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After an eighteen-month investigation, it was decided there was enough evidence to charge Michael Skakel with murder. [16] On January 9, 2000, an arrest warrant was issued for an unnamed juvenile for Moxley's murder. Michael Skakel surrendered to authorities later that day. He was released shortly thereafter on $500,000 bail. [17]
The state Supreme Court Friday vacated the murder conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel and ordered a new trial.
Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1975 death of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, has filed lawsuits against the lead police investigator in the case and the town of Greenwich ...
For his next book, Murder in Greenwich (1998, ISBN 0060191414), Fuhrman investigated the then-unsolved 1975 murder of Martha Moxley and he theorized that the murderer was Michael Skakel, nephew of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Skakel was convicted of Moxley's murder in June 2002, but later, his conviction was overturned.
An autopsy indicated that she had been both bludgeoned and stabbed with the club, which was traced back to the Skakel residence. Michael Skakel's trial began on May 7, 2002, in Norwalk. Two former students from Élan, where Skakel received treatment for alcoholism, testified they heard Skakel confess to killing Moxley with a golf club. One of ...
Michael Skakel is the nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy.
A divided Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated the 2002 murder conviction of Kennedy relative Michael Skakel, in the 1975 murder of his neighbor.
Michael Speier of Variety said, "Investigative techniques give way to genre cliches in USA's exaggerated Murder in Greenwich. Falling into the telepic trap of sensationalism without savvy, [it] delves into the shallow end of the Martha Moxley-Michael Skakel case, which has plenty more politics, intrigue and confounding history than this ...