Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt.

And today, I want to tell you a story that takes place across decades,

decades of money, power, and privilege.

When a teenage girl is found murdered in one of the country's wealthiest and most exclusive neighborhoods,

it sets off a hunt for justice that leads straight to the doorstep of a legendary American dynasty.

This is the story of Martha Moxley.

When 15-year-old Martha Moxley first asked her mom Dorothy, if she can go out with her friends on October 30th, 1975,

Dorothy says no. And not because she's overly strict or anything, but because Martha's been grounded for something small that she did the weekend before.

But Martha really wants to go out, though, because you see, October 30th is mischief night in her little Connecticut town.

Okay, what's mischief night? Yeah, we didn't have that growing up.

But apparently that's the night before Halloween where kids in their town traditionally go around playing like little harmless pranks on their neighbors.

Like nothing terribly destructive, just stuff like toilet paper in the trees and playing ding-dong-ditch stuff like that.

Fun teenage stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's not like she's like missing prom, but when you're 15, even the smallest social gatherings make your

fomo act apart and she is determined to convince her mom to let her go. And she only has to convince her mom because her dad is actually out of town on a business trip.

So she starts really laying it on thick. She's telling her mom it's not fair. Her older brothers allowed to go and have fun.

She has to stay home. She just begs and begs using every line in the book. And finally, finally, Dorothy says, okay, fine, go pull some pranks, but make sure you're back by 9-30.

The evening drags on for Dorothy pretty unaventfully until 9-30 rolls around and there's no sign of Martha.

Now Dorothy doesn't freak out right away. Martha's a teenager and being late is sort of kind of a theme on mischief night.

She's annoyed and Martha's probably going to hear about it, but whatever. But 9-30 turns to 10, then 11.

And before she knows it, it's 2 o'clock in the morning and Martha still is not home. Dorothy decides to call over to Martha's best friend, Sheila's house.

To see if maybe Martha decided to spend the night there, but Sheila hasn't seen Martha either.

By the time 3-30 rolls around and there's still no Martha, Dorothy tries another one of Martha's friends, the neighbor, Tommy's scagol.

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