In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and murder.

Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children.

Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler, and I'm joined by my colleagues.

Angela Serser. Susan Costler,iler, and I'm joined by my colleagues. Angela Serser.

Susan Costler Drew.

And Bob Drew.

Angela, Susan, and Bob are also retired FBI profilers, and we work together in the FBI's

behavioral analysis unit.

Before we get started, if you'd like early and add free access to our episodes, you can

join our Patreon

at patreon.com slash the console pod. There's also a Facebook fan page called Unsubs that was created

by fans for fans of the consult, where listeners can discuss our episodes and other true

crime topics. So over the next few episodes, we'll be examining

one of the most debated homicide cases in modern true crime history. Actually, I don't know if

it's so modern anymore, but it's the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in the wealthy Bell Haven section of Greenwich, Connecticut.

So this is a case I've always wanted to do.

And since we started the podcast, we have gotten some requests to cover this case.

But it seemed that more recently, we've received even more requests to analyze Martha's case, which at first struck me as a little unusual for a homicide that occurred more than 50 years ago. I know it's high profile and I know that a lot of people are interested in the case, but it just seemed like just all of a sudden we started getting more requests.

And once I decided we were going to do this case and I started researching, I figured out that the likely reason was because of a recent podcast series from last year called Dead Certain, which took a deep dive into the case and I think renewed

public interest in many of the unanswered questions surrounding Martha's murder. So Martha's

murder first drew major public attention in the late 1970s, not only because of the brutal nature of the crime,

but also because of the involvement of a wealthy and politically connected Skakel family,

...