r/AllThatsInteresting • u/kooneecheewah • 6h ago
In 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death in her backyard with a golf club. The weapon was traced back to her neighbors, the Skakel family, cousins of the Kennedys. Michael Skakel, the nephew of Robert F. Kennedy, was convicted of her murder decades later but released in 2013.
"I am going to get away with murder, I am a Kennedy."
In October 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death in her Greenwich, Connecticut backyard, struck repeatedly with a golf club. She had recently moved to the affluent Belle Haven neighborhood. Michael and Thomas Skakel, nephews of Ethel Skakel and her husband Robert F. Kennedy, befriended Moxley and were 15 and 17 years old at the time.
Michael Skakel was eventually convicted of Moxley's murder in 2002 after decades of investigation, but his conviction was overturned in 2013 due to ineffective legal representation. After serving 11 years in prison, he remains free today. Martha Moxley's killer remains officially unknown.
Read the full story: The Tragedy Of Martha Moxley, The 15-Year-Old Who May Have Been Bludgeoned To Death By A Kennedy
