Martha Mosley Case

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‘’I’m going to get away with murder. I’m a Kennedy.’’ Michael Skakel thought he had everything under control. For the Moxley Family their next door neighbor turned out to be their worst nightmare. It was up to the jury to decide the fate of the killer, perhaps technology persuaded them one way or the other.
Court room television shows and video games shave led people to think that trials should be exciting and speedy. Lawyers are now hiring illustrators, visual artist and graphic designers to transform piles of documents into sound and images. Technology to do such tasks is now at a much lower cost, making it affordable for almost any size case. Brian Carney was a former prosecutor and he noticed that jurors did not understand the evidence …show more content…

Her and her family moved to Greenwich in the summer of 1974. Just 15 months later, Martha left on the evening of October 30, 1975 to go to a party with her friends at the Skakel home, just down the street. It was reported that she had crushes on two nephews of Ethel Skakel Kennedy including Michael and Thomas Skakel, and both boys often fought over Martha. Moxley was seen flirting and kissing Thomas Skakel, according to friends. Moxley was last seen with Thomas by the Pool at the Skakel home, at 9:30 pm. ‘’The next day, Moxley's body was found underneath a tree in her family's backyard. Her pants and underwear were pulled down, but she had not been sexually assaulted. Pieces of a broken six-iron golf club were found near the body. An autopsy indicated she had been both bludgeoned and stabbed with the club, which was traced back to the Skakel home.’’ (Blanco, ND, Para 25). Since Thomas Skakel was last to be seen with the victim he was a prime suspect. His alibi was very weak, however his father refused to give access to his school and mental health records and the case lingered cold for decades. In the meantime many books were published about the murder of Martha Moxley, including Timothy Dumas's A Wealth of Evil, and a novel, A Season In Purgatory, by Dominick Dunne. When more evidence did rise to the surface and a trial came about visual aides were used. “Artists have great ideas, but a lot of them are

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