Thomas "Tommy" Skakel is the nephew of Robert F. Kennedy, and for a while he was the lead suspect in the murder of Martha Moxley. CBS News reports that at the time of her death, both 17-year-old Tommy and his 15-year old brother, Michael, had a crush on Moxley. Tommy was also the last person seen with Moxley on October 30, 1975. Detectives found that Tommy and Michael both had emotional issues that led to outbursts, and they both found themselves in academic trouble as well as in trouble with the law after the murder (via the Washington Post).
However, for many years, no charges were brought against Skakel or anyone else, and Moxley's death remained unsolved. But in the early 1990s, another Kennedy cousin, William Kennedy Smith, was tried on rape charges. His trial led to rumors that he had been at the Skakel home on the night of Moxley's murder. In an effort to clear his family's name, Tommy Skakel's father hired Sutton Associates to reexamine the facts of the Moxley case (via People). Tommy went through various interviews and psychological analyses, which the Sutton Report noted were significant, but not a smoking gun. The report reads:
"Dr. Gramont has presented a series of objective findings which ... are somewhat alarming. While Dr. Gramont by no means suggests Tommy is a raging monster on the verge of violent episodes, the diagnosis is still very telling. ...it presents a great deal of insight into possible emotional and psychological disabilities that could have contributed to destructive behavior, and from which Tommy may still suffer to this day" (via The Sutton Report).
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