Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice

On October 30 1975 fifteenyearold Martha Moxley was brutally murdered in her backyard on the way home from the house of her Greenwich Connecticut neighbors Tommy and Michael Skakel. Her murder 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. Enter Leonard Levitt. When two newspapers asked Levitt to look into the murder Levitt soon uncovered groundbreaking information about what had happened that night and subsequently in the police investigation. But for years Levitts superiors mysteriously refused to publish the stories. Convinced that the Moxley family deserved peace and closure at last Levitt refused to give up. Finally after Levitts first article appeared the case was reopened. Frank Garr a seasoned Greenwich detective was appointed investigator on the Moxley case. He pursued unexplored leads and became increasingly convinced that for over a decade his colleagues had been pursuing the wrong suspects. At first mistrustful of one another Levitt and Garr became friends encouraging each other in their quest for the truth as the obstacles against them piled up. In 2002 more than twentyfive years after Moxleys death thanks largely to Garrs work Michael Skakel was convicted of the murder.