THE MURDER OF MARTHA MOXLEY (2002-2024)

 In 2002, Michael Skakel — a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy's widow — was found guilty of murdering Martha Moxley, a friend and neighbor of his family in Greenwich,.

Both Skakel, 63, and Moxley were 15 at the time of her death.

After serving more than 11 years in prison, he was freed on an appeal in 2013 on the grounds that he was not given a fair trial due to deficient legal counsel, according to Greenwich Time.

In 2018, the Connecticut Supreme Court overturned Skakel's conviction and in 2020, the murder charge was dropped, and a state prosecutor announced that the Kennedy cousin would not be put on trial again.

“He spent 11 and a half years in jail for a crime he didn't commit and was put through every thinkable proceeding until the case was finally dismissed," Stephan Seeger, Skakel's defense lawyer, told CBS.

Now, Skakel is suing the lead police investigator in the case, Frank Garr, as well as the town of Greenwich for alleged malicious prosecution and civil rights violations, according to court records obtained by CBS.

The lawsuit contends that Garr was intent on convicting Skakel out of financial interest, and thus ignored key evidence about other suspects in Moxley’s murder, Greenwich Time reports. According to the complaint, the defendants “knew that there were other more likely suspects and that there was no probable cause to arrest and/or maintain a prosecution against the Plaintiff (Skakel), but continued to do so intentionally and maliciously, in order to convict a 'Kennedy Cousin,’” .

The complaint also alleges that the state’s primary witness, Gregory Coleman — who allegedly heard Skakel’s murder confession — was “mentally unstable and was a complete liar who could not be trusted,” per Greenwich Time. (Coleman has since died.)

Skakel's brother, Tommy, was also mentioned as a possible killer, but denied any involvement in her murder.

Another one of Skakel’s relatives, 2024 presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., has consistently fought for Skakel’s innocence.

“Michael deserves to have his story told,” Kennedy told the press in 2016. “Nobody understood what the facts were in the case. There was a narrative and a kind of prevailing orthodoxy and it was almost altogether untrue.”

Meanwhile, Moxley's family has maintained their belief in Skakel’s guilt.“I believe Michael is the one who swung the club,” Moxley’s mother Dorthy told the Press in 2016. “It has been 41 years since Martha died. When you gather all this information for that long a time, you get to a point where you put it all together and it just fits.”

Sadly, Martha Moxley's mother died on December 26th, 2024 at the age of 92. The poor woman went to her death, never have the real answers to her daughter's senseless murder answered...

THE MURDER OF MARTHA MOXLEY (1975-2002)

Fifteen year old Martha Moxley was a friendly and outgoing young lady. Unfortunately her life was cut short - for no apparent reason. Fifty years later, her murder is still full of mysteries. On the evening of October 30, 1975, Martha Moxley left with friends to participate in "mischief night", in which neighborhood youths would ring bells and pull pranks such as toilet papering houses. According to friends, Moxley began flirting with, and eventually kissed, Thomas Skakel, the older brother of Michael Skakel. Moxley was last seen "falling together behind the fence" with Thomas, near the pool in the Skakel backyard, at around 9:30 p.m

The next day, Moxley's body was found beneath a tree in her family's backyard. Her pants and underwear were pulled down, but there was no evidence of sexual assault. Pieces of a broken six-iron golf club were found near the body. An autopsy indicated that she had been both bludgeoned and stabbed with the club, which was traced back to the Skakel residence.

Thomas Skakel was the last person seen with Moxley on the night of the murder. He became the prime suspect, but his father forbade access to his school and mental health records. Kenneth Littleton, who had started working as a live-in tutor for the Skakel family only hours before the murder, also became a prime suspect. However, no one was charged, and the case languished for decades. Over the years, both Thomas and Michael Skakel significantly changed their alibis for the night of Moxley's murder. Michael claimed that he had been window-peeping and masturbating in a tree beside the Moxley property from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Two former students from Élan School, a treatment center for troubled youths, testified they heard Michael confess to killing Moxley with a golf club. One of the former students, Gregory Coleman, testified that Michael was given special privileges and had bragged, "I'm going to get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy".

