Andrea Canning

But I think the real reason is that there have just been so many milestones along the way, like with every year that passes, there

There's new suspects.

There's new twists in the case.

There's new revelations.

New characters get involved.

This is a case 50 years old, and you're doing a podcast about it.

How do you go about that?

A lot of people, I would imagine, have maybe died at this point.

You know, memories fade.

You know, a lot of people have died, but I had the advantage of becoming close to certain members of the Skakel family, and I think that gained their trust in a certain way.

I

Michael Skakel, of course, when he was tried, did not testify.

So his voice was very much a mystery.

But this is a man who I think for 50 years has been really, really wanting to talk about his case.

And he's had very smart lawyers saying, you'd be out of your mind if you talked about this case.

Michael does have a lot to say.

He didn't become a suspect in the case, a real suspect, until the late 1990s.

But even prior to that, he had a really complex and traumatic life.

And you hear a lot about that in the podcast, what he's been through personally.

Andrew, you mentioned also you had excerpts from Martha's diary.