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After six days of testimony in the sensational trial of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, charged with the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley, the prosecution appears to be struggling. A number of witnesses called by prosecutor Jonathan Benedict have not offered conclusive proof of Skakel's alleged guilt, and some may have even aided the defense in the minds of the jury members...
...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...
...According to the transcript of the hotel conversation being used as evidence at the trial, Baker began by saying her ex-husband had told her about his "Martha Moxley secret...
They were the innocent thoughts of a teenage girl. In neat writing, and always beginning "Dear Diary", Martha Moxley diligently documented her days, which were not unlike those of many American 15-year-olds. But almost 27 years later, her musings about parties, smoking and boys took on a larger meaning, projected onto the courtroom wall at the sensational trial of her accused murderer, Michael Skakel, 41, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's wife, Ethel...
...Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. Dr. Henry Lee, the forensic expert who became famous during the O.J. Simpson case, also testified on Wednesday. Describing the murder in detail, Lee told the court the attack probably started on the Moxley driveway - where spots of blood were found - but that Martha was finally killed on a nearby patch of grass...