Word: moxleys
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...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...
...weeks later, Moxley's partly naked, battered body was found under a pine tree on the grounds of her home. She was beaten to death with a golf club after going to the Skakel home with a group of friends. Thomas, a onetime suspect in the case, and Michael, said to have had a crush on the girl, were among the last people to see her alive. The defense has tried to suppress the diary, branding it hearsay. But Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed the entries as they display Moxley's "emotional state of mind...
...Clearly annoyed, defense attorney Michael Sherman told the jury the prosecution put O'Hara on the stand to tell them that Moxley flirted with Michael Skakel, part of the prosecution's theory of why he allegedly killed her. "That's what she's here for," he barked. Attempting to counter the testimony about Moxley's flirtations, he asked O'Hara: "Did that lead you to believe that someone was going to be murdered? Did you think "Oh my gosh, something horrible is going to happen?" "No," she replied...