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...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 began reinterviewing people connected with the crime, gathering new evidence. By 1998 they had found enough to convene a grand jury. On Jan. 18, 2000, a judge indicted Michael, by then a 39-year-old husband and father, for the murder of Martha...
...primary focus in the early days of the investigation, and the Skakels' live-in tutor, Kenneth Littleton, who was an alcoholic and a manic-depressive. Two of Michael's brothers and a cousin testified in near unison as to his whereabouts at the time of the murder: he was a 20-minute drive away, watching Monty Python at his cousin's house. Skakel never took the stand, but those present say he mouthed words at witnesses while they testified: "I love you." "Good job." "You f______ liar...
When the evidence against Skakel appeared, it was all circumstantial. The murder weapon, a Toney Penna six-iron, came from a set owned by Michael and Tommy's mother. Witnesses--a family friend, a hairdresser, a chauffeur--came forward with suspicious remarks Michael had made over the years. Neighbors remembered the young Skakel whacking the heads off squirrels with a golf club...
...when he was working on his autobiography. Both cast doubt on Skakel's alibi but without demolishing it. Classmates from a private school Skakel attended in Maine--really a glorified rehab clinic where Skakel was sent after a drunken-driving arrest--said he talked about the murder. The accounts ranged from helpless uncertainty--he was drunk, he blacked out, he couldn't remember what had happened--to dumb arrogance: "I'm gonna get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy...
...forced to accede to calls that the government do something dramatic to protect civilians from terrorists. Those calls reached a climax last week when a car bomber killed 17 Israelis by detonating 220 lbs. of explosives alongside a bus in northern Israel. "We just need to stop the murder of Israelis," says a Defense Ministry official, explaining the simple logic of the fence. "That's all we care about...