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On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley vanished after a night of teenage Mischief Night pranks in her wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut neighborhood, only to be found brutally beaten beneath a tree in her own yard the next morning.
A golf club that was used to beat Moxley so brutally that the end of the club broke off - that golf club was later linked to the home of Rushton Skakel, the brother of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, AKA Robert Kennedy Sr.’s wife. Police learned that Rushton Skakel’s sons, 17-year-old Tommy and 15-year-old Michael, had pretty much been fighting over Martha Summer I Turned Pretty Style; and with that, they felt certain that one of the brothers had to be responsible. But of course, the money, power and privilege that comes with being a cousin of the Kennedy’s didn’t make their investigation easy.
It would stretch on for decades, filled with conflicting alibis, changed stories, and shocking admissions, as police, journalists, and prosecutors tried to piece together what happened that night in Belle Haven. Decades later, after a sensational trial, a conviction and the overturning of that conviction, the question still lingers: did the Kennedy family’s privilege shield a murderer from justice?
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