When William Kennedy Smith was tried (and acquitted) for rape in 1991, a rumor surfaced that he had been present at the Skakel house on the night of Moxley's death, with the clear insinuation that he might have been involved. Although this proved to be unfounded, it resulted in a new investigation of the then-cold case.The Sutton Associates, a private detective agency hired by Rushton Skakel in 1991, conducted its own investigation of the killing. The Sutton report, later leaked to the media, revealed that both Thomas and Michael altered their stories about their activities the night of the murder.

In June 1998, a rarely invoked one-man grand jury was convened to review the evidence of the case. After an eighteen-month investigation, it was decided there was enough evidence to charge Michael Skakel with murder. On January 9, 2000, an arrest warrant was issued for an unnamed juvenile for Moxley's murder. Michael Skakel surrendered to authorities later that day. He was released shortly thereafter on $500,000 bail. On March 14, Skakel was arraigned for murder in a juvenile court, since he was 15 years old at the time of Moxley's murder. On January 31, 2001, a judge ruled for Skakel to be tried as an adult.

Skakel's trial began on May 7, 2002, in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was represented by attorney Michael Sherman. Skakel's alibi was that at the time of the murder he was at his cousin's house. During the trial, the jury heard part of a taped book proposal, which included Skakel speaking about masturbating in a tree on the night of the murder – possibly the same tree under which Moxley's body was found the next morning. In the book proposal, Skakel did not admit to committing the murder. Prosecutors took words from the book proposal and overlaid them on graphic images of Moxley's dead body in a computerized, multimedia presentation shown to jurors during closing arguments. In the audiotape, Skakel said that he was afraid he might have been seen the previous night "jerking off", and had panicked. Though the jury heard the whole tape, during the closing arguments the prosecutor did not play the portion of the audiotape in which Skakel had said "jerking off", giving the impression that he was confessing to the murder.

On June 7, 2002, Skakel was found guilty of murdering Moxley and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. He was assigned to the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, Connecticut....

DONALD TRUMP AND UFOS

Some of Donald Trump's top allies are saying aliens might be on the next administration's agenda, as the President-elect returns to the White House. Donald Trump Jr., former Congressman Matt Gaetz, and Representative William Timmons have all raised the possibility of a federal investigation into extraterrestrial life in the past week.

With Senate hearings for his appointments well underway, Donald Trump's new administration is taking shape, and this week will be critical in setting the agenda for his first days in office. Amid claims of alien cover-ups, many people want answers to recent questions around UFOs, including the November mystery drone sightings and a senate hearing that admitted testimony from military figures who believe national security is at risk.

Speaking on his Triggered podcast to UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) expert Ross Coulthart, Trump said that the White House was "working on" investigations into UAP instances and alien life. He also called on Elon Musk, another top ally of the president-elect, to help with any research.

"Obviously I've spent a lot more time with Elon Musk in the last few months during the transition. I've been down to see SpaceX launch and the technology that he's been able to create," Trump told Coulthart.

"I'm sure him and his top scientists are probably far more competent than anyone we have in government as it relates to propulsion systems, et cetera, et cetera," he added.

"Like I said, you know that I'm interested. It was the one, if I had one question, that was the one I wanted to know. So maybe we'll finally get to the bottom of it. I'm working on it. We're working on it. Promise."

In a January 16 interview on Jeremy Corbell's UFO Revolution show, Gaetz said that extraterrestrial life could become a threat to national security, saying: "We've seen some patterns emerge that are absolutely a threat to national security, whether this is of human origin or not.

"We have members of Congress who believe not only that there are extraterrestrials on Earth, but that they have built bases, and are operating out of bases. I have personally met with people in uniform working for the U.S. military who believe there are hybrid breeding programs going on right now.

"I've not seen evidence to suggest all these things are accurate, but when those claims arise, I get hot under the collar, and we just don't get straight answers."

The increased conversation around alien activity comes amid revelations from a U.S. Air Force veteran who turned whistleblower. In a NewsNation interview airing on Saturday, Jake Barber claims that he was contracted as a helicopter pilot to rescue crashed vehicles, some of which he believes were alien ships.

This follows hearings last year by the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, which heard from military witnesses testifying about inexplicable encounters. At least three shared the belief that UFOs a pose a risk to national security and that no system exists for properly reporting sightings and experiences to government agencies.

Concerns over unidentified flying objects have increased after several waves of mystery drones were spotted in New England, with New Jersey officials sighting dozens of unexplained and unmanned drones flying along the coast. The issue was raised in Congress repeatedly by lawmakers, but FBI officials were unable to explain the origin or nature of the objects, leading to several conspiracies about where they came from. The drones were first sighted in November, with other sightings recorded throughout December.

