True Crime Podcast about the Martha Moxley murder in 1975.

On Halloween 1975 the small elite community of Belle Haven, Connecticut, was transformed from a safe gated neighbourhood to a town of fear and suspicion when Martha’s body was discovered. Martha, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, had been out with friends for Mischief Night, but failed to return home for her curfew. In the morning a search party was formed to try and locate her. One of her friends on route to join the search found Martha on her parents’ property, she had been savagely beaten and stabbed.

This is the story of how her killer was eventually tried in 2002, and despite being found guilty, is now free. Why did it take over 25 years to identify the killer? Was a prominent family protecting one of their own? Or did the police investigation focus on the wrong suspect?

Episode 1 of a deep dive on this case hosted by TJ, a criminologist, with 'assistance' from her Golden Retriever/Saluki cross, Morty.

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Chapters

00:00 Mystery on Walsh Lane

01:28 The History of Belle Haven

04:03 The Moxley Family: A Background of Normalcy

07:11 The residents of Belle Haven

08:39 The Skakel family

12:10 Timeline of 30th October 1975

13:41 Mischief Night and The Skakel House

17:09 Eerie events on Mischief Night.

20:38 The search for Martha begins

24:21 The discovery of Martha's body

References:

American Justice – Season 8 episode 12 – A Murder in Greenwich: The Martha Moxley Case.

A Season in Purgatory by Dominic Dunne

Conviction. Solving the Moxley Murder by Leonard Levitt.

Greentown by Timothy Dumas

Murder and Justice: The case of Martha Moxley. Documentary series