Posted on 01/05/2003 6:03:28 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Rushton Skakel Sr.: In-law of Kennedys, father of killer
01/05/2003
STAMFORD, Conn. - Rushton Skakel Sr., brother of Ethel Kennedy and father of Michael Skakel - who was convicted last year of killing a teenage neighbor in 1975 - died Thursday at age 79.
Mr. Skakel died in Hobe Sound, Fla., after a long battle with a brain illness, his lawyer, Emanuel Margolis, said Saturday.
Relatives traveled to Florida to make arrangements for a service there Saturday, Mr. Margolis said.
Michael Skakel's trial lawyer, Michael Sherman, said: "In the four years that I've had contact with him, he's always been in failing health, both mentally and physically. It's a very tragic ending."
Rushton Skakel was one of seven children born to George and Ann Skakel. His sister Ethel married Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in 1950.
Rushton Skakel took over the family business, Great Lakes Carbon, in the mid-1960s, after the deaths of his parents and brother George Skakel Jr. in separate plane crashes. The company, which manufactured carbon coke, was once one of the largest private companies in the country.
That wealth was on display in the Tudor-style mansion in the Belle Haven section of Greenwich, Conn., where Rushton Skakel and his wife, the late Anne Reynolds Skakel, raised their seven children.
In 1975, a neighbor of the Skakels', 15-year-old Martha Moxley, was beaten to death with a golf club later identified as belonging to a set the Skakel family owned.
Michael Skakel was convicted last year and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.
So she would send the butlers to search every corner of the compound and within an hour they would track him down. Then the maids would fetch Teddy's dinner from the cooks, make sure the temperature was just right, and serve him.
I didn't know martini's were served warm...
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--Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA) to continue to wage his one-man war against drunk drivers who kill people. |
I actually gave out a cheer at work when Skakel was sentenced.
The fat-boy was cocky throughout the trial.
Whaaa? They did a methodic search of the planes approach.
They found it and extracted the bodies... or what was left of them.
More than the effort that would be done if it was you or me.
This statement sounds fabricated.
Skakel was cocky alright. At one time, years back, he was so confident he wouldn't be brought to justice because he "was a Kennedy." That this Kennedy WAS brought to justice is plenty reason to cheer !
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