South Carolina Representative William Timmons, when asked by reporters Thursday about a House Intelligence Committee investigation into UAPs, said: "It's becoming increasingly front and center, so I think Intel's gonna have to get involved. I think most of the members on the Committee have been generally unimpressed with the responses that we've gotten. I think the Intelligence Committee will start looking into it more, because how do you not? I mean, you know, the increased frequency and degree of sightings has created a lot of buzz."

In a November congressional hearing addressing extraterrestrials, former Department of Defense Official Luis Elizondo said: "Let me be clear: UAP are real. Advanced technologies not made by our government—or any other government—are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries. I believe we are in the midst of a multi-decade; secretive arms race—one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies."

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THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT - PART TWO

One of the more popular explanations for what happened at Dyatlov Pass is that the team heard the rumblings of an oncoming avalanche and panicked, cutting their way out of the tent and scrambling down the hill without putting on heavier clothes.

The main problem with this theory is that there has never been evidence of an avalanche occurring at this location. There’s also the fact that the footprints found near the camp were not buried under any snow. And the footprints also indicate that those who left the tent did so in an orderly and slow fashion.

Another group of hikers that were in the vicinity of the Dyatlov Nine reported seeing odd orange spheres in the sky on the night of the incident. Russian police officer Lev Ivanov, who led the investigation in 1959, finally revealed in 1990 that members of his team had also seen strange flying spheres around the time of the deaths. Ivanov wrote that he had orders to never discuss the sightings:

"When E. P. Maslennikov and I examined the scene in May, we found that some young pine trees at the edge of the forest had burn marks, but those marks did not have a concentric form or some other pattern. There was no epicenter. This once again confirmed that heated beams of a strong, but completely unknown, at least to us, energy, were directing their firepower toward specific objects (in this case, people), acting selectively."

It has been speculated that these strange balls of light were either alien spacecraft (the crazy explanation) or Russian military aircraft on covert bombing missions.

A once-popular theory that had floated around regarding the Dyatlov Pass Incident was that they hikers were attacked by indigenous Mansi tribesmen for trespassing on sacred ground.

This theory has been discredited for several reasons: There were no footprints to indicate anyone besides the hikers had occupied the area on the night they died.

At the time of the hikers’ deaths, no crimes had been committed in the area for three decades.

The blunt force trauma that killed three of the hikers required power far beyond the capability of any humans.

Robbery had been ruled out as a motive since the campers’ belongings remained untouched inside their tent.

A wind phenomenon known as a “Karman vortex street,” caused by fierce winds blowing over specifically shaped geological structures, can cause very low-vibration sound frequencies called “infrasound” that is known to cause fear and irrational dread in humans. As the theory goes, an infrasound blast disoriented the campers to the point where they cut themselves and ran out of their own tent in a panic, only to freeze to death in the dark as they attempted to make their way back.

The problem with this theory is that there is no documentation of a Karman vortex street ever causing humans to act so irrationally that they’ll run half-naked down a snow-covered slope to escape it. Plus, a sound blast doesn’t explain the blunt-force trauma to three of the bodies.

In 2014 the Discovery Channel aired a film called Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives. It attempted to explain that the hiking team suffered a fatal encounter with the Abominable Snowman due to the fact that one of the victims had a missing tongue and also based on a blurry photo shortly before everyone died that shows a shadowy figure peeking out near a tree.

The problem with this theory is that the picture could have been of one of the hikers. And any kind of wildlife predator could have eaten the girl’s tongue during the three months it took searchers to finally locate her corpse.

There’s all that, plus the fact that there is no evidence that the Abominable Snowman, the Yeti, or Bigfoot—whatever you want to call that hairy, smelly predator¬—has ever existed outside the realm of legend.

We may never know what happened to these hikers in Russia in 1959, and it's sad to think of their sad deaths, but something was going on there that is yet another mystery....

VIDEO BREAK: THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT

THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT - PART ONE

What killed a team of nine accomplished mountain hikers? An avalanche? A UFO? Bigfoot? Military tests? Welcome to the Dyatlov Pass Incident, one of Russia’s ultimate unsolved mysteries.

Dyatlov Pass in Russia’s Ural Mountains got its name in the grisliest way possible: In 1959, Igor Dyatlov led a team of eight other hikers to their deaths under brutal winter conditions. When a rescue team finally found the group’s remains a month later, a bizarre series of clues has baffled investigators ever since.

In late January 1959, 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov was leading a team of eight other young hikers on a trek to scale Mt. Ortoten, which allegedly translates to “Don’t Go There” in the dialect of the local indigenous Mansi people. Dyatlov was one of seven men in the group of nine.

When relatives hadn’t heard from anyone in the team by February 20, search parties were sent out to look for the missing hikers. On February 26 they found their abandoned tent camp.

What researchers found at the camp scene was clear and unequivocal. It’s why it all happened that remains one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries. The hikers’ tent had been cut open from the inside, signaling that the campers had abruptly attempted to escape from the tent. Most of their belongings—including cash—were still found inside the tent, putting doubt to any speculation that they had been robbed.

Footprints in the snow revealed that several of the campers had escaped the tent either barefoot or wearing only socks. A few of them were wearing only underwear. The footprints also revealed that there were no other people or animals in the vicinity of whatever disaster befell the nine hikers.

The first two bodies that were found nearest to the camp were of two men who’d burned their hands warming it on a nearby fire. The next three bodies—of Dyatlov plus a man and a woman—were between the fire and the tent, suggesting that they’d tried getting back to the tent. All five bodies were determined to have died of hyperthermia.

The remaining four bodies weren’t found until two months later under about fifteen feet of snow in a nearby ravine. This group was more thoroughly clothed than the first five had been some of them were even wearing items of clothing that they’d apparently plucked off the corpses of those who died nearest the tent.

Three of these final four bodies were found to have died of blunt force trauma—one to the skull, two to the chest. The amount of force necessary to have caused such trauma was gauged to be equivalent to that of a car crash—in other words, a human attacker couldn’t possibly have caused such trauma. The only corpse of the four found in the ravine that showed significant external trauma was that of Ludmila Dubinina, whose eyes and tongue had been removed.

Strangely, some of the hikers’ clothing showed radiation levels far above normal.

An investigation by Soviet authorities said that the skiers had died of “an unknown compelling force.” The files were classified and the investigation was shut down.

So, what really happened? To this day, 65 years later, no one knows for sure....

DRONES AT THE PALISADES FIRE

Multiple unauthorized drones flew above the Palisades fire Friday afternoon, forcing firefighting aircraft to leave the area for safety and angering those working on the front lines, authorities said.

These sightings came just a day after a drone collided with a Super Scooper fixed-wing aircraft, grounding the plane for several days of repairs and reducing the number of aircraft available to fight the fire.

“This is not just harmless fun. This is incredibly dangerous,” said Chris Thomas, public information officer for the Palisades fire. “Seriously, what if that plane had gone down? It could have taken out a row of homes. It could have taken out a school.”

The most recent unauthorized drones were seen flying near the southeastern portion of the fire, bordering Santa Monica, around 4:40 p.m Friday, Thomas said.
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“Because of safety, we have to get all the aircraft out of the area until we know the drones are gone,” he said. “So that is very dangerous, because it takes water-dropping capability away from the fire.”

“If we have to take helicopters out of an area and the wind catches one of those cinders in that area and lifts it up, we could ignite a whole other area,” he added.

On Friday evening, there was a significant flare-up on the eastern edge of the Palisades fire, prompting new evacuation orders in Brentwood and Encino as the blaze moved northeast toward Mandeville Canyon, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Aerial footage captured by KTLA showed firefighting aircraft swooping into the area to drop water.

Thomas said that law enforcement has been informed about the drones and that the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the recent incidents.

"We take this very, very seriously," he said.

The FAA released a statement on Thursday warning drone operators that temporary flight restrictions are currently in place around all major regional fires, and that failure to obey could result in hefty fines.

"It's a federal crime, punishable by up to 12 months in prison, to interfere with firefighting efforts on public lands," the FAA said in a statement. "Additionally, the FAA can impose a civil penalty of up to $75,000 against any drone pilot who interferes with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or emergency response operations when temporary flight restrictions are in place."

The drone that collided with the Super Scooper left a "fist-sized hole" in the aircraft, which probably will not be back in the air until Monday, L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said Thursday.
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Marrone said the FBI is now planning to come to the area with what he called “aerial armor” to make sure no further drones can fly in the firefighting area....

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