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...sibling may produce a dramatic twist in the murder trial of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel. So far, relative after relative has backed up Ethel Kennedy's nephew, who is on trial in Norwalk, Conn., for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley. He has said he was nowhere near the murder scene - Moxley's home, across the street from the Skakels' in Greenwich - at 10 p.m. that Oct. 30, the time forensic experts estimate Moxley died. And last week Skakel's elder brother Rushton Jr. and cousin James Dowdle testified that the defendant left home...
...However, the prosecution expects to get a different story when it calls Skakel's sister Julie to the stand as its rebuttal witness. Though a fervent supporter of her brother, she told the police in 1975 and a grand jury in 1998 that she thought she might have seen Michael near the crime scene about the time Moxley was slain. According to sources familiar with the grand jury testimony, Julie said she called out, "Michael, come back here," when she saw a figure in the bushes outside the Skakels' front door. She also told investigators that when she was inside...
...silence was broken yesterday as the jury for the first time heard from two of Skakel's seven siblings. Rushton Jr., known mainly to court-watchers for his enormous, brown moustache, took the stand as a defense witness, as did another Skakel brother, David and their cousin James Dowdle. Their testimony about the night of the murder closely resembled Michael's assertion that he was not at the murder scene at the time investigators believe Moxley was killed. Michael says he drove with Dowdle, along with brothers Rushton and John from his home to Dowdle's mansion about 20 miles...
...used some other mode of transport to go to a distant club for dinner on the night of the murder. Dowdle also said he wasn't sure he went to Michael's home in Windham, New York, the day after Martha was killed. That runs contrary to testimony from Skakel live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton, who said Dowdle was one of a group taken to the house after the slaying. But their accounts of their trip on the night of the murder to Dowdle's home and what they did there were almost identical. "Rucky drove," said Dowdle. Both said...
...today: Julie Skakel, a thickset blonde-haired court fixture. In the first week of the trial, a friend of hers had contradicted Michael's alibi by saying he never left home the night of the murder...