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...VERNON JORDAN THEN: President's golf partner, kept Monica discreet. NOW: Investment-bank partner, works on Wall...
...withdrawn. But the document circulated, and last week, 25 years after the bludgeoning of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn., Michael Skakel was confronted with a vengeance. He was indicted for her murder. Police showed up to arrest Skakel at the half-million-dollar Florida home he shares with his golf-pro wife and child, but he was already on a plane north. He turned himself in to Connecticut police, pleaded not guilty and was released on $500,000 bail...
...body was found at noon the next day under a tree in the Moxley yard. She lay in a 3-ft. pool of blood; her head had been bludgeoned some 14 times with a blunt instrument, and the sharp, broken shaft of that instrument, a Toney Penna 6-iron golf club, had been driven into her throat...
Toney Penna golf clubs were rare, but Tommy and Michael's mother, who had recently died of cancer, had left behind a set. However, that fact did not provoke the Greenwich police to take extraordinary measures. They had not investigated a murder in 46 years. They initially left Martha's body unattended, and a dog defiled some of the evidence. They allowed a funeral director to remove the corpse before a medical examiner arrived, preventing an exact assessment of the time of death. They never obtained a warrant to search the Skakel home. And conflicts of interest abounded...
...Purgatory, which became a best seller and a TV movie. Adding to the furor was a factual account, Greentown, by Greenwich resident Dumas, who related unsavory stories of a young Tommy trying to strangle a fellow prep-school student and Michael "whacking the heads off of squirrels"--with a golf club. The Kennedy Smith rumor resulted in a suggestion by Connecticut medical examiner (and later O.J.-trial expert witness) Dr. Henry Lee that the Moxley case be reopened. This seems to have provoked Rushton Skakel into hiring a detective agency, Sutton Associates, to clear his family name...