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    Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn't Commit
    Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn't Commit
    Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn't Commit
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    Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn't Commit

    Written by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

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    On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael's criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no fingerprints or DNA, no eyewitness linking Michael to the killing. The trial ignited a media firestorm that transfixed the nation.

    Now, Skakel's cousin, acclaimed attorney and award-winning writer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., solves the baffling whodunit and clears his cousin's name.

    Kennedy, with meticulous research and reporting, proves that Michael Skakel did not and could not have murdered Martha Moxley. He chronicles how Skakel was, nevertheless, railroaded amidst a media frenzy by the devious actions of a crooked cop, a trio of mendacious writers, a treacherous family lawyer nursing a secret grudge, a narcissistic defense attorney obsessed by the spotlight, a craven prosecutor gone rogue, and a parade of perjuring witnesses. These colorful characters leap off the pages like seedy villains in a dime-store crime novel . . . but it's all true.

    Kennedy also shows how he tracked down the likely killers, a pair of ghosts who moved in and out of Greenwich and whose presence was detected by neither police nor press during thirty years of costly yet shoddy investigation. Today, those men walk free.

    This startling expose-an explosive exploration of murder and fame-is the tragic true story of Skakel's conviction that the public has never heard. It is the product of hundreds of interviews with Skakel and those who knew both him and Martha Moxley. Kennedy gives us a real life thriller with twists and turns, and finally answers the forty-year-old question, "Who killed Martha Moxley?"

    The book is at once a riveting drama and an impassioned critique of the American media and legal system.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 12, 2016
    ISBN9781515980001
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    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    Robert F Kennedy, Jr., an environmental attorney and activist, is the president of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is the author of numerous books, including Crimes Against Nature and The Riverkeepers. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among other publications.

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      RFK Jr is a conspiracy theorist and with this book he continues to embarrass his family by blaming everyone one in the world except the guilty party. He even attempted to blame Martha’s own brother, it’s absolutely disgraceful. Shame on him. Don’t waste your time with this nonsense.