And again, they targeted Littleton. The move was a mistake, and Littleton was subjected to four days of intense interrogation, including two lie-detector tests, which he failed. You murdered Martha Moxley! Eight years later, in , a rare one-man grand jury was convened to re-examine the evidence in the Moxley case. Littleton was granted immunity and his testimony about Skakel was recorded. After 18 months, it was decided that there was enough evidence to arrest Michael Skakel, then 40 and a former ski champion.
He was convicted in , and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. Shakel was released from prison. As his lawyers revisit the case, Skakel, now 56, remains free, living with relatives in Bedford, NY. For his part, Littleton said he worked up the nerve to tell his story in detail for the first time so that his two children would have no doubt that he is an innocent man. Wearing a business suit, white shirt and tie for the documentary, he speaks with great conviction, while overcome at times with emotion.
I got dressed to the nines and I wanted to tell it succinctly. Contact The Author Name required. According to the Bureau of Justice, 80 percent of homicide victims know their attackers.
Maybe it was their position. But I believe I was intimidated by them. In the immediate aftermath, Michael spiraled out of control. And guess what? Law enforcement made yet another back-door deal with the Skakels, allowing them to ship Michael off to a posh reform school in Maine rather than face charges.
He was not widely popular at the Elan School — go figure — and ran away more than once. While his brother, Tommy, has never fully been eliminated as a suspect — he initially lied to police about where he was that night — suspicion would eventually settle on Michael.
It was Michael, after all, who had the unrequited crush on Martha, thwarted that night by his own brother. Classmates at Elan would later testify that Michael had alluded to his guilt.
Another Elan reprobate named Gregory Coleman said that while at Elan, Michael had privileges others did not. Coleman also said Skakel confessed to killing Martha after she spurned him. In , Michael Skakel was finally convicted in the murder. On those tapes, he greatly contradicted his original statement to police in In the intervening years, Robert F.
They loved to entertain. Bobbie used to like to say, 'I stole her from theSkakels. I ate my meals with them whereas with the Skakels, I ate in the kitchen with the help. Leslie Yager , Patch Staff. Find out what's happening in Norwalk with free, real-time updates from Patch. Let's go! Like the Horelicks, Michael Skakel is living in Connecticut as he awaits a new trial. Thank Reply Share. The rules of replying: Be respectful. This is a space for friendly local discussions. No racist, discriminatory, vulgar or threatening language will be tolerated.
Be transparent. Use your real name, and back up your claims. Lee compiled a six inch thick crime reenactment and opinion on the Moxley murder scene. Might Tommy have been fearful that trace evidence other than hair and or fibers would be found on her clothing? Perhaps semen? Might he have also feared that an exhumation may have been in the works?
Exhumations are not something that are generally done unless the cause of death is not known, the victim in the grave's identity is not certain or paternity reasons. In Martha's case, none of this applied. But to a laymen who perhaps had held on to some deep dark secrets, the fear that this may happen and what might be found out, might be frightening enough to make a person account for any evidence they feared might be found. In DNA testing and forensics in general, was not something the general public had a great understanding of.
What the experts could find in evaluating the Moxley case was open to much speculation. DNA typing and forensic reconstruction was new. The average laymen certainly was not aware of what could and could not be realized through this latest technology.
It was being heralded as the next best thing to being there, and amazing feats were being widely reported. Could the possibility that some form of DNA found by Lee and his research team, make someone fearing evidence being uncovered which would implicate themself, jump the gun and quickly fess up to a sexual encounter, which may or may not have been a mutually consenting event? The DNA work done on this case is clearly the motivating factor in both Skakel boys changing their stories.
There is no other realistic explanation for this. To date no one has come forward saying that they witnessed this crime. Why then would either of these boys risk the scrutiny they would receive in changing their stories? It had to be HUGE for them to make this decision. Also worthy of mention here, Tommy Skakel was given a string of polygraph tests. Three of them he was given consecutively in which he did not pass. Another one was set up at a later date in which he passed.
One must question the validity of polygraphs in general when considering the results of Tommy Skakel's tests. He admittedly was not truthful to the police in , yet he managed to pass at least one of these tests. How is this possible? Dorthy Moxley did not pass the polygraph she was given, so it does make the test results of all the suspects in this case, open to speculation. Why was Tommy Skakel not considered a strong suspect the very day Martha's body was found and the murder weapon had already been linked to the Skakel home?
In the very least, would it not have been a good idea to rope off the Skakel property and treat it as a separate crime scene as Mark Fuhrman opines in "Murder in Greewich"? Could there have been further trace evidence on the Skakel property that may have provided further clues as to the killers identity? Suspect or not, the Skakel property was an extension of the crime scene as the murder weapon came from there.
Obviously, someone had to go onto the property to retrieve it.
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