Word: rushton
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...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...
...Rushton Skakel Senior, Michael's father, took the stand Wednesday. The elderly man has dementia and testified he remembered nothing of the events surrounding the murder. Margolis, also Rushton Senior's attorney, says his client's memory is "very, very poor." But while the 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...
...Jackie? You keep telling me that you don't like her and you're all over her'. He doesn't understand that he can be nice to her without hanging all over her." Seated on the front bench of the public gallery, two of Skakel's other brothers, Rushton and Stephen, and his sister Julie, listened closely as O'Hara continued. "Michael jumps to conclusions. I can't be friends with Tom. Just because I talk to him, it doesn't mean I like him. I really have to stop going over there...
...said. Littleton said he had only started work for the Skakels that night, the night before Halloween. He added that when he arrived back at house the next day it was in an uproar with police everywhere. He said he was then asked by Skakel's father Rushton to take Michael and his siblings to a family home in Windham, New York. "When I entered the home there was approximately 10 to 15 men in suits and ties, discussing what I don't know," he said. The prosecution argues that this was the beginning of an elaborate cover...
...fellow prep-school student and Michael "whacking the heads off of squirrels"--with a golf club. The Kennedy Smith rumor resulted in a suggestion by Connecticut medical examiner (and later O.J.-trial expert witness) Dr. Henry Lee that the Moxley case be reopened. This seems to have provoked Rushton Skakel into hiring a detective agency, Sutton Associates, to clear his family name...