Andrew Goldman

He'd been 15, like her, at the time of the crime.

He was also a cousin of the Kennedys.

The Kennedy connection is the reason that most people know about this case, or at least think they know about it.

I watched the news.

I read the articles.

Of course Michael Skakel killed his next-door neighbor Martha Moxley.

He beat her to death with a golf club.

I knew it.

And if you followed the case like I did, I bet you knew it too.

My name is Andrew Goldman.

I've been a journalist for 30 years.

I got involved in this case in 2015.

But here's the thing.

Once this story got its hooks in me, it wouldn't let me go.

For the better part of a decade, I've immersed myself in every detail of this story and interviewed dozens of those closest to it.

I think it would be fair to say that it's become an addiction for me.

And if I can do justice to this unbelievable tale, I suspect it'll become an addiction for you, too.

I thought I understood the case.

It was a decades-long story about the powerful and the privileged seemingly getting away with murder.

But the deeper I dug, the more I came to question everything I thought I knew.