CONVICTION Solving the Moxley Murder

Hardback. On October 30, 1975, 15yr old Martha Moxley headed home from Halloween Eve antics with het Greenwich, Connecticut, neighbours Tommy and Michael Skakel. She never made it. Her brutal murder with a golf club in her own backyard made national headlines. But for years no one was arrested, despite troubling clues pointing to the Skakels, a rich and powerful family related to the Kennedys. After the police department's first unsuccessful attempts to catch the killer, the case lay dormant, and the culprit remained free. In 1982, the 'Stamford Advocate' and 'Greenwich Time' newspapers asked the author, an investigative reporter to look into the murder and the undying rumours of a cover-up. Levitt soon uncovered groundbreaking information about how the police had bungled the investigation, and he learned that Tommy and Michael had lied about their activities on the night of the murder. But the author's articles about his findings - and the haunting questions they raised - almost never saw the light of day. For years, the author's superiors mysteriously refused to publish the stories. Convinced that the Moxley family deserved the peace and closure they had so long been denied, Levitt fought desperately to keep his discoveries alive. Finally, after the author's first article appeared, the case was reopened. In 2002, more than 25yrs after Martha Moxley's death, a shocked world watched as Michael Skakel was convicted of the murder. Illus., List of Names + Index. 305pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw.