Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was brutally murdered in 1975 near her home in Belle Haven, Connecticut. After 27 years and a bestselling exposé, Michael Skakel was convicted—then freed when prosecutors abandoned retrial efforts, leaving her case technically unsolved despite initial conviction. Michael Skakel confessed to Martha's murder multiple times in therapy sessions at Elon School, but those statements were deemed inadmissible due to doctor-patient confidentiality, allowing his defense to proceed unencumbered.