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...sibling may produce a dramatic twist in the murder trial of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel. So far, relative after relative has backed up Ethel Kennedy's nephew, who is on trial in Norwalk, Conn., for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley. He has said he was nowhere near the murder scene - Moxley's home, across the street from the Skakels' in Greenwich - at 10 p.m. that Oct. 30, the time forensic experts estimate Moxley died. And last week Skakel's elder brother Rushton Jr. and cousin James Dowdle testified that the defendant left home...
Since the Michael Skakel trial began two and a half weeks ago, his siblings - Stephen, Julie, and Rushton Jr. - have steadfastly supported their brother, accused of murdering their 15-year-old neighbor, Martha Moxley, in 1975 outside her Greenwich home. The group, which each day eats lunch at a local saloon-style restaurant and never speaks to the press, has created a kind of protective, mental barrier between Michael and his accusers, in particular the Moxley family, which sits in the courtroom just a few yards away...
...found. Dowdle couldn't remember if he drove or used some other mode of 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...
...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...
...said, 'you know, I had a lot of to drink that night and I would like to see, I would like to see if, if I could have had so much to drink that I would have forgotten something and I could have murdered Martha, and I would like to make sure at that night knowing something like that happened?' So he asked to go under sodium pentothal or whatever...