Introducing Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder

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4.6 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder an all-new original podcast series from NBC News Studios. Hosted by veteran journalist Andrew Goldman, Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder, is sure to hook listeners, in the vein of Serial and Making a Murderer. Unfolding over 12 richly told episodes, the podcast will explore, in intimate detail, the twists and turns of this fascinating and confounding case as it hits its milestone 50th anniversary. The series is built upon a decade of original reporting, brand new investigative information, firsthand voices, and a half century of archival audio – as well as multiple interviews with Michael Skakel, who is speaking publicly for the first time ever. To start listening, search “Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder” and follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, for new episodes every week.

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0:00.0	Greenwich detectives have questioned hundreds of people and searched the murder site thoroughly.
0:04.9	But they still have no real leads at all to the person who killed Martha Moxley last Thursday night.
0:10.9	On the night before Halloween in 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was murdered in the Tony
0:16.7	Bellhaven neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. She was rich and beautiful and loved by all who knew her.
0:23.7	For decades, despite intense media scrutiny, police failed to make an arrest.
0:28.3	The people who were actively working there had never handled a homicide.
0:32.7	Over the years, the police had their suspects.
0:35.3	This individual was the last to see the victim.
0:38.0	They used to go out without any clothes on it to the pool.
0:41.0	They said it was definitely two people.
0:43.3	But none of the leads stuck.
0:45.4	And eventually the case went ice cold.
0:48.0	Until in 2000, 25 years after Martha's murder,
0:52.0	her one-time neighbor, Michael Skakel, was arrested.
0:55.3	He'd been 15, like her, at the time of the crime.
0:58.7	He was also a cousin of the Kennedys.
1:01.0	A teenage neighbor and friend of Martha Moxley.
1:03.5	Nephew of the late Robert Kennedy.
1:05.3	Kennedy relative Michael Skakel on trial for murder.
1:08.3	The Kennedy connection is the reason that most people know about this case,
1:11.8	or at least think they know about it. I watched the news. I read the articles. Of course Michael
1:18.0	Skakel killed his next door neighbor Martha Moxley. He beat her to death with a golf club. I knew it.
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