NBC News Studios Presents Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus for you, we’re sharing a special preview of Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder, an all-new original podcast series from NBC News Studios. 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. Built upon a decade of original reporting, the series features multiple exclusive interviews with Michael Skakel, whose conviction for the killing was overturned and who is speaking publicly about the case 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	Hello, date nine listeners.
0:04.6	I'm Keith Morrison, and I'd like to introduce you to a brand new 12-part original podcast series called
0:11.4	Dead Certain, the Martha Moxley Murder, produced by NBC News Studios.
0:18.0	It's a story of privilege and secrets of a night that's haunted a town for half a
0:23.5	century, whispers that turn to accusations, lies unraveled. And just when you think you know the ending,
0:33.7	another twist. Here's a special preview of the first episode.
0:39.4	What do you know?
0:41.2	It's kind of an old-fashioned expression.
0:44.0	My dad often used it to express mild surprise.
0:47.4	Oh, look, this is a for-sale sign on the neighbor's house.
0:50.7	What do you know?
0:52.3	Neil Diamond's coming to the Civic Center.
0:57.1	What do you know? But before we begin this story, I want you to treat it as a serious question. What do you know? I mean, really
1:04.7	know. Is it possible that what you say you know is actually an opinion, something you just think?
1:11.9	And if you think something, what various forces worked on you to make you think that way?
1:17.9	And were those forces so effective in making you think something that somewhere along the way
1:23.1	you started believing that you didn't just think it?
1:26.2	You knew it?
1:32.4	In 1975, a 15-year-old girl named Martha Moxley was murdered in Greenwich, Connecticut. She was rich and beautiful and loved by all
1:39.1	who knew her. For decades, despite intense media scrutiny on the tragic murder in a wealthy, supposedly safe community, police failed to make an arrest.
1:49.0	Until the year 2000, when they took Martha's one-time neighbor, Michael Skakel, into custody.
1:56.0	He was 39 years old. Back in 1975, he'd been 15, just like Martha. He was wealthy like her. He was also
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