For starters, as a prosecution expert testified last week, there is no physical evidence linking Skakel to the crime. Worse, the case has always suffered from too many suspects–including Thomas Skakel, Michael’s older brother, and Kenneth Littleton, the Skakels’ live-in tutor. The cops shifted to Michael Skakel late in the game; investigators were still pursuing Littleton into the 1990s.
Skakel’s lawyer, Michael Sherman, insists Skakel was at the home of a cousin when Moxley was killed. Last week prosecutors produced a witness to dispute that alibi, which may be pivotal in the case. But their real challenge may be overcoming the weakness of a very old investigation–which was, sad to say, botched from the start.
