QuoteSkakel said on tape that on the night of the murder he climbed into a tree in the Moxleys' yard, while drunk and high on marijuana, and masturbated as he tried to look into Martha Moxley's bedroom window. He said that when Moxley's mother came to his house the next morning looking for her daughter, he felt panicked and wondered if someone had seen him the night before.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/June-7/michael-skakel-convicted-of-1975-murder-in-greenwich
QuoteMoxley's family has maintained their belief that Skakel was the killer.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/02/kennedy-cousin-murder-conviction-connecticut-00133561
QuoteApril 17, 2007 Skakel's petition for a new trial is filed. Former high school classmate Gitano "Tony" Bryant says two of his friends were involved in the murder, not Skakel.
October 25, 2007 The petition for new trial is denied as the judge finds statements not credible that Bryant and his two friends, all African American, could go unnoticed in the mostly white neighborhood.
https://www.cnn.com/us/michael-skakel-fast-facts
Quote"I believe Michael is the one who swung the club," said her mother, Dorthy Moxley in 2016. "It has been 41 years since Martha died. When you gather all this information for that long a time, you get to a point where you put it all together and it just fits."
https://people.com/crime/kennedy-cousin-michael-skakel-murder-conviction-overturned/
QuoteThe report suggested that Tommy may have helped his brother move the body. Michael and Tommy were very competitive and fought constantly. Michael had a crush on Martha, so Tommy moved in on his territory.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/10/dominick-dunne-martha-moxley-murder-greenwich
QuoteBy far the most damaging evidence against Mr. Skakel came from his own mouth: a taped conversation in 1997 with the ghost writer of an autobiography that Mr. Skakel hoped to write. On the tape, he described himself as drunk, high on marijuana and sexually aroused on the night of the murder, and said he climbed a tree in the Moxley yard where he masturbated trying to peep into Martha Moxley's bedroom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/nyregion/skakel-convicted-in-1975-beating-death-of-greenwich-neighbor.html
QuoteTwo witnesses who were both former classmates of Mr. Skakel's at the Elan School testify. One of them, John D. Higgins, describes a confused and tearful admission in which Mr. Skakel said he had only fragmented memories of the crime. The other witness, Gregory Coleman, says Mr. Skakel brazenly told him: "I am going to get away with murder. I am a Kennedy."
https://www.nytimes.com/article/skakel-moxley-murder-case.html
QuoteMoxley also expressed frustration over Michael Skakel in her diary. In an entry from September 19, 1975, she wrote:
"Michael was so totally out of it that he was being a real asshole in his actions & words. He kept telling me that I was leading Tom on when I don't like him (except as a friend). I said, well how about you and Jackie? You keep telling me that you don't like her & you're all over her. He doesn't understand that he can be nice to her without hanging all over her."
https://allthatsinteresting.com/martha-moxley
Quote"Michael Skakel puts himself at the crime scene, and Michael Skakel makes admissions that only a murderer would make," says Fuhrman.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-family-speaks-out/
QuoteChildhood friend Andrew Pugh then testified that Skakel had told him that he "liked Martha quite a bit and had a crush on her," but Martha "didn't seem as interested. She seemed to be not quite as enthusiastic." Michael and Tommy had a "competitive, contentious" relationship, Pugh said.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/unrelenting-martha-moxley-murder-saga-193500548.html?guccounter=1
QuoteKenneth Littleton, a 23-year-old teacher who had been hired to tutor Michael and his six siblings at their sprawling Connecticut mansion, saw the dead chipmunk on the grounds of Belle Haven Country Club. The small furry animal had been "mashed" with a golf club and then "crucified" — nailed to a patch of grass with golf tees.
Littleton immediately confronted Michael, who at 15 was already a budding alcoholic with a mean streak and a dangerous sense of entitlement.
"Did you do this, Michael?"
"Who else could have done it, Kenny?" was Michael's eerie reply.
https://nypost.com/2017/09/17/i-tutored-a-kennedy-relative-and-wound-up-accused-of-murder/
QuoteJennifer Pease, a classmate at the Elan School, said Coleman told her that Skakel had talked about killing a girl.
"He said that he had beaten some girl's head in with a golf club and killed her," Pease testified.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-08-na-skakel8-story.html
QuoteMichael Skakel, who like Moxley was 15 years old at the time of the killing, had admitted to two women that he was aware his brother had sexual contact with Moxley the night of the murder and told one woman that is what triggered it, prosecutors wrote in court documents
https://apnews.com/general-news-a87f1c002cdc4da2a977c70497fc1899
Quote"I don't think Michael Skakel is the devil. I think he did something in a fit of jealous rage. He was a self-described alcoholic at 15, and involved in drugs. He probably didn't know what he was doing. His life will never be the same, mine will never be the same. I wouldn't want to walk a mile in his shoes."
https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1051031/the-unrelenting-martha-moxley-murder-saga-old-money-cold-justice-the-kennedy-connection-and-endless-twists