Word: moxleys
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...Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenet Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." In The Lovely Bones, Sebold takes us behind that red door; she imagines the unimaginable and in doing so reminds us that those missing girls...
...September 1975, Michael Skakel wasn't a murderer; he was just another rich kid--"a total a______ in his actions and words," Moxley wrote in her journal. She and Skakel, both 15, were neighbors in tony Greenwich, Conn. He had a crush on her; she flirted with his older brother Tommy, 17. That September diary entry included the words "I really have to stop going over there"--meaning the Skakels' house. Her torn and bludgeoned body was found at noon on Halloween, face down under a pine tree, with her pants and underwear around her ankles...
After that bloody first act came a 16-year intermission. The search for the killer flagged, and the Moxley family argued that the Skakels were using their wealth and their Kennedy connections to stifle the investigation. But just when all hope seemed lost, it was, ironically, the Kennedy name that revived it. The 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith created a voracious demand for Kennedy scuttlebutt, and when the trial was over, the media turned to the Moxley case for more. A string of books, articles and TV shows about the murder followed. Goaded by the media coverage, detectives...
...member of the jury even had to ask him to speak up.) But his closing argument was a tour de force. Orchestrating a barrage of tapes, photographs and flashing transcripts, Benedict wove dozens of disparate facts into a simple scenario as chilling as any thriller: Skakel, jealous because Moxley flirted with Tommy, beat her to death in a drunken rage, masturbated over her body, then crept back to his bedroom...
...trial ever ends with the verdict. On July 19, Kavanewsky will hand down a sentence, which could be as short as 10 years or as long as the rest of Skakel's life. The court will ask the Moxley family for its view. The Moxleys feel that since they waited 27 years for justice, Skakel should get at least that much time. They hope he gets more...