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With jurors in the trial of Michael Skakel excused for a three-day weekend, Kenneth Littleton sat stoically in the witness box Friday for a special hearing, watching a 10-year-old videotape of himself being played on a television monitor. On the tape, the former live-in tutor to the Skakel family was being interviewed by a forensic psychiatrist about an alleged confession Littleton had made to his ex-wife Mary Baker about the murder of Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old found beaten to death in 1975 outside her Greenwich, Connecticut home...
...Littleton's confession drama goes back to 1992 and a room in a Howard Johnson Hotel in Boston where Baker met with her ex-husband to talk about a prior car trip. Investigators had convinced Baker to wear a recording device to record the potential "confession." She told the court on Friday that she lied at the prompting of the investigators, telling Littleton he had once before admitted to the murder during the car trip in 1984 when he had blacked out from being drunk...
...Littleton: "When in, on that trip...
...Littleton: "Um, I was blacked out from...
...Littleton, a psychiatric counselor from Boston, was also a previous suspect. He was granted immunity in return for testifying against Skakel before a grand jury in 1998. Thursday's proceedings leave the jury in recess while the court probes "third party suspect" evidence against Littleton and lays the groundwork for his cross-examination. While Littleton cannot be charged, audio and videotape evidence that he confessed to the murder to his ex-wife could help Skakel's case. "We are looking to introduce evidence that not only did Michael Skakel not commit the crime, but someone else did," says Sherman...