Posted on 10/10/2004 6:01:58 PM PDT by Stoat
Book: Kennedy Cousin Skakel Covered in Blood Night of 1975 Murder
Published: Oct 10, 2004
Skakel, who was convicted in 2002 of Martha Moxley's 1975 murder, allegedly made the incriminating comment to a counselor at Elan School, a reform school in Maine where he was sent in the late 1970s. Skakel, like his victim, was 15 at the time of the killing. In the book "Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder" by Leonard Levitt, the unnamed counselor describes a conversation he had with Skakel's father, priest and attorney after Skakel allegedly told him about being covered in blood. "He (the counselor) said Michael told him there was blood all over the place," the book quotes Skakel's priest, the Rev. Mark Connolly, as saying. Skakel later denied making the remark to the counselor, the book says. Connolly declined comment Sunday. Thomas Sheridan, Skakel's attorney in the 1970s, said he did not remember the counselor's statement. Skakel was convicted on June 7, 2002, of beating Moxley, his neighbor, to death with a golf club in Greenwich. He is a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Skakel is serving a prison sentence of 20 years to life. His appeal is pending with the Connecticut Supreme Court. Although Skakel has long maintained his innocence, prosecutors at his trial focused on a series of confessions and incriminating statements that witnesses said he made at Elan and later to others. The defense argued that Skakel was extensively abused and coerced at Elan, and he was miles away at a cousin's house the night Moxley was killed. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long campaigned for his cousin, called the book the latest effort to cash in on the tragedy. "I'm sure if they had that kind of testimony, they would have used it," Kennedy said. Levitt, a Newsday reporter who covered the case for decades, responded by saying the statement would not likely have been admissible during the trial. "I didn't write this book for 20 years," Levitt said. "If that's cashing in, I'm truly speechless with a cheap comment like that." The book, the fourth on the case and the first since Skakel's conviction, is expected to go on sale this week. AP-ES-10-10-04 1851EDT |
Kennedys stick together like hot dung.
'Oh, Uncle Teddy. How did you get away with murder? I saw you get away with it and I almost did too. Da*n, I should've become a senator or something.' /sarc
Glad to see there is some justice in this world, even for the Kennedy Klan.
Prayers for Martha's mom and family. They've been through so much pain all of these long years.
Mark Furman may have screwed up with OJ but he did a good job of breaking the Moxley case.
Where's the proof?
Never in a million years did I think a Kennedy would be convicted of anything. They had gotten away with smuggling, murder, and rape for two or three generations.
Evidently the Kennedy family decided not to go to the mat for this worm, for some reason.
Skakel is so guilty it's not even funny. The brazen Kennedy BS from Robert Kennedy is just more evidence of the total moral backruptcy of that snakebit family.
Mark Fuhrman did not screw up the OJ case.
Good point
I was responding to a post. (I'm assuming your reply was sarcastic.)
OK, but some of his comments did not help him in that case.
Just for the record, Michael Skakel is NOT a Kennedy. He's the nephew of Ethel Kennedy...his father being her brother. So, it all sounds like this is a Kennedy crime, but in fact, it is not.
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