The murder of Martha Moxley, a wealthy, privileged 15 year old in the upscale neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut on October 30th, 1975 was an unsolved murder featured on such programs as Unsolved Mysteries, Hard Copy, and A Current Affair as well being the basis for several TV movies and inspiration for many books. Martha Moxley's body was found underneath a tree on the families estate, bludgeoned to death with a six iron gulf club which was found to be from a rare set of Tony Penna golf clubs, belonging to the deceased mother of two of the neighbor boys, Tommy and Michael Skakel, she was said to have been in the company of that night playing pre-Halloween pranks, whom also happened to be nephews of the late Robert F. Kennedy. The case was finally resolved over a quarter of a century later when Michael Skakel was found guilty of murdering of Martha Moxley on June 7, 2002 and sentenced to 20 years to life on August 29, 2002.
Many would say it was an investigation tainted from the beginning by high profile influences and shadowed by the connection to the Kennedy family. Others would say that the local authorities were not experienced and incompetent to investigate such a case and some of the locals wanted to just keep quiet in hopes that the travesty that occurred would soon die down and be forgotten. The case was seemingly unsolvable to local authorities for nearly six years as they seemed to have evidence pointing in several different directions as well as very little experience in investigations of such a major crime, until one of the original police officers on the scene, Frank Garr, on of the original officers on the scene started a reinvestigation of the Moxley case with the State Attorneys Office.
Thomas Skakel, who was 17 at the time of the murder, was allegedly the last person to see Moxley alive. Friends told police the two were engaged in horseplay on the lawn and flirting
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