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...head start. There was no physical evidence linking Skakel to the scene. Michael's father Rushton now suffers from dementia. And there were two suspects besides Michael: his brother Thomas, who was the primary focus in the early days of the investigation, and the Skakels' live-in tutor, Kenneth Littleton, who was an alcoholic and a manic-depressive. Two of Michael's brothers and a cousin testified in near unison as to his whereabouts at the time of the murder: he was a 20-minute drive away, watching Monty Python at his cousin's house. Skakel never took the stand...
...transport to go to a distant club for dinner on the night of the murder. Dowdle also said he wasn't sure he went to Michael's home in Windham, New York, the day after Martha was killed. That runs contrary to testimony from Skakel live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton, who said Dowdle was one of a group taken to the house after the slaying. But their accounts of their trip on the night of the murder to Dowdle's home and what they did there were almost identical. "Rucky drove," said Dowdle. Both said they watched Monty Python...
...recall driving home from a hunting trip after murder. "The house was full but I don't remember any of the names of the people who were there." In fact, he returned to a chaotic scene of police, reporters and lawyers. He had then instructed live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton to take several of the children, including Michael, then 15, to Windham, New York. But the prosecution's attempts to extract the details of what he did next or if he ever discussed his son's supposed guilt, proved impossible...
...them, former Skakel tutor Kenneth Littleton, has for the past three days been the focus of stunning testimony saying that police tried to trick him into confessing to the murder in a Boston hotel room in 1992. Investigators recruited Littleton's ex-wife, Mary Baker, to wear a recording device and lie to Littleton, saying he had told her he was the murderer during a drunken blackout. Prosecutors fought to suppress the testimony but Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed most of it. Attempting to debunk Littleton's "confession", Benedict yesterday had Baker read a 98-page transcript of the hotel...
...Littleton and his "confession" will be on the stand once more on Monday - this time with the jury watching...