Andrew Goldman

He was also a cousin of the Kennedys.

The media responded in predictable fashion.

I'm like a lot of people.

I have an appetite for lurid news, a good murder story, especially one involving famous names.

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 on October 30th, 1975, when they were both 15.

I knew it.

And if you followed the case like I did...

I bet you knew it, too.

In 2002, a jury convicted Skakel, and the judge threw the book at him.

And then, in 2013, a judge released Michael Skakel on appeal after he'd served 11 1⁄2 years in state prison.

For the media, it was anything but an exoneration, but rather the kind of clever legal maneuver only accessible to the super wealthy, free on a technicality.

A famous New Yorker writer, Jeffrey Toobin, when tweeting about the case, appended the hashtag, Rich People Justice.

I live in Westport, Connecticut, with my wife and two teenage boys.

It's just a handful of exits north of Greenwich on I-95.

A few summers ago, my then 15-year-old son Henry was doing an odd job for a woman in town, helping to clean out her garage.

Henry said he told her that I was a journalist, researching the Martha Moxley case.

When she heard that, she immediately stopped what she was doing and said, I know exactly what happened to Martha Moxley.