Murder in Greenwich

On a crisp autumn night just before Halloween in October 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death with a golf club in the affluent New York City suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Her lifeless body was found on the grounds of her family's exclusive estate, and the case soon made front-page headlines across the country when Tommy and Michael Skakel, nephews of Kennedy family patriarch Ethel Kennedy, became the prime suspects. However, police investigators were never able to gather enough evidence to bring the case to trial, and the crime remained unsolved for more than two decades.

In the late 1990's, Mark Fuhrman, the controversial former LAPD homicide detective decided to take a fresh look at the case at the suggestion of Dominick Dunne, one of America's preeminent chroniclers of murder among the rich and famous.

He eventually summarized his investigation in a book. His book in turn led to a new Connecticut grand jury investigation of the case, and their reexamination of the crime eventually led to the arrest of Michael Skakel. The investigation was soon making headlines across the country for a second time, and Skakel was ultimately brought to trial and finally convicted of murder in June 2002 - more than 25 years after committing his horrible crime.

Beth plays the Role of Julia Skakel.

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