Andrew Goldman

In 1975, a 15-year-old girl named Martha Moxley was murdered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

She was rich and beautiful and loved by all who knew her.

For decades, despite intense media scrutiny on the tragic murder in a wealthy, supposedly safe community, police failed to make an arrest.

Until the year 2000, when they took Martha's one-time neighbor, Michael Skakel, into custody.

He was 39 years old.

Back in 1975, he'd been 15, just like Martha.

He was wealthy, like her.

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.