Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a

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

A New York Times Bestseller!

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 Michaelâ€™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, Skakelâ€™s cousin, acclaimed attorney and award-winning writer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solves the baffling whodunit and clears his cousinâ€™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 novelÂ… But itâ€™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 30 years of costly yet shoddy investigation. Today, those men walk free.

This startling exposeÂ—an explosive exploration of murder and fameÂ—is the tragic true story of Skakelâ€™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 40-year-old question, Â“Who killed Martha Moxley?â€

The book is at once a riveting drama and an impassioned critique of the American media and legal system.
Country USA
Brand Skyhorse
Manufacturer Skyhorse
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 113354
ReleaseDate 2016-07-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781510701779

Country	USA
Brand	Skyhorse
Manufacturer	Skyhorse
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	113354
ReleaseDate	2016-07-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781510701779

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

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