Word: moxleys
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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...
...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 she was close to the family, dramatically changed her story under cross-examination. Ix explained that Skakel Senior had indeed said that Michael had wanted to take a truth drug, but that her statement that he might have murdered Moxley was wrong. "I know Rush never, ever heard from Michael that he ever killed anyone," Ix said. "I then assumed something that was really in my heart of hearts. I put in Rushton Skakel's mouth what I actually thought." Outside the court, Moxley's brother John angrily branded Ix's new story "a boldfaced...
...murderer during a drunken blackout. Prosecutors fought to suppress the testimony but Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed most of it. Attempting to debunk Littleton's "confession", Benedict yesterday had Baker read a 98-page transcript of the hotel room conversation, in which Littleton repeatedly denies he killed Moxley...
...Skakel father is unlikely to help the prosecution, other witnesses might. With up to a month still to go in the trial and the defense poised to make its case, Benedict appears to be saving his best until last. Michael Skakel is alleged to have boasted about killing Moxley in the late 1970s at a Maine school for troubled youths...