• The Murder of Martha Moxley: Why Michael Skakel Did It?

     

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Published: 15.04.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Murder of Martha Moxley: Why Michael Skakel Did It?', 1.
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Extract

One's motive to commit a crime can be provoked by jealously, temporary insanity or obsession. On October 30th 1975, an adolescent girl named Martha Moxley was brutally beaten and killed by Michael Skakel. This homicidal affair went unsolved for more than two decades, even though Skakel and his brother Thomas were suspected, it became known throughout the whole nation due to the fact that a Kennedy relative was involved. The shocking news of his brother's affair and Michael's uncontrollable temper was what drove him to murder Martha simply because he was possessive of her.

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