Maria Alvarez

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MARTHA'S BROTHER: GUILT LONG HAUNTED PATHETIC KILLER

Although he seemed stoic and composed at his sister's murder trial, John Moxley couldn't help but glare at Michael Skakel and mumble "what a train wreck" each time he saw...

SKAKEL JURORS RESUME

NORWALK, Conn. - Jurors at the Martha Moxley murder trial resume deliberations this morning after a full day spent closeted with the 101 pieces of evidence offered up during the...

DA PITS SKAKEL VS. SKAKEL

"The competing hormones" of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel and his brother, Thomas, led to the brutal 1975 slaying of their Greenwich, Conn., neighbor, Martha Moxley, jurors were told yesterday. "Michael's...

DA DOES A FLIP ON REDUCED SLAY RAP

Prosecutors at the Michael Skakel murder trial yesterday did a quick flip-flop - making, then withdrawing, a request to let jurors consider convicting the Kennedy cousin on a reduced charge...

DAS FLIP, NIX LESSER COUNT FOR SKAKEL

Prosecutors at the Michael Skakel murder trial yesterday did a quick flip-flop - making, then withdrawing, a request to let jurors consider convicting the Kennedy cousin on a reduced charge...

OH, BROTHER, IT'S TROUBLE - RELUCTANT SISTER TESTIFIES AGAINST SKAKEL

Michael Skakel's sister reluctantly testified yesterday that she called out her brother's name when she saw a figure dash across the family's lawn at 9:30 on the night their neighbor...

SKAKEL SIS TESTIFYING VS. LIL' BRO

In a last-minute surprise twist, the sister of accused murderer Michael Skakel is scheduled to take the stand at his trial today - as a prosecution witness. Julie Skakel, 45,...

SKAKEL WITNESS TRIPS UP

NORWALK, Conn. - Lawyers for murder suspect Michael Skakel chipped away at the prosecution's case yesterday, getting a star witness to undermine her earlier testimony about Skakel's whereabouts on the...

JUROR SEES MICHAEL MOUTHING OFF

NORWALK, Conn. - Michael Skakel's courtroom behavior came under fire yesterday after it was revealed that a juror saw him mouth the words "good job" to his cousin who was...

KENNEDY TEMPTRESS GIVES SKAKEL BOOST

The baby sitter who broke up Michael Kennedy's marriage took the stand at Michael Skakel's murder trial yesterday and testified she never heard Kennedy's cousin make a joke about killing...

STAND OF BROTHERS - KIN TESTIFY SKAKEL WAS WITH THEM

The defense yesterday began methodically building an alibi for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel for the night his 15-year-old Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley was killed. A Skakel cousin and brother both...

TAPE MAY BE 'KISS' OF DEATH

Michael Skakel tried to get a kiss from his 15-year-old Greenwich, Conn., neighbor Martha Moxley on the night she died. Skakel, on an audio tape he made in 1997, recalled...

WHACKY TESTIMONY ON SKAKEL

Two witnesses at Michael Skakel's murder trial yesterday testified that the Kennedy cousin told them he was masturbating in a tree outside Martha Moxley's bedroom window the night she was...

GOV TO FACE A 3RD-PARTY PRIMARY

Gov. Pataki will face Tom Golisano in a primary election for the Independence Party nomination after the billionaire businessman got enough support at the party's convention yesterday to force the...

'I COULD HAVE DONE IT' SKAKEL TOLD OF SLAY AND JEALOUSY: REHAB PAL

Michael Skakel complained bitterly that his older brother had stolen his girlfriend, Martha Moxley - the girl he's accused of bludgeoning to death, a former classmate of the Kennedy cousin...

REHAB MATES DELIVER BLOW TO SKAKEL WITH HIS OWN WORDS

It was alumni day yesterday at Michael Skakel's trial for the 1975 murder of his 15-year-old Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley - and the Kennedy cousin was not remembered kindly. Three...

SKAKEL BOASTED OF SLAY: WITNESS

"I've killed before." Michael Skakel made that incredible boast while having his hair cut in a Greenwich, Conn., salon shortly after the 1975 slaying of Martha Moxley, a hairdresser testified...

SKAKEL BROTHER WON'T BE WITNESS FOR PROSECUTION

Prosecutors trying to nail Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel for the murder of his pretty teen neighbor yesterday suddenly backed off calling a potentially explosive witness to the stand - Skakel's...

CONFESS MESS AT SKAKEL TRIAL - WITNESS RECANTS TALE OF EX-HUBBY AS 'REAL KILLER'

The Michael Skakel murder trial was thrown into turmoil yesterday as the defense tried to paint the Skakels' former tutor as a Kennedy-obsessed suspect in the case who once admitted,...

DEAR DIARY : HEARTBREAKING MUSINGS OF A GIRL WHO DIED TOO YOUNG

Martha Moxley was an adorable, carefree, 15-year-old girl who loved hanging out with her friends and loved chasing boys as much as they loved chasing her. The diary she kept...