Martha Moxley - Investigation Re-opened

Investigation Re-opened

When William Kennedy Smith was tried for rape in 1991, a rumor surfaced that he had been present at the Skakel house on the night of the Moxley murder, with the clear insinuation that he might have been involved. Although this rumor proved to be unfounded, it resulted in renewed investigation of the then cold case. In 1993 author Dominick Dunne, father of murdered actress Dominique Dunne, published A Season in Purgatory, a fictional story closely resembling the Moxley case. Mark Fuhrman's 1998 book Murder in Greenwich named Michael Skakel as the murderer and pointed out numerous mistakes the police had made in investigating the crime. During the years before the Dunne and Fuhrman books, work had been done by Greenwich Police detectives Steve Carroll and Frank Garr and police reporter Leonard Levitt that named Michael Skakel as the killer.