Alaina Kelley
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Now, although no one outside Sutton Associates knew it at the time, there was a lot more that made Michael Skakel a strong suspect than just a bizarre new alibi.
According to the Sutton report, because remember, we got little bits and pieces of it.
At the very least, it is fair to say Michael Skakel has, for whatever reason, often acted out in certain ways to arouse suspicion.
Reportedly, Michael once even confessed to the murder of Martha Moxley in a therapy session while a patient at the Elon Treatment Center.
In fact, while he was at the Elon School, Michael confessed multiple times to murdering Martha Moxley in both group therapy settings and in private conversations.
Although he would later recant at least one of those confessions in an email correspondence with one of the other students at Elon, the discovery of that information would have been damning if it had been made public and it wasn't at the time.
You have to be careful with that stuff.
When he was informed of his son's confession at the Elon School, Rushton Skakel immediately pulled the plug on the entire investigation, paying any remaining fees and ending multiple years of work.
Since everyone involved in the private investigation had signed a confidentiality agreement... I wish you guys could see my face right now, because my face is saying...
Well, all the people involved in the private investigation had signed a confidentiality agreement, so they were all prohibited from disclosing any information contained in the report to law enforcement or to the public.
Once again, it seemed that Skakel's money and power had kind of shielded his family from any responsibility, but there was one thing he hadn't counted on.