Dead Certain

Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was murdered on the night of October 30, 1975, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Nearly 50 years later, journalist Andrew Goldman revisits the case from the ground up in the podcast Dead Certain, bringing new investigative material and archive audio spanning five decades.

Michael Skakel was convicted of beating 15-year-old Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in 1975. But critical witness testimony proved unreliable, and the conviction was overturned. A new SundanceTV series examines how witness statements alone cannot hold up in court.

On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death in her family's backyard in Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years later, her neighbor Michael Skakel—a Kennedy cousin—was convicted of the crime. But the conviction didn't hold.

On October 31, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death in her family's backyard in Greenwich, Connecticut. The murder weapon—a Toney Penna golf club—belonged to her neighbors, the prominent Skakel family, setting off a case that would span decades and implicate a Kennedy nephew.