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...backswing, sending the bloodied steel head flying backward across the yard--the young man kept going, stabbing the girl with the sharp splintered shaft. One stab drove a lock of her long blond hair right through her neck, like a thread through a needle. The girl was Martha Moxley. On June 7, 2002, a Connecticut jury decided the young man was Michael Skakel...
...followed. Goaded by the media coverage, detectives began reinterviewing people connected with the crime, gathering new evidence. By 1998 they had found enough to convene a grand jury. On Jan. 18, 2000, a judge indicted Michael, by then a 39-year-old husband and father, for the murder of Martha...
After the verdict, Judge John Kavanewsky denied Skakel bail and refused his request to address the court. Outside the courthouse, no one was celebrating. Martha's brother John called the victory hollow, saying: "It doesn't bring Martha back." Mickey Sherman, Skakel's lawyer, declared himself "bitterly disappointed" and discussed grounds for appeal. Said brother David: "Michael is innocent. I know this because I know Michael like only a brother does...
...York City. Waksal is accused of trying to unload his shares and telling two shareholders to sell their stock the day before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was rejecting ImClone's application for the approval of Erbitux. Waksal's close friend, American domestic guru Martha Stewart, sold her shares in the company just before the announcement but has denied that she was tipped...
...CONVICTED. MICHAEL SKAKEL, 41, a Kennedy cousin, for the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley; in Norwalk, Connecticut. Skakel was allegedly unhappy about Moxley's interest in his brother Thomas. The case, frozen for more than 20 years, was built on confessions Skakel made to friends at the Elan School, a drub rehabilitation center for kids in Maine. DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, former talent agent, ex-chairman of MCA Inc. and the last of the Hollywood tycoons; in Los Angeles. Wasserman built MCA into an entertainment colossus with a film studio, TV studio, record label, theme parks...