Andrew Goldman

But as rich as the Kennedys were, the Skakel fortune dwarfed that of the Kennedys.

The Skakels resided in a whole other financial universe, so much so that the scuttlebutt at the time was that Bobby had married the Skakel girl for her money.

Family's wealth and corporate affiliations might have been of interest to the parents of Belhaven, but this kind of social yardstick wasn't as relevant to their 15-year-old kids.

There was more immediate stuff to consider.

How's my hair look?

Does he like me?

Why is my complexion betraying me?

Who's got beer?

To both the boys and girls of Belhaven, Martha was different.

Less self-conscious than the other girls, a little more adventurous, like an emissary to frigid Connecticut from free and easy California.

That's Peter Kumarswamy.

His father was chief of cardiac surgery at both Greenwich and Stanford hospitals.

His mother was a prominent attorney and one of Martha's mom, Dorothy Moxley's closest friends.

He was known as Kumo back then and was 15 in 1975, just like Martha Moxley.

Everyone I've spoken to agrees with this assessment.

Here's Sheila McGuire again.

So girls liked her and boys really liked her.

The feeling that I get when I talk to guys who knew Martha, especially the ones who are a bit older than her, is that there is perhaps a reluctance to come out and just talk about how alluring she was.

Maybe that's because even though she'd be 65 now, she'll always be stuck in time at 15 and forever off limits.

But back in the 70s, she may not have felt that way to her peers.