$1M REWARD IN MOXLEY MURDER
CREATES FUND TO CARRY ON FIGHT AFTER SHE’S GONE
DYING Ethel Kennedy has secretly ponied up a $1 million bounty to find the killer of Connecticut teen Martha Moxley in a bid to prove the innocence of her troubled nephew, The National ENQUIRER has exclusively learned. Through her attorney, the beloved widow of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is offering the reward to find evidence proving Michael Skakel, now 59, didn’t fatally bludgeon 15-year-old Martha in Greenwich on Oct. 30, 1975. “Ethel knows her health is failing and she has little time left, but she has one last task she desperately wants to complete before she dies and rejoins Bobby,” a Kennedy family member told The ENQUIRER.
“That is to finally discover who the real murderer of Martha Moxley is and clear the names of the Skakels and Kennedays. "
Ailing Ethel,
92, has recently faced even more heartache as the Kennedy curse
continues to take its toll on the storied Camelot clan.
In April, granddaughter Maeve McKean, 40, and her eight-year-old son, Gideon, drowned in Chesapeake Bay, and eight months earlier, granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22, died of an accidental drug overdose at Ethel’s Hyannis Port, Mass., compound.
Skakel, the son of Ethel’s late brother Rushton, has long been suspected in the death of his teenage crush, who was found lifeless and partly nude in her backyard, across the street from his family’s residence. Her head had been bashed with a six-iron. The golf club was found near her body, along with the eightinch shaft used to savagely stab her neck.
The murder has long remained a mystery. But Skakel was charged in her killing and found guilty in 2002. He was hit with a sentence of 20 years to life.
But he was released on bond in 2013 after arguing his attorney failed to adequately represent him — and he won a stunning legal victory last year when the Connecticut Supreme Court agreed to leave in place a lower court’s decision to vacate his murder conviction. Meanwhile, Martha’s infuriated mother, Dorthy,
87, desperately wants prosecutors to retry Skakel, who is now living a jet-set lifestyle — courtesy of a hefty trust fund!
Mark A. Dupuis, a spokesman for the Connecticut State Attorney’s Office, said the decision to hold a new trial against Skakel is still pending.
“If Michael Skakel came from a poor family, this would have been over,” Dorthy said. “But because he comes from a family of means, they’ve stretched this out all these years.”
But sources said Ethel is hell-bent on restoring Skakel’s tarnished reputation.
“The case has eaten at her for decades,” spilled the family insider. “Now she feels someone will finally come forward and tell the truth because they will be desperate for the milliondollar reward.”