagogue where Levin's funeral was held yesterday were Ted Turner, Jane Fonda and other associates of Levin's father, Gerald Levin, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner.

Sobs were interrupted by laughs when Karen Grayson, head of the English Department at Taft, read a poem by student Jimmy Matthew, who recalled his verbal jousts with Levin about sports.

"It didn't matter if my team won or threw the game away, I just couldn't wait for the next day . . . to argue, all day, with you."

"Taft High School, We Are His Kids," read the note placed on the casket by youngsters who said he was more than a teacher.

"He was a great guy, a great teacher," Neshid Jones, a senior at Taft, said as he left the funeral.