The Diary of Martha Moxley
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(upbeat music) - Yeah, you mentioned you grew up in Greenwich and you were there in '75. The first thing people ask you is, did you know Martha Moxley? (beeping) - Belhaven, Connecticut is a small private community. It has bigger states and almost no crime. But a 15-year-old girl has been brutally murdered there. - Belhaven, this was a virtually exclusive, very wealthy community in Greenwich, Connecticut. Where murders just don't occur. My name's Richard Burns and I lived in Greenwich back then. That's the first time in 45 years we'd ever talked about it. - My name is Tory Holland, I grew up in Belhaven. And in 1975, I was 15, along with Martha. She just had this beaming personality and her beautiful blonde hair. Smiled all the time. - I just smiled and it just made you feel like you were the center of the world. - The Skakeles lived across the street from the Moxleys. - They were a family of all these boys except for Julie. I went to school with them. And Michael was a year behind me and Thomas year ahead of me. - It was a lovely place to grow up. You've just felt safe. And that all changed after that night. - The instrument used in the striking of the Moxley girl was a golf club, we know that. - It's absolutely devastating. - Nearly a quarter of a century would pass before police would make an arrest for the murder of Martha Moxley. - 39 year old Michael Skakele was charged with murder. - Michael, did you tell her? - I was shocked, I was like Michael. - I know Michael's innocent. The evidence is much stronger in suggesting that other people may have committed the crime. - Bobby Kennedy Jr. is Michael's cousin. And he never believed for a minute Michael Skakele committed this crime. - 27 years after the crime, Kennedy cousin Michael Skakele convicted in the murder of Martha Moxley. - Michael Skakele spent 11 and a half years in prison until his conviction was overturned on appeal.
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A 15-year-old girl beaten to death with a golf club in a wealthy Connecticut neighborhood. Does her diary hold clues to the killer? 48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.