Martha Moxley
publication date: Thursday, April 11, 2024 (part of April 2024)
category: 
Victims
clue: One Halloween season in Connecticut (or was it Purgatory?), this teenager fell in with the wrong crowd, namely the Kennedy boys across the street.
explanation: Moxley was murdered on October 30, 1975 after falling behind the fence while playing with the Skakel boys, nephews of Ethel Kennedy, across the street from her home. Teenagers Thomas and Michael Skakel, as well as their live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton, were all prime suspects at one point. Michael was eventually convicted of the murder and served more than a decade in prison. The case was the subject of the fictionalized book A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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