Michael Skakel Speaks Publicly On Martha Moxley Murder For The First Time In New Podcast

GREENWICH, CT — NBC News Studios will release a new podcast on Tuesday, Nov. 4, examining the 1975 killing of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, a case that has drawn national attention for nearly five decades.

The 12-episode weekly series, titled "Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder," is produced by the network’s award-winning audio team and features extensive new interviews and investigative material.

Hosted by journalist Andrew Goldman, the podcast includes multiple interviews with Michael Skakel, a relative of the Kennedy family whose murder conviction was overturned in 2018.

Skakel speaks publicly in the podcast for the first time about the case, an announcement from NBC Universal said.

Across the series, Goldman explores the years of legal battles, intense media scrutiny and unanswered questions that have surrounded the homicide as it reaches its 50-year mark.

Goldman was originally hired more than a decade ago by Skakel’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to assist with a book about the case, but later pursued his own independent investigation, NBC said.

The podcast features interviews with key figures including several of Moxley’s friends, retired FBI Agent Jim Murphy, Skakel’s brother Stephen Skakel, and former Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman.

A trailer of the podcast can be listened to here.

Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club on Oct. 30, 1975, in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich. Her body was discovered the next day.

Skakel was a neighbor of Moxley's at the time of her death and was also 15. He was charged with Moxley's murder in 2000, convicted in 2002, and later sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

Skakel was locked up for more than a decade, but in 2013, a judge granted him a new trial, saying his first attorney didn't adequately represent him.

Two years after his conviction was overturned, prosecutors said in 2020 they would not retry him.

Skakel filed a lawsuit in spring 2023 against the town of Greenwich and a police officer, seeking to recover a set of audiotapes that were used in the trial that convicted him.

"Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder" will be available wherever you get your podcasts.