NEED TO KNOW

Michael Skakel speaks out for the first time in NBC News Studios' podcast, "Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder," which debuts Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Skakel was the main suspect in the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor, Martha Moxley

His 2002 conviction of her murder was later overturned

The now-infamous murder of wealthy Connecticut teenager Martha Moxley has gripped the state and the nation for 50 years.

The brutal Oct. 30, 1975 slaying of the popular 15-year-old in Belle Haven — an exclusive enclave of affluent Greenwich, Conn. — was the focus of films and books including "A Wealth of Evil" by Timothy Dumas and "A Season in Purgatory" by the late author Dominick Dunne.

The case garnered intense interest, not just because a beautiful young girl was killed in one o

See Full Page