Oct. 30, 2025 will mark the 50th anniversary of the horrific murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Belle Haven in Greenwich, Connecticut . Found lying under a pine tree in her backyard the next morning, she had been repeatedly bludgeoned with a golf club — and stabbed with a broken piece of it — after a night out looking to cause some pre-Halloween mischief with friends who lived in the neighborhood. Her pants and underwear had been pulled down, though police found no evidence of sexual assault. The brutal slaying rocked the town, where such crimes were basically unheard of.
It would be 27 years before Michael Skakel, a childhood neighbor of Martha’s and relative of the Kennedy dynasty, was convicted of the crime, but that verdict was thrown out in 2018, de

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