RFK Kin’s Ex-Tutor Testifies in Girl’s Unsolved ’75 Killing
A former tutor to two nephews of Robert F. Kennedy testified Tuesday before a grand jury investigating the unsolved 1975 slaying of a 15-year-old girl.
When Martha Moxley was killed, Kenneth Littleton was a 23-year-old live-in tutor to the children of Rushton Skakel. Skakel is the brother of Ethel Kennedy, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s widow.
Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club, which police said came from the Skakel house. Littleton and two of the Skakel children--Thomas, then 17, and Michael, then 15--were originally identified as suspects in Moxley’s murder.
A court ordered Littleton to testify. Under Connecticut law, Littleton automatically receives immunity from prosecution in the case except for perjury.
Authorities over the years have shifted their focus away from Littleton and toward the Skakel brothers. All three have repeatedly denied any involvement in the slaying.
The killing shocked the exclusive neighborhood where the two families lived in Greenwich. Former Los Angeles homicide Det. Mark Fuhrman recently wrote a book about the case.
Littleton, 46, testified before the grand jury for just under two hours. After emerging from the courtroom, he shook the prosecutor’s hand and thanked him. He refused to comment to reporters.
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