The Kennedy cousin formerly at the center of the notorious case involving the death of Martha Moxley, the daughter of an affluent Connecticut family, has broken his silence to reveal new loose ends and theories regarding the decades-long mystery. 

Michael Skakel, cousin of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spent 11 years behind bars for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. In 2013, Skakel walked out of prison as a free man and later saw his conviction vacated in a move that further deepened the mystery of who Moxley’s true killer is. 

In the final episode of NBC News’ podcast, “Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder,” several possible suspects and additional evidence were spotlighted, though loose ends regarding the unresolved case still remain, according to Connecticut Insider. 

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“Being Michael Skakel has been a blessing and a curse. I’ve met some proudly great people in this world,” Michael Skakel said on the podcast. 

“At the same time, because of what this trial and this case did to me, people only know what they know. They only know what that box in their living room tells them. And most of it has been bold-faced lies.”

The episode reportedly highlighted a stain found in the Moxley family’s TV room by Theresa Tirado, a maid at the household, one day after the 15-year-old girl was murdered outside of her Greenwich home Oct. 30, 1975. 

In Tirado’s account to police at the time, she noticed that Martha Moxley’s brother John’s bed was empty and his door was open the morning of the murder, but she had not yet been told the teenager was missing. At 9 a.m., Tirado reportedly heard a loud crash in the house and witnessed John Moxley and a friend, John Harvey, watching television about 15 minutes later. 

At around 11 a.m., Tirado told investigators, the two boys went outside right around the same time she heard another loud crash inside the house. The pair then returned to the house briefly before leaving, Connecticut Insider reported. 

When Tirado later went into the TV room, she noticed smear marks that were believed to be blood. However, she reportedly wiped up the marks, not realizing what it potentially was. 

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John Moxley later corroborated Tirado’s account regarding his and Harvey’s whereabouts, though he told investigators he did not hear any crashes coming from inside the house, the outlet reported. He suggested the smear marks could have been a food stain. 

However, the potential blood stain was reportedly included in a pretrial memo by attorney Linda Kenney Baden but was never looked into by Skakel’s attorney, Mickey Sherman. 

The podcast also noted that Tirado died in 2012. 

Additionally, the outlet reported that John Moxley was the fourth individual mentioned in the Sutton Report in the 1990s, with investigators noting that “a few unresolved points still demand clarification and examination.” 

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Initially, Michael Skakel, Tommy Skakel and tutor Ken Littleton were profiled in the report regarding Moxley’s murder. 

One of the points of note regarding John Moxley was reportedly his statement that he returned home around 11 p.m. on Oct. 30 and was awoken by his mother at 3:30 a.m. the next morning to help look for his missing sister. 

In 2002, John Moxley testified that he only spent about 15 minutes searching for Martha Moxley, which contradicted his statements to police that he had spent 2½ hours outside and did not return home until 6 a.m., when he then fell asleep on the sofa in the TV room, the outlet reported. 

Harvey later claimed John Moxley called him the morning of the teen’s disappearance to help search for her, and the pair searched a pile of brush near the house, a move the Sutton Report reportedly noted was strange. However, the report also pointed out that had the two boys checked the family’s yard, they likely would not have located Martha Moxley’s body. 

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John Moxley reportedly said he only became aware of his sister’s death after his football coach mentioned to him at practice that something happened at his house. 

The Sutton team later determined John Moxley was not the murderer, with Robert F. Kennedy agreeing with investigators in his book, “Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn’t Commit.”

Additionally, the podcast reportedly pointed to the Skakel household’s handyman and gardener, Franz Wittine, as another guest at the home on “Mischief Night.” 

Michael Skakel, who was 15 years old at the time of the murder, reportedly revealed Wittine, a regular resident at the house, was the only person who said there were no golf clubs found on the Skakel house lawn despite others saying there were. In a 1991 interview with investigators, Wittine reportedly said he had no memory of saying that.

Martha Moxley was found beaten and stabbed to death by a golf club in the yard of her family’s home on “Mischief Night.” 

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One year after the murder, Wittine reportedly resigned from his position with the Skakel family and passed a polygraph test in 1991. 

Wittine died in 1997. 

The podcast pointed out various loose ends involving the investigation, including the lack of forensic evidence in the case, Connecticut Insider reported.

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Swabs taken from Martha Moxley’s groin area in an effort to rule out sexual assault were never introduced as evidence in the trial and were considered lost until a NBC News’ production team reached out to a Connecticut forensics team, which confirmed the evidence remained in state custody. 

The samples were later sent for testing in 2018 and were reportedly determined to only contain Martha Moxley’s DNA.

