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Introducing: Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder

28 Oct 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.925 - 23.106 Andrew Goldman

Greenwich detectives have questioned hundreds of people and searched the murder site thoroughly. But they still have no real leads at all to the person who killed Martha Moxley last Thursday night. On the night before Halloween in 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was murdered in the Tony Belhaven neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. She was rich and beautiful and loved by all who knew her.

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23.846 - 28.151 Andrew Goldman

For decades, despite intense media scrutiny, police failed to make an arrest.

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28.371 - 32.456 Michael Skakel

The people who were actively working there had never handled a homicide.

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32.916 - 37.902 Andrew Goldman

Over the years, the police had their suspects. This individual is the last to see the victim.

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37.882 - 42.846 Michael Skakel

We used to go out without any clothes on to the pool. They said it was definitely two people.

Chapter 2: What happened to Martha Moxley on the night of her murder?

43.484 - 60.91 Andrew Goldman

But none of the leads stuck. And eventually the case went ice cold. Until in 2000, 25 years after Martha's murder, her one-time neighbor, Michael Skakel, was arrested. He'd been 15, like her, at the time of the crime. He was also a cousin of the Kennedys.

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61.13 - 68.04 Michael Skakel

A teenage neighbor and friend of Martha Moxley. Nephew of the late Robert Kennedy. Kennedy relative Michael Skakel on trial for murder.

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68.358 - 90.68 Andrew Goldman

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.

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91.1 - 95.985 Andrew Goldman

I've been a journalist for 30 years. I got involved in this case in 2015.

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Chapter 3: Why did the police struggle to solve the Martha Moxley case?

96.1 - 117.703 Andrew Goldman

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.

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117.886 - 127.54 Michael Skakel

Out of nowhere, he goes outside and kills this woman. It just doesn't make sense to me. This whole event made me a lifelong skeptic of media and authority.

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129.243 - 151.227 Andrew Goldman

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. Did you kill her? Did you kill her? Did you kill her? Your voice sounds so sweet.

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151.888 - 155.253 Andrew Goldman

Unfortunately, anger and fury motivates this call.

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155.794 - 159.981 Michael Skakel

Why the hell would you say she wouldn't die? I just had to stab her to death.

162.605 - 173.442 Andrew Goldman

From NBC News Studios, Dead Certain, The Martha Moxley Murder is a podcast series that I believe will finally provide a full, true, authoritative account of the Martha Moxley case.

Chapter 4: Who is Michael Skakel and how is he connected to the case?

174.147 - 181.436 Andrew Goldman

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

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181.777 - 183.058 Michael Skakel

My name is Amanda Knox.

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183.339 - 184.921 Andrew Goldman

My name is Mark Furman.

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185.181 - 186.202 Michael Skakel

Linda Kenny-Bodden.

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186.463 - 214.887 Andrew Goldman

Dr. Henry Lee. Oh, and one more person who's never before spoken to the media. Can you tell me your name and why I might be interviewing you? My name is Michael Skakel. And why am I being interviewed? I mean, that's kind of a big question, isn't it?

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