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...silence was broken yesterday as the jury for the first time heard from two of Skakel's seven siblings. Rushton Jr., known mainly to court-watchers for his enormous, brown moustache, took the stand as a defense witness, as did another Skakel brother, David and their cousin James Dowdle. Their testimony about the night of the murder closely resembled Michael's assertion that he was not at the murder scene at the time investigators believe Moxley was killed. Michael says he drove with Dowdle, along with brothers Rushton and John from his home to Dowdle's mansion about 20 miles...
...year-old father of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel says that he doesn't remember a lot about the savage 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Wednesday, at the trial of his son, accused of killing the 15-year-old Moxley with a golf club, it appeared Rushton Skakel Senior couldn't recall much of anything at all. He couldn't remember all the names of his children, and when asked what happened on September 11, 2001, he said: "It was a very big incident, but I don't remember the details...
After six days of testimony in the sensational trial of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, charged with the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley, the prosecution appears to be struggling. A number of witnesses called by prosecutor Jonathan Benedict have not offered conclusive proof of Skakel's alleged guilt, and some may have even aided the defense in the minds of the jury members...
...feel his fingertips or his right leg anymore. His joints ache, and his fingers are puffy. These, he says, are the aftereffects of being poisoned by the guards of Saddam's son Uday in 1998. One day that October, he was out walking with a young female cousin when Uday, cruising in his car, spotted her and ordered his guards to snatch her for his evening's entertainment, as is his notorious practice. Abu Harith fended them off. That night Uday's thugs grabbed him at his house and sped him to Uday's farm, where he says...
South Carolina native Mary Ellen R. Player ’04 also grew up with the tradition. “My whole family has come out—even my boy cousin,” she says. “It was just something I was going to do.” It became an event Player looked forward to after she was not allowed to attend her cousin’s ball because she was too young. (Most modern debutantes typically come out during or after their first year of college.) “It was kind...