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Additionally, Cissy Ix reportedly recalled a conversation with Rush Skakel Sr., in which he claimed that his son, Michael, allegedly confided in him that he may have killed Martha Moxley. 

However, Michael Skakel was ultimately cleared by Dr. Stanley Lesse after being given sodium pentothal in an attempt to give him mental clarity regarding the situation. Michael Skakel said he felt unsure about things after attending the infamous Elan School.

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Additionally, a friend of the Skakels reportedly told investigators that both boys were with him at Sursum Corda Oct. 30, 1975. However, the account directly conflicted with reports that Tommy Skakel had not traveled with his family that evening. 

The series wrapped up with Amanda Knox, an American woman falsely accused of her roommate’s 2007 murder in Italy, weighing in on the mentality of “guilty until proven innocent” in criminal cases, according to Connecticut Insider.

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Knox was initially convicted of murder in 2009 and saw her conviction overturned by an Italian court in 2011. 

Knox reportedly went on to describe how people have told her to “be a little less visible” after her conviction was overturned and described how the concept of “single victim fallacy” can harm individuals in situations where public perception suggests there is only one victim in a situation.

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Michael Skakel’s conviction was ultimately vacated by the Connecticut Supreme Court May 4, 2018, with prosecutors later deciding to not seek a second trial for Skakel on the murder charge.

With Skakel being absolved of all charges, the mystery surrounding the decades-old murder of Martha Moxley continues to plague her family and community, with no true promise that the case will ever be solved. 

The Boston Police Department reported a lower-than-usual number of incidents in the 24-hour period leading up to 10 a.m. Saturday, which could be attributed to temperatures in the single-digits and the massive amount of snow still on the ground.

But Boston Public Works says they’re on the second one.

“No rest for the weary! After another successful night of large-scale snow removal across #Boston, PWD district continue work today removing snow banks and clearing alleys, crosswalks & crub ramps to improve safety and accessibility,” the city department reported Friday.

They were at it again Saturday, when they reported they had cleared more than 2,667 loads of snow from city streets — totaling 41,168 cubic yards.

Incident Summary

BPD responded to 178 incidents in the 24-hour period ending at 10 a.m. Saturday, according to the department’s incident log. Those included three aggravated assaults and 18 instances of miscellaneous larceny.

Arrests

All of the below-named defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

— Juan Martinez, 120 Southampton St., Boston. Shoplifting.

— Theodore Murray, 242 Highland Ave., Somerville. External warrant arrest.

— Keith Cunningham, 450 Boston Post Road, Marlboro. Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

— Arjan Vladi, 5337 Washington St., Boston. Possession of Class E drugs.

As ice continues to build on Pittsburgh’s three rivers, people are taking the risk of walking across the ice despite warnings from public safety officials and scientists.

Around 6 p.m. on Saturday, a few individuals could be seen walking from the North Shore to Point State Park. Others took pictures with a navigation buoy. In both cases, officers and park rangers encouraged people to come to shore. The situation kept repeating like a game of icy Whac-A-Mole.

Around the same time, on the river by the Mr. Rogers statue, Jermaine and Ashton, two men in their early 20s who didn’t want to give their last names, sprinted across the ice, dropping on their stomachs to continue sliding.

“It’s an adrenaline rush,” one of them said. “We’re having fun.”

Also on the ice was a family, including two young children.

“We’re having a great time seeing the frozen river,” the father said. “If there was nobody here, I wouldn’t have dared to come this far, even.”

Despite acknowledging she was scared, the mother said they did it anyway.

While not necessarily illegal, National Weather Service Pittsburgh meteorologist Jason Frazier said walking on the ice amounts to taking a dangerous risk.

“It’s definitely something we discourage,” Frazier said. “What people don’t maybe realize is that while the ice appears like it’s nice and solid, maybe thick, the thickness can actually be very different in a lot of different places of the river.

Ice thickness ranged from six inches to one inch to spots without ice, Frazier said. Unlike a lake, he said, rivers have a moving current underneath, which leads to varying thicknesses.

“If you actually do find a crack that’s maybe because of snow cover, you could fall in and be transported away from the spot you fall in,” Frazier said.

Both groups KDKA-TV spoke with had the same line of thinking about why they were safe, saying they stayed close to the shore where the water was shallow. That was more the case for the family than it was for the two young men.

“We can still say that there are dangers even on those shoreline areas,” Frazier said.

Both are due to friction on the shorelines that disrupts ice formation and snow covering cracks in the ice, and if you fall in, even there, consider the water temperature is at or below freezing.

First responders are also at risk when people go on ice because they could get called in for a rescue, Frazier said.

Around 9:30 Saturday night, yet another person was walking in the middle of the Allegheny, roughly from the Fort Duquesne to the Clemente bridges.