Andrea Canning

She'd been beaten to death with a golf club.

Since then, her murder has horrified and transfixed the country, in part because 25 years later, the man arrested for the crime was related to one of America's most famous families, the Kennedys.

Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel, now 39, charged with murdering his Greenwich, Connecticut neighbor Martha Moxley...

In 2002, a jury found Michael Skakel guilty of killing Martha.

Michael always maintained his innocence, and in 2018, the Connecticut Supreme Court threw out his conviction on the grounds that he had received ineffective assistance of counsel.

Two years later, prosecutors dropped the charges against him altogether.

Now, 50 years after the murder, the question still remains.

Will there ever be justice for Martha Moxley?

For one of my next guests, reporter Andrew Goldman, that question became something of an obsession.

He pored over the case file, unearthing police interviews, investigative reports, and even Martha's diary.

He also persuaded people to talk about the case who had never spoken before, including Michael Skakel himself.

You can listen to all of that and more in Dead Certain, The Martha Moxley Murder, an all-new 12-part podcast from NBC News Studios.

Andrew is here along with the show's executive producer, Alexa Danner, to talk about what they found out.

Thanks for joining us, Andrew and Alexa.

Oh, it's my great pleasure.

Thank you so much for having us.

Happy to be here.

Why do both of you think that this case just received so much attention over the years?

I think, first of all, the story obviously originates in this really exclusive enclave of Connecticut.

Martha was an attractive female blonde, which, as you know, especially historically, the media was very interested in covering those kinds of stories.