Overview
- NBC News Studios launches Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder on Tuesday, Nov. 4, featuring Skakel's first in-depth interview across 12 episodes led by journalist Andrew Goldman.
- Skakel, now 65, reiterates his innocence and alleges childhood abuse by his father, Rushton Skakel, in new on-the-record statements.
- The case’s legal arc includes a 2002 conviction, a 2013 vacatur for ineffective counsel, a brief reinstatement in 2016, a subsequent reversal, and prosecutors' 2020 decision not to retry.
- Investigators long cited Skakel’s admission that he climbed a tree near Moxley’s home and threw pebbles at her window on the night she was killed as a factor in their focus on him.
- Moxley’s family maintains he is guilty, and Daily Mail reports Skakel filed a civil suit in 2024 alleging authorities framed him, with no response noted in that account.