Andrew Goldman

But here's the thing.

Once I started researching this case, I couldn't stop.

I was no longer working for RFK and the book was done, but I wasn't.

I think it would be fair to say that this story has become an addiction for me.

If I can do justice to this unbelievable yarn, 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.

I discovered a much darker, more shocking tale than I ever could have guessed.

In this series, you'll be hearing from dozens of voices, some of whom may be familiar to you.

Oh, and one more person who's never before spoken to the media.

Can you tell me your name, say my name is, and why I might be interviewing you?

I mean, that's kind of a big question, isn't it?

From NBC News Studios and Highly Replaceable Productions, this is Dead Certain, the Martha Moxley Program.

When I accepted the Skakel book gig, I did the first thing I do whenever I approach a story, a deep dive on the subject.

I read the three books that had been written about the case.

I went back and read a bunch of trial coverage from newspapers, as well as the work of two of my heroes in journalism writing for the most esteemed high-profile publications in America.

My research confirmed everything I thought I knew about the case, and worse.

Writing for The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin reported that Skakel, driven mad from a romantic obsession, killed Moxley and incriminated himself by confessing to the crime repeatedly in the 27 years following the murder.

Toobin dismissed out of hand the idea that any of the others suspected of the crime over the years could have done it.