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...Ethel, showed little emotion as the coroner gave his testimony Wednesday, the second day of his murder trial. Dressed in a navy blue suit, he appeared unmoved by the images before him. The 41-year-old could face a life sentence if found guilty for the 1975 murder of Moxley, his young friend and neighbor in the exclusive 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skakel Trial: Gruesome Details from Day Two | 5/9/2002 | See Source »

...gruesome autopsy photograph of Martha Moxley's body flashed on a screen and the dot of a laser pointer moved across it as Connecticut chief medical examiner Wayne Carver directed the jury's attention to deep wounds in the girl's head. They were, Carver said, produced by the Toney Penna six-iron that police say came from a set of clubs owned by the defendant's mother. Carver said the great force of the blows pierced the girl's skull and brain and that one blow was so sharp and piercing, virtually a stab, that it dragged a lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skakel Trial: Gruesome Details from Day Two | 5/9/2002 | See Source »

...coming to rest among dead leaves across the yard. The killer then dragged the girl 80 feet to a tree, stopping at one point along the way to roll the body over and change from pulling the upper body to pulling it by the feet. Lee also said that Moxley's jeans and underwear were pulled down before she was killed. After his appearance, he told TIME that "this indicates it was a sexual assault related to homicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skakel Trial: Gruesome Details from Day Two | 5/9/2002 | See Source »

...Thomas said, he and Martha had engaged in mutual masturbation for 20 minutes before she left. Michael now recalled climbing a tree outside Martha's window later that night, throwing pebbles at the pane and eventually masturbating among the boughs. He claimed that he'd heard noises in the Moxley bushes and had thrown a rock at them before running home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crime In The Clan | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...month after Murder in Greenwich came out, Connecticut impaneled Judge George Thim as its one-man grand jury with the power to compel testimony on the Moxley case. Although prosecutors cannot comment on the decision, it may have been influenced not only by the Sutton leaks but also by another unusual break. After seeing an episode about the case on TV's Unsolved Mysteries, several alumni of the Elan School called to say that between 1978 and 1980 Skakel admitted involvement in Moxley's killing. Three of them were among the 40 witnesses Thim called. Their testimony presumably buttressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crime In The Clan | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

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